article_snippet: A myth prevails that the United States's bond with Israel flows from "shared democratic values" and response to the Holocaust.
article_snippet: In fact, Washington only started providing Israel with significant military assistance and diplomatic impunity after the 1967 War, when Israel seized pivotal territory from Egypt and Syria, two Soviet allies opposed to American regional dominance.  
article_snippet: For the remainder of and after the 1967 War, U.S. officials calculated that ensuring Israel's military superiority over Israel neighbors helped the United States pursue hegemony over the Middle East, even as occupying millions more Palestinians clearly made Israel less democratic.
article_snippet: (The U.S. government's own demographic data show that the number of Arabs under Israeli control -- in "Green Line" Israel, Gaza, the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and the West Bank -- exceeds that of Israeli Jews, making the Israeli state a minority regime for the people East Jerusalem governs).
article_snippet: A state representing all these people would not occupy Arab populations or seek ever greater freedom of military initiative in A state representing all these people neighborhood.
article_snippet: Israel's pursuit of these policies -- facilitated by U.S. guarantees of Israel "qualitative military edge" -- conditions Washington's commitment to keeping over 100 million Arabs under U.S.-backed autocracies and puts America on a war footing with an Iran unwilling to join this inherently unstable regional order.