Like most of you I've lived my whole life with my sympathies being towards Israel in regards to the Arab/Israel conflict.
As my understanding of the world has broadened, unfortunately pretty late in life, I find geopolitical issues are always more complicated and nuanced than I was led to believe.
There are only so many potential outcomes. These are what I see as probable in the broadest low resolution terms.
- Some type arrangement between the Palestinians and Israel is reached where they each have their own land, where they are ethnically dominant and in charge of their own affairs.
Israel and its backers (the west) takes the whole region by force and Arab Palestine ceases to exist.
Palestine and it's backers take the whole region by force and Israel as a nation loses its land.
That region remains in perpetual low grade warfare with occasional larger conflagrations but the status quo remains in place during our lifetimes.
Each one of the ones I've listed have immediate, secondary and even more downstream impacts on the USA.
I've personally resigned myself to the latter outcome. Obviously the first one listed is ideal but is dependent on good faith actors all the way around. I'm not seeing any good faith actors, including us.
My position is I don't support sending dogmush and his colleagues to potentially die defending, or supporting offensive actions in Israel.