No one else finds it a little... peculiar isn't strong enough a word, but unseemly feels too strong... that the "Israel" team is a bunch of Jewish-Americans playing in MLB / MiLB who grew up in the US and may have never even been to Israel, much less be a citizen?
I mean, to take a less-emotionally-charged example: "Germanic" is the single biggest ethnicity of origin in the US, but if a bunch of players whose families had been here for generations decided "you know what, we're not going to make the USA squad so let's just find our great-great-grandparent who was German and go make a German team" despite none of them giving the slightest damn about Germany, that wouldn't quite feel right, would it?
I love the WBC, but a big part of the fun is players caring about representing their country. I just don't see how the farcical end-runs to assemble a team like that aid the goal here. Sure, if you've got most of a roster but can stretch the rules a bit to bring in an MLB star as a ringer, go nuts, at least the core of the team is from your country, and that ringer guy will feel the passion and go along with it. But otherwise, you're pretty much a barnstorming team of randos, some of whom may keep kosher a little bit.