Why is blaming the powerless so acceptable?

By Kent R. Kroeger (June 7, 2018)

Razan al-Najjar, a Palestinian paramedic, was killed by an Israeli sniper at the Gaza border on June 1.

We are too often numb to these stories anymore. A young Palestinian woman, a paramedic, is killed by an Israeli Defense Force (IDF) sniper during protests along the Gaza-Israeli border. At nearly the same time, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, is scolding UN Security Council diplomats for offering a resolution critical of Israel’s lethal response to Palestinian protests along the border.

“The terrorist group, Hamas, bears primary responsibility for the awful living conditions in Gaza. It is Hamas that has served as the defacto government of Gaza for the last 11 years. It is Hamas that has consistently diverted humanitarian assistance into military infrastructure, building rockets instead of schools, producing terror tunnels instead of hospitals. It is Hamas that has attacked the very humanitarian access point into Gaza that are lifelines for the Palestinian people,” said Haley as she read her statement opposing the Security Council resolution regarding the Gaza border protests. “It is Hamas and its allies that fired rockets — at…