Unnamed Israeli official says Hamas planned to use tunnels to massacre Israelis on Rosh Hashanah

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[QUOTE=SGTSpartans;45557883]When the Ravens won the superbowl, I said "We won the superbowl!"[/QUOTE]

your analogy is bad and proves my point

it's to do with deliberate association. it's pride. if the ravens were out killing civilians and bombing schools and hospitals, i'd like to think that most normal people would cease to use the word "we" to describe their team's actions as associated with themselves

there is a proudness in "we". it's attaching yourself to events that you made no contribution to but are associating with through pride and ownership... which your superbowl analogy is a perfect example of. even in losing though there is still pride, hence why you would still say "we" if the raven's lost. "we lost" - you are still proudly associated with it because you are with the team through thick and thin

it's why people from Allied countries say things like "when [I]we[/I] won ww2" and other such placements of ownership on events they weren't even alive during. it's nationalism through and through. it's being proud of things purely because it is in your nation's history. while saying "we won ww2" is obviously a lot less strange than saying "we captured 150 hamas fighters" (because ww2 was a victory over one of the most terrible regimes in history), it's still nationalism. attributing yourself to being a part of "capturing 150 hamas fighters" (and therefore associating yourself with a conflict filled with terribly unnecessary civilian death and suffering) is weird as fuck