Because you used their legality as a qualifier, and because I delight in helping readers see the an anti Israel obsession with which you are so burdened.
You think they are comparable?
Yes, they both broke the law. Serious law. Not merely comparing jaywalking with armed robbery. Exchanging cocaine for guns is a serious effing crime. What's the matter, you can't obey the law?
Ok.I get you. Ronald Reagan policy to defeat communists in Central America was just as bad as Col. Yair Klein's activities in Sierra Leone, Leonid Minin's in Liberia,Arkadi Gaydamak's in Angola, Semyon Yukovich Mogilevich's oil/money laundering deals with Saddam Hussein and the Beit Alfa Trailer Company's sale of military equipment to Mugabe.
But even if I agree with that, which I don't, your argument still loses on "fallacy of tu quoque" grounds. Even given that what Reagan did was illegal, immoral or whatever, that does not excuse what Israel and Israelis have done.