Interest without Proportion

Haven't you ever contemplated the extreme focus the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict gets in the media all around the world? And I am not talking only in the Western and Islamic regions: It also includes the post Soviet area, it also includes the far east (yes, also in China: people don't understand English there, but they've heard about Israel and it conflict with the Palestinians)
How come that at the edge of the western world (actually, a little further than that), at the edge of the Islamic world, in an extremely small area, with a relatively small population - one on-going conflict, one century old, is considered the conflict that needs most attending, most focus, drives most emotions than any other conflict in the world?...

It does not matter that eventually the area of the conflict is smaller than most countries in the world, heck, it is even smaller than wastelands in most countries in the world...
It does not matter that the size of the population involved in the conflict is smaller than most populations currently involved in conflicts, warfare or that are "simple" negated of any human right.
It does not matter that the casualties and damage are countless in comparison to latest wars conducted by Russia in the last decade, by the casualties in Afghanistan, by the violence and despair in numerous conflicts and massacres in Africa, by the number of deaths inflicted by Tyrannies or religious governments refusing their own people from freedom, rights and prosperity.

All that doesn't matter.
What matters is how wrong the Israeli government conducts itself and its people regarding the Palestinians. How they suffer.
What matters is how wrong the Terrorist groups sent by the name of Islam are in their approach toward the Western world and Israel in specific. How they suffer.

The truth is: it does matter...
But try to imagine, perhaps there is a small, tiny chance that if this conflict didn't have such a "great" rating around the world, if not so many emotions were forced on it by hundreds of media covering stories every day worldwide, perhaps, just perhaps, it would have been possible long ago to settle this thing?...