It's relative

It appears that there are some things that are wrong for Israelites to do but perfectly okay for Syrians to do, as far as the US government is concern.  It appears that Syria is using a blockade that is almost exactly the same as the Israelite blockade that received so much rebuke from the world in general, including the US.  But now that Syria is doing it it's perfectly fine.  If Israel wants to have a blockade to keep the Palestinian fighters from getting weapons with which to destroy their nation, that's wrong, but if Syria starts maintaining a blockade and firing on ships because they want to keep weapons away from Palestinian fighters, that's perfectly okay.  After all, everyone knows that peace-loving muslims shoot people with generous loving hearts, while the Israelites do the same thing (minus the shooting) with malice and bigotry.  The left wing is always saying that they want equality and that the right wing stands for bigotry and other forms of hatred, but sometimes I wonder if equality wouldn't look a little bit harder on muslims and african-americans and a little bit easier on Christians, Jews, and conservative women.