The fact that this is a tiny area doesn't make up for the fact that it has one of the most extensive armaments in the world including nuclear bombs. The incursion into the Palestinian areas can hardly be called "defensive". That's Orwellian and wacky logic.

The history that Bobad supplied was interesting but incomplete, however, I do agree with him that this Mid-East war is a religious one between Judaism and Islam.

This supports my thesis that most wars can be reduced to religious conflict. That's a separate thread, however.

The reason Bobad and BB refer to it as a Jewish state is that is it now a theocracy.
Not all Jews support Zionism and Israeli policies.

And yes, BB it is immoral for these countries to deny the NPT as well. They are India, Pakistan, Israel and Cuba. North Korea signed and then unsigned later.

Israel: has not publicly conducted a nuclear test but has never admitted or denied possessing nuclear weapons. However, it is believed that Israel does posses nuclear weapons based on how much fissile material (highly enriched uranium and plutonium) the country is known to have produced. Fissile material is an essential component in order to create nuclear weapons.

Iran: is not known to posses any nuclear weapons or adequate fissile material to build any. However, the International Atomic Energy agency (IAEA) – the a UN organization in charge of ensuring that states do not build nuclear weapons illegally - concluded in 2003 that Iran had tried to establish the capacity to build fissile material. Iran's nuclear program is under continuing investigation by the IAEA.

So Israel and the U.S. have WMD's but Iran doesn't. This smacks of hypocrisy by Israel and the U.S. as an excuse to bomb Iran.