Here's a nice political taboo that you'll never hear a politician spit: I have no idea why we care so fuckin' much about Israel. You can say that we're trying to support a country that was created for ethnic reasons, but we haven't busted our asses or had our balls busted nearly as much in regards to other ancestry-rooted nations that were created out of thin air.
Reasons I get from people whenever I bring this up:
"There were six million of them killed in the Holocaust." - This is less and less valid as that generation dies off.
"All of the countries around them want them wiped off the face of the planet." - There are a LOT of nations with many enemies, what makes Israel different? This also makes it sound like they're a tiny, defenseless country. They've got the best of military equipment from the West and are (currently, anyway) the only nation in the area with nuclear weapons. That and they also tend to kick the ass of anyone that messes with them.
"You're just an anti-Semite." - No, I just want to know why this little country gets so much of our attention when we can't even get shit right in our own nation.
"It's their homeland." - That's very well and groovy, but again, we don't go to bat for other homeland based countries nearly as much.
So really guys, what is the big freakin' deal about Israel where we can't just treat them like any other country?