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Please don't post personal attacks or insinuations like this on HN. There are easily-understood reasons why the Israel/Palestine story has more prominence in the Western media and on HN: primarily that the Western world has had such a significant and direct role in the affairs of that country/region through its complicated history of the past century-or-so. That doesn't mean we should ignore other conflicts and humanitarian crises. Human suffering matters, wherever it exists and for whatever reason. But we don't need to invoke nefarious explanations for why Israel/Palestine attracts more attention in the Western world.