Please explain the Middle East crisis

In that case, could you do so? Saying that you found about about the site from someone slse does not answer my question, nor does it justify your launching into complaints about the supposed evasions of other posters.

Nope.

In case you’ve forgotten already, here’s a source I provided earlier in this thread, showing arms sales agreements between the U.S. and nations in the Middle East. For one recent period, (2000-2003), these agreements accounted for a total of 17.7 billion dollars in military sales to just four Arab nations in the Middle East (U.A.E, Egypt, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia). Israel’s total for military sales for the same period was 5.1 billion dollars.
For further perspective, total annual U.S. military aid to Israel (including the largest source of such aid, the Foreign Military Financing program) is stated by various sources to have averaged about 1.8-2.2 billion dollars a year in recent years (another major recipient of aid under FMF is Egypt).

http://www.counterpunch.org/tilley08052006.html Another opinion.