Some joyous tidings from Israel

[Watchman]

now why dont we look at some palestinian atrocities and "special forces" like the Fedayeen.

...who were basically irregular militant gunmen, or "Tupac Armies" as I like to call all such after a sarcastic Swedish comic strip. Such are more or less the same everywhere, ie. more or less unpleasant and vicious.
Whereas the Unit 101 lot were regular troops of the state military.
See the difference ? Armies are expected to adhere to fun little things and laws that are designed to take the worst savagery and barbarism out of state-organised violence, and prone to considerable censure and bad-mouthing if they don't.

Also says something about Israeli policies I daresay.

Personally, any real "who started it" discussion probably has to go back to Joshua and the destruction of Jericho.

More like the turn Zionism took around the end of the 19th century, I'd say. That was when Jews so inclined first began moving from Europe into what is now Israel, a developement initially taken well enough by both the local inhabitants and authorities...

Things started getting pretty sour when the whole "i can haz teh Promised Land" thing got popular among the immigrants, as that for obvious reasons didn't sit very well with the other inhabitants of said region. (Particularly since they sort of weren't welcome in the scheme.) All the more so after the Arabs weighed in something pretty serious during WW1 to kick the Ottomans out, and then had the Brits renege on their promises of autonomy and w/e afterwards...
Add some escalating militancy and outright fanaticism on both sides, and it's hardly a wonder things began getting ugly in short order.