I offer in rebuttal the following quotation from, PAT BUCHANAN AND THE MENACE ANTI-ANTI-SEMITISM Autor: Murray N. Rothbard | Publikováno: 31.12.2009 | Rubrika: English:(please note the date)
The major fount of OAAS is the venerable Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL), the head of what the grand Old Rightist John T. Flynn referred to during World War II as the "Smear Bund." (Flynn was forced to publish himself his expose of the orchestrated smear of isolationists in his pamphlet, The Smear Terror.) Since the end of World War II, the key strategy of the ADL has been to broaden its definition of anti-Semitism to include any robust criticisms of the State of Israel. Indeed, the ADL and the rest of the OAAS has formed itself into a mighty praetorian guard focusing on Israeli interests and Israeli security.
(https://www.euportal.cz/PrintArticle/5432-pat-buchanan-and-the-menace-anti-anti-semitism.aspx)
You list very good reasons for supporting Israel. The point of my original post is not that we should necessarily fail to support Israel but that merely asking the question whether or not we should support Israel is alone grounds for condemnation of the speaker?
All the reasons you cite are good and true. There are other countervailing considerations, such as our support potentially commits us to conflict, perhaps thermonuclear existential conflict, with hundreds of millions of Arabs and 1.5 billion Muslims who control much of the world's oil reserves. Even though we no longer seem to need that oil, the supply and price of oil is vital to American interests and allies.
You did not add one reason which I would add for supporting Israel, because it is morally right to support a minority of people who were threatened by multitudes who simply want to wipe them out of existence primarily for who they are or because of a medieval sharia doctrine that says about territory once occupied Muslim always Muslim.
