Israel's position within the Western alliance rests on deeper cultural and moral foundations than mere geopolitical convenience. The 1956 Suez Crisis exposed critical fractures in Western solidarity when America failed to support its closest allies—Israel, Britain, and France—against Egyptian aggression while simultaneously abandoning Hungarian freedom fighters. Through historical analysis and philosophical examination grounded in Karl Jaspers' "The Future of Mankind," Israel emerges as an integral pillar of Western civilization, its legitimacy stemming from biblical tradition that, alongside Greek antiquity and Roman order, forms the bedrock of Christian civilization and modern political liberty. Western solidarity with Israel demands recognition of shared historical guilt regarding Jewish persecution, culminating in the Holocaust, which created moral obligations toward Israel's survival. Beyond strategic considerations, Israel's inclusion in the Western alliance represents an existential necessity, as the Jewish state embodies both the foundation of and exception to Christianity. The potential abandonment of Israel by Western powers would constitute a self-betrayal of fundamental Western values—suggesting that "if Israel falls, so does the West" through moral-political corruption rather than military defeat.