Hi Tex. As a Jewish American I can speak for....myself.
If anyone says that Israel/US relations is a Republican/Democratic issue they would simply be lying. This is a non-partisan issue, plain and simple. When you read through these posts about people against supporting Israel, you are witnessing the lunatic fringe of the left (yes, we've got one too) that is simply against anything that Bush supported. They are as much an embarrassment to Democrats as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and others are to the right.
US support for Israel, contrary to paranoid anti-Semites, has little to do with the "Israel lobby". Israel is simply the only democratic nation in the Middle East. They hold the same values that the US has and are natural allies in every respect. They are surrounded by nations that have repeatedly tried to wipe them off of the map and continue to call for Israel's destruction. There isn't another single democracy in the world that has to contend with what Israel has to deal with on a constant basis.
The Arabs have used the Palestinian issue for generations for their own purposes. The only reason that "Palestine" does not yet exist is because the Arab countries have rejected every opportunity handed them because they have preferred to keep the issue alive as a rallying point to deflect any attention from their own corrupt monarchs, oligarchs and tyrants.
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