seem to have very different ways of looking at this conflict (I mean aside from Tinmore). Americans seem to side more with the Israelis, maybe because of our Judeo-Christian tradition or because of movies like Exodus with Paul Newman, while Europeans seem to take the Palestinians' side. This, despite the fact that Muslims have now overrun Europe and commit terrorism there. Eloy, how do you explain this phenomenon?
American politicians do uncritically support Israel principally because of the Jewish Lobby.
You mention a Judeo-Christian tradition that you suppose is present in the USA and Europe but this is not so. The type of Christianity in Europe is basically Catholic or Protestant. Catholic doctrine teaches that the Son of God, Jesus, was put to death at the demand of the Jews. The Jews rejected the Messiah and so forfeit salvation. Missing is the evangelical Biblicism that characterizes some Protestant non-conformist sects. So there is no particularly religious reason from tradition for Europeans to be pro-Israel or pro-Muslim.
Hollywood movies tend to be made by Jews and they have been, without exception, pro-Israel and especially anti-German and their Nazi Final Solution. So influential are the movies that the name "Holocaust" comes from an American miniseries from 1978 to refer to the Final Solution. Hollywood has had more of an influence in the USA than Europe.
There was goodwill from the Europeans toward Israel in the beginning when the Jews who survived the Final Solution in Europe were seen as an underdog against their Semitic Arab neighbors and the most important country of the European Union, Germany, has a guilt complex because of its history. More than anything, however, the European people have accepted that the occupation of the Palestinian people's land and the awful pulverizing of the defenseless people in Gaza is a David and Goliath contest. The underdog now is Palestine and the days of support for Israel have passed.
