Most Americans do share a moral commitment to Israel’s survival as a Jewish state, but this would not account for the level of financial, military, and diplomatic support provided. American aid to Israel goes well beyond protecting Israel’s security needs within its internationally recognized borders. U.S. assistance includes support for policies in militarily occupied territories that often violate well-established legal and ethical standards of international behavior.
The close
relationship between the U.S. and Israel has been one of the most salient features
in U.S. foreign policy for nearly three and a half decades. The well over $3
billion in military and economic aid sent annually to Israel by Washington is
rarely questioned in Congress, even by liberals who normally challenge U.S. aid
to governments that engage in widespread violations of human rights or by
conservatives who usually oppose foreign aid in general.
All Western
countries share the United States’ strong support for Israel’s legitimate right
to exist in peace and security, yet these same nations have refused to provide
arms and aid while the occupation of lands seized in the 1967 war continues.
While U.S. support for Israeli occupation policies, like U.S. support for its allies elsewhere, is primarily based upon the country’s support for perceived U.S. security interests, there are other factors complicating efforts by peace and human rights groups to change U.S. policy.
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Here are the
reasons why America supports Israel:
1- Israel is
the best intelligence gathering network in the world, and they share
information with America.
2- Israeli
government is like America’s
Preliminary-democracy, political parties, universal vote, legal system
based on same foundations as that in America (stari
decisis, English common law, civil law, Jewish law) with attorney
representation but no juries.
3- Israeli
values are like a majority of Americans a majority of the time. Pro-women’s rights, pro-gun rights, pro-free
speech, pro-gay/lesbian rights, pro-environment, proeducation, free media.
Israel has a history of responding with emergency aid and humanitarian support
teams to disasters across the world.
4- Israel has
nuclear weapons and cyber-espionage/warfare capacities. The two countries also
collaborate on the joint-development of sophisticated technologies.
5- Religious
reasons “supporting a Jewish state is
reinforcing (or being true to) our own Christianity”.
6- Business
interests: American airlines make much money flying there, and dozens of the
top US companies have set up technology incubators (on solar energy and water
conservation, for instance) in Israel to take advantage of the country’s
penchant for new ideas. They then lobby US politicians.
7- The Jewish
lobby in Washington DC Certainly not as
strong as the NRA or AARP, but also not a non-influence by any means.
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8- Capitalism
and Economics: although Israel makes up just 3% of the population of the Middle
East, it was the destination of 25% of all US exports to the region in 2011.
9- Historical
reality: US alignment to Israel was a counterpunch to the Soviet alignment with
Arab countries.
10- It has
served as a conduit for U.S. arms to regimes and movements too unpopular in the
United States for openly granting direct military assistance, such as apartheid
South Africa, the Islamic Republic in Iran, the military junta in Guatemala,
and the Nicaraguan Contras. Israeli military advisers have assisted the
Contras, the Salvadoran junta, and foreign occupation forces in Namibia and
Western Sahara.
11- Israel
has missiles capable of reaching as far as the former Soviet Union, it
possesses a nuclear arsenal of hundreds of weapons, and it has cooperated with
the U.S. military-industrial complex with research and development for new jet
fighters and anti-missile defense systems.
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