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Originally Posted by Red Slinger
Jews lived in the area for a long time before the establishment of modern Israel. There were certainly elements that were hostile to the the creation of Israel but it was mostly for, I would argue, the wrong reasons. So do we let bad actors dictate? There was probably a peaceful path for the establishment of Israel but the usual suspects prevented that from happening. I guess my question is, if the area currently known as Israel is not suitable for Jewish homeland because of hostility from their neighbours, where in the world would there be a suitable location? I suspect it would be very similar no matter where they set up.
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Yeah, the creation of the modern state of Israel wasn't the beginning. It was a major event for sure, but still only one in a long chain reaction of events. The Islamic Revolution in 1979 and the establishment of Shia theocracy with Twelverism ideology wasn't something new, but rather a reversion to Safavid Iran which oversaw the ethnic cleansing of Jews in the middle 1600s up until the 1750s. To understand Israel's policy towards Iran after 1979, you need to understand the full history and generational trauma that occurred during the Safavid colonial period and the rebirth of that ideology in 1979.
It's not really fair to say that Islamic extremism exists solely as a response to Zionism because if you go back further, you can say that Zionism was a reaction to Islamic extremism that was already going on for centuries before that.