Sigh, I'll elaborate on what I just said. I know that if I don't, I'll be instantly labeled as some kind of nazi jew-hating anti-semite, simply because I don't approved of every single action that Israel has ever made, ever.
Israel and the Jews have suffered hugely through history. They've been persecuted, and been dominated and oppressed by a series of foreign empires and peoples through much of their history. (Though, I should point own, their own holy book, and mine, says that it was God himself who directed this to happen, because they were unfaithful in their worship to him.)
However, that doesn't excuse them from civil behavior. Many Arab and Palestinian extremist groups might be their enemies, yes. But that doesn't imply that they have license to act with impunity against all Arabs or Palestinians, nor excuse the Airstrikes & Tanks employed in retaliatory strikes against the home neighborhoods of suspected suicide bombers. (Which, by the way, was done *before* the current advent of the PGM, a technology which might, just barely, make something justifiable. Israel didn't have PGMs for the longest time, and they did it anyway.)
What I'm basically saying is that two wrongs don't make a right. Just because Israel has been treated badly doesn't excuse them turning around and treating others (who might not even be related or responsible at all for the first incidents) badly. Not any more than the United States was justified in rounding up Japanese-American civilians and putting them in camps during World War 2 just because Japan had attacked us..
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Israel and the Jews have suffered hugely through history. They've been persecuted, and been dominated and oppressed by a series of foreign empires and peoples through much of their history. (Though, I should point own, their own holy book, and mine, says that it was God himself who directed this to happen, because they were unfaithful in their worship to him.)
However, that doesn't excuse them from civil behavior. Many Arab and Palestinian extremist groups might be their enemies, yes. But that doesn't imply that they have license to act with impunity against all Arabs or Palestinians, nor excuse the Airstrikes & Tanks employed in retaliatory strikes against the home neighborhoods of suspected suicide bombers. (Which, by the way, was done *before* the current advent of the PGM, a technology which might, just barely, make something justifiable. Israel didn't have PGMs for the longest time, and they did it anyway.)
What I'm basically saying is that two wrongs don't make a right. Just because Israel has been treated badly doesn't excuse them turning around and treating others (who might not even be related or responsible at all for the first incidents) badly. Not any more than the United States was justified in rounding up Japanese-American civilians and putting them in camps during World War 2 just because Japan had attacked us..