Middle East Conflict

The "occupied" territories are areas of land that Israel occupied after the Six Day War in 1967, so we can't just pretend that Israel decided, without reason, to occupy parts of Palestine. People may be unaware, but this is often what happens when wars are fought - one side takes away territory from another side, and unless an agreement is reached which includes returning it, they keep it. I am aware they have expanded some of it to facilitate more housing. I would argue, however, that Israel has still made more attempts at bringing peace than all Palestinian governments. People aside, anyone who believes that Palestinian leadership has tried to gain peace for their country over the years is very wrong and really needs to learn more about how successive Palestinian governments have behaved and how they have done invariably nothing to achieve peace.

Calling Israel an "ethnostate" and an "occupation" is empty, void, and probably antisemitic because it illustrates a contempt for the existence of a Jewish state. When we consider that in most Muslim countries you have to be Muslim to lead the country, it is no more ethnocentric than any other nation in the Middle East. In fact, non-Jews in Israel are granted more rights and freedoms than they are anywhere else in that part of the world.