‘Your Violence Just Creates More Enemies’ Argument Used Only Against One Side

“Houthis fail to appreciate is that they only spawn more Israeli soldiers with each drone launch at Israel,” not a single diplomat has observed.

Jerusalem, June 19 – An admonition not to aggressively protect its people and not to engage in preventive or retaliatory military activity against foes, since the necessary force in such actions will simply produce a new generation of foes, was leveled again today at Israel, witnesses reported, with no such admonition made in the direction of Palestinian or other foes who keep attempting to kill as many Jews as possible.

“Your bombs and missiles just create more resistance!” shouted a protester at a group of Israeli political figures. “There’s no peace because of you!” The protester has never directed such rhetoric toward Palestinian leaders or advocates for “resistance,” warning them that repeated attempts to harm Israel will only harden Israeli attitudes toward them.

“Doesn’t Israel know that with every airstrike, it might kill a militant, but it spawns five more from the surviving civilians?” admonished a letter to the editor in The Guardian yesterday. The letter-writer declined to specify whether she has ever argued for Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the Houthis, the Islamic State, Fatah, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, or their sponsors in Tehran and Doha, to make the same consideration vis-à-vis Israel.

Opinion pages and online content on the subject of Middle East sectarian violence have remained conspicuously lacking in warnings to any of the above groups that every bus bombing, stabbing attack, shooting, or other violence against Israel creates new soldiers for “The Occupation,” as those who refuse to acknowledge Israel’s legitimacy refer to it.

“Iran must realize it only generates more enmity with each attack it perpetrates or sponsors,” said no pundit ever, reserving as their harshest actual criticism locutions such as “not helpful.”

“What the Houthis fail to appreciate is that they only spawn more Israeli soldiers with each drone or missile launch at Israel,” not a single diplomat or “expert” has observed, even while calling Israel’s operations in self-defense “overkill” and “bound to generate even more future Palestinian fighters.”

“Fighting against Israel only hardens Israeli resolve and prolongs the conflict,” they have never said to the leadership of Iran, Hamas, PIJ, Hezbollah, the Houthis, or other terrorist entities, or even to journalists posing questions to Western government representatives about the conflict.

Many of the same commentators and political figures have also excused Palestinian radicalism as born of frustration with a war that prevents them from living normal lives, an excuse it would never occur to those commentators and political figures might apply to Israelis frustrated with a war that prevents them from living normal lives.

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