re: #357 Joo-LiZ

I find a lot of people suffer from viewing this whole situation as a kind of big-brother little-brother situation. They look down on Hamas as being a primitive backwards people, and so anything they do is something that Israel, “the bigger man” should be able to put up with forever, without getting fed up and hitting back.

I have a sort of mental image of a man on a chair sipping his coffee while reading the paper, and a little boy running around the room poking him with a stick or bat or some other kind of “toy”. Eventually, the man on the chair gets fed up, puts down the coffee, gives the boy a good smacking, and then goes back to his business, only for the boy to start poking him again.

The point being that this is the image most people have of the situation…. the reality is much more like the little boy has a sharpened knife and keeps stabbing the man, looking for a way to kill him.