Ok, I meant more like "all" the world doesn't hate Israel. I, for one, fully expect that either myself, my kids (or both) might someday be called upon to fight right along side you and others in defending Israel. My reaction to this doesn't in any way diminish my support of Israel and all that entails.
I thought so.
But the lesson of the Shoah was that when it comes down to the worst, NOBODY will help. (The Poles tried and couldn't.) Israel will be on her own. And this is what Israel must be ready for.
Israel has had real friends and allies like the US before, most notably (perhaps ironically) Iran*.
However, Israel thought she had real friends before World War 2 too, namely Britain. And you know how that went down. Britain ultimately didn't vote for the creation of Israel and supplied the Arab invaders with weapons, training, and even officers.
For various reasons I am sure the US won't go that far, but I am personally still convinced that if Israel loses a war, American forces will NOT come and fight to revive the country, despite people like you and other (mostly) Christians in the US wanting to do exactly that (and realising the immense importance).
(*Most people don't know this but a short time before the Muslims took Jerusalem from the Greeks, Jerusalem was under Jewish rule for a few years again, taken in a joint attack by Jewish and Persian Sassanid forces.)
Yes, of course, anti semitism is too alive and too well, so one would think that Jewish people would appreciate the support that is offered, instead of shrug it off, or worse yet, act like it doesn't make a difference, or matter in the first place.
I am sure Shimon Peres appreciates the support. But I am also sure that he remembers fighting the wars alone. He was in the military and the Haganah. He knows what happened back then. When the man responsible for buying weapons from the Europeans says that the war was won alone, the war was won alone. He is the primary source for it. (Shimon Peres is so old, he is the primary source for most of history, or so I think sometimes. Even the prime minister of Turkey calls him the "Wise Man of the Middle-East".)
What he said about Israel's relations with America is still true: in contrast to other US allies Israel has never asked America to send soldiers to die for Israel, the 600 soldiers currently stationed in Israel notwithstanding.
Peres' point was that Russia is often forgotten in the west. And in this case again, Russia seems to have been forgotten. Israel's first ally was the Soviet-Union (although not for long), and Israelis can travel to Russia visa-free (but not to the US). There are links between Russia and Israel that Americans probably cannot understand. (In fact I have problems understanding them because Russia keeps selling weapons to Israel's enemies even now.)
