Why Support Israel?

The Tygrrrr Express has a very intriguing opinion up about why America should support Israel for purely secular reasons.  It's a personal journey for the author as much as anything else, so visit the link if you want that piece of it (language warning).  However, I wanted to highlight his reasoning beyond his own experiences:

[O]ne issue involving Israel renders every other issue less important. It has nothing to do with religion.

Israel is a democracy.

More importantly, Israel is a democracy surrounded by dictatorships.

Most importantly, those dictatorships reer to Israel as "Little Satan." America is "The Great Satan." Hateful messages left by Arab lunatics often say, "Death to America. Death to Israel. Allah is Great."

The Arab Muslims that want to wipe Israel off of the map then want to destroy America.

Israel is a democracy in an area that wants to create a caliphate. By supporting all democracies in the region, whether they be Israel or even pseudo-democracies such as Pakistan, America benefits. By supporting fledgling democracies where dictatorships used to exist, such as Iraq and Afghanistan, America benefits.

The Bush Doctrine of supporting democracy throughout the world is an absolutely correct vision. Democracy is better than dictatorship. If every nation were to become a democracy, the world would be better off. Yes, the American model of government is superior.

Why is this? Because democracies do not attack each other. Germany and Japan became democracies. When was the last time they bombed somebody? Even France, a disgusting nation in recent years before Nicolas Sarkozy, did not try to blow up America or Israel.

I cannot remember the last time in history that a pair of democracies had a hot war with each other.

America and Israel share values. Both of those nations share values with England and Australia. When those values are attacked anywhere in the world, "the Anglosphere" must respond forcefully.

America supports Israel because what we call 9/11, they call daily life. A democracy is being attacked by fanatical Islamofacist murderers. The barbarians have attacked London, Bali, Madrid, and New York. They are enemies of freedom, liberty, and democracy.

It is this global struggle that leads me to believe that America must stand squarely with Israel. I feel the same about Australia, and I have never been to Australia.

This is exactly right!  Unlike TE, I do have religious reasons for supporting Israel, too, but I've already addressed those to some extent on other posts, and will do so again later.  For now, I'll just agree 100% with the secular reasons to support Israel, Australia, and any other free democratic nation.  The logic is unassailable, and it's all the common ground we need in most cases.  We can quibble over all our little differences after the real enemy is defeated.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.  Amen.  Lock 'n' load.

There's my two cents.