Why do Americans pretend to care about "Israelis"?

Question

Why do Americans pretend to care about "Israelis"?

Answer 1

They are easy to be led and brainwashed, but actually they dont care about anything but sunday night football game and fast food meal...

Answer 2

Actually it is not pretending. It is a planned brain washing process that started since ages and it was initiated by the Zionist media in the USA.  

Normally such things do not last for long, because sooner or later, the Americans will discover the truth about Israel. The tone is already getting lower and lower these days.

Answer 3

Who says so buddy?

I care none about them Jews.

You should listen to some of my hometown folks talking about Jews. Real bad stories.

These Jews want our cash only. I don't like them at all and I never pretend I care about them too.

Thomas

Answer 4

Maybe the same reason Arabs pretend to care about Palestinians.... I guess no matter who we are, nobody wants to look like the one who doesn't care.

Answer 5

All I know is that when browsing through the politics section, every day more and more , people are getting upset why all their tax dollars go to to the israeli lobbies. People seem to be waking up and standing up. Cheers!

Answer 6

We do care and support them.   The concept of Israel was supported and pushed for since the founding of the US.

The US, UK, Australia and Israel are descendents of the original lost tribes of Israel.

Answer 7

We care about any of our allies who are threatened by Islamic aggressors.

Answer 8

because jews make up less than 10% of the states demographics (much less than 10%) but they control at least half of the US economy i.e wealth! its true wat they say, no money no talk, with money the israelis can make the US 'talk' to pretend to like them.

And oh $$$ = power as well

yeah go ahead and give me thumbs down for all i care - truth hurts & sucks - i get it.

Answer 9

The only one pretending is you.  Why not pretend you have some common sense.

Answer 10

I don't any more or less than I care about others. I think the Middle East is a big mess and that America shouldn't take sides. In every conflict, there are rights and wrongs on both sides of the equation.

I couldn't tell you why "we" side with Israel and not anyone else, but that's how it works. It's politics, power, and money, I'm sure.

Answer 11

I don't think that Americans lost interest in Israel, but that's a demanding question if the Americans lost interest in the Middle East and had their own oil resources. The Arabs or rather Muslims in general will always back the Palestinians up due to their religious and ethnic bond.

I think that the Arabs never really rejected the idea of the existence of Israel. The only problem in my opinion is that the Israelis want too much. having Palestine only on 15% or 10% of the geographical Palestine and giving nationality to millions of Palestinians and having a Palestinian state which doesn't have the freedom to have it's own currency and not to have Jerusalem as a Muslim city for 2 billion Muslims and instead giving it to the Jews who are only 5 million ; all these things will never allow the Arabs to co-exist with Israel and will always make Arabs and Muslims together to back Palestinians forever while the American backing of Israel is only stemming from oil .

Answer 12

No such thing as pretend, one either does or doesn't.

America does care and the suggestion of yahoo politics section not supporting (which is untrue) would be over-ride by  religion and spirituality section support. Dandyl's Gallup poll is more encompassing and reliable of total sentiment.

American's care about Israel for a variety of reasons.

1) the spiritual connection

2) America is fighting against "allahu akbar!" suicide extremists we now recognize what Israel has been fighting against all along.

So reason #1 gives believers and reason #2 non-believers, reason to support Israel.

Answer 13

Thats not true at all! Americans care with their harts but they care most of all with their wallets which we like best.

Answer 14

Support for Israel is not restricted to the Jewish community. Americans of all ages, races and religions sympathize with Israel. This support is also nonpartisan, with a majority of Democrats and Republicans consistently favoring Israel by large margins over the Arabs.

The best indication of Americans' attitude toward Israel is found in the response to the most consistently asked question about the Middle East: “In the Middle East situation, are your sympathies more with Israel or with the Arab nations?” The organization that has conducted the most surveys is Gallup. Support for Israel in Gallup Polls has remained consistently around the 50% mark since 1967. Some people have the misperception that sympathy for Israel was once much higher, but the truth is that before the Gulf War the peak had been 56%, reached just after the Six-Day War. In January 1991, sympathy for Israel reached a record high of 64%, according to Gallup. Meanwhile, support for the Arabs dropped to 8% and the margin was a record 56 points.

In 78 Gallup polls, going back to 1967, Israel has had the support of an average of 46% of the American people compared to 12% for the Arab states/Palestinians. The results are similar (48%-12%) when all 178 polls asking similar questions are included. Americans have slightly more sympathy for the Palestinians than for the Arab states, but the results of polls asking respondents to choose between Israel and the Palestinians have not differed significantly from the other surveys.

The most recent poll, reported by Gallup in February 2007, found that sympathy for Israel was 58% compared to 20% for the Palestinians (the highest figure since 1989). Despite the violence of the preceding years, and a steady stream of negative media coverage, this exceeds the level of support Israel enjoyed after the 1967 war, when many people mistakenly believe that Israel was overwhelmingly popular. Gallup also reported in March 2007 “as Americans have moved out of the ‘no preference’ columns, they have moved disproportionately into the pro-Israeli column.”

Overall, support for Israel has been on the upswing since 1967. In the 1970s, the average level of support for Israel was 42%, in the 1980s, it was 46%, and, in the 1990s, 50%, including a record high of 64% at the time of the Gulf War in January 1991. So far in the new millennium, support for Israel is averaging 50%.

Meanwhile, support for the Arabs/Palestinians has actually declined in the last two decades from an anemic average just below 15% in the 1980s to less than 14% since 2000. On average, Israel is favored by nearly 4 to 1.

Gallup also takes regular polls on world affairs. Overall favorable ratings of Israel in February 2008 were 71%, the highest since the record 79% favorable rating in February 1991 during the first Gulf War. By contrast, just 14% of Americans have a favorable opinion of the Palestinian Authority, while 75% have an unfavorable view, only marginally better than the 2006 figure of 78%, the most negative Gallup recorded since it began asking about the Palestinian Authority in 2000. The PA is rated just above North Korea (12%) and Iran (8%) as the least popular countries.

Since 1998, roughly three-fourths of respondents have said the United States should take neither side in the conflict, but those who do pick a side overwhelmingly choose Israel (27% vs. 1% for the Palestinian's side in 2001). More than three-fourths of Americans also believe Palestinian-Israeli peace is somewhat or very important to the United States.

Polls also indicate the public views Israel as a reliable U.S. ally, a feeling that grew stronger during the Gulf crisis. A January 1991 Harris Poll, for example, found that 86% of Americans consider Israel a “close ally” or “friendly.” This was the highest level ever recorded in a Harris Poll. The figure in 2006 was 75%. In a 2007 ADL poll, the figure was 65%, and a May 2003 survey sponsored by ARNSI, the Alliance for Research on National Security Issues, reported that 63% of Americans believe Israel is “a reliable ally of the U.S. in the fight against terrorism.”

Answer 15

I'm an American, I care about Israelis, all my friends do, now I feel I must say one more thing, in about 7 years gasoline will be a out of fashion liquid, Arabs will be again as they were for thousands of years, desert tent dwellers.