Thanks for summing up how I feel about this so succinctly. I have tried to understand the history and the issues between these two groups and there is honestly

Thanks for summing up how I feel about this so succinctly. I have tried to understand the history and the issues between these two groups and there is honestly there is so much that each side can victim claim for and be pointed out as an aggressor on its really hard to make any judgement on a particular side being right or wrong. And with the history on this going back thousands of years and my admittedly complete lack of understanding of cultural context on both sides (and to be honest its so complex I am not sure anyone can understand this unless you have been living it) I just freely admit I am too ignorant on the subject to have an opinion- which is still quite problematic- despite having never been to the Middle East, I live in NYC and have lots of Jewish friends who claim that anything less than supporting Israel is anti-semitism. But even when my wife, who knows I read news and books an order of magnitude more than her, asked me to kind of distill it down for her in whatever terms I understood it after the recent flare up, and I was just like I really can't... aside from there just being an inherent inability to share their ancient homelands.