A troubling analogy ("what if....?") re America and Gaza

Trying to think about the situation and how many people in Israel might feel, I wonder about a situation that would be in some ways similar were it to happen in the US. I note that this scenario is purely fantastic.

Suppose the existence of a group that represents Black Americans and hates white Americans. Suppose that one day they attack a thousand white people in some American cities. They say it is for the liberation of black people in the ghetto.

This is, of course, a version of a common far-right white fear, a race war started because black people hate them, or so they think. The analogy has been variously suggested and is noticeable in the American media.

If this happened, and you were white, how would you feel? First, of course, you would be angry. You would notice that some people say, but black people have long been oppressed, "white America" is at fault, so it's understandable, even justified. But feeling the fear of being killed while trying, living everyone else, to just your life, you would tend to look awry at such arguments. You would note that being oppressed does not justify violence, and being a victim does not justify revenge. Maybe even you yourself or people you know were once horribly oppressed, or have your own reasons to fear you could be, and you are proud of other responses besides the violence that most of the people in your family, or whom you know, never resorted to in this way. You may even think (correctly), "but I am not an oppressor, whether to not I belong to population subgroup that is relatively privileged and that on the whole benefitted from said oppression; I haven't oppressed anyone, and just want to live my life. in peace." And you would be right to think this. You are against oppression, maybe even vocally, but you don't think you should be hated or killed because it exists in a place that you live in. And you know that responsibility is not the same as guilt and blame: we are all responsible for improving the way the world is, but none of is exactly guilty for things being the way they are.

Now suppose the government sends troops to root out the "militant radicals." And they start a massacre. Now how do you feel, and what do you think? This massacre will be conducted in your name. A justification for it has been, and can be, given, and on its own terms it may seem compelling. In any case, most white people don't oppose the government's war on the terrorists, as it will, perhaps rightly, call them. The government troops indeed go after the members of the organization that carried out the terrorist violence, and certainly this is their stated aim, but in the process they conduct bombings and tank and troop assaults that kill many thousands of black people, and render many others homeless. The government will tolerate this and do little or nothing about it, though some tears will be shed. The relatives of the victims will be allowed to mourn. The struggle of the poor people for improvement of their living conditions by peaceful methods will be much set back. And most of your white friends have no sympathy for the new victims, rarely acknowledged as such in the media.

If you are a liberal, your tendency would be to want to say, what the "militants" have done is horrible. But you would also deplore the response. Further, you would recall that this violent attacks were ultimately made possible (not necessary; there were and are alternatives) because the people the "militants" claimed to represent were and are oppressed. Indeed, that is the fundamental underlying problem. You might also want to recall and reiterate, lest people forget. Basically: You don't want to live in fear of violence, but you also do not want the society you live in to remain racially segregated, with the descendants of slaves largely reduced to poverty and living in heavily policed ghetto enclaves.

No analogy is not inexact, but this one has some striking similarities to the current Gaza situation. My thoughts and feelings are similar, starting with a profound personal identification and empathy with the people in Israel who were so brutally attacked and kidnapped or murdered.