# What would happen if the US started withdrawing support from Israel? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [March 28, 2010, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-the-us-started-withdrawing-support-from-israel/534134 "2010-03-28T19:37:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 65
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-the-us-started-withdrawing-support-from-israel/534134/65 "2010-03-31T18:51:54Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > It would not bother me either if Carter’s Christianity was expressed _only_ in such generalities as “love thy neighbour as thyself” (not, I point out, a _uniquely_ Christian sentiment - variants of the Golden Rule show up in pretty well every human culture). I didn’t say it was unique. I said it is Carter’s guiding precept. Very obviously so. (See his work on Habitat for Humanity and his efforts toward eradication of the Guinea worm for example. Why do you suppose he is involving himself in the Palestinian question at all? I think it is because he feels the Golden Rule impels him. > [@](#): > > Berating a respected leader of another country for risking divine wrath for the crime of being excessively secular? That’s a _trifle_ more disturbing. Can you think of any other example of this? OK, so you find religious man Carter’s appeals to others to be more religious disturbing. So what? What does you being “disturbed” have to do with resolution of the Palestinian problem? This just looks like an _ad hominem_ attack on Carter to me – an attempt to portray him as a kook. > [@](#): > > The notion that Biblical passages in the hands of Christian can _only_ support a bias in _favour_ of Israel is more than a bit historically naive, considering that large parts of the NT are devoted to blasting the “Israeli authorities” of their day as corrupt and evil - something Carter expressly references (in the first quote mentioned above). “Corrupt and evil?” I think I must have missed that quote. I see him expressing Christian concern about the mistreatment of the Samaritans. Where does “evil and corrupt” enter into it. Looks more like an appeal to the Israeli conscience to me. But again, NONE of that really gets at the issues Carter raises in his book ([Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid](http://www.wikisummaries.org/Palestine:_Peace_Not_Apartheid)). Indeed, they seem like distractions from those issues. An attack on the messenger rather than the message. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-the-us-started-withdrawing-support-from-israel/534134)._