It is exactly the step of "comforting" themselves in thinking that there are those "evil countries" (not isntreal, mind you, that's a misunderstood blessing, my master told me) where it is infinitely worse. I just told my mom about a documentary about China and how it was quite poor (western docu) and she just went: Don't you know that they kill thousands of people every year? Like sure mom, the evangelical Zionist propaganda piece that wants your money to help settlers and foreign agents is sure telling you the truth (she did not want to tell me the source ).