I understand and am empathetic to the Jewish desire for a Jewish controlled state, but I can’t see that it works practically.
whilst there has always been a Jewish population in the Middle East, the founding of Israel basically displaced Arab populations (what we now call Palestinians) who were also living there. The argument that Jews have lived in the region for millennia is all well and good, but so have other populations, and the whole region has at various points been controlled by the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Crusaders (and many more).
It’s the same basic story over much of the modern world, western influences came and enforced hard borders on areas where populations were originally not so geographically defined, or at least where populations were not homogenous or unified within those borders. The founding of Israel is basically concurrent with the India/Pakistan border which was also horrific for citizens at that time.
Then comes a series of wars and by the mid to later part of the 20th century Israel has gained more land. But since then, settlers have continued to force the Palestinians off their land which drives aggression. This war was, unfortunately, to some extent inevitable.
A two-state solution is surely the answer, but I can’t see it happening easily (if at all), not when both sides want all the land. And I do struggle with the idea of creating a country just for one group/ethnicity. It seems to run contrary to all modern thinking on equality.
That said, I do see that Israel was necessary after ww2, but it doesn’t seem like a good solution through contemporary eyes. I also don’t know how to fix it because it can’t be destroyed now either, and peace in the region seems out of reach.
And much of the modern instability in the Middle East generally can be routed back to British and/or American activity in the contemporary history; the Iranian revolution, the Iraq war, Syria. Frankly, it’s a mess, and I don’t support one particular side over another.