It blows my mind that this support has existed through every US administration and (I think) UK government. Even with wildcards like Trump, the support is unwavering. There's no way Trump has the same motivations as Chuchill did.

Sure, there's a long history of treaties around Israel but if we wanted out of any of that we could find ways.

Maybe it's just a long line of coincidental reasons that lead us to this point and we're trying to find a nice easy to understand reason that just isn't there.

I don't know about the rest, but I know very well why Greece and Cyprus do: Turkish sabre rattling and occupation. So we think Israel can counterbalance Turkey. It's a misguided policy for sure, but not unexplainable.

Israel is the imperialist enclave of the so-called "west" in the middle east. They're there to cower the other countries in the region into submission, and to ensure rich nations has access to cheap oil.

My conspiracy theory is that the isreali's have really bad compromat (or can easily get it) about anyone and everyone so even if you were in favour of stopping support for isreal before you take a position in some government, as soon as you're in they flip you.

Isreal is selling weapons, which apparently we cannot get anywhere else

They’re not all residents of Amsterdam, that’s just where they gathered