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Ummm... I think I disagree. Here's why...
2002-08-02
DEAD AMERICANS [Jonah Goldberg]
I can't shake the feeling that the murdered Americans at Hebrew University are being treated differently because they're Jewish. Or perhaps, it's more appropriate to say it's because they're Jewish Americans in Israel. If five Americans — Jewish or otherwise — were killed at a French or German or Indian university, I can't help but think that the media and political class would make a much bigger deal. Yes, I know there are some sticky issues involved here, but that doesn't make it any less true.
I actually don't feel more indignant about the Americans that Hamas killed than I do about the Israelis. Atrocity is atrocity, no matter who gets the blast. I get howling mad, or at least as howling mad as repeated exposure allows, at each meatloaf blast, every time a gunny invades a home and kills all the kiddies he can find, every time a Bat Mitzvah or Passover dinner or disco is shot up. The victims can be American Jews, Sabras, Yemeni Jews, Russian Jews, Israeli Arabs, or Israeli Esquimeaux with parkas and mukluks and harpoons, each one's a crime. You can't feel angrier when the needle on the snarl meter is already pegged. I don't think I'm the only one who feels this way, either...
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#5  From A RELIGION,Islam, that is. Jonah is right. The Americans killed at LAX on July 4th were brushed off too. "Ho hum, it's only Jews"&"This will NOT be terrorism,by decree of the State" said the FBI.The same ones who said "Saddam will NOT be involved in Okla. City Bombing...only Rush Limbaugh!"Wake up,Sparky, We're All Isrealis Now!
Posted by: Ich Bin Ein Isreali   2002-08-03 06:54:56  

#4  From A RELIGION,Islam, that is. Jonah is right. The Americans killed at LAX on July 4th were brushed off too. "Ho hum, it's only Jews"&"This will NOT be terrorism,by decree of the State" said the FBI.The same ones who said "Saddam will NOT be involved in Okla. City Bombing...only Rush Limbaugh!"Wake up,Sparky, We're All Isrealis Now!
Posted by: Ich Bin Ein Isreali   2002-08-03 06:54:25  

#3  Can we leave the word "sacred" out of this? That's exactly how this whole mess got started. Why is a church more sacred than a school, after all? All this violence springs from RELIGION.
Posted by: Sheryl   2002-08-02 14:14:36  

#2  A school's certainly no more sacred than being in church, and I'd hesitate to call it any more sacred than a 5-year-old's bed or even a young girl's Bat Mitzvah. I can't get fired up over the "idealistic people [who] were seeking peace," perhaps because my own idealism has long since been covered with flies and offal. Evil is evil, whether the person getting killed is an American student or some poor schlub with a ragged turban in Kashmir.
Posted by: Fred   2002-08-02 12:35:33  

#1  Basically I agree... but there is something about it being at a school that makes me crazy... and a school where idealistic people were seeking peace. I'd like to see the USA speak out about that.
Posted by: Roger L. Simon   2002-08-02 12:03:22  

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