There are bad neighbours on both sides of that particular line! They both make life miserable for each other. The problem we are facing in our media, however, is that only one of them can label anyone who criticizes him as "anti-semitic", which has become, like "racist", a term which one can use to intimidate people into silence. Those on the other side of the line (the Muslims) have no such means of terrorizing and silencing criticism of their actions in the western media. They don't have an equivalent "historical genocide" card of similar weight to wield...at least, not outside their own community. Within it? Yes. But not in North American and western media.

I think was Stilly's point. Past and present sufferings of one's own community do not serve as a blanket justification for one's own bad behaviour towards other communities.

This is something that both Israelis and Muslims must come to terms with if they are to end the cycle of strike and counterstrike, revenge and retribution.