I think that you haven’t been following the conversation on the Syrian blogsphere, this was strictly the responses on the blockade. When it comes to the rockets [more like the fireworks when you compare them to Israel's missile arsenal, which is being used quite freely], when it comes to Hamas’s takeover, Hizbulla, when it comes to many things, many people do raise their voices.

What we are protesting here, is something very clear and well defined, there’s nothing cynical in babies dying in their incubators. That is very real. There’s nothing cynical in the collective punishment of the palestinians in Gaza, and the daily life hell that the wall and the check points are giving palestinians in the west bank. There is nothing cynical in the land law in jerusalem, there is nothing cynical about the everyday human rights abuses in Hebron.

Of course, Israeli actions are sometimes worthy of criticism. Yet, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that there is something deeply cynical about some of the criticsm of Israel (on this blog and elsewhere) that has been leveled in the name of human rights. Much of it appears like little more than thinly veiled swords that are being put to use in the service of a larger effort to deligitimize and, as Hamas would like, destroy Israel.