I don't think that's true. I've lived with and worked with Israelis, one of my best friends was with one for years, and for the most part I found them to be a warm and engaging people.Still can't get my head around it. We are dealing with the most evil people in history. The death toll is now 2% of Gaza's pre-war population.
Arms sales seems controversial on this forum at least in the Ukraine thread - in my mind the UK state is responsible for exacerbating this genocide politically, financially and materially. I hope history will judge all who supported this war with contempt.
From the river to the sea, Intifada until victory
Netanyahu amd those around him are most certainly evil, though.
Israelis are a pretty brutalised lot, the Occupation has had a corrupting influence on them as well as the Palestinians. They believe they are under constant existential threat, that the world hates them, and many of them are only a generation of two away from being displaced peoples themselves. There are still Holocaust survivors among the Ashkenazim, and among the Mizrahim are those who were expelled from their homes in Arab countries after the State of Israel came into being. It's recent, raw history to them.
Palestinians mostly experience Israelis as soldiers taking their family members away and shooting at them, and Israelis mostly experience Palestinians via their army service, as scared teenagers. They dehumanise each other, and that leads to what is happening now, and what happened on October 7th, and all that went before.
I'm going to keep on saying it, the Occupation is the problem, above and beyond whoever leads either nation. It needs to end, and Palestinians must have justice and dignity and hope for a better life if there is ever to be peace.
