Im struggling to see a connection with why the Israelis would dislike Arabs when the Holocaust occurred in Europe at the hands of the European and despite the horrors that were inflicted on them, the US, their closest alley, refused Jewish immigrants. Surely there is nobody so far removed from their trauma than the Palestinians?
I thought about this in relation to my own experience of how Irish Catholics in diaspora felt hatred towards the British, what’s the new buzz word, ahh yeah, generational trauma. My mother supported the actions of the IRA, she’d learned from her mother, who was displaced Irish, how they’d lived under the brutal colonial regime. As a child I would hear her applaud their actions and speak negatively about the British in Ireland. I too, as a child, felt an allegiance with the cause of the IRA, despite never experiencing any of the things they were fighting for, because my mother held this resentment, it obviously rubs off, they say parents are our first teachers. Whilst my mother clearly carried this anger she never went out and behaved violently against the British because of what they did to her mother and ancestors. There are millions of Irish descent in Britain who haven’t either.
For me the comparison here would be like me or any of the displaced Irish descendants going to live in France and hating the French because of what the British did in Ireland.