Why is a Jewish state of Israel so important to the US and Europe?
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Much in the same way the Cuban-American population has exerted political influence over US foreign policy towards Cuba, the Jewish-American population (which is, by the way, larger than the Israeli Jewish population) has consistently lobbied for a US protected Israel.\n\nAlso, Israel is not a theocracy, it is a secular country of Jewish people.\n\nIt is also worth noting that Egypt receives more foreign aid from the US than Israel does.  And the Palestinian Authority  gets a huge chunk of change too.  It's not the fault of the US and Israel that the PA and Egypt are so corrupt that the aid gets pocketed by the leaders while the people are left destitute and seething with anger.
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Same reason for everything our government does-voting demographics.Jewish people are considered a voting block and they have economic power. The majority vote winning elections is really assembling a bunch of diverse minorities,and Israel could not survive without our support- so no politician will say anything that would be against Israel, or they would lose lose votes and donations.
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Because Israel is a Jewish. Jews are allowed to do anything they like. They are the chosen people and Palestine is their promised land..!\nBecause the Jews control American Media, Governments and Banks.\nAgain, dare you ever ask again this question, yes you will be anti Semitic and your email box will be flooded with threatening letters with ( I know what sites you open, we have a long list ) and wipe off your sites replacing them with porn sites. Dare you ask about Jihads, Muslims or even Palestine. \nGot the message?
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Israel, United States & the UK.
362088
no, the US cannot do without the Jews.\n\nI like Israel.
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No, not at all. I live in Ireland and, just like the U.K, we are generally an anti-Bush country.\nHowever, despite this, absolutely NOBODY I know, know's what Israel and Palestine is about.\nI have read a book on Arab history and it is, to me, the most interesting piece of history and yet it is not featured in the schoolbooks.\nI don't know why, but our history book are very secluded and focuse solely on European history (+European explorations).\nIt is disgraceful that my people don't know about Arabian history and how the countries there were oppressed for many years.\nFor informtion on Israel go to http://www.wikipedia.com and search under Israel or Palestine- it is that simple!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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America supports Israel because it is the politically smart thing to do as a large amount of the American population is Jewish and thus supporting Israel keeps those Jews from voting against the government.
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Because the Jewish lobby is so powerful in Congress, Israel can do whatever it wants, and the US will support them. People are cautious about being critical of Israel because anytime one is critical of Israel they are labeled as being anti-Semitic.
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Israel and the USA are buddies because they back each other up. The USA has some support from moderate Islamic countries in the Middle East. \nI think its a damn shame that Israel and the US can do what ever it likes to defend itself. There are international laws and the military "rules of engagment" that Israel and the US like to ignore a lot (like the terrorist). \n\nIf Israel and the US kill innocent people to kill or capture terrorist then these countries are NO BETTER than the terrorist who attack and kill innocents to attack US and Israel interests in the Middle East. \n\nI do not support the horrible methods that terrorist use but I see NO difference between what the US, Israel and terrorist. \n\nExample:\n\nIf a terrorist blows himself up and half a city block to take out a US Embassy or an Israel market place and he kills and wounds several civilians then he is evil.\n\nIf a US or Israel destroyed a car with a missle (whatever) that a terrorist was driving and this action results in the death and injury or innocent cilivians nearby then it is also an evil act. There is no difference what-so-ever between thier tactics of attack/defense.\n\nWe and Israel need to obey the rule of international law even when fighting terrorists otherwise we are like the terrorists we fear and hate.
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First of all, Israel is a multi-racial country made up of Jews from every corner of the world. Jews come in every color.\n\nAnd yes, Israel putting too much trust in non-Jewish world leaders could be dangerous.
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because Israel and America are allies.
488400
Israel should never had appeard in the first place. The jewish are the plague of our time, wherever they go, they leave nothing but death and destruction. Their conspiracies around the world has caused a lot of civil wars... The united states is losing thousands of soldiers in Iraq because Israel started to fear Saddam. And now Israel fears Iran, but I hope the american people will finally realize that their greatest enemy in this world are not the muslims, nor the terrorists, but it's Israel. U see, Israel has control over the american governement. All her wishes are fulfilled, all the UN actions against Israelare been broken. The jewish army has commited hundreds of massacres against the lebanese and palestinien people, and now Mr. Bush dears to stand and say "We won't help Hamass unless she accepts Israel as a nation". The american citizens must not allow such interference.\n\nKnow that the rise of Israel in the 50th has conducted the beginning of terrorism concept. The american people has suffered the 11-9 because they help Israel.\nThe Nazi leader Hitler knew that the jewish people are the must dangerous species on earth, that's why he decided they must perish, but damn it he failed. Israel must never had come here. Why didn't America give her a states somewhere in alaska, and let her go to hell with jerusalem.\nHehe, I bet Sharon is already dead but they won't admit it untill they secure the northern border with hezbollah.\nWith the policies the united states is taking in our time, Israel may not vanish unless if the united states and England vanished first, and that's what all the american people had forgotten. The jew hates christianism more than they hate the muslims. and know that if all the arab people have vanished, Israel will start killing you you dumb americans.\n\nMay God bless China-Iran-Russia cause they might be the only power that can stand against the Israelien-American-Brighton.
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This is because Israel is a country that was established by Zionists who are mass-murderers and known world-wide thugs who believe that Palestine is thier country based on thier extremist Jewish beliefs.\n\nThey also believe that all now Jews are "Goyim" as in dispensable.\n\nI have many Jewish friends, even they complain to me about what the Jewish people in Zionistan (Israel) do daily to the poor Palestinian people who are fighting to defend themselves from the Jewish Extremism robbery.\n\nBrief History of this Zionistan (Israel):\n\nThe Territory known today as Occupied Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire Federal State of the Levant or Bilad Al Sham. \n\nAt the end of WWI, the war's victors occupied this region and divided it in 1919 in a famous treaty called the Sikes-Picot Treaty. They Divided the Ottoman Federal State of the Levant into 4 Separate Regions which they called Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Trans-Jordan (Present Day Jordan).\n\nDuring the period between 1919 and 1948, those sectors were ruthlessly occupied by the British and French armies and anyone who resisted was tortured and brutally killed. \n\nBaron Rothschild, Along with The Elders of Zion in Europe, and other financiers, worked VERY hard on convincing the British Government to "give them" the occupied sector of Palestine. This sector was of course controlled by Great Britain, while the French controlled the Lebanese and Syrian Sectors. \n\nAfter doing a lot of "under the table" work, the British Foreign Minister, Balfour, Broke International Law by promising the Zionist Extremist Jews the Sector of Palestine which it was "Mandating" at the time.\n\nThe Zionist Jews worked hard on getting as many Jews from Europe and Russia during those years and even called those movements as "Aaliyah's". The Aaliyah's were not that frequent at first. It was hard to recruit Jews and convince them into leaving their homes in Europe to go live on Palestinian people's lands. \n\nThen came ADOLF HITLER. \n\nThat man killed Millions of his own people through wars and reckless invasions all over the European Region. He believed that he belonged to a SUPER RACE, the Aryan Race. In the process, he killed many Gypsies, Jews, Russians and other ethnicities to "Cleanse The Lands". Those evil attacks that were carried out by this German Head of State for the first time convinced Jews in LARGE NUMBERS, to accept the Extremist Jewish Ideologies that claim that God Promised them (The Chosen People) a promised land (Occupied Palestine). So, whether out of real belief in this claim, or due to absolute desperation, the poor Jews immigrated from Europe and started to colonize empty slots of land in Palestine in large numbers during the end of the 30's and the early forties. \n\nThen, the Extremist Elements in the European Jewish Immigrant Population established the mightiest Terrorist organizations Palestine ever witnessed. The ARGON and the HAGANAH. Those Terrorist Organizations, composed mainly of RIGHT WING JEWISH SUPREMISTS, started a horrible war of aggression on the Inhabitants of the British Mandate Palestine sector. \n\nThose inhabitants, both Muslim and Christian, in Palestinian cities like Nazareth, Jerusalem, Nablus, Gaza, Khan Younis , Haifa, Jaffa, Lod, and Rafah were not at all prepared for such a massive onslaught by WWII hardened Jewish combatants. On top of that, the Jewish Terrorists had used their mafia connections to get guns in from Europe, especially from Eastern Europe to slaughter the inhabitants of the Palestinian sector who only had single round shotguns as the only means of defense.\n\nOf course there where Palestinian Leaders, such a Abdul Kadir Al Hussieny and others, who were resisting the British Occupation to declare Palestinian Independence, much like Syria and Lebanon and Jordan and Arabia and Egypt and Libya and Algeria and Tunisia and Iraq (all Arab countries) declare
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It is simple. Since early 1950s US strategic planners realised that whoever controls Middle East has substancial power in the world,because of all the oil in the region. They suggested that Israel might offer the US means to gain strategic advantage in the MidEast. Since that time many things happened that proved this to be correct. For example, alot of Gulf states were trying to gain independence.. Israel was recognised as the state that can be used to relieve the situation in the area..also if that failed, use israel as a military base to control surrounding territories. \n\nIn Essence, thats what happened, Since it's establishment, it has received over $100 billion direct aid from the US, by far the most then any other country in the world. Alot of that money is spent directly to buy US weapons. Right now, Israel posses WMD, nuclear weapons, most advanced and biggest fleet of bomber planes in the world (2nd only to US). Other then US, it has the biggest military strengh in NATO. Israel has become , in effect, an off shore US military base.
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Because core influential people in USA happen to be Jews! They probably play a crucial role in USA's economy and politics (leave alone Hollywood). Iran wants to touch the raw nerve by threatening to hit Israel which will deeply upset the influential/monied American Jews.
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very good question; the only reason the US supports israel is because of the jew-dominated politicians.. its the entire reason WHY we're fighting the middle east.. its because we support them when their own land belongs to palestinians!\n\nif we ditched israel, the conflict would end quickly
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Your argument is flawed:  Israel is protected by all Christian nations, not just the United States.  Furthermore, while I do agree that Israel's use of force and political propaganda has caused the terrorism problems the world is experiencing today, there is little to fear from Israel attacking the U.S:  \n\n"The United States Military is considered the most powerful military in the world because their power projection capabilities are maintained significantly higher than any singular nation (e.g. France, United Kingdom, People's Republic of China, Russia, India) or organization (e.g. the European Union) .  \n\nThe United States military is unique in the amount of power it can project globally. Although France and the United Kingdom are capable of projecting power overseas, the United States military is the only military with the capacity to fight a major regional war away from its home territory. The U.S. is also one of the few nations in the world that has a sizable nuclear arsenal and maintains active doctrines for plausible nuclear attack operations.\n\nThe United States military budget is larger than the military budgets of the next twenty biggest spenders combined, and six times larger than China's, which places second..."\n\nCurrently, the by far most common belief among journalists and in the world of academia states that only the United States fulfills the criteria to be considered a superpower; sometimes, given the unipolar nature of the world, claimed to be a hyperpower [1]. China and India appear to have the greatest potential, amongst all the other nations, of achieving superpower or near-superpower status within the 21st century and are often termed as emerging superpowers.