the Israeli style of aggression may be totally different from Hamas', but they're not unrelated.
they're both based on religious racism.
Baloney. The Jews have been driven from land to land, enslaved, almost wiped out entirely, persecuted, maligned, subjected to vicious pograms, denied their rights, relegated to less than citizenship status in place after place after place for thousands of years. When the Holocaust wiped out two thirds of Europe's Jewish population the U.N. finally said enough!
A tiny tiny piece of land was established by the U.N. as a place the Jews would be allowed to live in peace, make their own laws, be who they were and live and work as they chose without interference from any other. The day after the U.N. mandate, the Jews declared their tiny piece of land as the State of Israel.
The Arabs attacked Israel immediately and have been doing so in various ways ever since. They absolutely refuse to accept the presence of the Jews on a tiny piece of land roughly the size of New Jersey.
This map shows how insignificant the land Israel occupies is in relation to the Egyptian, Iranian, and Arab lands.
Population Egypt 111 million
Population Iran 89 million
Population combined Arab nations 475 million
Population Israel 9.5 million and that includes 2 million Palestinians who chose to be citizens of Israel and live peacefully with the Jews. And the only religious factor for the Jews is that historically and religiously, they believe God gave that land to them for a homeland. The Arabs had no such cultural attachment to the land. Which is why the U.N. chose that spot for a Jewish homeland.
