Michael Medved has written an excellent piece about how we decide which conflicts are important and which are not. He notes that the Sri Lankan authorities just achieved an important victory in a long-running civil war (in which non-Muslim rebels began the current use of suicide bombing), yet virtually no one noticed. Ditto for the war in the Congo which last week claimed several times more civilian victims than did the Israeli-Hamas conflict.
Medved is convinced that the Mideast conflict receives the attention it does (1) because Jews are involved; and (2) the United States supports Israel. In his view, the United States does not make enemies by supporting Israel; rather, Israel has become an enemy because of its close association with the United States. He sees the Mideast conflict as an important front in the struggle against what he calls Islamo-Nazi terror, but argues that it should be kept in perspective.
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