@Parkingt111 I can give you my view if it helps?
One aspect is media exposure; what we see and hear is different than you will see and hear, and the people we believe and trust are different, so what one side takes to be truth will be different to what the other side see as truth. The ‘real truth’ probably lies somewhere in between. People are not going to condemn what they see as propaganda or fabrications on either side.
additionally, I don’t think people really appreciate how deep the trauma from October 7th goes, or that October 7th was not a one and done event. We’re still living under threat and have done for a long long time. Hamas have openly said October 7th is a dress rehearsal. we are still being attacked with rockets daily in some areas (less frequently in others, there was yet another terror attack today (shooting at a family, baby and dad unharmed, mum lightly injured), and there are still thousands and thousands of refugees displaced all over the country.
Hezbollah keep firing on the northern border (and people have been killed), even though I think there is diplomatic pressure on them to deescalate, there is a real fear it will explode into a second front of the war, the houthis are very busy attacking ships and down South, and we’re still grieving our dead, dealing with the horrific aftermath of the injuries, and picking up the pieces, and there is a huge amount of national trauma.
You can’t underestimate the shock and trauma from October 7th, and the effect it has had here. The country is still reeling, the hostages are not all back, and we face very real existential threats. It’s a horrific horrific situation, and I wish to Gd we were not at war, but there is a strong belief that if there is a ceasefire, Hamas will take that as a win, and start building up to repeat October 7th. They’ve said they will, and we believe them. I don’t believe either Palestine or Israel will be free until Hamas are removed.
There is also a lot of historical trauma. I am from the UK but one branch of my family actually originates from Tzfat, living there for many generations pre 1949. My great grandmother described to me the massacre in 1929, her house set on fire, they were hiding inside, smoked out of the house, she ran into her neighbours and saw them dead, they had been stabbed to death, escaped and while sheltering in the British police headquarters a policeman shot and killed one of the survivors. It’s like my grandparents stories are repeated over and over again, in every generation. The decades since the holocaust are the longest we have had in centuries without big progroms.
to add, re Netanyahu, the instability of a change in government would be disastrous. It’s a coalition government, there were months of protests this year against the government, and so many elections in the last few years as no one got a proper majority, and to go through that again would be so destabilising. So I get why people are not calling for Netanyahu to go when things are unstable enough (although actually, some inside Israel are, I’ve had ads on my phone).
someone who I feel really gets it is elicalebon on instagram. She is an Iranian activist who hears and shares both Palestinian and Israeli voices, and has a deep lived understanding of the Middle East and has some really nuanced views.