Anyone who is firmly on one side or the other in this needs to give their head a shake. You can place blame where ever you want if you look on a small enough time scale. Both sides have committed atrocities, they’re both wrong in certain ways and have their own justifications based on fairy tales.
Until the world decides to grow up and have a proper conversation about how basing lives and policy around fairytales may not be the best idea, it’s a never ending cycle of stupid.