Jim often makes references to the political Right wing and the Left wing when discussing on Israel/Palestine. I can't see what the support for the Palestinian Cause has to do with the Left. As I've said before, I support the Two-State solution. That is, I think it is fair and necessary that the Palestinians build their own state (when they decide this is the priority, and not destroying Israel) and that Israel withdraws from some of the land it occupies now, as a state and through colonies, and that both, Israel and the new state of Palestine, subscribe a Peace Treaty, with mutual recognition. I support a political and statual future for the Palestinians, and hope they remove the main obstacles in order to achieve this result, the external obstacles and the internal (Hamas etc). That said, I can't see what a society and its political expressions, especially in Gaza, that deny freedom of speech and press, human and civil rights, equality between men and women, separation between religion and politics has to do with the Left.