""It arouses my indignation when I hear, or read, of people that profess to be human rights champions and show no sympathy nor interest for the suffering in the world if not caused by the US and Israel.""

Of course this story engages the attention of people posting to this thread, just as it does the attention of people watching it on the news media.

It is after all the story which is currently unfolding, as well as being the topic of this thread.

If the thread were about other atrocities, it is those events we would be discussing.

You, Roberto, seem to be suffering from the fallacious belief that sticking to the topic of a thread is somehow an indication of lack of interest in anything else.

Broaden your education by looking at some of the threads which are not about your heroes, and you will find that we all contribute to many threads on many subjects.

Just like you, we all have lives outside of Mudcat, and some of us are very active in other areas of support for human rights, so you are simply not qualified to comment on our attitudes, because you know nothing about us.

However, we are in a position to note that you are a determined apologist for the Israeli government, and the IDF, and also that you make determined attempts to distract attention from the actions of Israeli forces, by attempting to take the thread off topic, and introduce other human rights abuses. This is not opinion, it is fact. It can be proven by even a cursory examination of your posts here.

So we have a greater understanding of who and what you are, than you can possibly claim to have about who and what we are.

If there are other issues which you think should be discussed, start your own threads, and you will find that they will be discussed.

Those issues are of great importance to us, as well as to you, but you cannot conduct a serious and coherent debate on a dozen different subjects in one thread.

This thread is about Israel,so naturally that country is mentioned quite a lot.

Don T.