Middle East policy | To Israel with love | Economist.com

Middle East policy | To Israel with love | Economist.com
But the biggest reason why Americans are so pro-Israel may be cultural. Americans see Israel as a plucky democracy in a sea of autocracies—a democracy that has every right to use force to defend itself. Europeans, on the other hand, see Israel as a reminder of the atavistic forces—from nationalism to militarism—that it has spent the post-war years trying to grow beyond.


Stress belief in Democracy as a shared cultural value!