How Did The Cold War Influence The MENA

During the cold war rivalry between the US and USSR influenced the MENA by making everyone either pick a side or be chosen by the rivalists. To us it was clear Israel was aligned with the US, but the soviets not so much. As the cold war didn’t warm up between the two actual nations of the Soviet Union and United States, the war was fought by proxy. The Korean war, the Vietnam war were examples of this but neither regions had enough resources or opposition to the US needed to justify the long term involvement that was and still is seen in the MENA. In the MENA there is oil, multiple countries that can have problems, and contrary to popular belief, there still are people in the region that want to kill us.
During the cold war Israel aligned with the US and Egypt aligned with the USSR. This served to shape the MENAs need to be one way or another, but not neutral.
To the Israelis, what they did seemed righteous and necessary, but the Palestinians who had been there for years prior to the Zionists infiltration in the region were suddenly 700,000 refugees. The Israel was now a nation and Jews from all around the world went to live there. A lot of them are from the US, but they still have family here which naturally would support the defense of Israel as part of their family might live there. Now there is a large constituency of Jews in America that not only support Israel, but oppose anything not pro-Israeli. The US pretty much has to align with Israel even if what it did was wrong, and the Palestinians are going to see the US as an enemy and spread to other countries in hope of getting those countries to ally against Israel. This will create some of anti-US, anti-Israel groups but also