How? When the world press is against Israel and the truth seldom gets out. I understand your points, but Israel has no "out" in this situation. The world press is against Israel and therefore the truth is not something they are interested in. No matter what Israel does, it will be presented as "wrong". The world revolves around what is presented in the press; therefore Israel loses no matter what the truth is. IMHO
And I totally understand your points as well. Have you ever heard of the Bielski Brothers? They are my heroes - they believed that it was more important to save a Jew than to kill a Nazi. However, they killed a lot of Nazis while saving more than a thousand Jews — the largest number of Jews saved by Jews during WW2. If you are doomed either way, you go down fighting in my book. Obama, and Bush 2 before him, have been doing the slow strangle of Israel - so go ahead and be civilized for as long as you can. Once you are in that corner for real, then what? (and no, I am not a Jew - I am die-hard follower of Jesus).