Not backing up anyone in the middle east but try looking at things from their prospective. Imagine American Indians coming to your house and telling you that you have to leave and the land your on was once theirs, hundred of years ago and that it was promised to them by their Gods. How would you feel. Now Imagine Canada backing the Indians and helping them out. That's whats happened in the middle east in the 60's. People there are pissed off they were thrown out of where they used to live. The history explains the negative perception of Jews.
The sad part is that there does exist a double standard on both sides. Just ask the British Historian who got 3 years in prison for downplaying the Holocaust. I'm not advocating everything he says but getting jail time for downplaying the Holocaust is extreme.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe....ap/index.html