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Well Eric you have strong views about the international power you feel Israel wields.
It must be a huge country with enormous resources, Maybe it holds the world's oil supplies? Just let me check on the map. No that's Saudi Arabia. Let me investigate this a bit further, Saudi has no democracy and beheads women for adultery. Is that morally corrupt? Does the west in any way kowtow to them? Let me think about that, the west bombed Iraq as they had a dictator but meanwhile scraped and bowed to unelected Saudi Royalty who control their country just as Europe was controlled in the Middle Ages by Kings and Queens . I guess though, the term pariah, does not apply to Saudi Arabia? Could you say what your position is regarding Saudi Arabia? And regarding China? China has enormous global influence and has systematically oppressed the people of Tibet. Do you judge all countries by the same criteria?
Israel is a country where there is dire poverty with many of its inhabitants living in constant threat of being bombed. And children in Sderot are targeted deliberately by Hamas. Those children live under aparthied, they are targeted because they are Jews and a "hit" is celebrated.
There are many forms of bullying. If you don't like bullying and are sincere about it then you will condemn all forms of bullying. If you hate children suffering then you will hate all children suffering.
Many of the indignant outraged voices about Israel will not protest about Jewish children being killed by Hamas. It is not politically correct. But maybe you are more egalitarian with your condemnation.
BTW, the word pariah comes from the root word paṛaiyar in Tamil which means an low caste, an touchable.