Who will or won’t protect the holy land doesn’t concern our foreign policy, or at least I don’t think it should. I bring up the US in the same breath as Israel because it is the defense of the US at issue here, not who best or most directly protects the holy land. When your policies are dictated to that extent by religious concerns, to the point where you make another country’s sovereignty equal to yours, religion is overstepping its proper sphere.
It’s not as if you can eve tweezers out deluging from policy, and might not want to if you could. However, this particular motivation: protecting the holy land from desecration, is far enough away from legitimate government interest that it is irrelevant.
Dearest you.
You’ve really wandered off from your original question to me.
I do not base my opinion of foreign policy on the Holy Land.
I think the US should stand by Israel for many reasons. Number one, Israel is the only beacon of democracy in the whole of the Middle East. Israel is our closest ally. We get many high tech imports from Israel including medical.