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Source: https://www.newsweek.com/trust-me-youd-rather-live-pro-israel-america-opinion-1858219
Trust Me, You'd Rather Live in a Pro-Israel America
(Newsweek) Gil Troy - Anti-Israel Americans harassed holiday revelers from coast-to-coast, in shopping malls, at the Rockefeller Center tree lighting ceremony, when the ball dropped in Times Square, or when they were trying to reach JFK airport or LAX airport during Christmas week. These "activists" placed bloody handprints on the White House gates and smeared red paint on the Lincoln Memorial's plaza. They think it's legitimate to disrupt business in the Capitol Rotunda and at the Democratic National Committee. The anti-Israel Americans' notion of national security includes having the U.S. absorb more than 100 rocket attacks from Iranian proxies without counterattacking the launching pads or the source of the evil, the Iranian mullahs. And as for international shipping, they'd let the Houthis reign. Pro-Israel Americans understand that this harassment from third-rate militias must end, immediately. Anti-Israeli Americans find terrorism "exhilarating." They cheer Hamas' mass rapists, maimers, kidnappers, killers, who torture the old, the young, the vulnerable. Their America is one where thugs on the streets and on campuses harass fellow Americans who disagree with them or don't join their cause. Anti-Israel America is an America lost, adrift, with no moral compass, unwilling to stand up for democratic principles, American patriotism, or national pride. Transcending partisanship, the Israel question is about right and wrong. President Joe Biden represents the Democrats' traditional pro-Israel majority and has worked with Republicans, who overwhelmingly support Israel. In short, bipartisan support for Israel continues - defying the headlines. The same Harvard/CAPS/Harris poll that said 50% of young Americans support Hamas also reported that 84% of Americans recognize Oct. 7 as a "terrorist attack." 81% support Israel over Hamas, and 69% recognize that "Israel is trying to avoid civilian casualties" in Gaza - despite the daily media exaggerations caricaturing Israel's self-defense campaign as unprecedentedly brutal. The writer, an American presidential historian, is a Senior Fellow in Zionist Thought at the Jewish People Policy Institute.