Israel, Syria, and the Proportionality of Outrage

[Thumpalumpacus]

This brings me to my questions:
Is my perception of the disproportionality of outrage displayed by Muslims towards the Israeli government and not the Syrian government a myth of my own making or is that a legitimate observation?
If this is the case, does it have more to do with the anti-Semitism that exists within the Muslim world and the Zionist cause simply inflames that?
Am I justified for feeling more of an affinity to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as an American, than I do towards the Syrian civil war?
Is it because the Syrian civil war involves multiple grotesque factions that are more or less on an equal footing while Israel-Palestine is a true example of an immensely exaggerated Goliath vs. David?

I think you're seeing a real phenomenon, not imagining things; Muslims may well be distraught about Syria, but they are outraged by Israel's actions, and not just in Gaza. I don't doubt that anti-Semitism plays a role in it (though Arabs are Semites as well, so perhaps anti-Jewish would be more accurate). I've been much more concerned about the civil war in Syria than the conflict between Israelis and Gazans, perhaps because the conflict has been going on so long that I'm inured to passionate feelings about it.

Syria, on the other hand, is a pretty important state in the region in terms of geographical location. Watching its factional civil war alongside the incipient civil war in Iraq is something I find much more worrisome, insofar as it threatens broad swathes of fallout: possibly a large fundamentalist Muslim state bordering two of our allies, the possiblity of that state having control over a significant portion of the world's oil reserves, and having Turkey destabilized by the formation of a Kurdish state. I don't know that any or all of those results will come to pass, but I see very little possibility for a "happy ending" there, from our perspective.

I'm somewhat embarrassed that I have given so much attention to the Israel-Palestine situation and have largely ignored the genocide in Syria.

Forgive the niggle, but what's going on in Syria is not genocide, but rather civil war.