text: why american people should pay taxes to protect israel?   israel gets about $3 billion a year from washington. the $20 million for the palestinian authority will come from a $75 million package of indirect support approved by congress.reason #2: strengthen israel, weaken arabs the bush administration has a complex relationship with israel. the president owes his election in large part to christian conservatives. christian zionists, led by tom delay in the house, want to see the state of israel control all the biblical lands. president bush is also indebted to aipac, the powerful jewish lobby. aipac is staunchly backing the right-wing israeli prime minister ariel sharon, who rejects the longstanding policy of "land-for-peace." in addition, the neoconservatives who dominate bush's foreign policy architecture view negotiations with arafat and the plo to be morally equivalent to chamberlain negotiating with hitler in munich!