Israel are going to start WWIII

IMO the right is the same as that of the Turks to have Turkey, or Algerians to have Algeria: there was no such country as Turkey, or indeed Lebanon or Syria or any of the others - they all came about after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.

Multiple attacks on various minorities led to displacements of populations, and the "solution" found was to create a bunch of new countries, the vast majority of them being either explicitly Islamic or at least with a hefty Muslim majority, with forced displacement of minorities to achieve that if need be: hence the Greek minority in Turkey and the Turkish minority in Greece basically swapped over. Like Hindus and Muslims at the partition of India.

Now. Within that massive Muslim majority spread around the middle east, it was decided to have one Christian-majority country, Lebanon. Christians expelled or otherwise forced to flee from the other states could go there. And - a bit later on - one Jewish one also.

Jews from other Ottoman provinces like Yemen and most of North Africa were probably not numerous enough to have been able to set up a stable state of their own (although they are about 50% of the Jewish population of Israel, so not negligible), but the second world war and the pogroms that followed, when Jewish refugees tried to return to eastern Europe, meant that Israel did finally have a population big enough to be viable, despite the best efforts of the new Arab states around it to eliminate it right from the start.

It's true that without that immigration from Europe and Russia, Israel would likely have been as unstable as Lebanon with its troublesome Shi'a and other Muslim minorities regularly trying wield power, or would even have been overrun years ago, but history is what it is.

Anything factually wrong in that?

And just as I wouldn't say that you, being of Planter origin, have no right to live in Ireland, despite the fact that your ancestors no doubt displaced mine forcibly. But I'm not even going to demand reparations. 😉

There most certainly are heavy whiffs of racism in much of the debate around Isreal.

I think presently it is less an "anti-jew" sentiment but more so people are looking what's happening and it's an anti-warmonging perpetrators of genocide thing.

People are calling Bibi Netanyahu a scumbag. It has nothing to do with his ethnicity or nationality. It has to do with how he and his country are going about "defending their country"

Any CV that has "thousands of kids apologetically killed" isn't getting an interview from me.

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Israel is in control of a right wing coalition at the moment they will be voted out of office and at some point Israel will have to try and negotiate a peace process with Hamas or Hezbollah

As the days past and more causalitys mount up it will be harder to negotiate a peace process

Even Israel can exist in a state of endless war for years

They depend on support from the American government

Why on earth would North African Jews go to Russia?

And nobody has asked the Palestinians to "solve" the problems, any more than anyone asked Hindus to solve the problems of Muslims by setting up Pakistan. It's about how to solve a problem of two groups who each want their own state. 2% of the former Ottoman Empire has been given to Jews - that doesn't seem excessive to me.

Anyone can identify as anything they feel like. I wonder if the senior politicians and military in Israel will do DNA tests to trace their ancestry?

not the job of israel to solve Palestinian problems either by that rationale

Do you understand what I said about movements of population? Do you get exercised about the rights of Hindus to reclaim their homes in what is now Pakistan and vice versa? Or about Armenians getting back their homes and their gold which they often buried in the panic to flee their homes in Turkey? Or is this only a problem when it's Jews?

Looks like it's the turn of the Houthis to get a taste of their own medicine.

The United States, Canada, Australia, Argentina, Brazil etc etc: all purely "facts on the ground" - are you not buying those either?

Fun fact. Palestine was not the only area considered by the British to gift to Jewish people. If I recall correctly, there was a serious suggestion of giving them land in Uganda at one point.

Let's just be glad they didn't offer Ireland to them………those of us remaining alive would be calling for the return of the halcyon days of Cromwell

Iran v Israel alone - yes

Iran v Israel with US, UK, France & Germany - no