""How can you discuss persecution of minorities in a state and not make a comparison if neighbouring states are considerably worse?""

No Keith!....It is YOU who needs (desperately) a way to jusify the unjustifiable!!

Start a thread about Egypt and I'll be happy to discuss their shortcomings, but I will not give you the satifaction of using that as an exoneration of Israel's shortcomings.

Human rights abuse is an absolute, not a graded competition.

Don T.