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Title:No. 9
Name:Steve
City: MinneapolisState: USA
Sorry, I`m african-american, so it complicates your scenario a bit more.

But to the point, Israel is a colonial entity founded in the wrong century, just as colonialism was on the way out as an acceptable way of doing things.

If Israel had been founded 200 years ago, it would be no problem. Its problem is that its colonization displaced the locals and those locals fight back, and have much international support.