I spose not until they cease to hate Israel and Jews.
I don't think hatred of Israel and Jews really explains the situation. There are, of course, anti-Semites out there and I'm sure they jump on any problem in the Middle East with glee as an excuse to bash Jews. There are also people who hate Israel to the extent that they can't see victims in the Middle East at all, unless they are killed by an Israeli gun.
I really don't think those people are driving the debate though. Every Israel-condemner I've asked in the last few weeks about their motives says variations on the following - "I'm more outraged by the situation in Gaza than the situation in Congo/Zimbabwe/Somalia/Darfur despite the lower death toll in Gaza because, the Middle East has the potential to blow up into an international nuclear conflict."
So there you have it. Africa has no power to threaten anything outside its own continent, Palestine vs. Israel does. So when you see people who have never been there, know nothing about it other than what they see on the news, and their outrage is so selective, that is the reason. Good old self-interest - Africans may kill each other but their tribal conflicts won't send aeroplanes into my office building, or suicide bombers onto my train. As long as its not in my back yard, etc......
You make a good point but that would only explain people calmly calling for the blue helmets of the UN to be involved and a unilateral ceasefire, not outrage, condemnation and partisan criticism.
Most Brits and Europeans only open their mouths or take to the streets in support for the Palestinians and in total rabid condemnation of Israel. You really would be hard pushed to find a Liberal who would be prepared to condemn Hamas in the way they condemn Israel and this isn't the fringe.
They are not impartial concerned peace protesters they are anti Israel protesters.
The fact that they express 'outrage' at the deaths of 1000 Palestinians and hardly a squeak against the suicide bombers and rockets of Hamas let alone the hundreds of thousands killed in Africa is proof positive that they are not acting out of concern for Palestinians or a self interested desire to stop world war three. They are in the business of picking sides and they are simplistically picking the underdogs and rebels not the evil American empire.
The "sensible" people who are neither antisemitic or fully paid up conspiracy nuts who nevertheless express utter outrage and total condemnation of Israel are doing so because of the simplistic narrative of the Left that we have all been bought up with.
They express outrage because they have been bought up to believe that Britain, America, Israel, Western civilization and modernity are the cause of all the worlds problems and that brown people are sweet, humble, honourable, peaceful victims who must be protected and supported no matter what.
So you have the totalitarian far Left lunatics, the Islamists united with the middle of the road liberal mainstream in condemnation of anything that Israel does.
It is not a handful of nutters with the rest impartially calling for calm it is nutters and sensible people deranged by a combination of Western/white guilt, anti Americanism, antisemitism, conspiracy theories and religion all combined to create the majority.
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