I mean this has always been the case. The Gaza war and this act of terrorism on foreign soil has only just spelled it out more clearly. The Western world seems to forget the norms and standards they supposedly adhere to when it comes to the topic of Israel, and it appears the rules don't apply to them.
Iran gets a lot of (often hyperbolic) condemnation directed their way for their use of proxies (including the US' hilarious and hysterical categorisation of being the biggest sponsors of terrorism), but if they were constantly invading other country's airspaces, assassinating diplomats, genociding a native population, and enforcing a systemic occupation and apartheid in the name of some ethno-fascist doctrine, there will have been a global taskforce immediately mobilising to neuter them with extreme prejudice.
The contrast to Russia's aggression in Ukraine also casts a very damning light on it. Not just in terms of rolling out sanctions and offering military assistance to the opposition, but also in regards to 'cultural' sanctioning. Almost overnight the Russians were kicked out of UEFA competitions, barred from Eurovision etc, but to even suggest the same should be enforced on the Israelis is considered unspeakable, and often you're lured into this trap of being an advocate of anti-semitic sentiment.
Its utterly infuriating, and damning of the West, and completely chips away at their credibility for whatever virtue signalling standards they claim to set and enforce. Its essentially akin to the ultra rich's relationship with the law versus the average person.
True.
Not only Israel, but anytime it is convenient for them. To be fair, Russia and China do exactly the same, albeit on a much smaller scale.
Iran uses proxies because they do not have any other means to defend themselves and their own interests in the region. They've been under economic and military embargo for and under attack from West and its proxies for 45 years. No real Army no real Navy and no Air Force to speak of thanks to the embargo. They cleverly invested in drones and lots of long-range missiles but the latter belong the last resort kind of weapons.
It's not only about Israel. There's a deep-rooted, institutional racism toward Arab and/or Muslim populations, massively exacerbated and encouraged after 9/11 with all major Western media fully complicit in it and a notable part of the Western populations being either indifferent or actively supporting it.
From the selective reporting which almost never fail to paint Arabs and Muslims as mustache twirling villains to anything related to putting whole Arab/Muslim countries under embargo with the catastrophic consequences it implies for their populations, starving them, bombing them, invading them, killing hundreds of thousands if not millions of them. Everything is is simply glossed over and only talked in matter of numbers, if ever talked about.
By reading some of the comments here, you can feel how this decades long hammering and biased reporting affects the mind of people who've been subjected to it. It's not to say that all Arabs or Muslims are saints, they by far aren't, but the level of dehumanization and the amount of bigotry and racist discourses allowed is absolutely mind-boggling. And it's only growing.
I've seen a brilliant documentary on YouTube from an independent French media which meticulously dissects how the French mainstream media covered the current Israel-Palestine massacre, as well as in the previous decades. It's bone chilling. I can provide the link for French speakers. It's sadly not translated nor has English subtitles.
It is but the West was always damned by the ones on the receiving end of its foreign policies. Things will only change when the Western populations do the same.
