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| quote: | Originally posted by raymee_stylez
My one beef with Israel is, if I’m a 6ft guy buffed and muscled to shit, and my girlfriend is a 4 ft skinny midget, and one day she starts poking me with a stick, then starts poking some more til it starts to hurt… Why do I need to go grab a baseball bat and whack the fuck outta her head?? It’s not her fault she’s stupid… Just break the stick… And it’s not their first time fighting against them either.. When u fire a rocket, then hide right afterwards, not even knowing the target you’re hitting, you’re fighting like a mouse.. Whether its legit or not, that’s not the issue.. But when u get mice in your house, u don’t go storming through the place with an ak-47, you poison/trap them by knowing where they hide.. Clearly from the devastating civilian casualty figures for the Palestinians, they don’t care and they’re just pulling a terminator... |
If this is your one problem with Israel, you need to do more research - on both sides (and this is coming from an Israeli-Canadian who is CURRENTLY in Israel). That said, I'd like to change your analogy slightly to show you that it can be looked at in several other ways - and something that I experienced as I'm the youngest in the family. 
Imagine two brothers, one 15, and the other 8. One day the little brother decides to try to punch his older brother in the stomach (whether as an act of retaliation or whatever is irrelevant and, as you can see, doesn't ever end in this thread). The older brother, who doesn't necessarily feel too much pain as a result says, "Don't touch me, or you'll be hurt" - which oddly enough is a common phrase in Hebrew. The little brother, enjoying his fun, keeps punching and bothering the older brother - ignoring the comments, regardless of how often they're repeated.
One day, tired of the little brother's bothersome ways, the older brother says "Ok, that's enough. I've had it", and returns the favour by hitting his little brother once. This, obviously, is enough to make the little one gasp in pain. They "resolve" and this action repeats itself over, and over, and over. If you were the older brother (not the parent), and you were tired of the little kid, wouldn't you return the favour?
I realize that I've skewed the picture entirely at this point, but I just wanted to show how far that analogy can be bent (in all reality, it can be bent further, but I imagine I'll get enough crap for this one as is). 
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