IsraeliBlogger, there are some Arab nations who are amongst the world's richest countries thanks to their oil, and human rights aren't much better over there. Would you trade places with a woman in Saudi Arabia? I agree %100 that Israelis are not enough aware of the region they live in (personally I think it's mostly due to our amazingly lame media, but that's another matter...) but the attempts to somehow equate both sides are very simplistic, in my opinion.