There are stories in the news saying that the bloom is off the rose, that the special relationship between the United States and Israel is breaking down.
Some say it’s about personalities, claiming that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is unpopular with Americans. Some say Americans are growing tired of Israel’s defensive wars against Iran’s many clients. Some say the anti-semitic demonstrations of the past two years on college campuses and in our big cities have been successful in breaking America’s friendship with Israel.
The claim is hogwash.
Israel is as popular with the majority of the American people today as it ever was.
It’s the severely-disconnected leaders of America’s pop culture who are growing ever further apart from both the people of America and the people of Israel.
Israel and its interests remain popular with the American people for a number of reasons.
- Israel and the United States are true republics. While we differ in the specifics – we are two-party while Israel is multiparty; we have a bicameral legislature and a president while they have the parliamentary form – we share the general system of electing our governments after issue-based campaigns, unlike all the kingdoms, dictatorships, theocracies and emirates that surround Israel.
- We share the same enemies. The horrific attacks on October 7, 2023 clarified the difference in worldviews between ourselves and the jihadist enemies we share. As Judeo-Christian nations, we are both viewed by the jihadist muslim countries of the middle east as necessary conquests. As the old saying goes, “They’re really after us; Israel is just in the way.” If our enemies are going to treat us as a team anyway, we may as well behave like a team ourselves.
- In many ways, we share the same people, the same culture. Both the United States and the modern state of Israel were founded and settled primarily by Judeo-Christians seeking religious freedom after centuries of persecution. In addition, many of Israel’s settlers, even many of their politicians, immigrated to Israel from the United States. Our two nations are allies in part because the individuals of each country have grown up as friends, neighbors, relatives.
- We share an appreciation of the doctrine of “peace through strength.” We don’t start wars of conquest, but we are realistic about the threats in the world. We both believe in being strong enough that we can not only defend ourselves if war starts, but also that we can reduce the odds of other outside threats attacking us in the first place. What a difference from the islamofascists who can’t seem to build a rocket or acquire a bomb without immediately putting it to use, aggressively, to attack somebody, anybody, as soon as possible.
- The world is finally realizing how many of the world’s problems are caused by the same enemies. The Hamas crowd that launches bombs and rockets at Israel also starts riots in America’s big cities and colleges. The Houthis that fire missiles at Israel also fire missiles at American ships in the Red Sea. The economic disruption caused by Iran’s puppets, through both their anti-Israel boycott and their closure of the Suez Canal, hurts the entire globe, but especially hurts the honorable economic leaders of the world like Israel and the United States, on whom everyone else depends.
The more we study the parties and issues in today’s conflicts, the more clear it is that Israel and the United States are united on the right side of history. Even foreign countries that personally dislike Israel and the USA, due to bigotry or jealousy or old forgotten animosities, have to admit to themselves that whether they like us or not, the world is a better place when the United States and Israel are free, safe, and productive, able to do what we do best without interference.
Medical innovations, technological development, agricultural advancements, manufacturing prowess – both Israel and the United States are the leaders whose discoveries and improvements are shaping the world.
And in a world in which politics govern so much of human action, it is worth noting that the current governments of Israel and the United States, as led by Bibi Netanyahu and Donald Trump and their immediate teams, share the same close personal relationship, the same mutual respect, as the majorities of their constituents.
So No, naysayers and anti-Israel pundits; the MAGA movement, the Republican Party and the American majority are not severing ties with our brothers and sisters in Israel. We remain committed to solid cooperation, with the blessing of Divine Providence, for the betterment of this fallen world.
Copyright 2025 John F. Di Leo
John F. Di Leo is a Chicagoland-based international transportation and trade compliance trainer and consultant. President of the Ethnic American Council in the 1980s and Chairman of the Milwaukee County Republican Party in the 1990s, his book on vote fraud (The Tales of Little Pavel), his political satires on the Biden-Harris administration (Evening Soup with Basement Joe, Volumes I, II, and III), and his first nonfiction book, “Current Events and the Issues of Our Age,” are all available in either eBook or paperback, only on Amazon.
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