Go study History Pattyjane.   And as far as Israel, Israel is the ONLY Democratic Nation on Planet Earth that actually works.   Before you start with the Palestinian Situation, go read History of how that started, as the British Protectorate of Palestine, when the British Colonial Empire by British Military Force seized the Kingdom of Israel (including Palestine, Jerusalem, West Bank, Gaza, Golan Heights), part of Trans Jordan, Lebanon, Gaza, and much more, then naming that the British Protectorate of Palestine, the British then by British Military Force kicked out the original inhabitants of Palestine and Jerusalem the Jews and the Christians, afterwards the British gave all of the British Protectorate of Palestine to their Allies The Muslim Arabs.    Very Recently if you want to see how the British Colonial Empire were up till about the 1970s a recent TV Series about the Aden Emergency is on, The Last Post.  And yes I have been to Yemen also, shut down Osama Bin Laden's Training Camp