Reply #14: I blow hot and cold on this. [View All]

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I very much approve of the "same rules for everybody" attitude.

OTOH, the notion that Israel is or is not "singled-out" is just
one blowhards opinion about some other blowhard, for the most part,
usually based on his being offended by what the other guy had to
say. If you are mad you are not thinking very well, so it doesn't
mean much.

It is certainly true that Israel is not at the level of Liberia
or Rwanda-Burundi or Chechnya, and for instance Chechnya gets a
lot less attention, but this is faint praise, and it must be said
that the imbalance is on both the positive and negative side, there
is just a lot more stuff about the Middle East in general and Israel
in particular than about some of these other worse places. A lot of
that is because there are a lot more people who give a shit one way
or another who are in the global information network. I think the
comparison with the USA is in some ways apt, there are good and bad
things to be said.

Finally, Alan is not in a position to lecture anyone on what they
must talk about and in what order, or about morality for that
matter.

Just some ideas.