@tinyfaery Being Jewish is not only about the religion. It is about the Jewish people. You know almost all of the Jewish jellies are atheists.
Israel is not just about Jews being there first, obviously first doesn’t matter around the world. The Native Americans were on US soil way before the Europeans, and we don’t give all the land back to the Native Americans although that is complicated and upsetting too.
Forget 100 or 1,000 years ago. The Jews were given Israel by a UN decision in 1948. You seem to be saying Jewish people weren’t there at the time. Yes they were. Plus, there were Jews driven out just 10–15 year before. My husband is Mexican because in the 1930’s his father’s side was driven out of what is Israel today. Jews were killed or driven out of Iran, Palestine, Lebanon, in the early 1900’s you don’t need to go back to 500BC.
Do you want the Palestinian people to continue living under Hamas leadership? Hamas swears to kill all Jews and get rid of Israel and keeps the Palestinians from prospering. Hamas steals the funds given to Gaza to increase their war machine.
That’s fine if you don’t want Israel to be so aggressive with their bombing, but are you saying Israel shouldn’t exist at all?
Hamas uses religion to control people. 40% of Israelis people are secular just like Jews in the US. The country is more secular than the US.
Also, the count of how many Palestinians have died is likely wrong, but it’s still very upsetting. Getting death counts from Hamas is obviously not yo be trusted. They reported 500 at the hospital that now sounds to be one of their own rockets. New numbers show less than 300. Still not ok.
Edit: Egypt and Jordan and no other country is taking in the Gazans right now while the Israelis will be risking their lives to get to Hamas and try to get the hostages back. Both Israelis and Palestinians suffer for the war games of the region. They are the pawns.