On the one hand, the United States chastises Russian president Vladimir Putin for supplying to the pro-Moscow separatists the ground-to-air missile that brought down the airliner. On the other hand, Obama stands behind Israel as its military operation in Gaza, with American-supplied arms, kills children and other civilians, no less a part of humanity than the passengers on the Malaysian airliner.
How could it be that Israel has the right of self-defense, but the Russian-backed separatists do not?
In another example, how is it that the United States can take Syrian President Bashar Assad to task over the killing or displacement of children and civilians in the Syrian civil war but say next to nothing to Israel over its barbaric operation?