I grew up in an era in Australia when everything Arabs did was evil, and everything that Israel did was great. I read all those Leon Uris books about righteousness and kibbutzes etc. That time ended, naturally, decades ago. That notion couldn't survive reality, though Israel did try, and still does try, to push themselves to being the only ones who matter time and time again. But that is absurd. Israel, as the Sole Violent and Selfish Predator in the Middle East, well, its well past time that the old fantasy ended. It is a small nation, or dot, that isn't productive without massive annual US funding, whether at peace or in battle. It can't compete with any neighbour. Its warlike philosophy and bizarre religion is as baseless as all others, and more so, and it does not matter at all. We all grew up whilst Israel was leisurely playing by the pool and blackmailing everyone, and cheating everyone, on earth every day. Let it be the tiny vicious paranoid enclave it is. A dot. No one wants it to be something else. No one wants it to grow. No one who matters. It is a cancer on us all.

 that's right.