I realise you're sitting there saying this started 150 years ago, but do you not understand how utterly stupid it is that people are using something that happened 150 years ago to justify doing something that's happening today? There isn't even a human alive who remembers that happening at this point. Israel by basing all of their hate on revenge is insanity. Revenge just breeds more hate on both sides of the border.
People will say including my family who are from Israel (step family) will sit and say that the reason Israel strikes back is because the Palestinians always strike first. They completely ignore why the Palestinians are fighting back against the oppression in the first place and why they feel the need to lash out. They've tried everything else and it all failed. My family also say that Palestinians are terrorists who are being controlled/manipulated by Hamas, but then they ignore why Hamas even got the point it could take over in the first place. When people see their families killed and their homes demolished by an invading force who seems hellbent on the utter destruction of their entire people they will become radicalised, especially when every peaceful option that was tried all fails.
It's also incredibly hypocritical. Israel as a state only exists now because of Zionist terrorism in the British Mandate for Palestine. The British Government fucked up dealing with everything so bad that rather than fix the issue they gave into terrorism and then together with the US put together the literal worst plan I've ever seen for setting up a new country. From there isn't been nothing but wars on and off with one side clearly being the major power who is never under any major threat from the other side and one side that just gets stomped on over and over again just for trying to fight for their freedom.
I don't think there'll ever be peace in the region and that pains me to say, but the constant cycle of revenge seems never-ending.
