Crunch
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And yet the potential danger and risk to the state of Israel seems likely far less if they attempted to do it during the day, but within their unquestionably legal zone rather than doing it outside but at night.
I'm sorry, but what you're suggesting is its okay for a Cop to go forward and beat down and arrest a person that says "I think I'm going to trespass on that property over there" while he's 100 feet away from said property because he's bent over tieing his shoe and thus its more likely the officer is going to be successful in stopping him while he's distracted.
The legality of what Israel did is questionable at best to anyone looking at this without bias in their mind, while its legality would be unquestionable by any save for the most zealotous Israeli detractors if it happened within their legal border. What you're suggesting is that its fine to potentially break the law in stopping someone who MIGHT (lets even say probably will) break the law but has not done it yet simply because its advantageous to you to do so.
I'd say a better analogy would be the cops have it on very good information that a gang is going to break into a home with children inside. The gang might be heavily armed.
Now do the cops take the gang down before they break in, or after they break in?