Remaining mute.

Not long ago we had the Americans huffing and puffing at the Russians for, relatively peacefully, taking over Crimea. The indignation of America was based on a so called incursion of sovereign territory.
Now we have in embryo, a war of the worst kind where the militants in Palestine, Hamas, launch rockets into Israel and the Israelis not surprisingly launch their own bombardment on the positions where the Hamas rockets are launched. Unfortunately these sites are sited in the heavily populated city areas within Palestine and the only people to suffer are the civilian population.
Ancient Israel was predominantly populated and governed by Israelis until the Roman Empire expanded whereupon the Jews became a minority. In the middle centuries it became a part of the Muslim Caliphate until the British conquest in 1917 and the formation of a Palestine Mandated  territory.  The creation of the Israeli state in 1948 to house the Jewish diaspora signalled a world wide home coming  as Jews flooded the newly created  State with immigrants.
The conflict between the Palestinian and the Jew has been very bitter with, in the case of Israel a sense of being surrounded by enemy's, which has fostered a siege mentality with little to loose as they struggle to survive. Of course this has produced an inflexible policy towards anyone dissenting their tactics.
There is no doubt that the Israelis gifted as they are, believing they are 'Gods people' are very difficult to live alongside. Any non Jew is a Goy, the term a disparaging one sets them apart from all mankind in their biblical special status. The term Kafir (unbeliever) to a Muslim has a similar connotation and sets Muslims apart in a similar way which is also the source of much of the conflict within the Muslim world and in the dealings of Muslims outside it.
The American Congress is heavily influenced by its Jewish lobby and it is rare for the American Establishment to speak out against Israel so, unlike in the Ukraine, where the Russian Bear was being provocative but not actually militarily offensive there was a lot of rhetoric whilst when the Israelis kill hundreds if not eventually thousands of Palestinians, they the Americans and their cronies in the West remain mute.              

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