A better atonement for the Holocaust would have been creating a Jewish state in Germany while the Allied powers occupied it, but let's set that aside....
Historical records show that the Empire doesn't prefer democracies to monarchies and dictatorships, but for the sake of an argument, let's assume that the Empire somehow wants a democratic state with a Jewish majority in the Middle East. That will be all the more reason to end the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Minus the occupation, Israeli treatment of Arab-Israeli citizens behind the Green Line today compares favorably, say, with Japanese treatment of Koreans. Besides, there won't be a Jewish majority for long if Israel continues the occupation, regarding all of historic Palestine to be its territory, without resorting to a rapid expulsion of most of the Palestinians from the occupied territories.
It is not clear why the Empire still needs Israel as its most notoriously dependent client state, in that most states in the Middle East have become already quite subservient to the Empire and would be _more_ so but for US support for the Israeli occupation. Israel is no longer as useful as it once was in the middle of the Cold War. In fact, it causes the Empire _more_ problems than it helps it solve them now. Why support the Israeli Right, rather than the democracy-minded & peace-starved Israelis who subscribe to, say, the Gush Shalom line? Surely the latter would serve the Empire better than the former. -- Yoshie
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