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June 20, 2025

Why Americans Support Israel

Good vs. evil, and an ally in constant danger.

The recent coverage of the Iran-Israel war, and the possibility that the U.S. might intervene to destroy Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility, has raised the broader question of why the American alliance with Israel is so important—and even the question, sometimes raised in good faith as well as bad, of why the tiny Jewish state generates so much attention. Jonah Goldberg considers many good reasons Americans should care about Israel, among them:

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