I grew up in a neighborhood where you were Italian or Jewish, or you weren't. I have had a large number of Jewish friends over the years. I live on Michigan's Upper Peninsula now, and there are almost none here. I've been here almost 20 years and have no Jewish friends. Why? I think it is because they are urban people. They came from the ghettos of Europe to our own; clawed their way up out of them, prospered, and became suburbanites. I love them, but they have an urban fixation about guns. None I have known, young men, hunt, fish, camp and the rest. They play golf, watch sports, take fencing classes, ride their own stabled horses English style and turn them over to a groom when done.
They don't have a clue as to what goes on outside of their cocoon. They have never even though it was possible to go out at 3 a.m. and pump bullets out of a .30-30 at a bear attacking your livestock, or harvesting a nice deer, and enjoying the wonderful venison. or knocking off a woodchuck at 300 yards. All they see is a masked man, in an alley or in their home attacking them with a gun.
Other than sympathy, I believe most of them have no real connection with Israel. Yes, they'll contribute, they do that well. When I was a kid, I wanted to fly, and I wanted to volunteer in the Israeli Air Force. If you're confused, I'm a Wop, not a Jew. I believed in their fight, respected their courage and sheer guts, and I still do. We could do well here at home to adopt some of those virtues of Nationalism and Patriotism.
I don't believe the American Jew has the slightest idea that the only reason Israel exists is because Israel is armed, from state of the art military equipment, to the guy at home with his wife and kids and an Uzi