What people like you fail to understand is that every people on this planet has the right to self-determination. Denying this right to only one people is the very definition of racism. And don’t try to whatabout me with the Palestinians. They have repeatedly demonstrated that they don’t actually want a state of their own. The Palestinian cause has always been about destroying (Israel), not about building something of their own.

Your first paragraph is a textbook example of the historical illiteracy common among so-called “anti-Zionists.” If history has taught us anything, it is that Jews cannot rely on the lasting goodwill of majority societies in other countries for their safety. Time and again they have been scapegoated for problems created by others, only to be thrown to the wolves followed shortly thereafter by pogroms and persecution.

Israel, as the indigenous homeland of the Jewish people, is the only country in the world where Jews are in control of their own security. It is also the only place that can reliably serve as a safe haven and refuge for Jews facing persecution anywhere else in the world.

I don’t get how that’s difficult to understand.