The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy in Syria

The Israel Lobby in the United States is extremely powerful and has no borders or limits in its support for Israel and its degrading of the surrounding countries in the Middle East. The Israel lobby has so much power that it shapes the foreign policy toward the entire Middle East, and persuades Congress in unimaginable ways that most laws or bills passed for Israel's support is voted by about 95% of the Senate and House of Representatives. So before we can discuss the tactics of this lobby, let us look more in detail at the United States Foreign Policy in the Middle East and how applies to Syria.

Syria is classified as one of the several countries on the US Axis of Evil which is absolutely ridiculous because Syria can in no way threaten or be threatening to the United States. The United States sided and will always side with Israel in all of its policies, including that toward Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, and the entire Arab World. So if Israel is in conflict with Syria, then the United States is in conflict with Syria. But what is the reasoning for classifying Syria on the Axis of Evil.

The answer is nothing, nothing at all. Just because Syria and Israel are in conflict and don't have a formal peace treaty between them, does not mean that the United States should always take Israel's side, because doing so will fuel Anti-Americanism in the Middle East (but I'll discuss that in a whole detailed article). Syria never threatened the United States, and the US government would reason their decision because Syria supports "terrorist groups" such as Hamas and Hezbollah. But Hamas and Hezbollah are seen by many as resistance groups that sprung up because of the Israel occupations, and to many they are freedom fighters. We could say that the US supports terrorist governments such as the Israeli one, yet the US does not listen to reason.

Syria has sided and assisted the United States many times, including after the attacks of September 11, when the Syrian President would personally be in contact with the American President and pass on information about Al-Qaeda that the Syrians have acquired. This cooperation is extremely significant, yet it doesn't seem so in the eyes of the US Government, who still classify Syria as a rogue state, as does Israel, but let us not forget that Syria wanted peace with Israel in exchange for the Golan Heights, and would offer Israel many peace treaties, and wanted to pursue the peace, yet the Israeli government would not want to cooperate.

So there is no excuse left for the United States to be in conflict with Syria and the US sanctions on Syria because Syria does not have a problem with the US, and tried several times to pursue peace with Israel, yet the US would like to overpass that detail and look towards Israel's argument.