""singling out for criticism the only "
The fact that is the "Jewish State in the world" is the very reason it needs to be "singled out"
Israel is largely made up of refugees from the worst act of genocide in the modern world
The various regimes who have ruled Israel in the manner they have, have betrayed those refugees and their dream of a world free of persecution such as that inflicted by the Nazis.
The final betrayal has been to commit war crimes and atrocities against other ethnic groups in the name of the Jewish People.
A long way from the comment of a holocaust survivor friend told me "never again - not to anybody"
The atrocities carried out by the Israelis are no different than those carried out elsewhere but they are a damn sight more dangerous to this planet as a whole as Israel is a wealthy state, well armed and protected to the extent of being nuclear facilitated.
The fact that its atrocities are carried out in order to expand its borders (go, look at the maps) makes their claim of "defence" a disgusting excuse, no better than those who used it to explain massacres such as Lidicé (go count the dead on both sides to see how "defensive" Israeli behaviour is)
some of Israel's fiercest and most vehement critics are Jews, from Einstein to former Mossad directors and Holocaust survivors and their descendants
Your disgusting excuse that it is wrong to critiscise Israel because it is "Jewish" or because other people do it is as low as it gets
Jim Carroll