Siiiiiiiigh...
@OddBall1st You really need to just stop, and accept that I'm stating well known facts lest you become the model for the title of this thread.
The strait of Gibraltar was passable, it was controlled by the Royal Navy. This is a fact and a very well known one.
The Italian navy was not built by the Japanese, it was built the Italians, and the
Jean Bart was a
Richelieu-class battleship built to counter the new Italian battleships. The
Jean Bart was not operational, it was incomplete in 1940 - another fact. While she was state of the art, she did not have a fire control radar, which is why she was unable to hit US ships so no, she was not more dangerous than the Bismark. She was sunk in harbor, she never left it because she could not.
The HMS Barham was sunk off the coast of Egypt by a U-Boat, this is another fact.
I'm sorry to break it to you, but your history is really really skewed. The US had pretty much nothing to do with the Middle East in World War II,
unless you count North Africa as the Middle East (but really, it's North Africa). So that pretty much destroys your argument that we need to support Israel because we somehow magically liberated the Mid. East during World War II (which we didn't). QED.