Abraham Gasparyan: US interests suggest maintaining balance in the region

For the United States, there are American overriding interests, before which all hats and all flags—starting with Israel—bow, Founding Director of Genesis Armenia Think Tank and Foundation, Candidate of Political Sciences, Associate Professor Abraham Gasparyan said at Genesis Armenia during a discussion titled “Conflict Situation in the Middle East: Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Iran”.

“If the Jewish lobby in the U.S. has 100 percent of votes even in the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, but the resolutions or decisions it adopts even slightly threaten the security and foreign policy of the United States, that state will be taken off the agenda. I want us to know clearly that this is the politics of a metropolis. Looking at the U.S. policy in the Middle East from Kennedy to Lyndon Johnson, if they hadn’t kept the balance, supporting Israel on the one hand and taking on Franco-British, colonial or postcolonial influences on the other, where would the oil have gone by now? In other words, the U.S. interests suggest maintaining balance in the region. We are talking about Israel. What about Iran’s 208 billion barrels of oil? Do you think that, for the sake of Israel, the U.S. should leave all that behind?” Gasparyan noted.