When Russia intervened in Ukraine, there was nonstop news coverage. Nonstop appeals to our morality, and nonstop demands for Russia to be punished, were broadcast constantly from every phone, TV, laptop, and tablet for months.
Thousands of sanctions were placed on Russian citizens while goods from Russia, including seafood, vodka, and diamonds, were stripped from the shelves. Russian gas and oil were banned for import.
Meanwhile, Europe criminalized the export to Russia of chemicals, lithium batteries, thermostats, and electric motors. Western corporations were pressured to abandon Moscow, and those that didn’t were smeared as “pro-Putin” until they did.
Russian athletes were banned from archery, badminton, baseball, basketball, biathlons, canoeing, chess, curling, cycling, gymnastics, Formula One, field hockey, ice hockey, judo, pentathlons, rowing, rugby, sailing, skating, skiing, soccer, surfing, swimming, taekwondo, tennis, triathlons, and volleyball.
Russian planes were prohibited from flying over most of Europe and North America. Museums throughout the West renamed masterpieces by Degas to remove any reference to Russia. Moscow mules became “Kyiv mules.” When Russian restaurants were vandalized, there was no investigation.
Hundreds of billions in Russian government assets abroad were seized. Homes and boats belonging to Russian individuals were seized in countries throughout Europe. A Russian businessman was forced to sell the Chelsea Football club to an American.
Russian officials become persona non grata and contact with them became grounds for surveillance. Numerous countries pledged to arrest the president of Russia if he set foot on their territory.
Does anyone find it odd that not a single one of those things is happening to Israel?
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