No Wolfgang, I am not "blinding myself to reality." I don't agree with your mainstream views of what is reality to begin with.

I don't believe that state sponsored soldiers murdering civilians because the "terrorists" are indistinguishable from civilians, is any more morally defensible than suicide bombers murdering civilians.

I see the soldiers of the most powerful military forces in the world engaging in the kinds of murderous campaigns the IDF is engaging in, and the murderous campaigns of the US government in Iraq in the Gulf War and after, and in Afghanistan, as murderers, not heroes.

That is my view of reality. It is clearly different from yours and the Western mainstream. But it doesn't mean my view of reality is wrong, and the majoritarian view of reality is right. Some of us operate with a different moral code than the Western mainstream does.

I am not a pacifist. But I am also not a person who believes that might makes right. The most powerful military forces in the world attacking the weakest is morally indefensible, according to my morals and values.