It would be a lot easier to support Israel if they weren't violating international law prior to the October attacks. They have annexed land that is not theirs, razed Palestinian homes, and built their own "settlements". That certainly does not justify the October attacks, but one can at least understand how many non-Israelis would be resentful. (And, I believe, a lot of Israelis also don't support that policy. But it continues anway.)

In Gaza, they have a sticky problem. They want Hamas, and they have every right (IMO) to pursue and destroy them. But Hamas hides among civilians, and killing civilians isn't cool. Sort of like us in Vietnam, and us again in Afghanistan. (Though Vietnam can't really be argued to have been justified...we were meddling in someone else's civil war**.)




**Yes, that's an oversimplification. But in general terms, that is what it boiled down to. We could go into French colonialism, Dulles, and such, but that just gets us deeper in the weeds without any real benefit to this discussion.

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