Your question is "Does Israel deserve our support"? YES. Without a doubt. The one-eyed view of this article is beneath contempt. What exactly has Israel done? !) The granting of land recognised as a traditional right long denied them was mandated by a group of other nations and was not dependent on Israel alone. 2) Israel has done little more than defend itself from a group of larger hostile countries surrounding it who vowed from the first day to 'drive them into the sea' - thus murdering them. It can hardly be wondered at that they are pre-emptive now in their defence. The whole question of 'Palestinian suffering' could do with a lot more investigative examination - things are not always what they seem on the surface. Palestinians are not entirely the innocents they would like to have the rest of the world believe. It would behove anyone writing on this to give more balanced views.

Now let me get this right, with a little paraphrasing: "Modern Aborigines in Australia are not the people of ancient Gwondana and hold no title deeds to modern Australia". Huh?

If the Palestinian rockets are so harmless, why do they bother shooting them at Israel?

Of course Israel deserves support. We are fools if we do not support Israel. There is a God-Mandate to support Israel or perish. The land is their God-given inheritance regardless of what you/we choose to believe and your/our lack of acceptance of this doesn't change the facts. Israel will be Israel for the Jews......ALWAYS! It doesn't get any simpler than that. Now if you want to get into politics about the poor mistreated Palestinians.....well, they need to turn to their fellow muslims for help...the "people" no one wants...especialy their own.

It's irrelevant whether or not modern Jews are descendants of the ancient population, even if they were , they still would not have a claim on Palestine after centuries of living somewhere else. The use of ancestry as a justification for a colonial adventure is chauvinistic drivel, I'll bet many Palestinians are descendants of the area's Bronze Age population anyway.

There is an old adage that "The enemy of my enemy is my friend".

And another that says that "The friend of my enemy is my enemy".

As the islamic extremists that we are fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq have determined if possible to destroy Australia, and are the declared enemy of Israel, it therefore follows that Israel is our ally and that the palestinians are our enemy.