Today’s Iranian leaders are completely denied agency. All their words and actions are merely because they are puppets reacting to earlier western crimes. Again, the politically correct refusal to look at data. Many countries have been the victims of western, and for that matter, other empires. But their leaders are not excused when they behave irrationally on that account. The Israeli situation is even more difficult to understand. Empirical analysis would require us to see how people vote with their feet. It seems obvious, at least to me, that if Syrians want to flee Syria and get to Germany, then in their opinion, Germany is a better place to live in than Syria. No publicity is given to the fact that Israeli Arab citizens have not tried to move to Egypt or Jordan or the PLO-run West Bank or Hamas-run Gaza or for that matter to Germany! Would they not be doing that if Israel really were a brutal/wicked/bad/racist/proto-Nazi/apartheid state?