Why American Jews stand strongly with Israel.

Past is always a bad excuse to support today´s oppressive regimes.
Sometime ago I read how Wole Soyinka, the Nobel prize winning
Nigerian author, was attacked (verbally) by many other Africans
in the days of Idi Amin´s reign in Uganda because Sole Woyinka wanted
Idi Amin´s regime to be overthrown and campaigned for it, where
many others thought that as bad as Idi Amin´s reign was, he should
be supported because of the same reasons basically that Foxman
here supports Israel: Africans should stand together and past
colonial atrocities give legitimacy to Idi Amin´s actions etc.
Same kind of blindness today causes many African leaders still
to support Robert Mugabe´s disastrous rule in Zimbabwe. They
too give more weight to the past than to today.

Bitter-Lemons main articles are about water, one of the usually
forgotten reasons for the conflict in Palestine.