Oh no, watch out, you might turn into Norman Finkelstein!

In all seriousness though, I don't think that critical self-reflection is something that comes natural to most people. Kudos to you, I think it's something people should never do. If people can recall, I used to be pretty staunchly pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli (nearly to the point of anti-Semitism) myself, but things change, y'know. People change.

To be fair, I can imagine their paranoia; even though there are few Jews right now who actually lived during the Holocaust, I'm sure that they must have heard stories from their (grand)parents. If I were a Jewish Israeli and I heard some of the stories about anti-Semitic incidents in Europe and the United States right now, I'd be scared as well, even though the situation isn't nearly that bad. I think that's also partially the fault of Israel's excellent media apparatus, which has a tendency to focus on things that concern Jews.

That, and the fact that Israel is surrounded by an amount of countries that have multiple times threatened and attacked Israel, with the Iranian president going as far as to denying the Holocaust. I'm sure I don't have to tell you all this, but being isolated in the world you live in, with terror attacks being committed on your homeland, I'm not surprised that the people you mentioned are as hawkish and paranoia as you make them out to be.

I think the first step to finding a lasting solution is to have everybody stop pretending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is some sort of cosmic war of Jews versus Muslims. I'm not sure what the more hardcore Jews think about it all, but the idea that the Jews and Muslims are supposed to fight eachother to the end of times exists within the minds of some Muslims currently (even though historically it makes no sense whatsoever).

So I have two questions for you:

1) In the political compass thread you said something about the "Islamic" idea of honour and Jihad. What do you mean by that?
2) With the recent riots that culminated in the vandalisation of mosques, do you think that Palestinian (armed) resistance is understandable?