The occupied side are a bunch of child molesting nutjobs who indoctrinate their children into hate & suicide bombings and are really monsters on the inside anyway, and the occupying side are a bunch of soldiers, mothers, and pretty children who's worst crimes are on the level of forgivable tantrums thrown by little girls.
That doesn't seem like a balanced, or accurate, metaphor for the situation in the ME, which this story very clearly is.