Maybe the problems are far deeper than this current conflict, such that it is effect.
Consider how your mind is sorting through these various perspectives, each having its advantages and disadvantages. They are signals in the noise, but pulling you in multiple directions.
What are signals? What is the noise?
Presumably what our minds extract would be the most logical, given our modern, advanced society.
The reality is that what synchronizes with our prior beliefs and models is what is most magnetic. They re-enforce our sense of being and we support them in kind. Then we bond to those on similar wavelengths. It's like gravity, as structure coalesces together.
At the core of any such entity, is some point of reference, some gravitational center. Without which, it would break apart and scatter. Tower of Babel.
Yet these structures still exist in that larger sea of noise. Like galaxies, the structure coalesces in, while the energy radiates out. So the node is synchronization, while the network is harmonization, as the energy circulates around.
The formative experience of Judaism was the forty years in the desert, condensed as the Ten Commandments, the Convent with God.
Basically a social code and creed that became the point of focus of the tribe, like a grain of sand at the center of a pearl.
While the notion of one god made sense to an isolated group of people, three thousand years ago it basically meant a monoculture. The tribal spirit. One people, one rule, one god. Ancient Israel was a monarchy.
On the other hand, democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. The family and cycle of life as godhead. Ancient Greek religion originated out of fertility rites. The young god, born in the spring, to the old sky god and the earth mother. Though by the Olympians, Zeus didn't give way to Dionysus. Tradition prevailed over renewal. Much as the old are frequently loathe to give way to the young.
So the story of Jesus, crucified for questioning authority and risen in the spring, had fertile ground to take root, not only against Jewish authorities, but authority in general. Metaphors were always a thing.
Though by the time Rome adopted it as state religion, tradition had again taken hold and it was the monotheism that served to validate the Empire rising from the ashes of the Republic. The Big Guy Rules. The origins of the Trinity shrouded by the Holy Ghost.
Which served as the eschatological basis for the next 1500 years of European monarchy.
When the West went back to popular forms of government, it required separation of church and state, effectively culture and civics.
Logically though, a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. More the light shining through the film, than the stories played out on it. The universal is the elemental, not the ideal.
The consequence is that Westen culture was effectively founded on the principle of ideals as absolute. Which meant every creed had to assert its universality, or be dismissed and so it meant all against all.
Morals are not absolute, because if they were, they couldn't be transgressed, like a temperature below absolute zero. Instead they are ideals, specifically the behaviors for a healthy and stable society.
The problem with making an Almighty God the moral policemen, was that as fear of God faded, there was no agreed framework to replace it, so the Will to Power rose in the void.
Though those most adept at this are not the knights in shining armor, but the amoral assholes who lie, cheat and steal as a matter of principle.
Thus leaving the crazies, the idiots and thieves in charge.
The basis of a healthy society is collective responsibility, with rights as reward, not rights as ordained and responsibility optional. Having one's worth a function of what one adds, not what one extracts.
Having their tribal god become the grain of sand at the center of Western civilization has been no great favor to the Jews actually. Other than the caffeine rush of being "The Chosen," it seems more a target painted on their backs. And placing their effort to turn back the clock two thousand years, at the forefront of the game, doesn't look like a totally wise move either, given the degree to which the West has succumbed to Mammon and turned their economies into giant debt bubbles.
Given the resources and the industry seem to be shifting to the rest of the world and it's the winners that write the history books, one only wonders what the term "Israel" will conjure up in a thousand years.
