There’s been a growing group of people on the right questions America’s allegiance with Israel. Few have been more vocal than Tucker Carlson, who has argued against the high financial cost of supporting Israel, questioned the strategy of unwavering support of the small nation, and raised several ethical concerns based on Israel’s actions in Gaza.

He’d like to see America focused solely on American interests. I don’t see this as anti-semitic. These are reasonable question.

I think this is an important debate and I’ve listened to several commentators about this topic. The only issue I’d like to raise is if we abandon Israel, it could leave the holy land in the hands of Muslim dominated countries.

Is that a problem?

I’d ask how would Christians access to the holy sites change should that happen?

It’s likely this would lead to restricted access for Christians seeking to visit the holy land. It would also likely lead to the destruction of many holy sites and the persecution of Christian communities.

Hundreds of thousands of Christians from the US visit Israel every year on pilgrimages. What would happen to them? Would America then have to defend the pilgrims?

It seems to me we did this before and it ended bloody.

Now, to be fair, you could argue that our refusing to finance Israel or supply them with weapons wouldn’t immediately lead to its destruction. OK. But certainly Israel seems to be fighting to keep the US support as if it were a lifeline. They seem to think it’s rather important.

It could be that Israel continues on without American support just fine. Maybe. But without our support maybe our easy access for Christian pilgrimages to the holy land goes away too.

I do know that Israel has at times treated Christians brutally, even bombing churches. But for the most part, Christians’ access to the holy land has been pretty open.

The reality is that hundreds of thousands of Christians from the US visit the holy land every year. Without our support for Israel, what happens to the pilgrims? Isn’t that worth something? Isn’t that worth discussing?