A good attempt at an unbiased analysis of a difficult topic.

However one critically important thing that you miss is the Jewish People's deep historical, cultural and religious connection to the Land of Israel.

Israel is not primarily a place to escape persecution - if that was the objective Australia's Kimberly region would have been a much better location for the Jewish State.

Whether modern Jews are genetically strongly or weakly related to ancient Jews is far less important than that Jewish religious tradition has called for the return to the Land of Israel as its most important commandment from the time when Jews were first expelled by Babylonians 2600 years ago.

For 1900 years in exile, Jews all around the world prayed many times a day for the restoration of Jewish sovereignty in the land of Israel and Jerusalem.

That is why only The Land of Israel was acceptable as a location for a Jewish State to the vast majority of Jews (although other options were considered).

Now, 75 years after the re-establishment of Jewish sovereignty, Israel is a nation of 10 million with by far the highest fertility of any civilised country, one of the strongest economies, the most cohesive society and the strongest military in the world (stronger than the US and Russia who are demonstrably completely incapable of achieving what the IDF has in Gaza in the last 6 weeks).

Israel is an ancient power that is rising to ascendancy in a world of dying nations (Western, Eastern and Islamic) with catastrophically low fertility. The powers of today (USA, China, Japan, Russia and the EU) are all withering away like Babylon, Persia, the Greeks, Romans, Ottomans before them.

Oct 7 killed off "The Two State Solution" in the minds of the vast majority of Israelis. There will never be a "Palestinian State" in the Land of Israel.

Israel will utterly crush its enemies to prevent Oct 7 ever happening again and there is nothing any other country, including the US, can do about it.

The perception of the world and who can claim the title of victim is utterly irrelevant to the situation on the ground.

This war is about civilisation fighting the most evil barbarians that have ever existed.
Victimology is for losers.