From where I sit, it’s literally mostly about dirt, rocks and oil.
This is just a continuation of the crusades from the medieval period. Let’s also not forget just how strategically important Israel’s location is to the Western countries as it’s their springboard into the middle east.
There are a lot of different factors and nuance and play, but essentially it’s over religion and “holy lands”.
It’s quite the opposite of what they want, It would probably mentally break them to see actual space and planets being a globe or they would just say “LOL NICE DIGITAL WINDOWS, THIS SHIT AINT REAL!!!1111ONEONEONE”.
It’s a big problem in this day and age. People arguing ferociously against things that have already been proven. For some reason…