"Singled out" - if only. It enjoys the increasingly uncritical - see the breaking news re Trump admin's cutting funds to UNRWA - support of the world's only superpower, which is all that matters at the end of the day. The EU countries are, too, complicit in the caging of Palestinians in Gaza and the apartheid regime instilled in the WB. Whatever toothless resolutions are passed in the UN are blocked by the US.
The "conflict" (funny calling it this seeing how power is distributed between the two sides) does attract a great deal of attention and scrutiny - it is the symbolic epicenter of the resistance of non-white people against colonial oppression. It's not the biggest conflict in the region, but it's one hell of a bone in its proverbial throat. It's at the bottom of a lot of the alienation and militarism that issue from that region. And it's turning Israel into a nation in the image of a fascist like Naftali Bennett, never mind a prime minister who talks like this:
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Ultimately, the reason why I believe a boycott on Israel is important is for its own good. You cannot keep practicing apartheid in 2018.
The Arab states made a tragic mistake of historic proportions when they failed to make the distinction between "Jews" and "Zionists," driving their Jewish communities out - one of the many tragedies sparked by Zionism.