The attitude of the West has become a weird one to explain. I had initially put it down to brutal realpolitik (Israel=ally, Palestinians=unimportant). However, after more than 12 months of this horror, you have to flip the question and ask whether, even from that cynical standpoint, Israel is really of such strategic value that it warrants the squandering of any remaining moral capital that the West retained after Iraq. I could try to ascribe it to the effects of Israeli wooing of the US and European political class and specific circumstances (US election cycle, UK exhaustion after self-destruction since 2016, France’s fragile political situation, Germany’s post-WWII demons). But, ultimately, you have to conclude that the reason that 200 people dying in floods in Spain is a tragedy (which it is of course) while the killing of at least 45,000 people on the southern shore of the same sea is treated as a kind of unpleasant background noise in public consciousness, is that the latter are (largely) of a religious background that the West at best barely tolerates and in many cases actively despises. It’s an ugly look.
