In reply to Simon4:
> So Hamas stopped being Jihadi top-dog, so they had to do something to get the focus back on them, hence the barrages of missiles against Israel - militarily ineffective, but very useful in propaganda terms, especially given Western "useful idiots", particularly as Hamas was not in the least concerned about "collateral damage", indeed it welcomed it and conciously used it as a tactic.
I agree that Hamas appear to use provocation as pretty central to their strategy.
> I very much doubt if there will be a comparable reaction to the plight of Chaldean Christians, Yazidis, Assyrians and many other minority races and sects threatened with real (not propaganda), massacre by ISIS - there are no simple "black hat, white hat" rules, also the useful idiots are fresh out of crocodile tears.
This point is so boring, so tired, and so thick that it makes me feel sad to have to explain the obvious reason yet again why people in the UK are so angry about Israel's actions but feel differently about other conflicts.
There is mainstream support for Israel
This is what makes us angry. It is the US funding, the refusal of our PM to condemn the actions, the revolting dishonesty trotted out by Regev etc on the news. This is what gets our goat and it is not paralleled in any other present conflict. The posts on UKC are generated by this controversy, and so was the cabinet resignation. It is a
debate.
So can we put "why don't you care about..." to bed please, it's got beyond boring because the reasons are so incredibly obvious. And the extension "it must be because they hate jews" is so devious, spineless and offensive that I won't respond again to that because it's not worth my time.
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