One thing that surprises me is the wide range of opinions and how incredibly stupid every one of them is.
I was expecting a mixture of "both sides" and outright fascism, and both those things are there, but there's so much more to discover.
Here's one of my favorites:
I think it's because the Left still takes it cues from the glory days of the sixties. "Fight the power! Down with the military industrial complex! Up the people!" So they see powerful Israelis in uniforms (eek!) and tanks and all against the poor little guy in shirt sleeves and jeans and their knee jerk reaction is to side with the downtrodden.
I love the complete lack of any explanation as to why this isn't obviously correct
Oh wait yeah, I forgot how all the mentions of Christians and Jews as people of the book were actually hateful and not an explicit mention of the combined roots of their faith. Or how when the Prophet rises into heaven he literally meets Jesus Christ, the second most venerated figure in Islam who is literally the closest person to God in the levels of heaven, that was really the equivalent of when Dante describes the Prophet as being severed mouth to asshole in the lowest level of hell. And who could forget the biggest insult of all, Surah 16:36 "We did raise a messenger among every people, with the message: “Worship Allah and stay away from the Rebel (the Satan).” Then, there were some among them whom Allah guided, and there were others against whom deviation (from the right path) was established. So, travel on earth and see how was the fate of those who rejected (the prophets)." Yeah, God sent a rightly guided prophet to every community, but every prophet he sent except Muhammad was actually evil. Totally not projection of 1400 years of European Christian racial and religious hatred of Muslims.
Edit: it also pisses me the fuck off when people say "hatred between Jews and Muslims has existed for 2000/5000/10000 years because Islam hasn't even fucking existed for 2000 years! And the Rashidun caliphs who first conquered the levant explicitly protected churches, synagogues, and other houses of monotheistic worship!