And Israel is second because many of the other people who have committed atrocities that people like to point fingers at around the world were armed and/or trained by Israel. And that is, of course on top of all of the atrocities that have been directly committed by Israelis. And that's one of the problems with a thread like this one. Criticism about the atrocities committed by quite a few countries' governments is at bottom, a criticism of Israel, because many of them would not have been able to commit those atrocities without Israel's help. And not infrequently, Israel arms both sides in a conflict. So it's kind of hard to criticize a lot of atrocities committed around the world without criticizing Israel. The government of South Africa under apartheid, for example, was greatly assisted by the government of Israel.
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