Misguided Middle East Rage......

Over the last month I have read a lot of outrage towards Israel, as they have battled Hamas in the Gaza Strip. I am fine with this. People don’t like Israel and they are entitled to that opinion. They see Hamas as a sympathetic group, who are mere victims of Israeli aggression. The Gaza strip is seen as a humanitarian tragedy. To many Hamas is not responsible for any of the terrible things that have taken place there. Do I agree? No. Do I care if people think that? I do not.

What really amazes me though are the people who pretend to be outraged by the 1,900 dead Palestinians, but are completely silent on the 170,000 dead Syrians.

Right next door Men, Woman, children, and the elderly…… all dead and nobody says a word. No outrage of any kind. Why is that? 1/3 of the dead in Syria are Civilians. Yet you would think the only civilians being killed are in the Gaza Strip.

If the current level of fighting (in Israel) lasted 4 more years there would be 86,000 dead people. That is 84,000 less dead people than in Syria over the same time period.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2014/Jul-10/263416-syria-war-toll-tops-170000-one-third-civilians.ashx#axzz3A5pThD8a

Yet Israel stirs rage, but Syria….Yeah not so much.

Just last week (In Syria) a woman was placed in a hole, while people threw rocks at her head until she was dead. They did that because she was accused of adultery.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/Women-stoned-to-death-in-Syria-for-adultery-5678725.php

Can there be any worse treatment of a fellow human being? This is 2014 for crying out loud. Yet I have waited for some kind of daily outrage (of the type I continually see against Israel) but I have seen none. If Israel stoned somebody you bet people would be real upset. Yet when it happens in the Muslim world it is somehow less outrageous.

In Iraq they are rounding up Christian children and beheading them. They are then taking the heads and placing them on poles (in the local park) as a warning of what happens if you do not convert to Islam. They are then making fancy music videos to celebrate (and promote) this success. Again I have seen no outrage on this either. The Pope is pretty upset, but on Social Media I have seen nothing.

Originally ISIS said if Christians paid a fine they could stay. Many of them did pay but were killed anyway. Mass executions are a daily occurrence. Line up your enemy (innocent people who have different beliefs than you) and shoot them all in the head.

ISIS is aligned with Hamas. They are birds of the same feather. They support each other. People sympathize with Hamas but stay silent on ISIS. Personally I don’t understand.

http://www.christianpost.com/news/isis-systematically-beheading-children-in-iraq-they-are-killing-every-christian-they-see-says-chaldean-leader-124594/

ISIS is burying people alive. To me that is outrageous. Yet I see no outcry on this act either.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iraq-crisis-islamic-militants-buried-alive-yazidi-women-and-children-in-attack-that-killed-500-9659695.html

Women are being gang raped by ISIS. Outrage for that? Nope!

http://www.inquisitr.com/1403656/islamic-militants-gang-rape-catholic-nurse-in-libya-after-beheading-construction-worker/

The kind of behavior taking place right now is the worst of the worst. There is no way to be any crueler (or intolerant) of people who do not share your views. Yet the only people being taken to task (in the news, by the politicans, and on social media) is Israel. If people are going to do that (it is fine but) at least be fair.

Israel has a long way to go, before their treatment of the Palestinians, is even close to some Muslim treatment of Christians. And some Muslims treatment of fellow Muslims.

People should get some perspective. The real tragedy isn’t in Gaza, but rather next door in Syria and Iraq.