What's the best thing that Israel has done for America?

[ingemann]

I think western, especially European (but also Americans) opinion of Israel are mostly reactive. Most people including westerners see Israel as part of the west, so when Arabs complain about Israel and western hypocrisy, the reaction are that people look at Israel and decides whether they think Israel's behaviour are okay, and here's Bibi a problem, the old Israeli leaders was able to sell Israel in ways, which made the West see Israel's abuses as a result of Palestinian terror, but Bibi have succeed in turning the view around to the benefit of the Palestinians. But we wouldn't react to it, if it wasn't brought up all the time by Arab countries and "pundits" and the Israeli governments the last 20 years have done their best to get rid foreign apoligists for the Israeli action, of course it doesn't help that many of apoligists who are left, are connected to anti-Muslim groups and parties.

As for West Sahara, if the West Saharans, had someone who push their suffering into western view all the times, we would also have a much more hostile view of the Moroccan occupation. We can just see the difference between international view of Xinjiang and Tibet, where the Chinese treatment of the locals are worse in Xinjiang, but more people care about Tibet, because of their better PR campaign.