I had heard something like up until the 1967 war, the US didn't do much to help them with arms, but after is when they really started stepping it up. Not like I was around to recall the exact details or how it really was before and after, but it's pretty obvious they know how to grease the machine.
They're the biggest foreign lobbyists here, and I don't know of anybody that's a big fan of the country, other than maybe Jews, and I hear Evangelicals too. I did know a Catholic that liked them too, but she was an ultra-fanatic Catholic, way beyond any I had never met before (except for one of our former colleagues here), and she had taken a trip there once for Jerusalem and the rest of the religious sites. Other than that, everyone I encountered thought all this adoration was way too phony.
They even act like they have exclusive rights on the Holocaust, as if somehow being half the people that got killed makes them the only people that got killed in the camps. Whenever anybody talks about any other holocaust or genocide, that go nuh-uh, can't be, we're the only ones. Meanwhile here they are, the Never Agains, doing it themselves yet again to others.
The terminology is ridiculous and hypocritical too - like with "anti-Semitism." Ashkenazi Jews have at most 30% Jewish DNA. Palestinians are closer to 100%, but I figure they got a slight admixture of whomever passed through town over the thousands of years. So how is it at Palestinians and other Middle Easterners aren't Semitic when they're just about pure Semite?