Don't capitalize israel, it's not a legitimate state and thus not a country. You wouldn't capitalize "that Mountain over there" >but it's a name!!! thus the entire reason to not capitalize it. The weight of the word is more important than grammar, where do you think "gender", a linguistics word comes from in a context - biological, sexual - in which it has zero meaning? ---- Also republicans have always wanted to and always been a part of shredding the constitution.