The credibility of and the sympathy for Israel is largely due to the holocaust and the persecution of Jews down the years. This is rapidly dissolving now that Israeli's are behaving more like the perpetrators than the victims and it seems to me that an emphasis on a 'Jewish State' is an attempt to get this sympathy back. The big problem I see with this is that it will transform an Israeli/Arab problem into a Jewish/Muslim problem.
The credibility of and the sympathy for Israel is largely due to the holocaust and the persecution of Jews down the years. This is rapidly dissolving now that Israeli's are behaving more like the perpetrators than the victims and it seems to me that an emphasis on a 'Jewish State' is an attempt to get this sympathy back. The big problem I see with this is that it will transform an Israeli/Arab problem into a Jewish/Muslim problem.