But what could they do? Let themselves be walked over? Sometimes I think nobody is going to wake up until Holocaust MkII has happened, and then they will wring their hands for another sixty years and ask themselves how it could have happened. And the Jews in the diaspora will say "You sat here and demonised Israel over and over and over again whenever it took steps to defend itself and said nothing against the people attacking it, and now you ask yourself this?"

(Icon not directed at you, but I can't think of a better one. Regardless of who it applies to.)