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Have you ever wondered why there is such a discrepancy between the way most of the world treats Israel-- and the way it treats everyone else? Victor David Hanson takes a look at the issue:
- Obama Silent As Egypt Claims Hamas A Subject For Egyptian Protection
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- Egypt Refuses To End Blockade Of Gaza
While the world rails at Israel for blockading Gaza, the world says nothing about Egypt, who allow almost nothing to go through to Gaza. From the Astute Bloggers: CAIRO WONT LET IN ANY HUMANITARIAN AID. OBAMA IS SILENT.AS ARE THE REST OF THE JIHADO-LEFTIST...
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Time's Joe Klein to American Jews: If You Support Netanyahu Right Now You're Un-American Click on the link above to read the whole story at Weasel Zippers. Weasel Zippers comments: The more the left screams these new homes in Jerusalem are illegal...
- Hamas And The Broad Side Of A Barn Defense
Boston.com (h/t Jawa) Hamas defends rocket attacks on Israel, rejects UN push for new investigation By Associated Press January 28, 2010 GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Gaza’s Hamas rulers yesterday defended their actions during the war last winter, saying...
- The Root Cause Of All The Arab World's Problems, As Seen By Arabs Themselves
An excerpt from the recent statements of the Palestinian-born Al-Jazeera editor-in-chief, Ahmed Sheikh, who granted an interview this month with Pierre Heumann, the Middle East correspondent of the Swiss weekly Die Weltwoche: Sheikh: [...] It’s because...
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What explains most of the world's dislike of Israel?
Have you ever wondered why there is such a discrepancy between the way most of the world treats Israel-- and the way it treats everyone else? Victor David Hanson takes a look at the issue:
The Israel Enigma
By Victor Davis Hanson
What explains most of the world's dislike of Israel?
Since Israeli settlers withdrew from Gaza in 2005, Palestinian terrorists have replied by consistently shooting homemade Qassam rockets at civilian targets inside Israel. Just recently, they've kidnapped a soldier and a hitchhiker (who has been killed) — and promised to do the same to others.
You'd expect these terrorist attacks on Israel to be viewed by responsible nations as similar to the jihadist violence we read about daily around the world — radical Islamists beheading Russian diplomats over Chechnya, plotting to do the same to the Canadian prime minister or threatening murder over insensitive Danish cartoons.
But that isn't the case at all. Israel is always seen as a special exception that somehow deserves what it gets.
Other states can retaliate with impunity, brutally killing thousands of Muslim terrorists, while Israel is condemned when it takes out a few dozen.
When in late 1999 Russians stormed Grozny, thousands of Chechnya Muslims died. Yet the press was mostly silent. Baathist Syria went after the Muslim Brotherhood in 1982, wiping out much of the city of Hama and killing perhaps more than 10,000. Not many U.N. resolutions or international refugee efforts there.
But Israel's 2002 "siege" of the West Bank town Jenin, where less than 80 died on both sides, was evoked as "genocide" by those in the Middle East who often deny the real one that took 6 million Jewish lives.
When Israel retaliates by air to terrorism, it is dubbed a "blitz" by the press — as if it were akin to the Nazis carpet-bombing London.
Israel's border fence is referred to as a "Berlin Wall," but you never hear Egypt's nearby massive concrete barrier to keep Palestinians in Gaza described that way. (Read it all)
- Obama Silent As Egypt Claims Hamas A Subject For Egyptian Protection
After 100’s of rockets fell on Israel from the south, as Syrian artillery fell on Israel from the north, Obama remained silent.When Israel, unwilling to sit there as they are nailed from two fronts, reacted to remove one, Obama was silent.Now Egypt...
- Egypt Refuses To End Blockade Of Gaza
While the world rails at Israel for blockading Gaza, the world says nothing about Egypt, who allow almost nothing to go through to Gaza. From the Astute Bloggers: CAIRO WONT LET IN ANY HUMANITARIAN AID. OBAMA IS SILENT.AS ARE THE REST OF THE JIHADO-LEFTIST...
-
Time's Joe Klein to American Jews: If You Support Netanyahu Right Now You're Un-American Click on the link above to read the whole story at Weasel Zippers. Weasel Zippers comments: The more the left screams these new homes in Jerusalem are illegal...
- Hamas And The Broad Side Of A Barn Defense
Boston.com (h/t Jawa) Hamas defends rocket attacks on Israel, rejects UN push for new investigation By Associated Press January 28, 2010 GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Gaza’s Hamas rulers yesterday defended their actions during the war last winter, saying...
- The Root Cause Of All The Arab World's Problems, As Seen By Arabs Themselves
An excerpt from the recent statements of the Palestinian-born Al-Jazeera editor-in-chief, Ahmed Sheikh, who granted an interview this month with Pierre Heumann, the Middle East correspondent of the Swiss weekly Die Weltwoche: Sheikh: [...] It’s because...