Many if not most American Jews and a large percentage of Israelis are mad at and do not support Bibi Netanyahu

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39. I can't read Netanyahu's mind on how he acted with Hamas

for so long, but it looks like he was manipulating them because he wanted to reduce the Palestinian Authority's power. My guess is that he did not want the PA to gain enough strength to establish a Palestinian state. Bibi is a RWer with a coalition even farther to the right. They are obstacles to a Palestinian state. I have no respect for him.

I support a state for Palestinians. But the terrorist extremists like Hamas and Hezbollah do not want a two state solution for peace. They want one nation for themselves without the existence of Israel.

The chronic wars and attacks by terrorists against Israel since Israel's recognition as a state has resulted in Israel's increased military build up and security restrictions. It feeds hostility toward Palestinians from RW Israeli politicians so that the extreme right in Israel and the Palestinian terrorists are in the forefront of events, pushing out the chances of moderates from both sides negotiating a sustainable peace.

Some of the 10/7 victims were people who had been peace activists prior to the attacks. I watched an interview with one of the Israeli survivors who had been an activist for Palestinian rights. She said that she was rethinking her views on whether peace was even possible. People who use terrorism and hostages as a "negotiation" only create more hostility among their targeted people. Look at how most Americans reacted to 9/11 by rallying behind Bush's RW government.

IMO, Israel needs better leadership than Netanyahu and his hard right coalition. Palestinians need moderate leadership. Biden has tried to encourage the PA as a more moderate, or less extremist representative government for Palestinians toward peace and their own state. Iran (and possibly Russia) do not want that, just as they opposed Biden's attempts to broker agreements between Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Stirring up dissent in the US through divisive college demonstrations is one way to disrupt peace progress. Those demonstrations are not spontaneous reactions by students to the Israel-Hamas war. They are promoted and backed by Palestinian organizations that want Biden's peace efforts to fail. Some of those organizations have a layered network of connections to Hamas and similar groups.
Most of the students are motivated by genuine concern for the people in Gaza. But they have little or no information on the complexity of parties and issues in the background.