The media these days tots up hourly the number of Palestinian
civilians who have been killed in the current battle between Hamas and Israel,
with special attention to women and children.
And the UN is stirring itself urgently to get a cease-fire in place,
because as of today over 100 civilians have apparently been killed in Gaza.
Over 100 in Gaza!
Imagine!
Funny how the media, the
UN and the American administration aren’t nearly as exercised about the 100,000+
civilians who have been killed thus far in the Syrian rebellion. Or the estimated
470+ civilians killed thus far by the so-called Ukrainian rebels. Or the 1000+
civilians killed by ISIS in the past couple of weeks in Iraq. Or the hundreds of civilians being killed by
Boka Haram in Nigeria. Or even the 204 murders in Chicago thus far since the beginning
of the year. Or…or…or…or. How come the
UN and the media and the American administration are not as urgently exercised
about those deaths?
Can it be, as I suggested before, that latent anti-Semitism
is at the root of this highly selective attention and reporting?
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