After World War II, most nations were shocked at what had happened to the jewish people in Europe (and embarrassed by their failure to act on that earlier). And to make up for that, they voted in the United Nations to partition Palestine to create Israel. For many years, the state of Israel occupied the moral high ground -- providing a home for their people and making an attempt to get along with their neighbors in the area.
Unfortunately, that is no longer true. At some point in the recent past, Israel changed. Their government decided it could get more by delaying the peace process, while stealing Palestinian land and forcing that population into an ever shrinking area where they deny rights and control movement. And every now and then they attack that shrinking area in the name of "self-defense". They have given up the moral high ground in favor of violent, oppressive, and thuggish behavior -- and they are doing that so they can continue to steal the Palestinian's land.
The maps above make this perfectly clear. Note that the green areas (Palestinian land) has been radically shrunk, and this continues to happen as they build more permanent settlements of that land.
The United States must share at least some of the blame for this. We continue to send large amounts of money and arms to Israel, and we protect Israel from being punished for its theft and thuggish behavior (even though most civilized nations have demanded that Israel stop this. It is time to change this, and it must be done before that map ceases to have any green on it at all.
