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.

Read Allison’s para 5:
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