re: #229 SanFranciscoZionist

Now, my cranky Zionist add-on—if ‘hardline Jewish activists’ had, God forbid, destroyed the al-Aqsa Mosque back in 92, I imagine the media response worldwide, and the subsquent passionate concern of many many people out there would have been substantially more emphatic than in the case of the Ayodhya situation.

The Ayodhya situation was pretty big at the time - but the subsequent lack of international opprobrium keeps the flames down. Pakistan and India are permanently on the verge of a conflict that would make anything that happens in the middle east look like a threepenny sideshow.

Ignoring the elephant in the room in India/Pakistan thing is often the best thing that can be done.