Why do Americans support zionism and invading Muslim countries?

Question

and then wonder why Arabs burn the US flag?

Answer 1

Actually most americans either dont know about that, or if they do, they dont agree with it.

Its the American government and the American jewish lobby groups (AIPAC is the biggest) who are supporting zionism, and using taxpayers money to pay Israel.

The government are CHOOSING to listen to Israel, and not to the American people.

Answer 2

Americans do not support Zionism. We do support the nation of Israel. There is a difference. You also seem to forget that we are at war, declared after we were attacked on 9/11. It's not a imperialistic invasion, a taking over of these countries. It is swift and sure justice, along with supporting those countries until they are stable and can govern and police themselves. If certain Muslim countries celebrate our injuries and burn our flags, that is their problem, not ours. We'll be watching them, and any country that sends or allows insurgents in to keep the fires of hatred burning, whether it is directed at us or the religious factions in their land. We are after certain people, and it is not because of their religious beliefs.

Answer 3

America supports and helps those who ask. Stilll the asker must agree to receive the help. Americans do not invade Muslim countries; on the most part they are there to help. Unfortunately it will do them no good, because most Arabs will turn around and take it for something else; such as "oh no they are attacking Islam, and I believe some soldiers have become Muslim in the process, but that doesn't matter to you does it? You still have the same blind thought. "They are going to destroy Islam. No one can destroy the submission to God.

Answer 4

1- Powerful lobby called AIPAC.
For more information about AIPAC:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIPAC

2- American being misinformed about the Middle East and the Arab Israeli conflict.
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/

3- Look at the engineers of the War on Iraq
http://www.csmonitor.com/specials/neocon/


4- An excerpt from an op-ed article by
Georgetown Law Professor Norman Birnbaum
published in the Los Angeles Times...1999


"We claim full rights in this country by virtue of universal criteria of citizenship. For most American Jews, life here is marvelous, free of the savage persecutions of the European past and of the subtler but still painful discrimination earlier generations encountered in America. Our Israel, in other words, is here.

That ties of solidarity and sympathy connect us to the people of Israel is clear. There is, however, a flagrant contradiction between our enjoyment of citizenship in a multi-ethnic, multireligious and multiracial democracy and the notion that solidarity with Israel requires that we accept any policy it might choose to follow toward the Arabs it rules. The matter is made worse when Jews who think differently are branded as self hating,and Gentiles who disagree are told that they are anti Semitic. Fortunately for Israel, its population debates this matter strenuously. The recent election demonstrates that an Israeli majority wishes to make a new beginning in relations with the Arabs.

That has been lost, apparently, upon some of Israel's supporters here. The phrase about Israel living in a "bad neighborhood" speaks volumes. It applies American notions of class and racial conflict to a totally different historical situation, and reveals the ignorance of those who employ it. Egypt and Jordan are not bad neighbors to Israel; they are very good ones.

The phrase is revealing in another way. It bespeaks a view of life as a jungle in which survival demands a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye--and the permanent oppression of the Arabs in their own homeland.

A good many Israelis see that if conflict with the Arabs continues, they are in danger of becoming like the Germans from 1933 to 1945--accomplices if not perpetrators of permanent oppression. American Jews can pay tribute to our tradition--and to our own experience of America--by backing them. We should also reach out to fellow Americans who are Arabs and whose rights to full citizenship are as great as ours.

The most profound threat to American Jewry comes from the unreflective belief that humans are subject, in the last analysis, only to the law of the jungle. Nothing, in that case, can protect us--here or anywhere else."

Answer 5

Not all Americans do. Some Americans are open minded. Also, some Americans believe that the war in Iraq is wrong. Please try to avoid generalizations. Making generalizations like this causes beliefs like "Muslims are all terrorists". We know that is not true, but when people make generalizations the truth becomes distorted.

Answer 6

Ameicans support Zionism because of one simple thing which has always been around and will always be around:human greed. Many leading American politicians as well as journalists have strong affiliations with zionist lobbies as well as with oil companies. eg Dick Cheney and the oil company Halaburton or CNN journalist Wolf Blitzer and AIPEC a zionist lobby group.

Answer 7

Good question. It's almost like the government expects the people to be happy their homes are being bombed. Then they wonder why they have this "insurgency" problem. If another country invaded the US, you can be sure that every true American would be considered and "insurgent" by them. Double standards are rampant.

Answer 8

Palestine wasn't a country, it was a colony of Britain, which was handed over to the UN, which made it a country because of the high level of Jewish immigration and also because of the influence of Britain's Balfour Declaration.

And I am an American, I do not support the war in Iraq, we have no business there, we are being useless and not helping Iraq or anyone.

You shouldn't generalize.

Answer 9

I don't support those things. I am by legal definition an american and I understand completely why the falg gets burned.