Fifty years ago, Ayn Rand nailed the issue of supporting Israel over its enemies: “When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are. Israel is a mixed economy inclined toward socialism. But when it comes to the power of the mind—the development of industry in that wasted desert continent—versus savages who don’t want to use their minds, then if one cares about the future of civilization, don’t wait for the government to do something. Give whatever you can. This is the first time I’ve contributed to a public cause: helping Israel in an emergency.”
Bravo. Rand expressed this view even before the rise of militant Islam in Iran and elsewhere (“savages” are too kind a word), and decades before 9/11. Her underlying premise is that not all cultures are morally equivalent. A society and government respectful of individual rights and technology/science (even one that sadly leans socialist) is morally and socially superior to a society that stands for little but superstition, violence and permanent impoverishment.
This is not racist, you woke fools. Accepting freedom and rationality over barbarism and force is a choice. It’s possible to morally evaluate choices; it’s not possible to morally evaluate race, which is a given at birth. You have irrational Jews and rational Arabs. Choice and character are individual matters. But the general trends found in a country like Israel versus a society like totalitarian Iran? The winner is self-evident.