I hope so Sally. The narrative of the "Free Palestine" crowd is so blind and tone deaf and riddled with flaws for reasons you excellently describe here. Not enough people are defending Israel's right to exist, I think some people are sadly too concerned with optics (that are so muddled and historically inaccurate it's laughable), with not being on the perceived correct side. Not enough people acknowledge Israel's suffering. I am a monkey in the middle, I will never vote Republican and I dislike the ugliness on both sides. The left is on deep trouble though, I really think we are being led over an edge we will look back on and realize is just as bad as the Trump Maga mania in some ways. Blind self-righteousness on either side is never a good place for progress.