The whole idea of a "legitimate country" is mostly absurd. Most countries are established and maintained through war or the threat of it. Even this documentary seems to recognize this by mentioning that the Ottoman Empire collapsed after WW1. Then the Grits and French carve up that corpse, but not one of those groups had a legitimate claim but violence. Even when a long established local people reasserted control, the nation usually has to be formed with violence, e.g. Revolution.

Wanted to watch the whole thing cause there was certainly much interesting research & editing, but a "network error" stopped it.....

What is the soul of America? Western civilization? European identity? It still seems the best answer is some synthesis of Rome, Athens, and Jerusalem. The perplexing tension with "Jews" is that the term to some refers to a set of religious values, the very tradition and covenant from which Christianity emerged and changed the world-- but as Sarah Silverman typifies, many Jews are simply a tribe that hated the others and even hates much of its own past. Your agnostic materialistic drivers who gleefully tear at things they could not build.

Hypocrisy and self serving dealing is a common feature of humanity, but with Jews there seems to be a religious tradition rationalizing and promoting what most ethical systems condemn. Even with their obvious issues, I prefer Israel than yet another Muslim state. American support for Zionism goes back to some of the Founders.