GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.
I just spent two and a half hours crafting a detailed, thoroughly argued, general response to everyone. Then I hit 'close' instead of 'minimise' and lost it all. So this is the SHORT version.
1. Apologies are due to Rightwinger. The man is OK. So I apologise.
2. I hold two equally true (in a personal sense) but profoundly opposed points of view at the same time: a) I'm always going to support the underdog in any situation; and

I admire the political realpolitik and ruthlessness of nations and individuals that seek their own interest first no matter what. I both admire and despise the Israelis in almost equal proportions.
3. God is. I am. The entire universe exists between those two statements, whether
you believe or not. As the Bible has it, "the fool hath said in his heart there is no God." Deal with it, as I have had to do, along with the fact that God is fond of genocide; as fond as It is of asceticism. Blood and inner body parts are as attractive to my God as are the prayers of saints and the sins of sinners. If that makes no sense to you, too bad.
4. There is no hypocrisy in espousing realpolitik on the one hand and natural justice on the other. A conflict, yes, but no hypocrisy. Such conflicts are
agons, creative tensions between mutually opposed points of view. They aren't for everyone but such is the way I make sense of the world - to the degree that I'm concerned to make sense of it at all.
5. Call a spade a spade (or a digging implement a digging implement): when a State
behaves as Israel does it identifies itself for all to see as a criminal regime, an exponent of State terrorism, a racial hegemon, and a brutally efficient regional tyrant. From the point of view of realpolitik there is nothing wrong with any of that. From the point of view of natural justice such a state is an abomination and
ought to be destroyed. The
agon between those two stances is the point at which
civil discourse originates, its trajectory being the confinement (not the resolution) of the conflict which develops from it. To see both sides, experience both sides, and synthesise (ala Hegel) both sides into some new state of being is not hypocrisy; it's being an evolved politically adult human being.
Which doesn't mean that my inner Motherfucker isn't going to combine with my support for the underdog in a sense of visceral anger and outrage. Men in tanks should not kill stone-throwing children: it's unfair.
6. Nothing in this whole debates revolts and infuriates me more than the response to it by such vile, detestable creatures as KFC. Let the Jews kill Arab children - it'll bring the Second Coming of Christ closer and then
we can all go to heaven while the rest of them go to hell. I was once a Christian and believed in the justice of Christ. There is very little of justice, and even less of Christ, in the opinions of such...
insects... as KFC.