I think the root of the Palestinian issue has to do with the direct funding of Israel by the USA. The regimes in play in Syria aren’t so cut and dry with things like funding and direct aid. That’s a remarkable difference despite geolocation.

I also think if you asked ten people about what ‘should’ happen with Palestinian or Syria you’d get ten different answers regardless of political leaning. Which is probably part of the problem as to why there’s a bottomless well of bad takes to reach for.

I became much more critical of western “leftists” after seeing all the word salad about “NATO made the russians do it” following Feb 22 and the general support for russian occupation of Ukrainian territories.

To be honest, I don’t understand their fascination with Assad. I can sort of see some logic for their support of russian genocidal imperialism (in a twisted, hypocritical way). But Assadist western leftists never made any sense at all.

P.S. This is of course not all western leftists. There are those who are consistent regarding Syria, Palestine and Ukraine.