So that when ur brother comes home and he sees ur limbs all over the place he will suffer for what he did only on a much larger scale, so not out of an eye for an eye principle.
Bringing individuals into a discussion about two peoples, good point.
Every time i watch a report concerning this issue i find that that a lot of the interviewed Israelis find themselves much better than their palestinian neighbours. Not to mention the colonists who carry guns and shoot at childeren they only recently evicted from that ground, and then he never gets trialed for it.
But i know one Israeli guy from my school, he is 18 and he went here to the Netherlands to study, he did this because he knows better than to join an army or fight for a people who do this without being ashamed of themselves.