Obama says US bond with Israel 'unbreakable': Why?

"CAIRO (AFP) — US President Barack Obama said on Thursday that the US bond with Israel is "unbreakable," in a much-anticipated speech aimed at healing America's rift with the Islamic world.

"America's strong bonds with Israel are well known," Obama told the world's Muslims in a speech from Cairo University. "This bond is unbreakable."

"It is based upon cultural and historical ties, and the recognition that the aspiration for a Jewish homeland is rooted in a tragic history that cannot be denied," said Obama, who is to head to Germany's Buchenwald concentration camp after Egypt.

He said that denying the Holocaust is "baseless, ignorant, and hateful."

Why is the US bond with Israel "unbreakable"? When did Israel lose the status of other non-US nations and become this weird step-state of the USA? When did Americans ever vote on lifting Israel out of international law so that Israel can commit crimes against humanity as they did in Lebanon and in Gaza? I don't remember ever voting for giving Israel such immunity from international laws. In fact, we have a Constitutional guarantee that prohibits our country from "establishing" any religion yet here we are, the USA, establishing a Jewish state in the Middle East and no one is complaining except us anti-Zionists and of course Muslims.

Obama is going to have to face the fact sooner or later that as long as he supports Israel over Palestinian national rights he will never win the hearts and minds of Middle East Muslims. Outside the US Israel's reason for being is not taken for granted and many see that nation as a rogue state that routinely violates international laws and UN resolutions while committing racist aggression against Arab Muslim Palestinians, Arab Muslim Lebanese, Arab Muslim Syrians, and Muslim Iranians. Again, why do we as US citizens have an "unbreakable" bond with this country?

As for the Jewish holocaust as a reason, well, let none forget the actual number of Jewish holocaust survivors choosing to live in Israel after WW II. Less than 2% and evidently in Israel those 2% holocaust survivors are not being treated well through the Israeli social security system. It is unreasonable and perhaps bordering on neurosis for any American leader to give a blank check to such a bad actor on the international scene as Israel as the statement "unbreakable" bond suggests. We don't allow our country to condone other nations when they commit aggression against neighboring nations or against their own people, why are we giving Israelis such a pass in ethical behavior? Are we a Jewish nation? No we are not. So let's remember that in America no religion is to be given special treatment and stop breaking our own Constitution that forbids the establishment of any religion and that must include establishing a Jewish state using American tax money and American armaments.