A Chairdre,

I amn't as yet sure how such things can occur whilst the world looks on

As for the change of roles from the defenseless to the persecutor, there is an answer and many an academic has theses written to outline this horror story.
I often when thinking of the Zionists refer to a part of ...

Matthew 18:21-35... The Unforgiving Servant

... at least the part where the servant asks for forgiveness and then, however, goes and bullies his debtor...

A Dominican friar I had as a teacher had spent many years in the Ecole Biblique de Jerusalem; a scholarly house where people gather from all walks of life to research the history and evolution of man and his ways in the Middle East.
'They (the Zionists) live in a perpetual and orchestrated state of paranoia', he told me
Thus, it becomes acceptable to crush a whole population in front of a watching and for the most part wavering world.

So becoming a 'Death dealing Goliath' is a natural progression for a fanatically based sect who holds monetary power throughout the world.

Hopefully as in the parable the Zionists will be tried for enduring crimes against humanity and justice will finally be had...

Love, courage and hope to all

Finn

Go raibh maith agat a Fhinn mo dhearthair.

And once again we will be told we are anti semites because we have the temerity to criticise Israel.
What those who argue this lie don't realise is that their continued support for what is effectively an apartheid state (with its walls, two tiered citizenship and mass anti Arab paranoia) helps to ensure that the state of Israel as presently constituted can never be at peace.

Finn, your father Brian (Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam - may his soul reside at the right hand of God), will be turning in his grave at these events