Sara Roy’s Nov. 23 op-ed “Where’s our humanity for Gaza?” correctly notes that people in Gaza suffer from a variety of economic and social challenges, but then squarely blames these on Israel. This one-sided polemic is a demonstration of what makes the conflict between Israel and its neighbors so intractable.
Here is a sampling of what she did not tell you.
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The author's take that Israel is blameless is equally false and equally responsible for perpetuating the violence.
If Sara Roy really cared about "humanity," she would address the 40,000 dead in Syria or the more than 200,000 dead in Sudan. She would have addressed the inhumanity with which Muslims treat their own people, or the oppressive Islamic regimes that have subjugated and colonialized the indigenous peoples of Africa and Asia. But she CHOSE to highlight Gaza because this is issue #1 on the agenda of the Leftist apologists for Islamist totalitarianism - after all, that is the common denominator that Socialists and Islamists share - that people should not be free, but should be slaves to the State. She deliberately ignores the facts on the ground - that Gazans live better than most Arab people do. Rather than attack Hamas, recognized as a terrorist organization by most of the world, she attacks Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East. And her myopic observations will be supported by the same small-minded bigots who hate the West for all that it represents - freedom, democracy, equality. Because Roy, like the rest of the Left, would rather see us all uniformly miserable, which gives meaning to their malformed concept of social justice.