Counter Example:

While Syria possessed the Golan Heights, Israel had difficulty controlling, settling, and expanding on its own land. Syrians shelled civilians and attacked across the border. For years.

After 1967 war, Israel took over the Golan Heights. Syrian civilians have not been harmed and Israel started no battles across this line. Syrians tried to invade it in 1973 but fortunately they lost.

There are people here who ignore the facts and blame Israel for fighting back. They are disappointed that Israel casualty figures are low. What kind of fare shake can be obtained from these people. Why should Israel care what they think? Most of these people have not acknowledged that Israel has a right to exist, while they claim there is some Palestinian state that does. There has never been a 'Palestinian' state.

When Allies invaded Normandy these same people would be ahgast at the unprovoked carnage, and they would blame the Americans and English for the French civilian casualties and say that both sides were to blame equally. Too bad there was no United NAtions then to make them all play fair and balance the deaths evenly on both sides.