Re:US Expected to Withdraw from UN Human Rights Council
by d0lph on Friday June 15, 2018 @02:32PM
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I could think of a few.
* Jews are a historically hated group, so maybe there's a swing back the other direction
* There is a connection between Judaism and Christianity (they basically share the old testament), and so I could see large amounts of religious support. Of course you also have antisemitic religious, so there's that
* We are allied with them, and they are in the middle east, is it possible that is also a strategical reason
I'm sure there's more, but also consider that support is not exactly universal among Americans:
> As of July 2006, a poll claimed that 44% of Americans thought that the "United States supports Israel about the right amount", 11% thought "too little", and 38% thought "too much" [1]
* Jews are a historically hated group, so maybe there's a swing back the other direction
* There is a connection between Judaism and Christianity (they basically share the old testament), and so I could see large amounts of religious support. Of course you also have antisemitic religious, so there's that
* We are allied with them, and they are in the middle east, is it possible that is also a strategical reason
I'm sure there's more, but also consider that support is not exactly universal among Americans:
> As of July 2006, a poll claimed that 44% of Americans thought that the "United States supports Israel about the right amount", 11% thought "too little", and 38% thought "too much" [1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93United_States_r...