it is not your house to begin with.

This is exactly the point of Jake’s post: You have to look at the disproportionate violence and policy of collective punishment inflicted on Palestinians from their point of view also, because the only way I have heard friends and family justify the continued violence from the Israeli government comes down to “they are crazy and hate us irrationally.” No, not really. And even if so, at this point, if people have much hope for any sort of a better future for themselves and their children or friends’ and relatives’ children, they are far less likely to throw their lives away in attacks on an opponent with a formidable military.

And everyone: look for these same arguments being used about Iraquis and Afghanis, when it should be within our memory that these peoples participated in no attacks against us nor suicide bombings until after the U.S. occupation.

But I’ve seen what you’re seeing. Even when the news gets it right and compares the ludicrously disproportionate casualty figures, the impression I get is that they always force you to look at from the Israeli perspective. Which, as you said, is half the story.