Arabs are worse than jews, ergo Israel can continue apartheid in the West Bank. Yeah, never heard that argument before.
Thats like me saying "well drug violence has spiraled out of control... but at least its not Syria".
Thats an faulty analogy, imo, to be fair.
The whole Israel/Middle east conflict is a shitstorm, I don't think anyone can deny that. It's hard to defend one side on one point without something be brought up on the other that's somewhat similar even if circumstances are markedly different.
I think a better but still an only somewhat accurate analogy would be comparing the situation to the the racial tensions in the southern United States in the 50's and 60's with a hypothetical thrown in. When you look at something like the murder of Emmett Till and what a huge watershed moment it was in racial progress in the states, imagine there wasn't a Martin Luther King Jr or a spokesman to properly convey the inequality and the injustice of the situation. Instead what ended up happening was black people in the south started strapping bombs on their chests and blowing up movie theaters.
The situation would have been a drastically different historical moment for entirely different reasons. The Till murder, regardless of how unjust and unfair, would pretty much be forgotten under the shadow of the greater atrocity. Is that fair or justified? It's not an easy question to answer.
Then applying the population disparity changes the conflict considerably. If "The South" was actually the state of Washington (similar population to Israel and one side bordered by ocean), with Idaho, Montana, and the southern part of British Columbia essentially surrounding it and having 10 times the population. Making even a minority of them insurgents means they outnumbering the entire State of Washington and it creates a really goddamn difficult place to be, and an even more difficult situation to judge. All of the sudden the insurgents aren't a minority compared to the people they're attacking, and shit like a wall seems fairly understandable. Maybe an overreaction and could be re-arranged a bit but it's not like you can't take pretty drastic measures. Shit, the U.S is trying to put up a wall to stop people from
working here. Much less attacking anyone. If parts of Mexico had people shooting missiles at Texas, getting support to build a wall on their heads wouldn't be too difficult.
Like I said, no analogy is perfect and it's easy to spot flaws in any of them. But I don't think it's so easy to say "It's just like [anything]"
