Gaza and Analogy

From today's NYTimes:

The writer A.B. Yehoshua, who opposes Israel’s occupation and promotes a Palestinian state, has been trying to explain the war to foreigners.
“ ‘Imagine,’ I tell a French reporter, ‘that every two days a missile falls in the Champs-Élysées and only the glass windows of the shops break and five people suffer from shock,’ ” Mr. Yehoshua told a reporter from Yediot Aharonot, a Tel Aviv newspaper. “ ‘What would you say? Wouldn’t you be angry? Wouldn’t you send missiles at Belgium if it were responsible for missiles on your grand boulevard?’ ”

Let's try another analogy. Suppose that a large tribe of Native Americans are defeated in battle by the white man and forced onto a tiny reservation. The whites refuse to allow any Native Americans to leave the reservation, and they control all imports, allowing just a trickle of food and other necessities--this to punish the inhabitants for electing as political leaders members of a militant, anti-white group. By way of demonstrating their objection to their permanent incarceration (for that is what it is, essentially), some of the young male Native Americans occasionally shoot flaming arrows across the border -- a few of which actually hit white settlements and do some damage. In retaliation for these arrows, the whites bomb the hell out of the reservation for days, killing hundreds of men, women, and children, and then invade, continuing to kill and destroy as they go. When the world responds with outrage to this genocidal act, the whites reply, "Well, did you expect us to put up with these flaming arrows forever? This is self-defense!"