Great post. I was mostly sympathetic to Israel until I started learning (first from extended family and then from my own reading) about the history of the conflict, the settlements, the apartheid, etc. The fact that we support all of this with our public policy, money, and weapons is disgusting to me.
At the same time I have plenty of Jewish (mostly from the very Eastern European branch of my extended family on my mother's side) family and friends and I sympathize deeply with their fear of something like the Holocaust ever happening again. I just wish that Zionist sympathizers could see how close they are to perpetrating one of their own.
I know that most Jewish people/Israelis don't want to be in conflict with their Palestinian brothers and sisters, but at this point I lose a little sympathy (at least towards Israelis in Israel) every day Netanyahu and his special little cabal of right wing psychopaths (honestly, it feels a little too on the nose to call them Nazis, but do they behave any differently?) remain in power.