They're all between a rock and a hard place. Israel is. The Lebanese are. Hezbollah is. Hamas is. Iraq is. Iran is.

Matter of fact, the only nation that isn't between a rock and a hard place in truth is the USA. The USA could act as an honest broker in this dispute and get both sides to negotiate...if it had any intention of really doing so...but the USA has consistently treated Israel as "a good guy" and Israel's opponents as monsters, to all intents and purposes.

And that, in a nutshell, is why my anger is mainly reserved for Israel.

I don't like to see a blatantly stacked deck, and I will always instinctively back the weak against the strong, and I will oppose a common prejudice that is taken for granted by most people. That is my nature. Israel and the USA are the strong in this conflict. Those they beat up on with their jets and their high tech weapons are the weak.

And that's why I react the way I do.

Both sides have legitimate concerns, but the side that really angers me is the one that has overwhelming firepower, that can attack and invade anyone it wants to any time it wants to...but acts as "the injured party". That disgusts me. It reminds me of the Nazis. I can't stand bullies.

I also live in a society where people hardly dare to criticize Zionism, for fear of being labelled anti-semitic, but anyone can criticize Arabs without fear, because Arabs are clearly thought of as less than equal, whether or not anyone says it openly.

That's blatant discrimination, it's exactly the same thing AS anti-semitism, but it doesn't merit a special word all its own in the culture, does it? You know why? Because the deck is stacked.

I can't stand that sort of prejudice.

35 years ago I had no ax to grind in this matter. That changed. I don't like a stacked deck, and our media have long stacked the deck when it comes to any dispute between the Muslims and Israel. The Israelis are treated like "us" by the media...the Muslims are treated like "them". I know discrimination when I see it.