Thinking that Israel and Jews have a "Forever Preference card" is not only historically and politically inaccurate, it's the opposite of the truth.
Israel was founded by Jews (easily the world's most hated and persecuted minority) who were either escaping Europe's attempt to murder all of them or the Islamic world's expulsion (or worse), returning to their ancient homeland to build their own state, and have offered peace treaties to the Arab remnant we call "Palestinians" from the 1947 UN Partition Plan all the way through to Ohlmert's famous napkin of 2008:
Every one of these peace attempts was rejected without even a counter-offer, because the Palestinian leaders have said clearly and repeatedly that their ultimate goal isn't their own state but the destruction of the Jewish state. (And remember also: when Israel allowed these people free movement into their country, they were met with multiple suicide bombers who murdered somewhere around 1K civilians by blowing themselves up on buses and in crowded restaurants.)
This culminated in the massacre of 10/7, which was cheered on by millions of Leftists and Islamists all across the globe, even before the bodies were buried and well before the IDF entered Gaza.
Israel is easily the world's most vilified state, the focus of more UN denunciations than every other country combined and the focus of multiple NGOs that support and feed their enemies who are somehow history's only third-generation "refugees", and is still surrounded by fanatical theocratic terrorists who want to destroy it.
If this is a "Forever Preference card", I'm sure that Jews and Israelis would be happy to relinquish it.
Yes, there's that history.
I'm just uncomfortable that this one country gets a Forever Preference card.
Thinking that Israel and Jews have a "Forever Preference card" is not only historically and politically inaccurate, it's the opposite of the truth.
Israel was founded by Jews (easily the world's most hated and persecuted minority) who were either escaping Europe's attempt to murder all of them or the Islamic world's expulsion (or worse), returning to their ancient homeland to build their own state, and have offered peace treaties to the Arab remnant we call "Palestinians" from the 1947 UN Partition Plan all the way through to Ohlmert's famous napkin of 2008:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g0dv7rxxvo
Every one of these peace attempts was rejected without even a counter-offer, because the Palestinian leaders have said clearly and repeatedly that their ultimate goal isn't their own state but the destruction of the Jewish state. (And remember also: when Israel allowed these people free movement into their country, they were met with multiple suicide bombers who murdered somewhere around 1K civilians by blowing themselves up on buses and in crowded restaurants.)
This culminated in the massacre of 10/7, which was cheered on by millions of Leftists and Islamists all across the globe, even before the bodies were buried and well before the IDF entered Gaza.
Israel is easily the world's most vilified state, the focus of more UN denunciations than every other country combined and the focus of multiple NGOs that support and feed their enemies who are somehow history's only third-generation "refugees", and is still surrounded by fanatical theocratic terrorists who want to destroy it.
If this is a "Forever Preference card", I'm sure that Jews and Israelis would be happy to relinquish it.