When a society is threatened it tends to harden. Can't blame them all that much, as they have been facing threats for decades. trump stoked the same fear in the US, only here it's not justified.

The picked one of the most contested bits of land in the world when they invaded in 1948. They knew they were in for a kicking. But they went ahead anyway, knowing that they had the might of American Jewry behind them, and so it has proved.

Personally I think they have a right to exist, but go off.

Of course they do, but they didn't have an exclusive right to impose themselves on British territory in 1948 without asking, and still don't.