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The situation isn’t remotely relevant to what is occurring in Gaza and Israel.

I wouldn’t say remotely. Consider that we fought WWII as an existential war, if we lost our way of life would cease to exist. I could be wrong, but I think Israel looks upon the fight with Hamas in the same way.

And maybe more relevant, we hated the Japanese more than the Germans (the atrocities of the Germans becoming more known at the end of the war). Besides the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese broadcast the beheadings of Allied prisoners of war. So I see the Israelis seeing Hamas, much as the average American viewed Japan.

I understand sympathy towards people who had nothing to do with October 7 and now find themselves paying the price for what happened. And after the war was won, we, the winners (well, maybe not so much the Soviets) showed sympathy for the civilians of both Germany and Japan.

As a thought experiment. Let’s say the Israelis are successful in destroying Hamas in Gaza. Do you imagine their letting Gazans starve to death after the war is over?
Now reverse the thought experiment. Let’s say that Hamas and the other Arab groups push ‘Israelis into the sea’. Do you see them offering food assistance to the Jewish survivors?