My opinion about this is the girl is little more than a child and while she may have been aggressive, she is also a Palestinian, and this means there is every possibility that she, and her family, may live, have lived and will continue to live under Israeli occupation and all the aggression that comes with that.
Over the years, there has been massive mistreatment of Palestinians, theft of their land (illegal settlements) amongst other abuses and that has led to where many Palestinians are left to see themselves today.
It could be argued that this young woman has seen, heard and experienced what happened to her country and people since she was an infant, and grown up feeling exactly as she does now, especially if she has been influenced by long suffering parents also, who are old enough to have 'seen it all' and have sadly not moved to take parental responsibility properly by teaching their children that aggression leads to more aggression.
That is not to say that the Israelis are all aggressors, they are not, and they have suffered all through history in the most horrific way including the holocaust, but religion being what it is for both sides (Islam and Judaism and any religion for that matter), it's like a missile in outer space, nothing to stop it until something collides with it.
To demand a life sentence for this girl is atrocious, and to be dragging her around in chains with sheer exaggerated over stretched power, says more about the Israelis than it does about this girl.
It's time (and has been for a very long time) for these two nations to shut down their chronic war/wars and start behaving in a way that leads to viable communication and peaceful solutions. I won't hold my breath though. The human condition is so very flawed, made worse by religions and the mal-religious zealots who insist on looking at each other, rather than in the same direction.
