Israelis are struggling to comprehend why five million refugees and 200,000 deaths in Syria mean so much less to the Western conscience than the 2,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza. They cannot quite grasp how European demonstrators can denounce Israel’s wars as “genocide” – a term that has never been applied to the Syrian hecatomb, the obliteration of Grozny by Russia, the 500,000 casualties in Iraq since the United States-led invasion in 2003, or US airstrikes in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
以色列一直难以理解，为何叙利亚的200,000死者和五百万难民给西方人良心的震动远远不如2,000在加沙被杀的巴勒斯坦人。他们无法理解欧洲示威者如何谴责以色列的战争是“种族灭绝”——对于叙利亚的屠杀、俄罗斯对格罗兹尼的屠城、2003年美国入侵伊拉克所造成的500,000受害者，以及美国阿富汗和巴基斯坦空袭的遇难者，都没有人用上这个词汇。