Willravel

I'm sure most are familiar with the fictional Marvel comic villain Magneto. At first glance, it's a very simple character; he can control magnetism and he thinks mutants are better than humans. At second glass, though, things become a bit more complex.

Magneto, born Max Eisenhardt, was born to a Jewish family in Germany in the mid 1920s. As a boy, he watches his family torn apart by the Nazis. His parents are murdered and he is sent to Auschwitz. He manages to escape to safety, but the experience defined his existence, it gave his life meaning. He discovers very early on that he isn't a normal human, he's a "mutant" or a fictional leap ahead in human evolution via radical (supernatural) mutation. He eventually comes to the conclusion that a second holocaust, a genocide of mutants, is inevitable, and he devotes his life to defending mutants. He gathers great strength by organizing other mutants to his cause. He often is on a line, philosophically, between wanting peaceful co-existence with humans or wanting to destroy them.

It just occoured to me that Israel is finding itself in a no-so-dissimilar position. They endured impossible suffering and death at the hands of the Nazis, and that of them which survived became very strong and took the position of absolutely, positively never allowing such an atrocity to visit them again. Israel seems to walk a line between wanting to peacefully co-exist with Palestine and the rest of the Arab world, and wanting to destroy them.

Am I reading too much into this, or could it be that Magneto is an incarnation of Israel in the comic medium?