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Although you know, you raise an interesting point. We think of Zionism generally as such a leftist, socialistic sort of movement, given its roots in socialism and Israel's alliance with the USSR. But there was always that undercurrent of "Holy Land" Zionism in certain evangelical circles in the USA - the same circles that allied themselves so strongly with Republican Party conservatives from the 1960s or so. It's likely that a Middle Eastern Israel would have had close ties with the West, especially with conservatives in the US. It would play a very different role in foreign policy discussions over the decades. Even today, most conservatives in the USA tend to distrust Israel, even though it's no more Communist than Russia anymore. They just never had any dramatic overthrow of the regime; it was done through gradual reforms.