[ansky451]

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Seriously, why do people have such strong feelings towards Israel?

Israel was created only 60 years ago, and yet many people talk about itas if it has always existed. The terms of it's inception are similar to the Indians taking back a chunk of the US because they lived there once. Why do the Jews deserve their own state at all? The Palestinians dont have their own state, the Catholics dont have their own state, the kurds dont have their own state, etc. What makes the Jews sospecial that they get their own country adn allowed to rule over a people who were already living there. Makes no sense.

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It sounds like you have no idea of the context with which Israel was created. Catholics not having their own state is a horrid analogy. After thousands of years of being treated as second class citizens throughout ancient times, to the middle ages and the crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, the pograms in eastern europe, the ghettoization of European Jews in the 1800s etc, and obviously culminating in the Holocaust, it was made clear that Jews needed a homeland. Even in the 20th century, long after enlightenment, and in one of the most civilized nations in the world, the Holocaust showed how unsafe Jews were in their respective countries throughout Europe.

Your question, is absurd, because its simply not true. People don't love Israel, people hate it. The majority of the Arab world, as well as the rest of the Muslim world, do not beleive that Israel should exist.