Originally Posted by
May90
Actually, US/UK was worse, in a sense. The colony rebelled violently against the commonwealth and obtained its lands through a very bloody war. Whilst Israel was established without any violence originally, and it is later that the nearby Arabic governments decided to go on a crusade against the new peaceful state. Throughout decades, Israel has been attacked multiple times both by means of full scale wars, and terrorist attacks such as all those thousands rockets launched at its territory. It is a miracle that after all this history Israel doesn't just say, "Screw it, we've had enough", and goes on a rampage. In my eyes, Israeli government is much more peaceful than it could have become with a bit less reasonable system.