Since the 1970s the US have been standing 100% behind Israel. Also since then Israel was not involved in major wars any more. It is clear that this strategy has been a total failure and must be changed. Or so many liberals claim.
Peace can only come, they say, when the US doesn't back Israel 100% but takes a more nuanced position.
Let's look at this idea for a moment.
What do we know about middle-eastern nations the US didn't support 100%. The only nation at war with the Arabs apart from Israel that the US have supported at all were the Kurds. And whenever the US withdrew their support, the Kurds were slaughtered by the Arabs. Many Kurds today still remember fleeing into the mountains whenever Saddam decided to attack Kurdish cities.
On the other hand, think of a world in which the US would support not only Israel but also other non-Arab nations in the middle east 100%.
Would we have a genocide in Darfur if the US had supported the Fur and Massalith 100%?
Would we have slavery and a civil war in southern Sudan if the US had supported the Dinka and other peoples 100%?
Would there have been a Saddam Hussein if the US had supported Kurdistan (and Iran before 1979) 100%?
Would the Imazighen be second-class citizens in their native home (of northern Africa) if the US stood 100% behind them?
Would Syrian and Iraqi Christians (Arameans and Assyrians) be slaughtered by Arab Muslims if the US stood 100% behind the Christians?
For some reason, even though a more nuanced position seems to be the obvious solution to many liberals, the track record of less than 100% is rather tragic: wars and more wars, gas attacks, discrimination of minorities (usually Christians), terrorism, genocide.
At the same time the track record of 100% support brought peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan and an end to terrible wars.
So why should the US take a more nuanced position when so many lives are at stake? Why is the liberal position more important than lives?
Instead of taking a more nuanced position on the Israeli-Arab conflict, the smallest in the region, perhaps the US should take a less nuanced position on the Sudanese conflict. 100% US support for the Africans in Sudan might not bring favour with the Arabs or the western media. But it might just end a genocide and help abolish slavery.