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Nicholas Kristof
By Nicolas Kristof
Opinion Columnist
Is the West applying double standards to Israel, attacking everything it does too harshly?
When asked about the bloodshed in Gaza on “Face the Nation” last weekend, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded, “What would the U. S. do” after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack?Wouldn’t you do what Israel does? I would do so much more.
Rabbi Marvin Hier condemned in the Jerusalem Post “an unprecedented double standard” that relentlessly criticizes Israel’s bombing of Gaza but is not hampered by Allied bombing of civilians in Germany and Japan in World War II. And the World Jewish Congress cites “criticism of Israeli defensive operations. “, but not those of other Western democracies” as an example of anti-Semitism.
All of this turns out to be right or wrong, right or wrong. I will explain why this is wrong in a moment, but it is undeniable that the world will pay more attention to Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians than to many other things. horrors.
In 2023, for example, the United Nations General Assembly passed 15 resolutions criticizing Israel, and only seven resolutions criticizing each and every country in the world combined, adding up to a pro-Israel group. Does anyone think that represents impartiality?
People are focusing more on Israel than on what UNICEF describes as a “wave of atrocities” that has been taking place lately against young people in Sudan, while the number of young people displaced by the recent fighting in Sudan (three million) is greater than the entire population of Gaza. . European academics are protesting against Gaza, but largely ignore the 700,000 young people facing severe acute malnutrition in Sudan after the country’s civil war began last April.
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