To understand the situation with regards to Israel, we need to consider the context. Israel was conceived in part due to widespread and long-standing antisemitism and a major impetus for its ultimate founding was the build-up to WWII and the Holocaust. Jewish immigrants to the Palestine area were not warmly received and the creation of the state of Israel was met with immediate warfare: for the purpose of the destruction of Israel. Whether running hot or cold, express or implied, that basic situation of the Arabs trying to destroy Israel has persisted ever since.
If the ongoing Israeli response to that aggression has not been ideal -- and when has war ever been fought in an ideal manner? -- it should still be understood as essentially self-defense. If the wider Arab world was prepared to live in peace, and accept a genuine "two-state solution," so would Israel. It is because powerful elements of the Arab world insist on the ultimate destruction of Israel that this peace has not yet been achieved.
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