These people are nuts if they think Apple is going to put out an official statement saying that Israel is illegally occupying Palestine.

In their letter they dismiss the notion that the issue is complex and can't be boiled down to the company simply saying "we support X" or "Y is in the right here", but that's exactly what it is. A consumer electronics company cannot be expected to make sense of and take sides in a centuries-long religious and geopolitical conflict.