Related to the "see my parade passing" but not the same. I have been perplexed by European support for Palestinians, but I got an idea going through Dutch art museums again. For Europeans, the Middle East provides an exotic, sensual inspiration to romantic fantasies they don't want to give up. Israel is more like a high tech, Bauhaus modernism that is very familiar and boring to them. The Beduins and camels and bleak deserts support European superority in a time of waning confidence just as they did in the age of exploration. They feel paternalistic towards them.
I forget which general in the Middle East that said, "Why do the English love the Arabs? They see a dark man in a dress and go all wobbly."
I suspect it's doubly true for the Euros.
And now they risk being a victim of patricide.