Israel occupied the Gaza Strip and the West Bank in 1967 during the Six Day War . Each side has complex and embedded stories that justify violence towards each other. ( Vox : "The militant group based in occupied Gaza launched aerial attacks and broke through the heavily secured fence into the State of Israel. Hundreds of Israelis have been killed, a historic scale of violence for the country. The Israeli counterattack will inevitably lead to more death and destruction for Palestinians and a tightened occupation.") The Jewish people were attempted to be exterminated during Hitler's rise in Germany, and the general scapegoating, othering and anti-semitism in Europe. Jewish people just want to have a place where they are safe, since the winds of anti-semitism can easily blow, like the strains of hate groups in the USA. The peaceful ones who walked into the killing chambers are dead, it's the feisty vengeful fighters who are left. No, it's not that simple, nothing i...