Obi, I don't know how many times you need to be told this to actually consider it, but maybe you're wrong on how you see this issue. In a perfect world, no, when your opponent doesn't follow the rules, you are allowed to cheat too, but we don't live in a perfect world. If we did, we wouldn't have this kind of petty fighting that's been going on for a thousand years between religions. The world we live in, and the one that's not about to change no matter how much you don't like it, is one where the press is going to grab onto every little slimmer of a news story they can, and when an Israeli soldier goes berserk on a kid, they're going to have a hell of a time. The press sells the story they write to the public, the public eats it up because there's no one else that tells us what's going on, no one else writes the stories, and we take what we hear on TV to the polls, where we vote on what the press says.
Well, guess what? The press doesn't get good ratings when they pit the Goliath as the victim, and that's what Israel is - Goliath. Goliath is fighting David, and everyone loves an underdog; it's programmed into us. So, the press has their ratings at stake, they want to sell the best story possible for their own purposes, and they do. In their story, David, the Palestinian people, are being oppressed by Goliath and are forced to fight with their slingshots (literally) against the bulky steel armor (literally) of the IDF. David is the victim here. That's how the story goes. You don't have to agree, but it doesn't matter if you agree, because that's the story that's getting broadcasted and no one can change that.
If you can't change the story you're telling, you have to try to get them to stop telling it. That's pretty much the only thing you can do. The only way to get them to stop telling their story is to convince Israel to stop giving them reasons to write. That means you should support peace, because without peace, the press is going to write and write and write, Palestine is going to become an independent nation, Israel is going to go to war to keep that from being so, people are going to die, and as more and more people die, David is going to get more and more support, more and more people are going to go to the polls and vote in people that support David, Israel is going to lose international credibility, and before you know it Israel will be all on its own.
I'm not telling you this is right - it's not - but it's how it is, and in the last couple of years, reading these stories more and more and deeper every time, it's become obviously clear to me that the only option is long-lasting peace. I don't care who you think won't go for it, I don't care whether you don't want to give up certain things, I don't care if Hamas and the parties in the Knesset have to be put in cuffs and led into a conference room to meet with each other without snipers aiming through the windows, but the only option is peace, and every time you and people that think like you fight it, you're only leading to a faster end of any international support Israel gets, and if you think that's a crazy thing to say, you should probably realize that the United States is basically the only country left that's offering them international support at all.
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