...American's believe the punishment should fit the crime. You don't.
You really are a simple creature, Bilbo.
This is not an American issue - it is an Israeli-Palestinian issue - what you and I think about this is virtually meaningless.
What you say does not change in the slightest, the truth or accuracy of what I served up immediately prior to your response.
Oh, and when you can come back and tell us that you hold an Honorable Discharge from the US military, like I do, then I will take your implications of un-American-ism just a
wee bit more seriously.
I wasn't even a combat vet, as are some of my brethren and sisters here, but I volunteered during wartime, and was simply sent elsewhere - but at least I showed up to the party during a time of danger and served my country and took and fulfilled an an oath to defend our Constitution, which I still consider operative, years after leaving active service.
I am acknowledged in my community as a veteran and as a loyal American citizen - with some considerable justification.
As it is, your implication that - if I do not think the same way you do on this issue, that I am un-American - is damned hilarious, boy.
Damned funny stuff there, junior.
Besides, you do not know whether or not I believe the punishment should fit the crime, in this or any other situation.
I did not pass a value-judgment upon the scenario.
I merely interpreted the scenario, in the context of common sense - a quality grotesquely and comically lacking on the part of the under-performing Palestinians.
But you continue in your naive, gullible, childish belief that 'fair' is somehow relevant, in this context.
One of these days, the light-bulb will go on, over your head, and you'll get it.
It's just that you aren't 'there' yet.
But I have faith in you, that, one day, you'll attain that lofty plateau of Realism - even if it takes a while.