Lox, it really has nothing to do with revenge for "European Antisemitism". Look at a picture of any group of Israelis, and you will see very few European faces. Modern Israelis are an amalgam of people descended from Eastern and Western European, African and Semitic roots, and what happened to some of their ancestors in the 1930s and 1040s is important to them but not all-pervasive. What they want is the freedom to live in peace today, but it seems to most of them that a "measured response" accomplishes nothing. What is happening now, unfortunately, will also, in the final analysis, accomplish nothing.