What is happening in Jerusalem?

Likewise could be said of the Palestinians too.  Is it only the Jews who are obliged to learn from Nazis while others get a free pass to indulge in pogroms, genocides, etc?  To echo what Lewian said, I can sympathize with Palestine but not Hamas.  Hamas is just as clear a terror organization as there will be.

You started with personal attacks and then called me a muffin so please don't condescend to lecture me. 

Look, I am not a historian and I am not going to use pedantically accurate terminology. If you want to nitpick that I shouldn't have said WW2, fine.  I said it very clearly with the first post where I discussed this idea and I mentioned anti Semitism in Europe.  But ssmarcus would not even agree with that as a trigger point.  I never said at any point that the idea of Israel as a native land for all Jews didn't exist prior to WW2 or even WW1.  All I said is anti semitism made it necessary and whatever reservations people may have had about the idea had to be brushed aside because the persecution of Jews essentially proved the Zionists right. But that does not mean the idea of an ethnocentric state is not controversial and it is even more so today. If you say that because you used to live there once upon a time, you have a right to come back and self determine as a separate state, that idea will always be controversial.  What really happened is much more complex but please understand that the above simplistic formulation is what ssmarcus presented as just and fair and I am obliged to counter him. 

Thank you, I will confess my sins later! Whiny, hahahaha ! Thank you again , love it. As for the previous comment, this is the position of Hamas, Hezbollah, Isis, AlQaida and a boatload of millions of others calling for the expulsion of Israelis if not their destruction . Its in the Hamas charter as you very well know .  

Go right head, overreact, man.  If somebody has no capacity for self-reflection, I can't help it. I have no patience with people who pretend the inception of modern Israel wasn't complicated to begin with or that their argument of a civilizational right to the land wasn't complicated either. It is, very much so.  I understand that people need that narrative to feel comfortable about living in Israel and I don't think a single person here begrudges them the right to live there today.  But to pretend like that's the most natural thing ever is off-the-charts crazy.  Again, you wouldn't want to see a world where everybody else took that attitude, I promise you.