Considerations

Benjamin Progrund make an excellent point:

But where were the protesters when missiles were falling on southern Israel? Had they come into the streets then and demanded that Hamas stop firing we wouldn't have the gory mess in Gaza today.

The rockets and mortars first struck on April 16, 2001. Since then, there have been more than 6,300. Last year's toll was more than 3,000...

WHY DID the world keep silent for so many years? Could anyone really expect Israel to do nothing for evermore?

That there is much anguish and anger about Palestinian suffering while there was so little response to what Israelis were enduring raises worrying questions. Are protesters giving vent to genuine compassion for Palestinian victims, or is there something dark and ugly under the surface in singling out Israel as though there has never before been a war in which innocent civilians are tragically caught in the fire?

How else to explain the extreme condemnation of Israel? The outpouring of so much hatred and the wild abuse of language and history in accusations of "genocide," "Holocaust" and the "Warsaw Ghetto"?

But it just not stop at wondering why thousands of people around the world are protesting Israeli attacks on Hamas but not the terrorist group's attacks on Israeli civilians. Why is there such an emphasis on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at all? Even if one believes that the Palestinians are unjustly treated, there are dozens of places around the world -- Darfur is the most significant example -- in which people are suffering much worse than people in Gaza and the West Bank are reportedly faring. But where are the significant worldwide protests for that issue?

There are two possibilities: Either there is something unique and special about Israel as an alleged abuser, or there is something unique and special about the Palestinians as victims. If either one (or both) of these are true, then the reason for the protests in general -- and the lack of anti-Hamas rallies in particular -- can only be one thing: anti-Semitism disguised as anti-Israel rallies.

If one needs proof, one only needs to see that anti-Semitic incidents around the world have increased as a result of the Gaza conflict.

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