A bitter realization I've had is that neither Jews or Israelis, or Palestinians, actually have much in the way of genuine allies.
Many of the most vocal "pro-Palestine" folks are at least partly just using the cause of Palestine to promote their hatred of Jews, and/or a communist/anarchist revolution against the "Western establishment." Or they're folks like the Ruzzian and Iranian regimes, pursuing their own imperial ambitions. They do not want an equitable peace, they want the warfare and bloodshed to escalate to the total destruction of Israel/Jews/the West, and they do not seem to care how many Palestinians are sacrificed in the process to get it. They ignore or outright defend the atrocities of Hamas, the Iranian regime, etc against their own people as well as others, and paint the victims and opponents of them as Israeli/US agents.
On the flip side, the most vocal and powerful supporters of Israel outside the Jewish community are US conservatives and evangelicals. They also do not actually care about Israel or Jews. Tr*mp rails against antisemitism in universities and arrests pro-Palestine activists, but this is not out of genuine concern for Jews. He is a casual antisemite and known Hitler fanboy who stacked his cabinet full of people like RFJ Jr.- who claimed Covid was designed to target white and Black people and spare Chinese people and Jews (implicitly, that it was designed as a bioweapon by the Jews). He USES fighting antisemitism as cover to try to criminalize dissent and control universities- while demanding, for example, that a university turn over a list of Jews on the campus. To fight antisemitism, of course. He isn't even a good ally to Netanyahu, having presumed to publicly announce policy changes or deal on behalf of Israel that Israel's government had not agreed to. As for the evangelicals, the True Believers only want Israel to exist so it can fulfill its role in their End Times prophecies and Jesus can return and send all the Jews to Hell (what this deranged hate fantasy looks like in practice is a nuclear exchange in the Middle East- US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, a hardline member of the Religious Right, reportedly urged Tr*mp to nuke Iran).
It is a tremendous tragedy that both Palestinians and Israelis' "supporters" are very often people who have no actual interest in their well-being, but simply in using them as proxies in their own wars. Both peoples deserve far better than to have their nations, their rich cultures, their very lives reduced to expendable tokens for the pursuit of other nations' imperial ambitions, or the culture wars of white Westerners.
