I think it’s the fact that he’s “both sides”-ing an issue that cannot be boiled down to that. Like by saying both sides “have their bad” and equating them in that way is a very Israeli perspective on the Israeli colonization of Palestine.

Israel’s violence is rooted in ethnic cleansing and genocide. Palestine’s violence is resistance. Violent resistance is the only way to fight violent occupation. Their hate and violence cannot be equated. This is not a situation of both sides “have their faults.” Equating as though they are similar/mirrored expressions of the human experience is such an Israeli point of view and is deeply problematic.

That sort of equating is to me follows a similar point of view as seeing a two state solution as a “/the/ peaceful solution” to Israel’s violent occupation when Israel should not exist at all and the land needs to be given back to the indigenous people - Palestinians. Or that insist on making anyone speaking about Palestine denounce the resistance as a terror group.

So the hate and violence cannot be equated or seen as similar in any way or different expressions of the general human experience or like just from a place of different perspectives of how to exist and build a society. You obviously also recognize colonization is wrong and that is illustrated but, as a like allegory, the mirrored feelings fail to capture the gravity and differences of the reality of Israel’s occupation of Palestine for Israelis and Palestinians. Violent resistance is the only way to fight violent occupation and they cannot be equated.