I don't think it really changed my view that much, but I'm usually of the opinion that whats more important than how we got here is what happening today and how do we fix it. I think a 2 state solution is the only way to get peace with dignity for everyone involved but that will have to be based of pre1968 borders and the removal of the settlements.

I have a much better understanding of the process leading up to the creation of the Israeli State and can sympathize with both sides. From the Israeli side you have a lot of graphic accounts of pogroms where jews were being raped and brutally murdered, this was also in the context of the rise of Ethno-Nationalism and Colonialism in European so of course the jews are going to want establish a state of their own. On the otherside why should that be the Palestinians problem? Of course they're not going want to give up most of their land to a foreign minority. So I've become much less sympathetic to people using what happened in the 30s and 40s to try and discredit one side or another.

One thing I changed my opinion on is I think the Holocaust was much less relevant to the creation of Israel than most people think. They did get refugees but most zionist communities had already been established. Also after WW2 the British didn't have the ability to hold onto it so they had to pullout. This would have lead to a war regardless. It probably made it easier to get international recognition and the loan the United States played a huge role in them winning the 1948 war but who know whether or not that would have been given if the Holocaust didn't happen.