The Israelis want everyone to simply forget what they have done. They want everyone to forget the invasions, the bombings, the massacres, the assassinations, the occupations, the apartheid-like policies, the millions of Palestinian refugees. They want everyone to forget their arrogant defiance of international law and the U.N. for decades. They want everyone to forget their still-growing arsenal of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and their loud threats to devastate any and all who oppose their designs.
The Israelis now want everyone to forget the many tens of thousands of deaths they are responsible for in Lebanon, not to mention the billions of dollars of property destruction and the terrible suffering they have inflicted on so many.
And while the Israelis always demand that what has happened to them be constantly remembered, that they be substantially compensated, that major reparations be paid to them, when the tables are turned the Israelis are hypocritical in the extreme.