At Pearl Harbor Japan sank some battleships and killed a couple thousand Americans. According to Israel’s critics, we should have stopped our attacks when we had inflicted similar losses on Japan.
What’s the old saying? “The only ‘fair-fight’ is the one you lose”?
What the Media is hinting at is that the Israelis should cooperate in tit-for-tat small-scale violence. ‘Course even then the Israelis will be criticized anytime a civilian gets scratched by shrapnel, whereas the other side can actually target civilians with impunity.