When it comes to Israel, why is the world silent?

[LeftishBrit]

4. It isn't - though the UN tends to be. But the world doesn't equal the UN.

As regards real silence from the world, try many of the African countries, for example. Severe poverty and inequality in virtually all; severe conflict in many; what amounts to genocide in Darfur. And remarkably little coverage.

'Imagine that the citizens of El Paso, Laredo and San Antonio have to stay inside their homes. Schools are closed, businesses are shut and people have to suspend their lives. Not because of some natural disaster or a nuclear or chemical accident, because groups in Mexico have purchased and are firing thousands of deadly missiles at Texans across the border. Sometimes a school is hit, sometimes a grocery store, and every so often someone is killed.'

It wasn't rockets but guns and sometimes bombs - but the parts about school closures, having to suspend one's life, significant risk of being killed, etc. could have described life in Northern Ireland, on and off, for decades, until 1997. And every now and then, it spilled over onto the mainland.

Israel isn't the most evil country in the world, or anything like it, as is sometimes portrayed by its enemies. It also isn't a uniquely unfortunate country, or the only one subject to local or border terrorism, as is sometimes portrayed by its supporters.