US Tax payers,Israel is the expensive problem
Here's some news.
The main Problem in the mideast is Israel with Arab thickness not far behind. Israel wants to setup an exclusive Jewish state.
Problem,Their mythology is FLAWED:A land without a people for a people without a land?
There most certainlty was a people in Palestine,Christian,Muslims and Jews.
Moving non Jews out of ther homes proved not be easy for the colonial Zionist movement.After the 1948 UN partition better armed Jewish forces moved quickly to dislodge non jews,piosining wells and masscare of civillians.Mythology ofcourse spun at the time:57 Arab states attack weak Israel.Non jewish villages were bulldozed,so refugees would have nowhere to return to .Ethnic cleansing of Palestine had begun.Hapless Arab states could just watch.Next war,1956 Israel in collusion with the UK and France would attack Egypt.France would reward Israel with A Nuclear plant that would evolve into an Illegal WMD program by early sixties.JFK adminstration would threaten the Jewish state with Sanctions before Kennedy assasination in 1963.By 1967 with 2 primitive Nuclear weapons Israel launches premtive war captures swaths of new land:Greater Israel.Problem again Non Jewish natives.More Non jewish refugees expelled .Israel also attacks American spy ship USS Liberty on June 8,slaughtering 34 US seamen and wounding over 171.Israel would invade Lebanon in 1980's brutally occyping that country for 19 years killing over 20,000 mostly non combattants using US arms.Result: the Birth of mideast suicide bombing and Hizbollah.
So it goes.
It is important to note that Israeli is primarly funded with US Dollars.Whether it's Tax free Israel bonds,charities or outright Grants form the US government(PRESENTLY AT MORE THAN $10 MILLION PER DAY).
According to the Christian
Science Monitor,the cost of Israel to the American TAXpayer has been over $1.6 TRILLION since 1973.http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1209/p16s01-wmgn.html