Not necessarily uninformed - but everyone tends to take a biased view and select the bits of information they want to focus on. That's human nature. So sure.... Israel is a thriving affluent state - and it's tended towards an authoritarian right for far too long; hopefully Netanyahu won't be for much longer and more moderate voices can come to the fore again.
As for the rest; as I said it's complicated. You could absolutely focus on the problems facing the Palestinians, but you could equally focus your energy on why Arab nations around Israel have not provided anywhere near enough support. There are complicated reasons why that might be the case - but it's a legitimate set of questions to ask. Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Iran - they all have their part to play in the unfolding complexity. Not enough people are focussing on these matters - and that's because it's complicated. Pan-Arabic ideals are complicated.
I recently saw an interview with a terrified mother and child from Palestine, they'd moved there six months ago from Blackpool in the Northern UK. The Scottish First Minister's In-laws were holidaying there when this all happened. Some of the people recently released as hostages were people living on the Israel Palestine border who would take Palestinians to Israeli hospitals. These stories do not correspond with the entire narrative you have outlined and words like 'genocide' - and that is because the narrative being painted is far too simplistic for a situation this complicated. How can a nation struggling to feed and clothe its children and not provide clean drinking water still manage to create a spider web of reinforced tunnels in which to secure hostages and amass 6000+ rockets plus extensive weaponry? Why did Israel grant Ismail Haniyeh's family the right to be treated in Tel Aviv? Why does he currently reside in Quatar and is he a millionaire? Poor people do suffer but we have to ask better questions about why and come up with better solutions than cartoonish heroes and villains. The brinkmanship of Netanyahu and the right wing israelis plus the chaos of Hamas under Haniyeh et al is causing untold misery and both Israelis and Palestinians (and particularly Palestinians in my opinion) deserve better.
Most people usually enjoy my insights until my insights contradict their world view - and then I'm an idiot. I don't think you're a simpleton, but I do think you've probably got an emotional response to a problem which needs reason and emotionless processing to resolve. That's difficult. That's the most difficult thing in the world when you're emotionally involved in what is unfolding - but emotional people have a tendency towards a) their own bias and b) making the problem worse in the long run. I am confident that there will be a solution to the Israel Palestine conflict - because we managed it with Ireland and deconstructed a similar apartheid in South Africa BUT, I don't think that's going to come at the moment and I don't think that's going to come anytime soon - I think the knee jerk responses of the under-informed likely won't help. And I think in this particular conflict - almost everybody is under informed. Mostly because the information both historical and current is so complicated - and much of the source material is difficult to separate from biased sources which precede it. It's going to take a few very clued up and special politicians to unpick this particular knot - but I have faith and I'd like to say I have faith in the international community and the UN to step in and resolve some of this - but they seem not to be doing very much at the moment.
You can be angry. But why not go and read the other side - see if you can find out why people who believe the exact opposite thing you believe are just as angry as you are - but for opposing reasons. If you can approach with curiosity and compassion, for the other side (as much as your own) then you might take a different perspective on the matter - you may indeed come to the conclusion I have, that this is way too complicated for me to paint a superficial veneer of simplicity over it.
Condescending perhaps? Depends how you choose to read me. I cannot control what you feel. If I did, I'd be much richer Penguin. :o)
