Analogies are an effective tool of political analysis.
Sometimes this is the simplest means of confirming the correctness and validity of a given course of action. Or, conversely, of spotlighting its inadmissibility and absurdity. Here are examples of hypothetical scenarios which suggest themselves by analogy. The PLO along with the Arab League ask NATO to make a bombing strike against Israeli military targets. The grounds are the fruitlessness of the international community's years-long attempts to get Tel Aviv to fulfill UN Security Council Resolution 242 on the return of the Arab territories occupied in 1967, as well as the subsequent accords between 'Arafat and Netanyahu, with the U.S. President's mediation, on the withdrawal of the Israeli security forces from the territory of the Palestinian Authority.