One good answer I found was this:

The world does not care for Darfur because it is away from the prying eyes of the Media.

That's one reason. But it's not the only reason.

And there is two reasons for the one reason.

1.1. The laws of physics dictate that journalists can only report from places safe enough for journalists to escape alive.

While the horrible, horrible Gaza and Iraq are safe, some places in the world are not.

1.2. Journalists prefer living in luxury hotels and blaming Jews over living in wooden huts and blaming people who hit them when blamed.

This explains why journalists prefer to go after comparatively peaceful "evil" people who allow luxury hotels and journalists next to their "oppressed" victims.

But then there is another reason. You see, those who blame Israel for everything don't care about facts, reported or otherwise. And those who follow the media and care about what they hear tend to forget what they heard (although "Israel is evil" accumulates and creates more people of the first type).

Most people don't rely on media reports for their opinions about Israel. They rely on "common sense", which for liberals means that if there are serious accusations, the accused must be guilty.

I remember a case here on JU when someone told me that Israel use bulldozers to destroy homes of Arabs to replace them with Jewish settlements.

That's a typical accusation against Israe. I asked for a source.

I was told it was common knowledge. I asked for a source anyway.

The source I was finally given was a BBC article about how Israel used bulldozers to destroy a police station in Jenin during the "Intifada".

Turns out the media didn't even report this "common knowledge". The BBC actually did report only the facts (although the BBC didn't mention that the bulldozers were the alternative to bombing the building). But this report was enough. If Israelis use bulldozers to destroy a building during a war, it means they use bulldozers to destroy homes at any time. And if they destroy homes, it means they do it to replace the inhabitants with evil Jewish settlers, because that's what Jews do.

(And don't argue that this is not what Jews do because it's impossible for Israel to be innocent.)

So the second reason is all about what people want. The media report what people want to hear.

"300,000 dead in Darfur because we failed to act" is not as nice a message as "9 dead because of Israel and we can stop evil Israel if we intimidate local Jews enough and allow Hamas to launch rockets Israeli kindergardens".

2.1: The media report what people want to hear.

And then there is a third reason, something more sinister.

The third reason is about racism.

Ask anyone, liberal or conservative alike and you will find that most people have an expectation that _Africans_ and _poverty_ belong together just like _white people_ and _normal_ belong together.

This is why pictures of Darfur of black people walking miles through the desert to get water doesn't strike us as odd while (white) people in Gaza not having access to chocolate or advanced medical care appears to be a humanitarian disaster.

The truth is that the first is a real humanitarian disaster and it's OUR FAULT because we unleashed tha Arab imperialists on Sudan whereas the second is normal. Most people don't have access to medical care as good as Israel's.

We have all seen the pictures of starving Africans, so it's not like the media don't report it. It's not like the Kurdish question where the media simply won't report anything. (Most starving Africans live in very safe areas and could be helped if we gave less money to the "Palestinians" but that's perhaps beside the point.)

3.1: People have certain expectations about how non-Jewish white people ought to live.

3.2: People also have certain expectations about how Africans normally live.

That's why there is an outcry when Israel checks Gazans on their way to an Israeli hospital for bombs. And that's why most of us think it's normal for Africans to live in tents in the middle of the desert.

Did you ever think about this? Do you think human civilisations actually moved into the dry desert to live in broken tents? On a continent that has rivers and lakes all over the place? No, you see, and this is important, it is decidedly NOT normal for Africans to live in tents in dry deserts. It's something WE did to them. And that is a humanitarian crisis.

And I fecking don't do enough to change it.

While so many are eager to forget Africa and worry about the evil Jews instead, I worry about my own safety and allow people to die.

One thing I did was I decided to give the difference between my old and my new salary (I got a 8% raise) to a charity for Darfur in the first month. And I sometimes blog about Africa. But that's all.

It's not enough.

It makes me A LOT better than those "peace-activists" who are trying to destroy Israel in order to save the world, but I have no chance to get anywhere with this, not even an imagined chance.