re: #97 dhg4

That, of course, is the more general point about Palestinians. If their enemies weren’t the Israelis, they would have ceased to exist long ago. Imagine, for example, how successful they’d be in promoting their independence if Judea and Samaria had been in the hands of Jordan for the past 42 years.

Bret Stephens had a very good piece about that last week:

Our Selective Moral Outrage
Why does Israel face more opprobrium than Russia?

“…I have a hypothesis. Maybe the world attends to Palestinian grievances but not Chechen ones for the sole reason that Palestinians are, uniquely, the perceived victims of the Jewish state. That is, when they are not being victimized by other Palestinians. Or being expelled en masse from Kuwait. Or being excluded from the labor force in Lebanon. Things you probably didn’t know about, either. As for the Chechens, too bad for their cause that no Jew will ever likely become president of Russia.

online.wsj.com