The way to tell whether you truly believe something or simply hate the people on the other side is to reverse the script. If you still stand where you began, it’s conviction. If you switch sides, it’s hate.
So let’s reverse it.
Imagine Jews were not indigenous to Judea, but to Europe. Imagine the entire Middle East was once Arab-Muslim land. Fourteen hundred years ago, Jews from Europe conquered it, forced everyone to speak Hebrew, banned other religions, and beheaded those who refuse to pay the tax for not practicing Judaism. For fourteen centuries this order ruled, and to this day, minorities were slaughtered and burned alive for not being Jewish.
A few Arab-Muslims survived and scattered around the world, stateless and despised because of centuries of the colonial powers propaganda against them.
Then, less than a century ago, a man with a mustache in Germany rose to power and declared that the world’s problems would be solved by killing the remaining Arab-Muslims. After everything they’ve survived, they’re now gassed to death in their millions.
Desperate, they escape back to the Middle East, their ancestral homeland, and claim the tiniest sliver of it as theirs. In the entire colonial Jewish sub-continent, this piece of land is no bigger than New Jersey, and they ask for nothing more than survival.
Now imagine that every day since they’ve been there, their Jewish neighbors fire rockets at them from all across the region, insisting they will not stop until all the Arab-Muslims are gone, because the entire land must be Jewish.
Imagine in the west, protesters angrily take to the streets demanding, “from the river to the sea, the Middle East must be Jewish.”
Let me ask you this now. Are you sure you’re the good guys?