why America backs Israel?

Answer 1

At least Israel has the balls to do what America seems incapable of doing, that is killing terrorists. There will be no peace in the Middle East (or the world, for that matter) until each and every terrorist is exterminated.

Stop being aggressively ignorant and stop believing that the Islamic culture is a victim of OURS. Radical Islamism today is nothing but a new form of Nazism.

Answer 2

There are no good guys in the Middle East. That's a common misconception. The fact is, there are no "good guys" anywhere. Every country on this planet is concerned about their own self interest and nothing more. That's the way a country survives.

As much as I dislike Israel, they serve our best interests. We share a common enemy. It is essential that we have an ally in that region and it is essential that that ally prevails.

The best thing we can do is acknowledge the way the world works, accept it, and try to make it better within those parameters. The people looking for "peace in the Middle East" and constantly condemn Israel do not live in reality and have a bubble gum view of history.

I don't support Israel, I don't technically support the US and their actions, but I sure as hell don't support Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic fundamentalism, or anyone that wants Americans dead. The Arabs that support death to Israel and America don't care if you voted against Bush, protested against the war, or were anti-sematic. If they ever got their wish, you'd be just as dead as the neo-con down the street.

Answer 3

Because Israel is a reliable and trustworthy ally.

If the USA gets into trouble we can almost guarantee that Israel will be there with bells on, ready to help.

Can we say the same for other countries?

Answer 4

If America recognises a kindred spirit in Israel, then so does Europe in the Arab autocracies. After all, when King Fahd, President Mubarak, et al. sell themselves to the West as anti-democratic brakes on the baser urges of their people, they sound a lot like the European Union. As we’ve seen yet again, the principle underpinning the new Europe is not ‘We, the people’ but ‘We know better than the people’ — not just on capital punishment and the Treaty of Nice and the single currency, but on pretty much anything that comes up, including national elections. When 29 per cent of Austrian voters were impertinent enough to plump for Jörg Haider’s Freedom party, the EU punished them with sanctions and boycotts. As the Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson put it, ‘The programme that is developing in Austria is not in line with EU values.’ In the new Europe, the will of the people is subordinate to the will of the Perssons. Understandably, to such an elite the Oslo ‘peace process’ ought to be as remorseless and undeviating as the path to European unity: how preposterous to let something as footling as the wishes of the Israeli electorate disrupt it.

So each half of the West looks in the Middle East for what it values most in itself: for the Americans, liberty; for Europe, paternalism, benign or otherwise. The result is a mirror image: just as Israel is the odd man out in the Middle East, so increasingly America is in the West, wedded as it is to such bizarre concepts as capital punishment, gun rights, free speech, etc.
Just so. In the Middle East, two cultures jostle side by side: one channels its citizens’ energy into economic fulfilment, the other into pathetic victim fantasies. The sides the United States and the European Union have chosen to align themselves with say as much about themselves and their own psychological health as they do about Palestine

Answer 5

i've read this answer:
"If America recognises a kindred spirit in Israel, then so does Europe in the Arab autocracies".
I'm an european citizen and what she said is completely false.
Europeans has a lot of internal divisions and not a unique foreign policy but we didn't support arab autocracies.
Ask Bush about arabia petrodollars (that control the 7 per cent of American economy)... do you think that saudi arabia is a democracy? Why americans protect and sell weapons to the wahabit arabians(5 billion dollars weapon equipment few days ago).It's poor propaganda the idea that Europe protect middle east autocracies...European are trying to open a peace way inside Middle east while americans are producing chaos,destabilization and ecourage muslim fundamentalists....

Answer 6

To hear the media and/or politicians tell it...it's because Israel is the only democratic country in the middle east. Whatever else we make think about that information, good or bad, that is the reason we are given. It is a timely question, yesterday, today and tomorrow.

Answer 7

America is backing Israel because Israel First political PACs have too much influence in our government. We send 25% or more of the Foreign Aid budget to Israel. Millions of dollars of the billions we send to Israel find their way back to the USA to subvert the elective processes in favor of Israel First candidates in the US House and Senate.

Israel is sometimes our ally and sometimes not our ally. Israel is first and foremost out for protecting Israeli interests, and it if means subverting our voting process, Spying on us like with the Jonathan Pollard case http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/576453/posts ,or firing on American ships like the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967 http://www.thelibertyincident.com/
the Israeli government is not always our friend. We back Israel because organizations like the America Israel Political Action Committee (AIPAC) and other Jewish organizations subvert our elective processes with too much money influence, and the same groups also influence the US media in the same manner, always having Israel portrayed in a favorable light.
Unfortunately, most US Christians are blinded to Israel's own terror tactics and massacres of Palestinians and Arabs, so Americans are shaping their opinions on only half of the story - the Israeli side - which is paid for, in many cases, by our own tax dollars paid to a foreign government and subsequently reinvested, through Jewish PACs and organizations back into our own country, to subvert our govermental processes and media reporting in favor of Israel.

Read the source book supplied for more concise information on the matter.

Answer 8

Because we know that not doing so allows Arab & Muslim fanatics to carry out their genocidal campaign against them. They've been attacking Jews before Israel even existed. All Middle East-realted terrorism has it's origins in the Muslim Brotherhood.

Answer 9

Because the same people that want to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth wish the same for us. We have a common enemy. Why do you suppose we do?

Answer 10

They are our only ally in the Middle East. Israel's enemies are all the Arabian countries around it, which happen to be enemies of us as well.