Like they agree with me in terms of being "team Palestine", and understands my analogies of the initial Hamas attack being like if slaves in the 1800s had tried to stage an uprising etc but still "you can't tell me terrorism is good because it's never good", even when I explain to them how non-violent protest actually working (like when schools taught us about MLK JR/civil rights etc) is propaganda...fun times.
Given that nobody in the Middle East saw it as an 'Arab Spring' or decoupling from U.S. interests and that political repression is generally worse there since the so-called Arab Spring, I think you need to revaluate some things.