I think the time for pressure was 20/25 years ago, when a 2 state solution was actually possible. Both sides should have faced increasing pressure to accept. Israel isn't China or India, but it's heavily entangled in the Western economy and technology as well as a major trading partner and having a natural gas field about to come online. Embarrassingly (as I'm a SA history nut) I don't actually know a whole lot about Apartheid but from the little I have read, you'd have far more polarised divestment opinions; with some actively investing instead of divesting. This is before you consider IAI and the devastating impact it'd have on western powers to lose procurement.
I think I'm just hardened to it, and at the same time constantly sad. Death is everywhere around us, and humans are unbelievably shit. This is going to be hell for a whole load of people who just want to live their lives and reach their aspirations in peace. Like many conflicts around the world. It's addictive to see and be reminded of, to be saddened by, and to reinforce your beliefs, but hell I'm glad I'm out of the maelstrom. We [those in Europe] simply do not understand how damned lucky we are to win the lottery, and have a life in the 21st century in Europe with relative freedom to think and do as we want. We see tiny fragments of this chaos and we exclaim how terrible it is, how we want to take affirmative action, but in the end we are powerless to do anything. Only the true nuts who've lost all perspective actually travel, to join Hamas or ISIS or Ukraine or Wagner, because they are truly nihilistic. For the rest of us, we can wax lyrical but do nothing but watch. My sympathy effectively does nothing for either Israelis or Palestinians. It's meaningless and almost worthless. I won't donate to either side as I disagree with both, and the only solutions I see are so radical that they'd never gain consensus. It comes down to 2 questions: 1a) should israel be destroyed? 1b) can we destroy it? if yes to both, destroy it and give the jews somewhere else to stay, humbled and defeated. If no to either, then either watch them slowly destroy the Palestinians, or give the Palestinians somewhere else to stay, humble and defeated.
I'll be honest; I considered going to Ukraine. I was in a bad place emotionally, I was angry, low on self esteem, and wanted to help the world. I'd even been in contact with operators. And I'm glad I didn't do it. Ultimately, they deserve my life no less than Israelis, Palestinians, Syrians, Iranians, or any other number of groups. And the effect I'd have would be so minimal it wouldn't matter. People fight from despair, from pain, and from desperation. It's what you see from Hamas. These little sparks of happiness when they parade the dead naked tourist. The escape from the reality their lives are fecked and that small bit of revenge. They place no value on life. Life should not be that fecked for anyone; I wish it wasn't. If I was an Arab country, I'd look to taking in as many Palestinians as possible. (Hell if I was King of England I'd take them in too.) But there is no escape. No country wants them. They are pawns. And like every other pawn in every other of the worlds hellholes, their lives have no value. Not to their leaders or to the western world.
/rant sorry