The late Joseph Sobran once wrote an insightful article about the accusation of his being "obsessed" with Israel and the Jews.
An excerpt:
"Now and then I get letters and e-mail messages asking why I am so "obsessed" with Jews and Israel. The question amuses me. It would be one thing if I often wrote about Mali, or Honduras, or Borneo, or any other nation or country most people remember only as a name from geography class.
"I should think it's obvious that I'm responding to an obsession -- an obsession of contemporary culture, politics, the media, the arts. We have been getting 24/7 coverage of Jews, the Holocaust, and Israel for years now.
"The front pages, the evening news, the magazine covers devote so much attention to Israel -- a country the size of New Jersey on the other side of the world -- that you could get the impression that it spans several time zones and includes much of the world's population (plus a few gentiles).
"Many columnists write about it more often than I do: Charles Krauthammer, William Safire, Cal Thomas, Paul Greenberg, Mona Charen, and George Will, to name a few. Of course they write uncritically about Israel, so they aren't considered obsessed; Eric Alterman of THE NATON has compiled a list of more than 60 well-known pundits who "reflexively" support Israel, while finding only 6 who are frequently critical.
"Every American president has to spend a disproportionate amount of his time coddling Israel and denouncing or actively fighting Israel's enemies. It's become part of the job description, as much as if it were written into the Constitution -- or more so, since constitutional obligations have become optional and this obligation is definitely not."
United States spends most of their time telling Israel how to fight a war.
I wish Krauthammer was still with us. Always enjoyed hearing his take on political news.
Practicing Christians have the same effect on the world as Israel for the same reasons- both by definition cannot worship their government or any lesser power or ever be trusted by anyone who does worship power.
So the powers and principalities of this world hate and refuse to leave anyone who doesn’t worship them alone. It isn’t just Christians and Jews, but these are easiest targets because of their built-in pacifism, and because they are always targeted, it is to be expected that they frequently end up in the news.
If the world ignored them and left them alone, the world would be a much quieter place.