Almost Everyone Was Wrong Almost All the Time

After WWII, the majority of the world community decided to dedicate a safe home for Jews.  That was right

They considered a number of possible places, and settled on Israel, under heavy lobbying from Theodor Hertzl.  That was complicated, because there were already people living there.  1M Palestinians were displaced from their homes.  Not only did they not want to be displaced, but no neighboring country absorbed them.  That was wrong.

Having essentially lost a decision to the world community, and indirectly to the Jews who first settled Israel in 1948, the aggrieved Palestinians, who were very clearly overpowered, did not accept the state of Israel.  That was wrong.  They were allotted the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, which could have been enough for them.

Before terribly long, the new Israeli Jews began to stretch their territory into the West Bank, mostly, and they erected illegal settlements on land designated for the Palestinians.  And some of them attacked Palestinians.  Generally speaking, the state of Israel mistreated the Palestinians, and relegated them to second class citizens.  The word "apartheid" has been used with some frequency.  That was wrong.

All this time, the world community is mostly inclined to express support for the Israelis (wrong) in part at risk of being accused of anti-Semitism (wrong).

The Israelis claim to be counterattacking Hamas (right, if true), but they are destroying extensive structures and people, including things like women and children, and hospitals and ambulance convoys (wrong), while supposedly advising non-Hamas Palestinians to go to south Gaza, where they have no way of getting (wrong).  Egypt has begun letting some, but not nearly enough, non-Hamas Palestinians in (wrong that it's not enough) so that Israel can continue destroying north Gaza (wrong).

At the same time, some countries, like ours, has tried to get provisions and other life supports to the civilians in north Gaza (right), but the Israelis won't allow them/us (wrong).  Shortly after the October 7 Hamas attack, Netanyahu said openly that it would take the Palestinians "generations" to recover from what the Israelis intended to do to them.  Clearly, Netanyahu was not talking only about Hamas (wrong).

It is possible that between the advocates of one country and the advocates of another, the middle east is on the verge of exploding, because no one is willing to intervene.  The last person who intervened (successfully) in the middle east was Jimmy Carter, who brokered peace between Israel and Egypt.  But Carter is way too old, and in hospice now, and no one else is motivated enough and "man" enough.  And everyone now is distracted by the political "optics" (wrong).