G.P.,

Um, you checked the facts about health care in Syria before Arab Spring? Literacy rates in Iraq and Libya before regime change became the West's

mantra?

How about secular and equal education for men and women in Syria? The number of female doctors in those countries?

Such sweeping generalizations are the bastion of racist stereotyping meant to show Israel in such a good light that its illegal occupation of lands captured during war, to say nothing of its annexation, can be ignored.

After all, the land was occupied by stone throwing savages. Let them go elsewhere, Israel is busy saving the world.

Conflating criticism of Israel's machinations with anti-Semitism is a tired old trope. It is ironic that you would write, "Medium permits this hateful crowd to usurp what supposed to be a writing community and turn it into a propaganda machine.'

The way out of your absolutism? And that of your enemies?

Truth and Reconciliation. Mandala laid out the ground rules. Listen to South Africa. They tried to mitigate the trans-generational grief their apartheid regime visited upon a dispossessed people. It is an ongoing process.

Check out what Canada has had to do when confronted with our historical abysmal treatment of our Indigenous peoples. It too is an ongoing process but it was one started with the Gladue Report, started in 1994, with many laws starting to be passed since 1999.

Why?

Israel has a great deal over which to atone in terms of the destabilization of its neighbours. The Lavon Affair would be a good start. No more Israeli streets named after him would mean that Israel is willing to own its terrorist past.