The left wants a cease-fire in Gaza. One assumes they also want the Israelis to withdraw. Then what? Hamas will still be in charge of the wreckage. It has no interest in improving the lives of the residents; it only wants to destroy Israel. How do we get from a stinking pile of rubble and a starving populace under the control of a revolutionary organization to a lasting peace and a real Palestinian state? You can’t get from Point A to Point B.
The right just wants the Israelis to bounce the rubble in Gaza. How does that enable us to midwife an alliance between Israel and the Saudis? How does it help us rally the world against Putin and China? All it does is alienate world opinion and make us look like hypocrites when we advocate for universal human rights.