This comment has been deleted.

Israel was set up by forcibly evicting the Palestinians who lived there from their homes, stealing their land, stealing their homes, giving them nothing in return. That was mostly done by British forces. But Israel's still terrorising Palestinians out of their homes on the West Bank. The Palestinians deserve compensation for what has been taken from them, they deserve protection from on-going Israeli terrorism that's driving them from their homes, and Israelis squatting on Palestinian lands should be evicted back to Israel so that the legal residents can return. No "vested interests" have got in the way of the Palestinians receiving justice. It seems that they were considered to have no rights by those who created Israel and that's how it's been ever since as far as I can tell.

Of course I get another downvote - what for? Pointing out some historical facts that reflect badly on Israel - and my country, the UK, which was largely responsible for the original eviction of Palestinians. While Israel continues steadily to turn Gaza into an uninhabitable pile of rubble, Israelis do in fact continue to terrorise Palestinians from their homes on the West Bank. It stinks, all of it.

How is Israel, the nation fighting against a government that throws queers off roofs, forces children to build tunnels, kills women who don't wear a hijab, the oppressor? Oh right. Because they are "white." Well, not really. About half of Israeli Jews are Arab. And there are also ethnically Indian Jews living in Israel. And there are nearly 1.8 million Muslim Arabs in Israel. Israel is not an apartheid state, nor an oppressor.

Try reading this and thinking carefully."As a former IDF soldier and historian of genocide, I was deeply disturbed by my recent visit to Israel" https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/13/israel-gaza-historian-omer-bartov

Ah - I see. I get a downvote for, what, exactly? Posting a link to a thoughtful in-depth work written by a historian and former IDF soldier that dares to criticize Israel? It seems that someone out there doesn't like to think any criticism of Israel could possibly be justified.