I wonder why people are against Israel defending itself but the Muslims are using terrorism?
Good question, Kevv.
I could say more about this, but I think what most people in the West (although definitely not myself) find most objectionable about Israel is that it is an ethnically defined nation state.
People would be ok with this if they still considered the Jews an oppressed people. But now they are considered to be powerful.
Europeans now view nationalism as the greatest evil, and they are busy trying to dissolve their own nation states.
What's more, Israel sticks out like a sore thumb as a remnant of European (British) colonialism. People complain that it's an "artificial" state, but it is not much more artificial than Pakistan.
But, unlike Pakistan, it sticks out as an island of Western-style democracy amidst a sea of backwardness.
I agree with all You have said here.
I think the Europeans here and there have had enough of Israel. But Israel is not the problem that needs to be solved. At least there is one Democracy amidst the sea of backwardness. You are very correct on this point. It is to bad Europe can not see that either.
European Nationalism is dying rightly or wrongly.
The World is never that cut and dried that We live in and never will be either in the end.