President Truman: "The fundamental basis of this nation's laws was given to Moses on the Mount".

U.S.-Israeli relations have surged commercially and militarily since Israel’s establishment in 1948, and Israel enjoys a 71 percent favorability rating according to the 2017 annual Gallup poll of favorability1 (compared to 24 percent for the Palestinian Authority). 

This positive state of relations has been achieved despite the systematic pressure by all U.S. presidents – from Truman through Obama, and despite persistent criticism of Israel by the State Department, the New York Times and the Washington Post (all three opposed the 1948 establishment of the Jewish state), and other representatives of the “elite” U.S. media.