Som att leva i parallella universum

 The unbearable dissonance of being Israeli - comment (Herb Keinon)

...That is Israel’s current reality: waging a war, with frightful losses, against a cruel terrorist organization holding 136 Israelis hostage, trying to kill as many civilians as possible.

And here’s the kicker: on Thursday, it is Israel that will be dragged to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, accused of committing genocide.

That’s right: It will be Israel on the defense, and not Hamas, a brutal terrorist organization that has the destruction of Israel as the cardinal tenet of its founding charter and which started the war by attacking the Jewish State and going on an orgy of murder, rape, arson, and mutilation that led to 1,200 people killed, some 240 taken hostage, and entire communities destroyed.

And therein lies the dissonance between what Israelis are feeling and the perspective from the outside. Israelis, traumatized and embattled, feel that they are fighting a quintessential war of no choice, one of – if not the most – just and justifiable wars the country has ever fought. The pictures in The Daily Mail were a small reminder of that.

Yet, part of the world – as evidenced by South Africa’s case against Israel, as witnessed by disruptive pro-Hamas protests in major US cities – sees the victims of Hamas’s aggressions as the aggressors. It’s as if part of the world’s moral compass has gone haywire, as if we live in parallel universes...