Stop it

Seriously, stop it. Stop it now.

I refer to comments along the following lines:

Imagine if Britain during the 70s and 80s had behaved in Northern Ireland as Israel is behaving in Gaza.

These are popping up all over the internet to such an extent that they probably warrant the term 'meme'. So, yeah, imagine if Britain had behaved in Ireland as Israel does in Gaza. What would it have been like?

Oh, I don't know. Perhaps there might have been a prolonged military occupation, punctuated by periodic killings of civilians, including children, all under the auspices of fighting 'terror'.

I call bullshit, furthermore, on the white-man's burden style 'Britain as shining moral beacon' framework implicit in the question. Look at these terrible foreign sorts; they don't sort out their difficulties in the restrained and civilised manner of us Brits. On the contrary, Britain wrote the book on imperialism.

Israel is an horrific racist state. That needs to be said. It can be said in far less problematic ways than the background assumptions of this meme permit.