Why Are Americans So Supportive of Israel?

[angus]

Why exactly is it that Americans blindly support Israel, no matter what.

I think because it's the only democracy in the region.  We're a very sensationalistic people, and prone to the logical fallacy of the excluded middle.  When we think of the Middle East, we think of Us versus Them.  Israel is part of the Us.  For all its warts and pimples and rockets trained at the houses of peasants, it is basically a western-style democracy.  None of its neighbors are.