Is there a Left/Right schism on Israel?

[jharry]

(08-27-2012 12:29 PM)nomoon Wrote:  I'd like to see if others agree with the premise of my other thread on the Left-Right schism on Israel? The other thread asked "why."

Do you agree that the Left/Liberals tends to side with the Palestinians, while the Right/Conservatives tend to side with Israel?

From a general impression, the left does seem to side with the Palestinians more. Left thinking persons tend to be more people oriented, and the reported deaths and injuries and displacements of so many persons upsets them as it does me.

However, from a different point of view, the war between Israelis and Palestinians is existential and, as it was in the US, it will be resolved, for the most part, by armed conflict. It's sad, but as Lawrence of Arabia noted in his book "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom", one tribe has been pushing another tribe into the deserts for millennia.