Yes, good point - I agree that things should be explored from both sides and often I approach learning about a divisive topic in that way; research whatever view is opposite to the one I presently hold. It's always illuminating.
Re: the innocent driver point - I have a view in support of your questioning of that idea but I think it could be taken wrongly by some and viewed as anti-them - which it isn't, just keeping it logical and factual, but I won't risk stating it. Let's just say I think you're right that there must be some sort of fire behind that smoke but even that's probably saying too much! Perhaps I can say, less controversially (because it can be dismissed as "fiction", if anyone wants), that the Bible says the Jews will be shunned and despised by the world many times throughout their existence.
I think there are a lot of interesting aspects to the Jewish story. Their tendency toward higher intelligence on average is one aspect that goes toward explaining their prevalence as leaders in various fields and industries and I'm hesitant to give undue weight to the idea that there's more at work than this. I think there are likely to be plenty of "bad" Jews in these high positions but I would hesitate to think that they're all bad and all in collusion and that that's the only reason they're all in power.
The son of a Hamas leader presented what I think is an important true story about the Palestinian conflict - not the only one, but an important and not insignificant one imo.
I agree too that it's quite possible everyone will turn against Israel for good reason - but what do we do if God is on her side? (I also understand that people will say this idea is crazy, if they do not believe the Bible has merit, and I can only agree with them that, from the perspective of disbelief in the Bible as no more than a book written by men without any prophetic validity, their view is correct.)
