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Chaoswind:
Honestly I just don't understand why everyone has to protect Israel, is obvious they are the ones looking for a fight for decades, so why protect them?
Do you not grasp that the whole religion was targeted for extinction by the Nazi's (rhetorical obviously)? Do you not understand that mass genocide of your people makes you a little paranoid that people are out to get you? Does that not make you want to be able to protect yourself? They aren't looking for a fight, they're looking to avoid the mass genocide Iran has outspokenly been supportive of.
Pretty sure that we are still the biggest symbol of freedom, liberty and tolerance in the world. Pretty sure that still means a lot to most Americans. Pretty sure that's why we'd want to fight for anyone else who wants to obstruct on those core values.
I'm not saying we're the perfect example of such values - we've had our screw ups in the past and still have some inequalities now, but if you ask people around the world what country most stands for those values, or where people would go to live in a cultures with those values, they'd say America more than any other place. The belief in those values is what makes us want to back up Israel, at least its what makes me want to back up Israel. And I'm a democrat.