Why is it nobody gets where Israel is coming from?

In the 1930's there were lots of warnings from various people emerging from Germany about what the Nazis were doing, it was an attestation about what Hitler himself had mentioned in his 'Mein Kampf', the world ignored the Jews speaking out, so the Jews could see the world had no regard for them, so they learned an important lesson, which now figures in the political/moral policy from the State of Israel.

Israel doesn't subvert it's policy to the pressure exerted on it by world governments because where were those governments when six million Jews, including the best majority being the aged, women and children, were being murdered by Hitler's factories of death? Israel will pursue it's policy, which right now is to get their people being held hostage back and to erode Hamas' ability to attack the people of and state of Israel in terrorist warfare/murder-sprees.

You can understand Israel very easily with these factors in mind.

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ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M

I support Israel's right to exist and to defend itself from the genocidal policies of Arab extremist groups and governments which Israel has been dealing with since the first Arab attacks back in 1948. HOWEVER, I do not approve of many of the repressive, bigoted policies of the Israeli government -- mass incarceration of Arabs, removing Arabs from their properties to make way for Israeli settlements, bulldozing the family homes of jailed Arabs, etc.

And people have to realize being against some policies of the Far Right in the Israeli government is NOT being against Jews or Judaism as a whole. The situation in the Middle East is a mess greatly because of the fact that BOTH sides are right in some ways, and BOTH sides are wrong in some ways.

Smidke · 26-30, F

@ChipmunkErnie I can see there are truths there, but it just seems strange to say Jew and far right in the same breath unless you are talking about the Nazis genocidal policies of the Thirties. Zionism has become an extremist view much the same as Islamist has desecrated the notion of 'submission to God' which was the original idea for many in Islam, before the jihadists began to dominate Arab/Muslim thought. Both groups are concerned only with what they want, at the cost of others, neither are thinking about consequences, if not in this life from any idea of justice than certainly at the end of time.

ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M

@Smidke Doesn seem "strange" to me at all. Half my family is Jewish, and there is a very large community of Hasidic Jews just down the road, so I've see both the liberal and far conservative sides all my life. As to Zionism, I think there had to be a divide between Jew wanting to emigrate to the Holy Land of their history and the extreme Zionist position of "A land without a people for a people without a land", which of course is nonsense -- Palestine has had a "people" -- combined Muslims, Jews, Christians, etc. -- for millennia.