It is "repugnant" only to one is emotionally wedded to the idea that Israel is always "good" and anyone who is against Israeli policy is always "bad". Those are entirely subjective notions.

Every partisan fighter and supporter of such believes his side is "good". The fact is, there are good people on both sides in every conflict, and there are well-intentioned people who fail to recognize the wrongdoings of their own side in any conflict...and such has been the case since time immemorial.

The Romans would have considered it "repugnant" to be compared to the Carthaginians, and vice versa. So what?


Israelis will simply not be able to see their own actions in the same light as those of others until they put aside their holier-than-thou ultimate victims of all time illusions of collective martyrdom, and wake up to the reality that they are no better than any other people in this world. The excuse of one's own past suffering cannot be used forever and ever to inflict suffering on a great many other people. That is what the Nazis did. You see what happened to them in the end. They had a holier-than-thou attitude as well, and that is one reason why I find them a very apt comparison. They were also looking for land to occupy and settle on with their own people, while displacing others. They also relied on an elite war machine, superior to all others in most respects (until about 1944), and sudden crushing attacks using a combination of air power and armour. They also considered themselves to be morally and culturally far superior to those they fought. If you can't see the similarities, it is simply because it would force you to confront that which you cannot bear to.



Guest - You are entirely correct in what you said about North Vietnam assisting the Viet Cong, with further technical and arms assistance from Russia (and China), and so on. I could have mentioned it if I'd gone on at more length, but I didn't bother to. I consider Vietnam to always have been, in reality, one country, and I consider the Vietnamese wars to have been wars against foreign occupation...first by the French, then by the Japanese, again by the French, and finally by the USA and its surrogates. The Vietnamese won. The foreign occupiers lost. But it took a very long time to achieve that.