Originally posted by SE4X4:
To illustrate,
Lets say you and a very good friend of yours are at a bar, I am there too. Your friend comes up to me punches me and gives me a black eye.
I pull out a revolver and shoot at your friend, meanwhile hitting you with a stray bullet in the head and killing you.
Poor illustration.
Israel did not suffer a "black eye".
It had a couple of its citizens abducted from within its own borders.