No. It's the conditions that Palestinians are being forced to live in that are the problem. It's the Nakba that is the problem. It's decades of Israeli oppression and cruelty and apartheid that are the problem.

It's so wild to me that apparently sane people think there's a whole nation of people who want to die for no reason. Or who are so animated by antisemitism that they "hate Jews more than they love their children." That nothing Israel is doing and has been doing for the past ~75 years has contributed to the hatred they feel towards Israel. As I wrote recently, I'm quite sure that the majority of slaves would have supported Nat Turner's brutal slave rebellion. Were they extremists? Or was their hatred a pretty natural consequence of the way they'd been treated?

The vast majority of Palestinians, like the vast majority of all human beings, would rather live their lives in peace and dignity and freedom than watch their children die in an endless war. But if that peace and dignity and freedom is denied them, some will fight. And some willl fight in horrifying ways.

And just because I know it's necessary in this endlessly direction brained debate, no, none of this is a defence of Hamas or Oct 7th or the killing of civilians whether Palestinian or Israeli. There is no justification for what Hamas did. But I'm not surprised that Palestinians support a strike against Israel, Especially as 90% of them think it was a legitimate military strike and are unaware (or don't believe) that the rapes and civilian massacres took place.

Arab countries want nothing to do with the current situation (actually, that's not even true, but I'll humour you) because they a) aren't a monolith, b) have peace treaties with Israel, and c) don't want WWIII. This is such a silly argument.Do you expect to see "Christian countries" leap into action when a Christian nation is attacked? Do Christian countries accept vast numbers of refugees from other Christian countries? What argument are you even trying to make here?