portajon, it really IS hard to tell if you are hateful or just that dumb. (Do you and Justinh get together to think up these doozers like this and “is ‘nigger’ an insulting word?”)
No other group is interested in any other part of their identity other than being American? If the survival of Ireland was in question, if the Brits were going to bomb it away and make the Emerald Isle turn red with Irish blood, you’d just keep your mouth shut? If the pope was held hostage, American Catholics would stay mum? EVERY group has interests in the survival of their culture. Its only that none other has its survival so threatened as a matter of course.
And sorry, but as to the crying for a need for a homeland … besides the fact that there are oodles of states devoted to being Islamic, tons that consider themselves “Christian” countries, a multiplicity of black African states, etc … besides that all these other groups have nonthreatened homelands whose existence they take for granted … besides all this, is the simple fact that your blues ain’t like my blues. No other people have been so systematically oppressed for nearly two thousand years. Ever since we lost our homeland in the first place. That is not a coincidence. The Holocaust was just the application of German efficiency and Modern era technology to the process that Christians and various Islamic rules had practiced for years.
But this is NOT why America supports Israel. America supports Israel out of informed self-interest. A weak Israel would tempt attack. Israel has proven difficult to beat, and not for wont of trying. Prolonged large-scale war in the MidEast is against American interests, and not only because of oil. Israel is not supported because it is democratic, or because the Jewish people deserve their homeland, but because a strong Israel helps minimize instability in the region.
And BTW, I do wholeheartedly support fast track development and implementation of technologies that reduce our dependence on oil: fuel cells, microturbines, hybrid vehicles, etc.