I assume you realize it was a tad more complicated than that.
But I will agree that human history awards what a people can conquer and hold. For instance, I prefer living in Texas rather than a Comanche.
I spent much of my professional career mucking around the Middle East. I have spent lots of time with the IDF and have even flown in the gunner's seat of one of their Apaches as they demonstrated drone targeting hand-off just before the second Gulf War (a technique we have exploited extensively over the last decade and a bit). I have negotiated military sales with them (not easy), and as a General officer, I had the privilege to represent the US Army in laying a wreath at Yad Vashem. But, I am also an Arab speaker and have spent even more time among our Arab allies (and yes they are). Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Qatar have been instrumental in all of our military and intelligence work in the region for fifty years - particularly the last twenty. Israel somewhat less so - I have a colleague, who I'll leave nameless, who describes our relationship as one of a whale being led around by a goldfish.
Every administration since WWII has struggled to balance those implacable foes as the US navigates its own national interests in the region. To date, that has not become any simpler.
My concern for Israel specifically is that it resembles very closely the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (1099-1187/1291). Yes the religion is different, but like it, the modern state of Israel is a largely European enclave on the coast of the Levant. They will maintain that toehold only so long as they have the military strength to do so. I am afraid there is a population calculus at work that makes that likelihood more difficult every generation. A lasting political solution is as imperative as it is illusive - perhaps impossible.
With respect to Chicago (and Baltimore, and Oakland, and DC, etc) - parts of it are, by any definition, a war zone - regardless of the percentage of the city. What frustrates me and many others is that BLM and its Democrat political enablers ignore that carnage as they purse political goals by exploiting correspondingly rare police shootings. The conditions that breed that violence are the product of decades of good intentions, bad policy, and misguided investment. Nothing in the current wave of empathetic demonstrations are assaults on our history will do anything to address that underlying barbarism. And until we, and perhaps most importantly, the people living there begin to, none of this will matter a few years from now.