I'm trying 2 explain it to someone. Can't. So. Someone Answer for me. Why am I expected to "support Israel?..

Question

This is not a "dumb" question or one that is intended to create furor or cries of 'anti-semitism". If you cannot give me an intelligent, knowledgeable answer, please do not bother to answer.

.............WHY...........
.............DID............
.............WE...........
.............PROMISE...........
............TO?................

Answer 1

The lobby system influences the Representatives for support and what your Representatives do reflects on the constituents. We are voting for the initiatives by voting for our Representatives. Israel is a country created by the British and the us has become it biggest Alli. If not for our support Israel would be part of history. Israel has interest in maintaining aid from the US. It is a dream for the nation of Israel to exist. Payment for our apathy. A way to repay the Jewish people. Maybe it would have been a better idea to put it in panama or some other place but Israel has to share Palestine. The reason is plain guilt but that is the reason.

Answer 2

Eighty-six percent of American Jews feel close to Israel; eighty-five percent of American Jews supports Israel in the ongoing conflict, and one percent supports the Palestinians. The survey proves that our wonderful Jewish friends of Palestine in the US represent roughly one per cent of the US Jews, or in plain words represent nothing. Some of them are crypto-Zionists providing alibi for the Jews and bringing disarray into our lines. Some of them are good and sincere people, great fighters for the cause of equality, like Jeff Blankfort or Ronald Bleier and many others. All of them are removed from positions of power and are rightly disregarded by power-seeking American elites as representing no one but goodness of their hearts. The survey indicates we should stop dallying for Jewish support and look for a strategy to win over the American - and the world - non-Jewish public opinion." -- Israel Shamir, in his recent article "A Mistake of Prof Neumann" The image of Israel, note Charles Liebman and Steven Cohen, "so central to the lives of American Jews, is projected as that of a country surrounded by enemies bent on its destruction ... And the Holocaust itself, which along with Israel has assumed central symbolic importance in American Jewish life, reminds Jews above all of their precarious status among the hostile Gentiles. These themes tend to be combined in appeals by Jewish organizations for funds." [LIEBMAN/COHEN, p. 32] "American Jewish life," wrote Seymour Lipset and Earl Raab in 1995, "embodies a kind of 'cultural Zionism,' which recognizes Israel as its spiritual center, inspiring rather than assembling the Jews of the world." [LIPSET/RAAB, p. 130] Since 1967, notes Allon Gal, "virtually all American Jewish community organizations have become supporters of the Jewish state and have developed some variation of 'a vision of Israel.' Since 1967 too, notes Theodore Solotaroff, "the survival of Israel has been the paramount concern of organized Jewish life and probably the paramount source of Jewish identity."

Answer 3

That's one thing Americans do.... Live up to their promises.

A promise is a promise. That's what I am teaching my children.

Answer 4

Because we promised to, and we should live up to our promises.

Living up to your promises (treaties) is what America is all about.