I am bored by all Gaza analogies

I am very bored by people on both sides using what is happening in Iran to make points about Gaza. 

Why are people complaining that pro-Palestinians do not protest about Iran? The protestors were protesting because Western governments were helping Israel. 

Why would they march in protest against Iran? What notice would Iran take? It would be a march in favour of the West doing what it is doing, inflicting terrible things on Iranians through sanctions.

The pro-Palestinians for their part ask why people who grieve for Iranians do not grieve for Gaza. 

This question is a very fair one - the answer is that such people are hypocrites. But this point is equally boring. 

My X feed is a torrent of misinformation. I am horrified by the untruths and gullibility.

Dr. Maalouf ‏

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It took 10 weeks for the death toll in Gaza to reach 20,000, including thousands of Hamas terrorists. The Islamic regime killed that many Iranian civilians in just 1 week. Yet all the so-called “human rights” activists who protested for Gaza remain completely silent. Weird.

Of course 20,000 have not been killed. That's as many as in two weeks of the very bloody Battle of the Bulge, as Scott Ritter pointed out yesterday. The figure comes from a US pro-Israel organisation with no evidence and repeated by CBS which was bought by Larry Ellison to relay Israeli propaganda.
Of course Israel has launched a regime change operation. Of course Israel wants hegemony in the Middle East and to make Iran a failed state or Israeli puppet. 
This does not mean we should not sympathise (very much) with the good idealistic Iranians swept up in it who hope for change. We need not sympathise with the murderers, agents provocateurs and the people who set fire to mosques, who are Mossad assets. 
One has to weep for the people in Gaza and the people who died when their telephones exploded in Lebanon and so on and also - despite their neo-con supporters - for the millions of people in Iran who hope for freedom and in some cases have died or been injured. 
Those Iranians are probably as sad about Gaza as anyone in London.
                                

Social media makes the world very argumentative.
Winning arguments unfortunately very rarely changes people's minds. 

It makes them angry instead, which people enjoy. It releases aggression and gives them an excuse to be unpleasant. 

War makes people angry, even war on another continent in countries that are nothing to do with them.

Mass murder makes people very angry indeed, especially (strangely enough) if they support the murders.