When did being pro-Israel shift from being a left-wing to right-wing position?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

It's not automatically either. But as far as the unthinking and modish (of both right and left) are concerned, I suspect that you're looking at the 1977 election (which marked the end of Israel's time of being primarily a socialist state) and the invasion of Lebanon a few years later. Maybe the Yom Kippur war had some kind of impact as well, I don't know.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

When was supporting Israel ever a Left-Wing Position?

Are you for real?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

When was supporting Israel ever a Left-Wing Position?

Are you for real?

Okay, speaking as someone not well versed in European Foreign policy, enlighten me.  It just doesn't seem like the Left has ever really had a legitimate reason to support Israel.

Israel was viewed for decades as a progressive state fighting its own corner in a part of the world dominated by nasty dictatorships and as much of an example of democratic socialism in action as Sweden. To use an example from Britain, even most of the people on the Left who were opposed to the Suez invasion were broadly sympathetic towards Israel's actions during the crisis. Going back a little further, one of the main complaints the Labour Left had against Ernest Bevin was that he was hostile to Zionism.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

So its more that Israel was a left-wing state surrounded by unfriendly autocracies, than a Leftist belief that Israel was morally right in its dispute with the Palestinians?

Hardly anyone at the time looked at things from that point of view; it was usually seen as a conflict between Israel and 'the Arabs' (meaning mostly neighbouring Arab states) rather than a conflict between Israel and the Palestinians (and this would be because mostly that's what it was until the aftermath of '67).

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Not to forget the struggle between Palestinians and other Arabs? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_I_of_Jordan

No, but then those tensions have never had much attention in the West, have they?