Unfortunate, as American support for Israel seems disproportionately focused on the areas where I think it is sort of questionable, or should reasonably be subject to review (eg, polls have >70% of Americans thinking an Israel is in our strategic interests, and 60-65% supporting further military aid, both of which I guess I agree with but neither of which strike me as obvious), while the kinds of support I think are not reasonable to argue with are more controversial (I think everybody on Earth -- including Americans, Gazans, and all peoples -- should embrace the bombardment of Gaza in the depths of their souls as necessary for the preservation of all civilization, and that it's an action which is obviously not merely justified but totally morally obligatory).
I still tend to think that Israeli military actions tend to increase support for Israel in most societies (at least Western societies) -- the evidence for this is very strong -- but this seems to be true in spite of those actions themselves being somewhat controversial; as I've detailed to Wiswylfen and Snowstalker this is more because of the content of the opposition to those actions rather than support for those actions themselves as such. (Ie, the real nature of the general pro-Israel surge in the US and Western Europe in the 21st century is not really pro-Israeli but anti-Palestinian).
Unsurprisingly, I don't worship at the altar of bloodshed so I don't really associate mass bombardment with moral obligation and the soul.
