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The original purpose was to prevent the formation of an Arab Soviet Union (the infamous "mosaic of squabbling principalities" line from a 50s state department memorandum), while also undercutting rivial imperial European energy independence and prevent the actual Soviet Union from benefiting from the energy reserves of their southern neighbors
Of course all of that has long since become defunct and now it's coasting along on institutional inertia and racial/religious fanaticism, also there's definitely something to the blackmail angle by Israeli intelligence, who are dimly aware that their concrete usefulness is largely spent