"Cheers dreaming I lived there very briefly some years ago so I got very interested in all the history of the region, but it's a bit rusty now as I haven't looked at it in a while!
Incidentally, one of the few things I learnt about the whole situation from being there myself was that it's very hard to make any kind of judgement about what's right and wrong there without actually experiencing it first-hand. I left the UK with a solidly pro-Palestinian view and came back having realised that the majority of Israelis are normal people who just want a life that doesn't involve constant war, or the fear of suicide bombings or nuclear annihilation within decades. The place I was working in was near the wall between Israel and Gaza, and most of the Israelis I met didn't like the fact that it was there and agreed that it was probably even worse for the Palestinians. But then they also told me about how they remembered the time before it was built, how they were afraid to even leave their houses because there were so many suicide bombings in the area, and asked what else should they have done, and I didn't know the answer. The same with Israeli soldiers - at home I had heard reports of them killing and mistreating Palestinians and thought they must be horrible people, but when I got there and remembered that my close friends who were the same age as me were going to be conscripted soon I realised that most of them were just normal young people who genuinely believed they were doing the only thing they could for their country.
It's very easy to sit in the peace and safety of the UK (or wherever) and say 'Israel is inhumane, they should do X' or 'the Palestinians are terrorists, they should do Y' when you've never had the experience of being constantly afraid for the safety of yourself and your loved ones, or feeling like your basic rights are being denied by another country's government. When people are in that situation they do what's best for them, and maybe to the rest of the world it looks terrible (complicated further by the fact that it's also a propaganda war, and nothing either side says can be trusted), but for them it's the only choice they can choose"
Sums up exactly how I feel about it. Lived and worked in Israel for a short while over 20 yrs ago. First briefly with Palestinians and then for a longer term with Israelis. I could see both sides point of view and sympathise with both. The Palestinians are in an awful situation, there is no question - and most people In the UK have no true idea what threat the Israelis have faced from their neighbours or give any true thought to what it is like to live under the constant threat of suicide bombings and rockets.
Both sides have voted in the extreme haters - Hamas and Netanyahu's lot, so how they are me at to move forward I have no idea. Israel should never have been allowed to expand and build their illegal settlements though - not sure how more pressure wasn't put on them regarding this.