Well said.
In the course of my lifetime I have watched Israel rise from a small little country to a world power that contributes to medicine, the arts, technology, science, transportation, and on and on. I have also studied history, which is vital to understanding the region and the country. And I have witnessed decades of propaganda aimed at hating, vilifying, defaming, and marginalizing all Jews, especially in the Middle East. In my lifetime I have seen the Arab world commit ethnic cleansing in all of their countries so that all Jews have been murdered or expelled. And I have witnessed time and again the acts of terror that have been perpetrated on the eve of a peace agreement between Israel and one of its neighboring Arab states.
The Palestinian people are in a predicament, but the world is quick to make snap judgments borne of ignorance. Protestors are ignorant of the history, the politics, the geopolitical situation, and of Jewish history in particular. They see war and dead and maimed bodies and are quick to point the finger and claim that Israelis are aggressors and colonizers.
The fact is that all killing is horrific. But what must it be like to live under the specter of complete annihilation every moment of ones life as an Israeli? What must it be like to be told that you must give the Palestinians a state of their own as your neighbors when since the outset of your modern nation they have been claiming that once they get a foothold they will drive you from the river to the sea in order to murder you, your family, your friends, your identity, your religion, and your way of life? What must this be like? If the protestors are as compassionate as they pretend to be then perhaps they would want to visit these questions and find an alternative to condemning Israel every time they react to a horrific, inhumane attack.
Of course Israel is not perfect and it suffers from political differences within its nation, but this is no reason to dismiss what has been perpetrated against them, not only in this newest rampage of violence, but also throughout the past couple thousands of years.
