It is curious that mentioning reasons why one disagrees with Israeli policies automatically has nothing to do with the reality of the situation, but everything to do with ones attitude toward the religion of is majority population. It is similar to saying that antipathy toward South African policies was because of hostility toward whites. As a person of the 20th century who has spent his life subjected to agitprop, I must say this is one of the clumsier formulations. As to the claim that Israel was founded as a payment for past injustices to Jews (not retribution, by the way), this is one of the principal justifications given for the country's existence. Designated Victims always claim that the fact that someone else somewhere else at another time did bad things to members of my group gives my group exemption from the rules. I submit that if it is wrong for a gentile majority country to designate Jews for inferior treatment, it is wrong for a Jewish majority country to do so to gentiles. As to wanting Israel to disappear, I simply suggest that Israel take the same steps as South Africa and make everyone equal before the law. When South Africa claimed its unjust policies were necessary for the maintaining the existence of their national homeland, the world's general reaction was that maintaining your group's national homeland is not a justification for mistreating the rest of the poplulation. I hold the same position for Israel.