Israel routinely acts like dicks
This is such a huge understatement, and it frustrates me how many people act with complete revulsion when you indicate that since its formation, Israel has launched "pre-emptive" attacks on most of their neighbors. It's all more than a little unfortunate.
Sadly, one could probably argue (and plenty of people probably do) that their neighbors are worse. Seems like there's no middle ground here: either people pay too much attention to Israel's bad stuff or too little. (If I recall correctly, there was supposedly at one point a rule in the UN saying that Israel had to be brought up every session. I am not making this up (though of course I may be mistaken).) Honestly, I don't know a ton about Israel's badness aside from preemptively attacking every time and the settlements in Palestine, the latter of which i can safely say are pretty damn stupid. And anti-Islamic sentiment...and stupid things done by ultra-orthodox communities...
Therefore:
Although to be faire "acts like dicks" is much shorter than listing all the human right abuse, mass massacre and stuff they did aver the last few decades.
Enlighten me! Too lazy to read through the whole site 
I'll try to end this derail by posting all I really have to say about the subject. If you want to continue discussion, make another thread, but this is my end of things:
In 1967 or sometime abouts Israel decided to bomb all of Egypts airfields, etc, then rolled in with (American Made) tanks and stuff 'just in case' Egypt was planning an attack. In 1981, Israel launched an airstrike on Iraq, destroying a nuclear reactor they were building, 'just in case'. These are known as The Six Day War and Operation Opera, respectively, and they're two of the major ones. Israel attacks their neighbors, funded by America and armed with American weapons, and makes itself out to be the victim. Again, if you were living in an apartment complex and you saw one of your neighbors, Israel, break into the homes of your neighbor Egypt and Iraq, attack them, and steal their possessions, would you not begin to feel a little terrified? Would you not want to sleep with a weapon by your door? Especially when the landlord, America, someone who claims to want peace and quiet within the complex, gives Israel guns and free rent? It's a stupid analogy, really, but it pretty much describes what is going on, I think.
Again, the site I linked
earlier shows the current 'score' with regards to Israel occupying the territories of those around it, bulldozing entire communities, etc. Israel's actions are unjustifiable.
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