Similar to Taiwan: subcontractor for US imperial dirty work–one of the pariah three (South Africa, Taiwan, Israel)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/israel-us-strategic-interest

In short, the growing U.S. support for the Israeli government is not motivated primarily by objective security needs or a strong moral commitment to the country. Rather, as elsewhere, U.S. foreign policy is motivated primarily to advance its own perceived strategic interests.

There is a broad bipartisan consensus among policymakers that Israel has advanced U.S. interests in the Middle East and beyond.

For example, Israel has successfully prevented victories by radical nationalist and Islamist movements in Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine, while also keeping anti-American regimes like Syria and Iran in check. The militaries of the United States and Israel are inextricably tied. Israel’s frequent wars have provided battlefield testing for American arms, and Israel’s intelligence service has assisted the United States in intelligence-gathering and covert operations.

Israel has also served as a conduit for U.S. arms to regimes and movements too unpopular for openly granting direct military assistance. During the Cold War, this included apartheid South Africa, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the military junta in Guatemala, and the Nicaraguan Contras. More recently, Israel has backed Colombian paramilitaries and various Kurdish militia as well as Moroccan occupation forces in Western Sahara.

Israel has cooperated with the U.S. military-industrial complex on research and development for new jet fighters and anti-missile defense systems. The country has even trained U.S. forces bound for Iraq and other Middle Eastern destinations in counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism operations.

As Joe Biden once said, “Were there not an Israel, the United States would have to invent an Israel to protect [its] interests in the region.”