Hardly off-topic.
My, my, don't some people get defensive and authoritarian when the problem of Israel comes into the conversation?
Dude - it is off topic.
Problem isn't Israel - its that it is the wrong conversation.
Looks like you have some kind of ax to grind and probably could somehow make a connection to Israel no matter what the topic.
Point is if you want to have a discussion about Israel, that's what the politics forum is for.
You have every right to start a thread an post away to your heart's content.
And as for being defensive and authoritarian, which of us thinks and defends the view that when the topic is Israel when an airport worker who goes through a scanner and reveals to fellow workers that he has a small penis?