Not getting the whole "Stand with Israel" thing I see across conservative facebook. I wholeheartedly endorse them grinding into dust Hamas, Fatah, Hezbollah, and any other terrorist they can fit into a bombsight. I think they should tell the UN to FOAD. But stand with Israel? Maybe after they stop spying on us and do some serious explaining regarding the USS Liberty.
As for Code Pink they need to go over to Gaza and show their support.
Like gay marriage, or any other number of issues, it stands in as a proxy-fight for the American "culture war" for both sides, and with far less than perfect alignment than either side nominally holds.
For conservatives, the breakdown with Israel is at the above mentioned USS Liberty incident, whether a simple screw-up on the part of the IDF, or a false-flag operation to try and draw us into the war on their side, or something in between, we may never know, their espionage efforts against the U.S., and the country is incredibly Leftist/Socialist even by European standards.
For liberals, the breakdown with the Palestinians is obvious, as most any Islamic/Islamist society is completely at odds with almost every last social freedom the American Left claims to hold dear.
As usual though, the cognitive dissonance load is greater on the Left than it is on the Right. Israel is nominally friendly with Western Civ in the general sense, so the alignment with the US political right at least makes
some sense.
