Why do American Jews go for this crap?
I have been strongly pro-Israel, but all of the Jewish people I know ( in the US) have opposed every policy and effort by the United States to help Israel.
I’m getting tired of it.
The country is going bankrupt. Why should I go against the American Jews and argue to spend billions of dollars we don’t have and thousands of American lives to defend what should be their country?
I’m *just about* ready to side with the Libertarians, pull back on foreign intervention, let the Middle East burn, and let Israel fend for itself. If that’s what the American Jews want, let them have their way.
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That's been addressed here many times.
The brief answer is that the vast majority of my US co-religionists are descended from folks who fled violent anti-semitic attacks in central and east Europe and Russia around the turn of the last century. At that time, the only ideology that opposed the attacks (many of which had been instigated/approved by various churches and monarchs) was nascent secular socialism. It was that political system those fleeing took with them to our shores.
My family came to the US after Hitler's genocide, so I have a very very different view of "National Socialism".
“Why do American Jews go for this crap?”
For the same reasons American Christians elected Obama in the first place, I suspect.