This is getting like a game of chess, Antiseptic, but it’s at the endgame stage where to continue is futile.
There is a deal of qualifying implied in both our positions, since we are forced to be pithy. One qualification I have is that not everyone is going be idealistic in youth. Some people are born conservatives; that is, they enjoy their bounty as God-given, or deserved due to the merits of the individual (homeland) concerned. Or perhaps they are utterly credulous and really believe the racist/sexist/supremacist mantra of their “church”. This is either hubris or cynicism, though it amounts to the same thing; it is rationalisation that redounds to the credit of the subject. If it is hubris, then it is some degree of narcissism. If it is cynicism, it’s yet more destructive as a pathologically assertive drive that wilfully ignores its own better judgement: that the privileged position enjoyed is a matter of sheer fortune, that but for the grace of God go I. Confronted with this self-knowledge, the subject will either resort to the kind of rationalisation I mention, with which capacity s/he is congenitally blessed, or s/he will prefer honesty and self-knowledge, which must manifest as outrage: conservative/radical, right/left respectively. The conservative is puffed up with conceit—hubristic or cynical—and the radical (best case scenario) has had done with lies and vainglory, and wants only to pull the whole rotten fabric of lies apart.
Ironically, this is all in the Bible that the conservatives clutch to their breasts!
Australia, or modern Israel “are” disastrous; you are only viewing the situation from your own privileged position of fortunate superiority. Where we find ourselves geopolitically is not due to merit; we got where we are, and maintain it, through rapaciousness, unscrupulousness and blind fortune. This is all rationalised by the conservative right; but the left, if we had a left, is disgusted and rebellious.