Yes Barman at first glance this entire situation appears to be no goode.
But when you think about it most support of Israel comes from people and other governments who align with the State of Israel's core values. The surrounding theocracies deny human rights, freedom of speech, rule of law and free elections, etc.
Many people view the disappearance of Israel from that region to be the beginning of the toppling of Western civilization, and Israel to be the front line against the war on global terrorism.
And as I have shown you before, from
www.israel21c.org
Israel is making the world a better place. Israel is teaching farming techniques to food-deprived African nations. Just recently Israel sent a team of surgeons to Tanzania to perform corrective heart surgery on 22 children, and dispatched a field hospital to Japan, leaving it intact when they left after 2 weeks. I don't know about you, but the site of Israeli soldiers and doctors playing soccer with Japanese kids......
Meanwhile, across the yard:
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5528.htm
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/christianpal.html