Unfortunately, they did with the comment that Israel shouldn’t exist. They are an anti-semite who doesn’t believe the millions of Jewish people who lived in the pre 1948 Palestine deserve a place to live.

When the Jewish state was formed by the UN, five Arab armies invaded, and since that time most of Israel’s neighbors have expressly stated that they want to destroy Israel. Only Egypt and Jordan have recognized their borders, and that was after losing during the 6 day war when Egypt once again threatened Israels existence by cutting off the tiran Straits. When the borders were recognized, Israel returned land they seized during the conflict to Egypt, namely the Sinai peninsula. Twenty some years later, Jordan followed suit.

The remaining neighbors have ceaselessly saber rattled, attacked, and conducted terrorist acts. Just today a Hezbollah general stated that this was a war of existence; either Israel exists or the Arab alliance exists.

Which isn’t to say that I condone the settlers in the West Bank, and other things that Israel has done. But they are a small nation surrounded by religious states that want them destroyed. Back in 2006 Israel learned that disproportionate response is the only thing that seems to work, when Hezbollah attacked and Israel responded with 30 days of shelling Beirut, leaving the Hezbollah leader to infamously say they wouldn’t have attacked if they knew the response would be so drastic.

So I’m all for holding Israel to international standards of warfare. But people who say that “Israel existing is the reason for the conflict” can bugger off as far as I care since they are either an anti-semite, pandering to religious states, or desperately ignorant of world history.