Moral Equivalency Watch: The Annex

Mike Hendrix finds the latest example of moral non-equivalence.

Palestinians kidnaps a 13-year-old boy, in order to force him to take his own life, and the lives of others.

Israelis rescue the boy, and will attempt to give him something like a normal life.

Mike then sums it up best:

Hmmm. Those two little paragraphs tell us more about the nature of the conflict in the Middle East, and especially about the nature of the combatants, than I could put across in a thousand pored-over words. I was going to expand on this a bit like I usually do, but curiously, I find myself at a loss for words.

Indeed.