Why do the USA government supports Israel?
480157
Because God said He would bless those that bless Israel and curse those that curse Israel...and so far the U.S. has been wise enough to take Him at His Word!
124567
Because it is a democratic state with Western values in the middle of the Middle East.  Israel is the only democratic country that grants equal civil liberties to women and religious and ethnic minorities.  And it's filled with Jews! Yuck!  The fact is that more Israeli Arabs think that Israel is better than other countries compared to Israeli Jews! (See http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1137605866664&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull)\nBut it's not even the Jewish thing, as much as the fact that Israel, and the US, symbolize the West and corrupt values to fundamentalist Muslims.
784288
Dr. Delight gave the correct answer.  Israel controls the U.S. government, and that is why the U.S. government consistently acts in Israel's interests.  It's not a matter of alliance; if it were, the alliance would have been terminated on 8 June 1967, when Israel attacked the USS Liberty.  Rather, Israel and the international banks and the mass media are controlled by Zionists who manage their respective assets in concert with each other.\n\nThe minions of Zionism have the power to wreck national economies, to instigate wars, to destroy political careers, and to assassinate politicians.  Your federal legislators aren't afraid of the tobacco lobby or the cotton lobby.  But they are very afraid of the Zionist lobby. That's why Israel can kill whoever it wants with little excuse and expect the U.S. government to support them.\n\nYou should not confuse the U.S. government with the American people.  The American people merely show up on election day to cast useless votes for either of two candidates whom the Zionists have pretty much pre-approved. Many Americans DON'T like what Israel does, but they don't have the political leverage necessary to change the situation.
135727
israel can occupy where ever they want to as long as they can kill enough people to do it and have the united states to back them up. historically they have never been able to do very much on their own.
51952
You pat my back , I pat yours.\nIt is the mutual secret pact with Israel that the USA and Israel supports each other in every good and evil the other do.\nThere are too many crimes against humanity done by Israel to mention.\nIsrael would only oppose the US if it is against their national interest, which would be a rarity.\nThe  USA on the other hand benefits little except for support in spying on the people in the Middle East , at which Israel is better equip that the USA.\nUnfortunately , some of the information can be really biased
200083
There is no reason why the US should try to overthrow Hamas; they are the democratically elected government of the Palestinians.  However, there is also no reason why the US should continue to support Hamas.  Hamas continues to support the destruction of the only truly democratic government in the region - Israel.  Hamas continues to conduct unprovoked attacks on the state of Israel.  Hamas members are complicit in many acts of terrorism throughout the region of Israel and Palestine.  There is a river of blood on their hands.\nLike it or not, Israel is here to stay.  The sooner Hamas, Fatah, and all their supporters in the Middle East start DEALING WITH IT, the sooner there will be peace.
1027651
The US supporst Israel for the sole and simple reason that it is a highly strategic position in the middle east and one that needs our help.  Its a case of "you sratch my back and I scratch yours" right?  Yes we did in fact embargo S. Africa, however, S. Africa is a highly divided nation whose sides are more than willing to accept help from anyone (and believe me, America has its hand there too).  S. Africa offers no political or military advantage.  What America does there is purely arbitrary.  They have some diamonds and a little oil, but so does Russia.  So, that's why.  Political science is kinda my thing
1033697
Israel lives on the huge economical,political&military support of the usa,\nall this support is paid by the american tax payers since 1948!!\nthey dont only take a fixed amount every year ,no,they take whenever they need,\nwhen israel planed to pull out from Gaza strip,they demanded    2-4 billion dollars from the usa to pay for the expensise of the pull out!!!\nIn 1973,when Egypt fighted israel to get Sinai back (which was invaded by the israelies in 1967)from the israelies & destroyed the (barlef line,,which was called the strongest deffence line in the world ) and defeated the israelies,,america made an air bridge btw usa & israel to send support & weapons to israel,the american tanks was coming out from the planes directly to the battle field with full fuel ,fully loaded & full AMERICAN CREW,to fight for israel!!\nIn the security council,a lot of times ,all the council voted to punish israel for its massacres against civ in Palestine,including the killing of european journalists who was covering the massacres of israel,but every time usa used its VETO to stop any decision against israel,just to protect its brutality.\nusa went to war with Iraq for the sake of israel,and is going against IRAN for the same reason,just to protect israel and make sure its the only one who possess tons of WMD and nuks in the area,to keep threat on its neigbours all the time.\n\nthats the kind of support usa gives to israel,its more than what a mother gives to her baby!\n\n,\n All these unfairness made the world hate usa like never before,changed the image of usa ,and cost  the us economy trillions of dollars from tax payers money,just to make israel and the jewish lobby in usa ,happy\nAnd after all that u r asking if israel can exist without us support!!\nOF course NO
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You could ask the same question but insert "Egypt" in place of "Israel", because no other country on Earth supports Egypt as America does.\n\nSo think hard about what your question is suggesting.\n\nTo answer your question, America supports Israel more than any other country because America supports MOST nations more than any other countries do.  We could do much more, because as a percent of GDP the U.S. is not at the top of the heap - however, in total monetary terms, we are, and that means universally across the globe.\n\nThe reason why Israel receives such support (and the EU are also big supporters, collectively) is that a homeland - with an historic foundation supporting its geography - has proven critical to the security of a people whose population was systematically halved in just 12 years in the mid-20th Century.\n\n[Added] You asked for figures. Here are figures below. Comparison of donor source per country not provided here, but U.S. portion of total support to Egypt is statistically significant, my "financial economist" friend.\n\nOfficial Development Assistance, 2005\nBy Donor Country\nIn Billions of $U.S.\n1. U.S.   19.00\n2. Japan     8.86\n3. France    8.48\n4. U.K.    7.84\n5. Germany   7.50\n6. Netherlands   4.24\n7. Sweden    2.70\n8. Spain    2.55\n9. Canada    2.54\n10. Italy    2.48\n11. Norway   2.20\n12. Denmark   2.03\n13. Australia   1.47\n11. Next 9\n      donors\n      combined*   4.51\n\n* Belgium, Switzerland, Portugal, Austria, Finland, Ireland, Greece, Luxembourg, New Zealand.\n\nSource:\nCongressional Research Service (Larry Nowels, Specialist in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division), CRS Report for Congress: Foreign Aid: Understanding Data Used to Compare Donors. Updated May 23, 2005 (Order Code RS22032), p. 5\nhttp://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RS22032.pdf\n\nTop 16 recipients of U.S. ODA^, 2005\nBy Recipient Country\nIn Billions of $U.S.\n1. Israel  2.58 (13.6% of US ODA^; 3.9% of top 10 combined ODA^)\n2. Egypt   1.84 (9.7% of US ODA^; 2.8% of top 10 combined ODA^)\n3. Afganistan  0.98  \n4. Pakistan  0.70 \n5. Colombia  0.57\n6. Sudan   0.50\n7. Jordan  0.48\n8. Uganda  0.25\n9. Kenya   0.24\n10. Ethiopia  0.19 \n11. South Africa  0.19\n12. Peru   0.19 \n13. Indonesia 0.18 \n14. Bolivia   0.18 \n15. Nigeria  0.18 \n16. Zambia  0.18 \n\n^ ODA is Official Development Assistance, referenced here as total assistance to all countries, e.g. “top 10 combined ODA” is all aid given anywhere by top 10 donor countries.\n\nsource:\nCRS Report for Congress: Foreign Aid: An Introductory Overview of U.S.\nPrograms and Policy Updated January 19, 2005, page 14\nhttp://shelby.senate.gov/legislation/ForeignAid.pdf
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Consider foremost the common values that bind the US with the Middle East's only democracy, then the strategic value to the US of a strong Israel.\n\nAmerican aid to Israel was minimal until after the Six Day War, and only took off after Israel saved US ally Jordan from a PLO-Syrian invasion in 1970. The 1979 Camp David Accords, which secured peace between Israel and Egypt, mandated increased aid to Israel to compensate in part for Israel's return of the Sinai and the resulting loss of strategic depth, air bases, training grounds and oil fields. Israel's prescient destruction of Iraq's nuclear program in 1981 stopped Saddam Hussein from having nuclear weapons when he invaded Kuwait nine years later - nuclear weapons he could have used against US troops during the the first Gulf War.
1120535
... Israel, and the United States.
1042844
Americans support Jews in Israel because Ishmael is a wild @ss of a man with his hand against everyone and everyones hand against his.  And perhaps what we hope to acomplish is God's will.
813413
that's an odd question because we do support terrorists, namely Israel.
580063
The reasons for this are twofold:\n\nFirstly, Israel is a key strategic ally in the middle east.  Israel's status both as a jewish community and a secular democracy make them a natural ally to the United States, and are also both a key trading, diplomatic, and military power.  For the US to take away Israel's nuclear program would be diminishing the power of a country falling under the American sphere of influence.\n\nSecondly, Israel is a small country with a outmanned, but technologically superior military surrounded by a large number of hostile countries whose populations have shown a notable lack of limits on the steps that they are willing to take to win this cultural/religious conflict.  Without a nuclear program to back up their conventional military, Israel could easily be overrun in a war.
870780
USA Christians supports the Jews because they are their descendants even though they killed Jesus.  They have long forgiven the Israelites.
304987
According to Zionist texts they had no choice and decided from the begining to displace (ethnically cleanse) the native population of Palestine to build Israel.  It is still going on today of course, as we sit here, but it is allowed first by British colonial interests which were then overtaken by USA interests in "controlling the region" and requires massive funding from US taxes each year to do so, against the general will of the US population who pays for every bullet's worth.  Israel is a military state and serves as a watchdog for the US.  Although many Israelis themselves oppose the occupation of Palestinian land and struggle day after day to inform the world of the attrocities commited in the name of Israelis and Americans alike.\n\nThe part about Africa was a early proposal for the Jewish Homeland to be located in Uganda it was to be a "Jewish settlement in East Africa".
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Because Isreal is a free State. The American government is working on ways to produce energy so that we no longer have to rely on middle eastern oil.