Because they are humans made in the image of G-d?
kiwi, you obviously miss the point. You are not Jewish and nobody expects you to understand Torah. We will not spend time trying to justify the actions of the Jews acting in their best interest. Iran and the Muslims are out to destroy us... Their holy book clearly sets Jews as targets for destruction. Your religion has done a lot to try to destroy us and I believe you are now considering it good that Islam is at war with Israel. If this is your position you are squarely in my enemies camp..
The Torah clearly gives the Jewish people the imperative to remove the evil from the land. I can quote you scripture but will not waste it on people like you who distort it. The Torah also tells us to RISE EARLY AND KILL THE PERSON WHO WILL TRY TO KILL YOU. We have a need to protect our brother Jews lives even at the expense of non-Jews. This is what the Torah means when it says YOUR FELLOW, it doesn't ever ever mean our enemy. Even when Torah talks about the Enemy, it talks about the force of evil, the evil inclination, or the armies which rise against us like Amalek {Whom we must remove all traces of existence from the world}.
You are a neophyte when it comes to Jewish thought. You are a twister, a deceiver, and you have deceived yourself. I just hope that the souls of all you have deceived will make repentance soon.
PS: Hashem also made the evil in the world, yet we are supposed to remove it from our midst. You cannot say that because all humans are made in Hashems image that we should not act to protect ourselves from the enemy which Hashem created? Have you ever read the Prophets, or maybe Tehillim {Psalms}? Kind David slew many enemies, and he is the family of the Moshiach, the messiah who will redeem Israel...