How the twin towers were a cost the United States paid for Israel

There is an inconvenient fact that there is a region of over 200 million people who believe a Jewish state should not have been made in the 1940s on territory that at the time did not have a Jewish majority and whose residents never expressed acceptance of the idea that the land they lived on should host a Jewish majority state.

The United States ended World War II as a uniquely wealthy and powerful group of people. The West, more broadly had been since the colonial era the home of a uniquely powerful small group of people. The West together has been able to use the wealth, resources and power it found itself with to support the imposition, essentially by force, of a Jewish majority-state in Palestine against not only the wishes a large amount of the inhabitants and the ideas of what justice represents to the region around it.

Some of the 200 million people now in the region are ruled by pro-Western dictators - many the direct descendants of the rulers of territories that were part of the British Empire upon which the sun supposedly would never set. Others face various degrees of Western embargo on their economies for foreign policies that reflect that basic premise that the creation of Israel was an injustice that should be corrected. These embargoes include both monstrous starvation policies applied against the people of Iraq in the 1990s and the people of Gaza today.

One way or another, nearly everyone in the region suffers because of the Western belief that 5 million people must have a Jewish-majority state in Palestine. And the Western ability to impose that belief on others. 9/11 was a response from the region to this suffering imposed in the name of maintaining a Jewish majority state. The suffering the US imposes, both directly and indirectly in the form of its stable of puppet dictatorships, is what drew the response of 9/11. The suffering in the region is the price the region pays for the idea that 5 million people must have a Jewish majority state in Palestine. Bin Laden's response was part of the price the United States paid for that idea.

Even if Egypt would be an authoritarian dictatorship that tortures its citizens still if it received no Western support, its torture would not be seen, rightly, as done on behalf of the West if the US did not require Egypt to provide the service of keeping any Egyptian populist impulse unable to threaten Egypt's relationship with Israel.

The United States had through the 1990s made a decision, that the people of the region who do not believe 5 million people must have a Jewish majority state are wrong and the 200 million people are to be restrained from challenging that decision. Restraining 200 million people of Israel's region had a cost, far greater than the several billion dollars in direct aid sent to Israel by the US ever year.

The cost the United States pays for Israel will only grow in the future. It is really time to begin - even if without any humanitarian considerations then only for crude cost-benefit considerations - looking at how a single state can protect the individual rights of Jewish people while at the same time allowing the return of refugees and giving the Palestinian people full equal rights.