Willravel

I think it's more about how they feel. Magneto feels that he and his kind are in serious mortal danger from the oppressive forces of the majority of humans, mostly because he was a victim of humans at their absolute worst. The experience taught him that you can't have an optimistic view of humans, that the fear in humans can make them do horrible things to people they don't understand.

And you may not be giving Israel enough credit. They have one of the most powerful militaries in the world, they have technology on par with the US (as they buy from us), and they have nuclear weapons. They're easily more powerful than the rest of the region combined. That doesn't make them invulnerable, of course, but they're not to be trifled with in any serious way. Israel may be outnumbered by it's Arab and Persian neighbors, but those neighbors aren't anywhere near as powerful as Israel... just like the relationship between humans and Magneto.

It's funny, I thought I'd be defending the suggestion that Israel was comparable to a villain, not defending the ascertain that Magneto was a villain.


It should also be said that, by my recollection, Magneto isn't always in world-domination or kill-all-humans mode. Sometimes, he's simply trying to selflessly help mutants. On more than a half dozen occasions, he's created a place that could be a new, free mutant home that's far away from people. One could compare that to the creation of a free Jewish homeland for those victimized by the holocaust and in danger from residual anti-semitism.