No defender of Israel should bring up the subject of Darfur.
This is the grand hypocrisy of the last few years.
Were Darfur in fact the genocide that Israel and the US cynically say that it is, who would be in a better position to do something about it than Israel?
No one.
The size of Israel's armed forces - literally a pituitary giant compared to the size of the country's population - and the quality of its armaments - front-line stuff given in a massive annual subsidy from America - and its geographical proximity all argue that Israel should stand for a great principle.
But it does not, not at all.
Why? Because the talk of genocide is pure propaganda. The Israelis aren't going to so much as fray the elbows of their jackets over this.
They know it is a civil war, a nasty one, and they know what they are saying in public is just as false as their talk about Hamas.
