the desire or intent or need by 'certain' groups to see or view or characterize Israel in a certain way exists a priori - therefore how can Israel possibly appease that need without capitulating to a degree that will look very much like surrender to forces inimical to it? And even if, hypothetically, Israel were to embrace that 'capitulation', why is it liberals assume that conditions in the Mideast would consequently improve? Isn't it just as likely that extremist elements would be emboldened thereby engendering a worse environment for American interests? In this sense we see that Israel is merely a proxy upon which left wing ideologues and other sundry radicals of a much more serious bent practice their enmity against and disdain for American power, capitalism, free markets, democracy, Western culture and the idea of the nation state.
Of much more concern here for 'friends of Israel' is the spectacle of the IDF botching another military effort - realists in the audience should be increasingly alarmed that the once vaunted Israeli military establishment can't seem to do anything right anymore.
