Should the US support Israel unconditionally?

[AGA]

Israel is the US's most valuable ally in the Middle East. Should the US support whatever Israel does and wants, regardless of circumstances?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

No country should support whatever any other country does unconditionally.

[Red Velvet]

If so, you might as well change your country name to Israel, because unconditionally means you’re putting their interests above the ones of your country.

Automatic alliances always suck, should be something based on issue to issue. On some things countries might be allies, on others rivals. I wouldn’t support even my mother if she happened to become a criminal or even my own country if it did something bad, imagine if I would excuse every single action from a foreign country.

[Battista Minola 1616]

I unconditionally think that "unconditional support" is bad.

[bore]

No country should support whatever any other country does unconditionally.

Israel, drunk or sober.

[Chips]

ABSOLUTELY NOT!

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

In the same sense as the UK or Canada, the US' alliance with Israel should be largely unconditional barring any extreme unforeseen circumstances.

That shouldn't mean supporting everything it does unconditionally, but it should mean never allying with its enemies directly against it - militarily or diplomatically.

[beaver2.0]

No country should support whatever any other country does unconditionally.

[TDAS04]

No two countries on Earth have identical interests, so no.

[Amanda Huggenkiss]

Unconditional support for another country has been a bad idea at least since Franz Ferdinand has been shot dead.

[Samof94]

Israel is the US's most valuable ally in the Middle East. Should the US support whatever Israel does and wants, regardless of circumstances?

No, it is a foreign country regardless of what it does.

[Coolface Sock #42069]

Should we unconditionally support their existence? Yeah. Should we unconditionally support every single thing they do? No, that’s ridiculous.

[brucejoel99]

No, of course not. The U.S. should support basic human rights unconditionally, & thus recognize both the good & the bad before legitimately trying to advocate for peace on the basis of recognizing that understanding. Unfortunately, that'd be too nuanced an undertaking for the (too many) people who see Israel either as a purely good nation which we should unquestioningly support by providing them with unlimited amounts of financial & military aid, or a purely evil nation which we should cut off all aid to & let fend for itself, with no in-between whatsoever.