From my side of the geographical fence, I learned about Israel and the holocaust, what happened to the Jewish people, the Arab wars, all that, and saw it all from very much a Western perspective, so grew up believing the Israelis were in the right, and the state had every right to exist - how it was like the return to a homeland that had been lost thousands of years ago, the religious side of the argument that was supposed to be about a "special people" that God, no less, had given them the place.
The Jews have always been in trouble, if the account is to be believed. That they ended up on the wrong end of the stick throughout history seems the rule rather than the exception. Maybe if they hadn't pissed off the Romans, and then kept all the other budding empires and would-be conquerors at bay, like say, the Turks, for instance.
But the whole thing is sort of swinging back the other way, now that the 20th century wars have kind of pushed the reset button.
It's a kind of irony too, that the resurgence of all that home-team stuff seems to mean someone else has to get a cap in the ass.
The Jews have always been in trouble, if the account is to be believed. That they ended up on the wrong end of the stick throughout history seems the rule rather than the exception. Maybe if they hadn't pissed off the Romans, and then kept all the other budding empires and would-be conquerors at bay, like say, the Turks, for instance.
But the whole thing is sort of swinging back the other way, now that the 20th century wars have kind of pushed the reset button.
It's a kind of irony too, that the resurgence of all that home-team stuff seems to mean someone else has to get a cap in the ass.
