Contrary to the common progressive charge, Zionism is framed as the culmination of a 3,000-year anti-colonial movement. Jewish holidays like Purim and Hanukkah celebrate revolts against colonial rulers, making the Jewish return to their homeland a unique act of decolonization, not colonization.

Some Western progressives, particularly in Canada, are motivated by their own 'settler guilt' but are unwilling to relinquish their own status. They project this complex onto Israel, fantasizing about a decolonization they can enforce on Jews as a proxy for the historical atonement they won't perform themselves.

The ideology driving figures like Zoran Mamdani is best described as 'Third-Worldism.' This framework posits that the industrialized West is the root of all global evil, and politics must therefore be a form of revenge enacted by formerly colonized and oppressed peoples against their historic oppressors.

According to Buttigieg, Benjamin Netanyahu's actions in Gaza and the West Bank reveal an ideological project to take over "Greater Israel," a vision with little room for Palestinians. This motive transcends stated goals of national security and explains his aggressive policies.

Fayyad is skeptical of recent international recognitions of a Palestinian state, arguing they often serve the domestic political needs of foreign leaders. He sees these symbolic gestures as worse than a placebo, creating a false sense of progress while the reality of occupation gets progressively worse.

The intense viral energy around the Israel-Palestine conflict in the West is not just about the conflict itself. It's fueled by a "Red-Green Alliance"—a coalition of leftists and radical Islamists who both seek the downfall of Western civilization and use this issue as a unifying proxy battle.

Anti-Zionist state doctrine long predates contemporary Israeli policy. In 1918, Bolsheviks claimed to oppose Zionism rather than Jews, which ultimately led to destroying Soviet Jewish institutions. Across the 20th century, every regime that instituted anti-Zionism as an official ideology—from the Soviet bloc and Poland in 1968 to Middle Eastern states like Iraq, Libya, and Egypt—ended up persecuting and eliminating its domestic Jewish population to distract from internal governance failures.

Viewing the conflict as two rational sides in a misunderstanding is flawed. Both sides see the other as an existential threat and are willing to use extreme violence to achieve their goals. This reframes the narrative from a political dispute to a primal, violent tribal conflict where both sides see themselves as righteous.

The Israel-Palestine conflict is often framed as a religious clash, but its root is the political reality of military occupation. The Palestinian response is a predictable human reaction to subjugation, similar to the Irish resisting the British, not a unique feature of their religion.