Defense as escalation

Everyone, Washington, the EU, and so on, are all begging it on not to retaliate or to at least retaliate in a limited way. That's what they're asking. Obviously, this is absurd. Like, on a on a on a moral level, obviously, this is completely absurd. Since Israel is the one that's constantly escalating, Israel is the one that's that's constantly pursuing escalation, that's constantly provoking.

That's Israel. But, you know, to the West, fighting back is escalation. If you fight back, it's escalation. If a person is being aggressively attacked, the the attacker is not escalating the situation. The situation only escalates when the victim starts defending himself.

That's according to Western thinking, American thinking specifically.