alt Hacker NewsPalestinians aside, what reasons do neighboring countries have to hate Israel from it's very first moment?
A lot of the immediate neighbors attacked Israel at its birth, and further away countries just seem to hate Israel due to religion/ethnicity/populism (?), countries like Pakistan, Malaysia, etc.
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Well, Syria and Lebanon both hold some pretty serious resentment over the recent landgrabs. With the whole "acquiring buffer zone for the buffer zone" business in former and the population expulsions in the latter.
Indiscriminate bombing of innocent people, maybe?
The Shia from South Lebanon still remember the seven Shia villages in Palestine that were ethnically cleansed by Zionist forces in 1948. [1]
It's still a major propaganda point for Hezbollah.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shia_villages_in_Palestine
Your comment makes no sense whatsoever. Moreover your account was created minutes ago. What time does your shift end?
Because Israel invaded a land that had been settled by Arab Muslims for centuries, claimed a portion for itself exclusively, proceeded to ethnically cleanse an even bigger portion, all with the support of their extremely powerful western backers. Asking "why did the others hate them" is like asking "why would Europeans hate the Chinese if they had invaded, settled and ethnically cleansed half of France (with the promise of taking even more later)"?
Israel refuses to even define its borders. And current behaviour demonstrates why.
Ethnically cleansing Palestine is reason enough to hate Israel. As an American I’ll add that I hate their influence on my country via bribes and blackmail, and how they strip my rights (anti-BDS laws…) and steal my tax dollars. Spying on everyone via things like the OP don’t help either.
The whole idea of Greater Israel would make anyone in the region queasy. The logic is pretty hard to dispute when Israelis claim the lang is God given. The "God given" land actually extends much farther beyond Israel's boundaries so I'd say people of those countries are rightful feel as they do.
Like immagine if the rhetoric of Turkey was constantly talking about expanding to Greece and how the land of Greece is historically the Turks. Obviously that would make any Greek uneasy.