You brought up a few very insightful points. This is why I find it hilarious when the MSM types think they're so smart and knowledgable, when all they're doing is regurgitating the narrative put out by the same people who WANT war in the M.E. And then those regurgitators call
others stupid, for being independent thinkers and pointing out facts and having the foresight to see where all this is heading. It's not like we haven't been through this before.

BOHICA.
I tend to have after thoughts on what I say, so I added to it. You know how I do.
I don't really care what's going on over there, honestly. Those assholes have been at this for thousands of years. And, frankly, I'm tired of being robbed at the barrel of my own government's gun to continue funding the entire affair, ensuring that it continues.
To repeat:
''Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas. (Netanyahu speaking to his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019.)
We have people in America who are struggling to decide whether to put food on the table for their families or to put fuel in their vehicles to get to work. And as a consequence of the actions and policies of the very people who are robbing us at the barrel of our own government's gun to
keep that stuff over there going, no less.
My concern is how and why the image of what is going on over there is being imported and projected onto our streets and into our institutions over here in America.
It ain't for nothing, rest assured.
But nobody's talking about that, predictably.
And nobody will, so long as the trained monkeys regurgitating what they hear on the idiot box are permitted the luxury of controlling the terms of controversy.
Which is why I said don't let em control your arguments. Don't placate them. Control your own arguments. You're likely dealing with foreign agents a lot of the time anyway. You can tell the difference between your average trained monkey and an actual foreign agent leading the monkeys around by the nose with a carrot on a stick, if you pay attention well enough.