Colonies all around the world of the European countries were revolting, and the Jews were taking note.
They saw that other ethnic groups were getting an autonomous country of their own, and wanted in on it.
Many Jews would've supported the idea of a Jewish state in Uganda or Ethiopia (I don't remember which), but the majority rejected the idea, saying it would effectively relinquish the right of Jews to Judea.
Now, since the Zionists in Europe were also largely socialist, they wanted the Jewish country to be secular, and therefore named it Israel, after the less religious kingdom of Israel.
The Arabs weren't having it though, even though the Jews bought the land of of them legally, so they lied violent riots (for example in 1929) to try and scare the Jews into leaving.
Once they saw that they didn't succeed in 1948, they attacked and proceeded in what they called an “extermination war”, which they lost, and then proceeded to kick nearly all the Jews out of the middle East (there are 0 Jews living in Jordan, and 2 in Iraq).
The big shift in viewing Israel happened in 67′, when it defeated all the surrounding countries, and took control of the West Bank which Jordan annexed from the Arabs of the Levant (they call themselves Palestinians), and the Gaza Strip Egypt annexed from them.
This caused public opinion to change, as Israel was actually winning, rather than being on the verge of collapse, which triggered opposition to Israel, because the woke left couldn't understand that good countries can be successful at the same time (not that Israel was actually successful as it is now until the nineties).
The PLO jumped on that, because they knew the racist Europeans were fine with Arabs controlling other Arabs, but when it became Jews then suddenly it was different. Before the 67 war there was no free Palestine movement. Not even by Palestinians themselves.
Now they try to argue that they always campaign for it, but they started being heard only in the late sixties, while that's only when they started, one they realised the victim game works wonders on Europeans.
Because they really are completely unaware of the truth of what’s happening right now, and are even less aware of the history over the last 100 years.
Most of the world at this point has joined a camp. They are conservative, liberal, or something else, and then pundits and others tell them what to think. If labeled yourself conservative or were raised that way, Ben Shapiro or Sean Hannity will tell you to be anti-abortion. If labeled yourself liberal or were raised that way, some university professor or Tik Tok influencer will tell you to be pro-abortion.
They will all provide a series of pithy talking points, and thus you are left with the backbone of what you think, and you’re unlikely to branch out any further. And in many cases, you are willing to take your thoughtless approach and loudly protest those who disagree. You will likely even feel a level of hatred for those who disagree, without ever looking deeper into their lives.
And that’s what’s happening here.
Scores of people have joind a group. Most of them liberals. Other people have decided that Israel is wrong in this situation, and Palestinians are the good guys. They did this either through research or they just tried to support a position they’ve aleady chosen, mostly through bias. And those people then went ahead and taught the members of the camp what to think.
And that’s the way the world works.
More than likely someone who for all sorts of different reasons hates Israel or the Jews went ahead and came up with dozens of reasons to support what they already felt, and then went ahead an publicly shouted their views to their channel, likely a gathering of self-proclaimed liberals. And voila, thousands of bobble heads mindlessly and loudy scream their support for Palestine, with no thoughts of their own, and without an ounce of research to ensure they’re not mistaken.
Welcome to the modern world. People don’t think anymore. They are just handed their beliefs and they’re willing to condemn people vehemently based on those loosely-held perspectives.
I will answer this as an American Jew:
We
have no problem supporting Palestine, We Have a Problem with the
Radical Network within their ranks called Hamas, and Hezbollah. Any
Group that trains Children that dying, while killing Jews is the
Greatest Honor. Kids should be playing with Legos and Tonka Trucks… Not
AKs and Body Bombs.
The Palestinians have their own state. It is recognized by a large number of countries. What would happen is what is happening now. That is, Gaza is run by people who refuse to accept the existence of Israel and who are dedicated to a quixotic long-term war their religious faith insists they must win. The West Bank is separate because the people in Gaza separated them. If there were peace, that the two are not contiguous would be like other countries with separate parts.
The West Bank consists of areas run by the Palestinians directly and areas run by Israel. If there were a peace agreement, my assumption is Jerusalem would be the capital for both and they’d both participate in the Greater Jerusalem government. The Palestinians currently refuse to participate (with a few exceptions), and use threats of violence to force adherence.
They have a state. That’s not the issue. The issue is they refuse to accept 1948.
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