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... |