Why is so much of the Left opposed to Israel?

Answer 1

are they?

Answer 2

It is not so much that the "left" oppose Israel as muxh as it is that certain conservatives support anything that Israel does, no matter how illegal, according to international laws and standards. It seems that American conservatives must support Israel because they feel guilty for crucifying Christ.
Lord knows that much of the religious conflict of today has its roots in the Israelies coming back to the middle east after having lost countless wars and almost being exterminated in europe. Why should anyone, let alone most Americans, care what happens to people who chose to recapture a homeland lost for centuries?

Answer 3

I wasn't aware that so much of the left opposed Israel, or even any of the right for that matter. As far as I have been able to observe, the U.S. has stood steadfastly behind Israel, one of the only stable nations in a volatile region, through Republican and Democratic administrations alike.

Answer 4

Because the Zionist are committing many of the same crimes that others have committed against the Jews over the centuries and millennium: seizing peoples homes and land, concentrating populations into ghettos, having little respect for the life of others, the list doesn't end.

Answer 5

Israel is an outlaw state in violation of numerous UN Resolution and various tenets of international laws. Congress should stop behaving as though we're some kind of Israeli colony bowing to her every whim.

Israel, whose population is 0.1% of the total world population gets roughly one-third of all US foreign aid. In addition to the $5,000,000,000 in aid, Israel enjoys the benefits of a whole lot more US tax payer money. For example, there are special "gifts" like the Arrow Missile and Levi Fighter, totaling $1.3 billion. Tax payers must also pay interest on money borrowed for Israel's grants-- about $500 million per year. Private donations to Israel are tax-deductible and total about $1 billion annually. This does not include the Israeli bonds sold in the US for $500 million each year.

Despite US restrictions on using money to build illegal settlements on Palestinian land, Israel has spent hundreds of millions of our dollars importing Jews from across the world, confiscating Palestinian land and demolishing their homes to make way for brand new settlements for the new arrivals.


In 1967 Israel attacked the USS Liberty killing 34 American crewmen and wounding 171. Despite thirty three years of unrelenting pleas from the survivors of that ship, Congress will not afford our servicemen the decency of an investigation and has refused to hold a Congressional hearing for an act of aggression against Americans in a time of peace despite astounding evidence. Maybe they will when there are no more survivors to speak and the only testimonies will come from Israeli-chosen "witnesses."

Israel has a healthy economy and gets piles of money and other aid from Germany every year. If this US-Israel marriage is indeed in our best interest then why do they need such a strong well-funded lobby in our Congress?

Continuing to be the lone veto that keeps the international community from investigating Israel's breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention cannot possibly be in our best interest. Patting Israel on the back while the rest of the world condemns it's flagrant violations of human rights does not mesh with the principles on which this country was founded.

Retired Navy Admiral, Thomas Moorer, was quoted in a book by Paul Findley, former congressman from Illinois, as saying "I've never seen an president- I don't care who he is- stand up to [the Israelis]. It just boggles your mind*.If the American people understood what a grip those people have got on our government, they would rise up in arms

Answer 6

because they have a choice. they can either support the United States and their allies. (free countries) Or they can support head chopping monsters that are barely above animals.

the liberals will go with the animals everytime.

Answer 7

Some people see things in black and white right and wrong. Some people see things in shades of gray. Some people see truth and logic and well some people support Israel.

Answer 8

Because the left has been, is, and most likely will always be backward and reversed in their thinking. They generally call bad "good" and good "bad". They want a "Bill of Rights" for terrorist and sanctions against the US.

Answer 9

Because unconditional support of Israel is the root cause of terrorism against the United States.

Answer 10

I want to know if they actually know why they are against Israel, have they any knowledge of what is actually going on there and why? And why is it such a crying shame that they are our allies?

Answer 11

They believe in a God