I think Jeff Jacoby's most recent column in the Boston Globe pretty much explains why I'm a big fan of Israel. Here's a sample:
Finally, Americans sympathize so strongly with the Israelis because both nations face a common enemy. Unlike Walt and Mearsheimer, who can find "no moral basis" for taking Israel's side in its war with enemies bent on its destruction, most Americans make a clear moral distinction between suicide bombers and their victims. If Israeli terrorists were deliberately blowing up Palestinian school buses, if rabbis were blasting Arabs as "the sons of monkeys and pigs," if it were Israelis who had danced in celebration on 9/11, American sympathies might not be so clear-cut. Most Americans are not confused, because most Americans understand what's at stake.No matter how you look at it, we should always pride ourselves in supporting the various lights of freedom that struggle to stay lit in a sea of darkness.
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