What was the right answer to 7/10?

None of which justifies Israeli land thefts today. You seem to be too biased to understand that.

Also most of the Jews living in Israel in 1948 were first generation immigrants. Most of the Arabs and their ancestors had lived there for centuries. None of which excuses Arab hostility but it does need to be understood through that prism.

It also needs to be acknowledged that most Jews living in Israel today were born and raised there and it is the only home they know. The Arabs need to accept that. Peace will only come about as a result of a viable two state solution. And for that the Jews need to return the lands they have stolen. And the Arabs need to accept the existence of Israel and do all they can to reign in their own extremists.

But all that is happening now is that via death and destruction, both sides are reinforcing the intransigence of each other.

It was Hamas who kicked off the latest round of intensified mutual malice with their appalling atrocities on October 7th. But we do need to understand that the atmosphere which made such attacks possible has been in existence for decades in the form of Israeli occupations, land thefts, and blockades. We need to get at the root causes of mutual animosity on both sides, and those with influence on either need to be banging a few heads together, not supporting one side against the other and ignoring or seeking to justify any wrongs on that side. As you repeatedly do whilst laughably pretending to be the only unbiased one here.

It is at about this point that you will usually try and accuse me of being an antisemite. Most of us on the left are used to that from you and your ilk. Yes there have been a few antisemites on the left and most of us condemn them. But you and your ilk frequently seek to cheapen the very meaning of the word "antisemitism" by applying the label to anyone on the left who is not totally supportive of Israel in all things or who have any sympathy for the oppressed Palestinians. And you thus demonstrate that you don't know what real antisemitism is. Or if you do you are wilfully cheapening the word for dubious political aims. The left  are the ones who stood side by side with the Jews against real antisemites in the battle of Cable Street. We loathe the real antisemites out there who deny the holocaust and all the horror it involved. And who would happily see it happening again.

Just because I do not support a Jewish settler stealing the lands of an Arab, or the Jewish sniper shooting dead an Arab child, does not mean I support Jewish women and children being slowly gassed to death in gas chambers. So it is about time biased fools such as yourself learnt what real antisemitism is -  and what it is not. Your lot have cheapened the word by weaponising it for dubious politically motivated reasons.