Well, you read quite a few comments of the form 'if they learnt from their own history'. Lets leave aside for a moment debates about Israel. This is a perverse

Well, you read quite a few comments of the form 'if they learnt from their own history'. Lets leave aside for a moment debates about Israel. This is a perverse attitude regardless of how innocent/guilty it is. When people have been historically wronged, usually the moral burden is placed upon the perpetrators (and perhaps their descendants) and not the victims' descendants. Some African Americans act very badly (every population has its own criminals), but we don't ask them to 'learn lessons from slavery'. We ask white people inasmuch we ask this. But in this case, it's only Jews that get this reply and somehow almost never the descendants of perpetrators of historical anti-Jewish atrocities. And this reply doesn't help Palestinians at all (I suspect it's strongly counterproductive), so it's not about them either. I suspect the root of this is unresolved guilt, the unspoken argument is "see, you're as bad as we are!". Despite that the worst accusations against Israel don't come close to the scale of several historical atrocities against Jews.