Someone needs to explain this to me. I truly don’t understand. And please correct me if my impressions are wrong. Because I’m talking only impressions, and not any examples that I could cite:

There’s a part of the Republican party that seems to feel they have a lock on Israel, and defending Israel. They put themselves out there as defenders of the Jewish faith—or something—and paint Democrats as “anti Jew”. Whatever that means. And again, this is an impression.

But my understanding of many of these fine Republicans is that they defend Israel in general, but not Jews in particular.

What is their motive? Is it the strategic position of Israel in the middle east? Is it some fundamentalist religious bizarreness? Is it something else entirely? Because I just don’t get this. At.All.