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The support for Israel was always inflated by all the money Sheldon Adelson et al pumped into pro-Israel propaganda. I explained the situation to my boomer reactionary parents and in 15 minutes they were anti-Israel and at least supported a two state solution, they just knew literally nothing about it.
It’s just that horrific right now and support for Israel was always super soft that anyone with even a fraction of a conscious can’t support Israel.
The vast majority of normies knew next to nothing about israel/Palestine prior to Oct 7th or just know it's a conflict and had been for a long time, don't know the ins and outs but tend to default towards Islamophobia. That being said, they aren't heartless, just ignorant and when a bad thing is shown to be really bad for a really long time, people will get there. Genocide is a deal breaker for a lot of people and when it's super obviously happening, people will oppose it, at least like, in opinion, they won't do anything.