The anti-semitic double standard

But I digress.

Whenever the Jewish state is fighting for its survival, chronic delegitimisation of the Jewish state occurs as a matter of course.

During the Gaza conflict the leftist media counted bodies daily and if more people died among the jihadis committed to annihilating Israel than their intended victims, then naturally Israel was “disproportionate” in its response. Fairfax Media for its part published cartoonsunremittingly excoriating the victim of terror, Israel. Such artwork would surely have found favour with Joseph Goebbels.

Funny how accusations of “disproportionality” have never been made in any other conflict in history. Not only has it not been used when a nation defends itself, but not even when a nation over reaches and engages in unspeakable crimes.

The expression was not used to describe conduct when Iraq fought Iran. Not when the Royal Air Force bombed Dresden. Not when King Leopold II of Belgiumliquidated up to 15 millionAfricans. Not when the Ottoman Empire perpetrated genocideon 1,500,000 Armenians. Not when Spanish invaded the Americas. And not when Operation Iraqi Freedom resulted in over 150,000 civilian deaths.

Israel’s warning to Gaza residents before firing missiles was not enough to satisfy the “international community”. Never mind that nobody else in history has given advance warning of impending strikes. I don’t recall the Japanese warning Australians of the bombing of Darwin on Feb 19, 1942 or warning the residents of Honolulu about Dec 7, 1941.

Did the Royal Air Force warn Dresdeners that their city would soon be pancaked 70 years ago this week?

If more died on the side of the barbarians, Israel was charged with “disproportionate response”. Even if ample warnings were given. By that asinine logic, the bombings of Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Dresden should not have occurred. The price for us not bombing? The Third Reich and Imperial Japan would now happily enslave us all.

“Disproportionate Response” has been labelled the biggest sin under the sun and Israel alone amongst the nations has been charged with war crimes. Even when its existence was under threat from Allah’s willing warriors, be they from Gaza or the West Bank.

One Jordanian pilot. 7,000 killed in response so far. Yet no one has:

a)      cried “Disproportionate Force”;

b)     nobody has referred the matter to the UN Security Council for sanctioning;