I’m amazed by the people who write to me to insist that the conflict in Israel/Palestine is one-sided, that the whole thing would be resolved peacefully by now if it wasn’t for the other side’s malevolence.
I’ve written a whole lot of words about Israel’s treatment of Palestinians lately and over the past five years of blogging here. And, of course, I’ve written about how the blame game with each new round of violence doesn’t get us anywhere.
But if everything you write unequivocally condemns Israel for its brutality and aggression and oppression without a single word about the rockets that Hamas routinely launches at Israeli citizens, and if your reaction is either silence when I ask you whether you think these rocket attacks deserve even a passing mention or, worse, you try to justify the rocket attacks, then you’re not helping.
What you’re doing is giving terrorists a free pass because their terror tactics don’t fit the one-sided narrative that appeals to you.