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COMMENT: Israel needs to talk human rights

RAMALLAH Jan 19 (JMCC) - Israel must learn to speak the language of human rights and cooperate with the international community if it wants to join it, writes media expert Gilad Heiman.
 

We expect the world to support us because we are more liberal, educated and democratic than our neighbors, without understanding that those very qualities cause the world to judge us more severely. The very fact that we are so similar to the Western countries leads the public in those countries to criticize us harshly, as to them we constitute an ugly reflection of themselves, as South Africa did in the past.


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