If you love America, how can you support Israel?

Question

Here is a PBS documentary of Israeli treatment of Palestinian civilians. You will see that Israelis stand for everything that we don't. Our tax dollars are being spent to support a racist regime.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3740797934091220239

That is right. You may now call me anti-Semitist. Whatever. I will still call them racist. The idea of a strict Jewish state is racist. Arabs, whether Christian or Muslim, are treated like second-rate humans and are discriminated against freely, breaking several codes of the Geneva Convention. Israeli intention is to purify Israel of all Arab presence. Every Palestinian suicide bombing is in response to this ethnic cleansing program that Israel put in motion in the 1940s. Ask yourself, where were suicide bombers before 1967? When Israelis kill their children, Palestinians feel no qualms about killing them in retaliation.

Please open your eyes. Speak out against this brutality. Let faith in America be restored.

In 1996, at the time this documentary was filmed...

Israel received 7 times as much US aid as all of black Africa
And 6 times as much as US spent on famine relief for the entire planet
Cuts in programs for America’s poor = $5.7 billion
Cuts in aid to Israel = $0
Aid to Israel = $5.5 billion

From the mouths of our poor into the necks of Palestinians.

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What is this myth I keep hearing? Democracy? I scoff at you. In Israel, where everyone is secondary to the Jewish population, it does not exist. Where free speech is not allowed, it does not exist. Where soldiers are jailed because they refuse to harass the indigenous population, it does not exist. Where the military holds not respect for human rights and the Geneva Convention, it does not exist.

I think you need to educate yourself about this situation. Watch the documentary. Israel isn't like USA at all. If it were, I would immigrate to England.

Answer 1

121 Israeli children have been killed by Palestinians and 763 Palestinian children have been killed by Israelis since September 29, 2000

1,084 Israelis and 4,131 Palestinians have been killed since September 29, 2000.

7,633 Israelis and 30,603 Palestinians have been injured since September 29, 2000

The U.S. gives $15,139,178 per day to the Israeli government and military and $232,290 per day to Palestinian NGO’s.


Israel has been targeted by at least 65 UN resolutions and the Palestinians have been targeted by none

1 Israeli is being held prisoner by Palestinians, while 9,599 Palestinians are currently imprisoned by Israel.


0 Israeli homes have been demolished by Palestinians and 4,170 Palestinian homes have been demolished by Israel since September 29, 2000.

The Israeli unemployment rate is 8.9%, while the Palestinian unemployment is estimated at 25-31%.


60+ new Jewish-only settlements have been built on confiscated Palestinian land between March 2001 and July 11, 2003. There have been 0 cases of Palestinians confiscating Israeli land and building settlements.

Answer 2

Obviously, you don't fully understand the situation.

Israel is EXACTLY like the United States in almost every conceivable way. Their system of government, their laws, their ways of life. The biggest difference is that Israel is surrounded by Arab countries that are sworn to it's destruction.

The heavy-handed tactics used to control the Palestinian population living inside Israel are justified by the frequent targeting of innocent non-combatants by groups like Hamas.

If Bostonians kept blowing up innocent people, you'd probably keep a closer eye on them too.

You clearly don't understand the dominant Arab mindset. They believe they have lost the country of Palestine, although it never existed in the first place. Arab pride simply won't allow them to accept the presence of Israel in their midst, even though the Israeli claim to the land has more historical justification than the Palestinian claim.

If you're a real American who believes in justice and Democracy, you MUST support Israel.

Nope, I'm not Jewish.

Answer 3

Did you know that PBS is a very Liberal company, and much of the money to keep it up and running are from arab investers? Did you know that from 1 month after the UN gave Israel the land, Palestinians were kill the Jews? Did you know that somewhere in the vicinity of 6 times more Jews have died than Palestinians? Do you realize that the Israelis are going after the terrorists, and the Palestinians have gone after the innocents, restaurants, buses? So, when it comes to brutallity, you make one to check your facts, and not go by liberal and arab propaganda

Answer 4

I am a Jew...but I've also always been supportive of Palestinian rights...and yes, I do know that Israel commits apartheid, to say the least...ironic that when Reagan/Bush (though I think Reagan honestly didn't know about it) were running the Iran/Contra scam, the conduit for what were at that time banned South African diamonds were the Israelis...to be totally fair, I do believe there are problems on both sides...one cannot totally obliterate or ignore the other's right to existence...there must be compromise somewhere...I am opposed to totalitarian radicalism of any kind, be it left or right, secular or religious (and I do consider myself a liberal)...
and I have to say, sadly, America has helped considerably to dig its own grave as far as the world's opinion of us...maybe we should stop invading countries that don't want us there, for one...and stop invading the rights of our own citizens...

Answer 5

It is funny how some people, such as yourself, make a comparison between the funding that Israel gets and "black Africa" and you neve bother to make a comparison between Israel and Egypt. That is because Egypt is the second largest benificiary of America and also gets more than "black Africa" as well. Yet nobody calls for the withdrawl of funding for Egypt.

So, let us compare the two:
Israel- democracy Egypt- non democracy
Israel- very pro American Egypt- not really pro American and in many cases anti American.
Israel- viable economy (i.e. better return on investment) Egypt- not very good economy (poor return on investment)
Israel- under existential threat from Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran Egypt- not under existential threat
Israel- has both Jews and Arabs in its parliament Egypt- has only Egyptians in its non democratic parliament

Yet, all the attention is focused on Israel.

And, BTW, the correct term is "anti semite".

Answer 6

hear to thatgirl90217. to boot: whilst the English left Israel in 1948 there exchange into no winning government on top of problems with it. till now the Palestinian area rejected an supply the place they could have maximum of Israel, they needed all of it. it is going to be stated that all and sundry or maximum Arab states does no longer and nonetheless won't soak up Palestinians. however the Arab states state that they help Palestinians. they actually do no longer care approximately them and decide for to apply them as pawns against Israel. the former Palestinian leaders like Arafat, stole many tens of millions of dollars from the Palestinian human beings and had a palace in France or yet another ecu county. you're able to think of that the Palestinian human beings could have positioned each and all of the tens of millions of help they have won to stable use like coming up production and cutting-part agriculture etc, yet they seem to in basic terms wan greater armaments to combat or perhaps whilst they get a number of Israel's land lower back- they break the prosperity that fluctuate into there.

Answer 7

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians live in Israel in peace. Many of them hold political office there. Some of them* even serve in the Knesset, Israeli’s parliament.

Notice the United Arab List** PARTY, with 4 members in the knesset. And this quote. "However, it is not the only predominantly Arab party in the Knesset."

How many non-Muslims hold office in Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Iran, etc?

Answer 8

"Let faith in America be restored."

You're saying that like every single person in the US is integral to the situation in the Middle East.

What are we to do? All protest? I don't think Israelis care if we don't want them to fight. The closest we'll get is intervention from foreign law and more dead soliders.

The best thing to do is isolate and contain the situation, let it cool down or eliminate itself from a tactical standpoint.

There's nothing we can do now. This war has been waging on literally for decades. It ends now.

Answer 9

You are completely right, an american who can see the truth. The answer to your question is that the people of your country have been brainwashed into this fear of terrorism. That they "hate our freedom" and "our way of life". It is an oversimplified and glib interpretation used to paint a portrait of good vs. evil.

The truth is noone hates america because of their secularlism but because of their support for israel and their imperialistic foreign policy. How many times have you heard bin laden say that "you will not experience peace until we experience peace in the holy land".

Answer 10

I never said I supported Israel. I never said I supported Palestine. Personally, I support war between neither. And if they're trying to get rid of all Arabs in Isarel, then maybe they ought to leave as well, cause really, aren't they Arab? They live in the Middle East.