(Jerusalem Post) Seth J. Frantzman - Critics of Israel have tried to link Ukraine to the Israel-Palestinian conflict, complaining that the same media that lauds the Ukrainians for making Molotov cocktails doesn't laud the Palestinian "resistance" for doing the same. They say that while the West is backing Ukrainians for resisting Russia, it doesn't back Palestinians who also want to "resist." The Palestinians have received more coverage and more sympathetic stories than any other people in the world. Look at the number of stories and NGO campaigns about the eviction of a few families in eastern Jerusalem. The number of Ukrainians who are being forced to flee is already more than the total number of Palestinians who fled their homes in 1948. Another major difference is that Palestinians went from "resisting" to bombing civilians and celebrating attacks on civilians. Ukrainians aren't blowing up buses in Moscow. There are no posters of Ukrainian "martyrs" whose actions were massacring Russian children. There's nothing romantic about a Palestinian throwing a Molotov cocktail onto a civilian's car. The media is celebrating Ukrainian resistance because it is against the Russian military. Palestinians call for taking control "from the river to the sea" and that Israel shouldn't exist. Ukraine doesn't say it wants Moscow, and Ukraine doesn't have maps of their country that include all of Russia.
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