Well if you wish to go there, there's something to be said for how someone raised in violence can take away from their lived experience that "violence is how you raise people", for instance how a big chunk of the baby boomer "sometimes children need to be smacked" generation did.

Sadly often, abusers turn out to have learned how to abuse people from being abused themselves; hurt people hurt people.

If someone stabbed you, though, I don't think you'd feel mollified to learn that they themselves were victims of a stabbing themselves. The fact that they went through a trauma in the past does not give them free license to inflict that same trauma upon others.

But in light of the fact that Israel does not represent all Semitic peoples, the state of Israel has even less excuse to exhibit--practically EMBODY--the pure hypocrisy.