I'm admittedly out of the loop, but hasn't Russia's stance on Israel been antagonistic for a long time? It wouldn't surprise me that they're pro Hamas.
Anyway, I feel you on the prospects of the Ukrainian war. I try not to form strong feelings on the direction of the war since I have such limited information, but it's obvious that it's deteriorated into a grind and naively I'd expect Russia to have a lot of advantages when it comes to a long and grinding war.
That said, I'm still astonished that they're managing to keep their war effort going with the horrendous losses they keep taking. I know that they can keep feeding people into the war essentially forever and can keep a trickle of cobbled-together equipment flowing into it, on top of buying equipment from their scant allies like North Korea and Iran, but it's still astonishing that they're managing to keep up as much as they are. Will their effort suddenly collapse when the 40 artillery systems destroyed every day finally catch up to what they can replace? Or the loss of tanks and APCs? I don't know, but I'd have expected it to collapse a long time ago at this rate.
And while it appears that Ukraine is losing proportionally fewer people and equipment, I have to acknowledge that we don't know the true numbers on either side and there's a strong incentive to keep bad news hidden from public eye.
I used to hold out hope that Putin dying would bring an end to the war with Russia withdrawing, but I now doubt that would happen even if he did die in the near future. For one thing he may live another 15 years, and for another I keep reading that the people likely to replace him are just as bad.