You raise an excellent point- and I'm a Jew who lived there 15 years ago (I was actually a Red Cross EMT on the Israel-Gaza border lol). I grew up in DC, which is very diverse and democracy-oriented, so living in a country where they believed that a religious text of unknown origin was "their deed to the land" was mind-blowing. Either Israel can cease operations in Gaza like a normal democracy or they can bomb it into a smoking crater like a warring Bronze Age desert tribe. I'm hoping for the former.