What 'Palestinian narrative'? I arrived independently at my conclusions by studying history and travelling through Israel/Palestine to better understand the perspectives of Israelis and Palestinians. The heart of the ongoing conflict is the injustice perpetrated by European Jews on the Arabs in the name of Zionism, a racist colonial ideology. Gaza is what it is because Israel turned it into an open-air prison, which provided ideal conditions for Hamas to flourish. Can you not understand why Palestinians are angry and some are bent on revenge? Would you like to be indefinitely confined to a prison simply because of your race? Israel stubbornly refuses to take responsibility for its actions, hiding behind its Jewish identity in order to claim victim status whenever it is challenged. If you think Israel can keep playing the victim card for all eternity to excuse its persecution of the Palestinians then you are mistaken.

The main stumbling block to peace is the Jewish victim complex, by which I mean the failure of many Jews to understand that they can just as easily be oppressors as victims. The same moral failing is common to every individual who chooses to engage in identity politics.