What can be worse than 9/11? What Israelis have experienced in the months immediately before and after the destruction of the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. If 3,000 Americans have been killed in a single horrible morning commemorated by the world, Israel has a very different Ground Zero, day after day, a suicide bomber after another.
In some ways the terrorism suffered by Israel has been worse than 9/11, especially because in a small nation like Israel terrorism produces a ripple effect through society. If 9/11 is now an emblem of evil remembered worldwide, Israel’s suffering has been deliberately forgotten.
We have read everything about the American mothers and fathers who didn’t came back home 10 years ago, the firemen, the survivors, the people who jumped from the Twin Towers, and the heroes of the flight that crushed in Pennsylvania. However, a demonic strategy of silence worked very well in the case of Israel: it’s as if the Israeli victims never existed.
Indeed, the “civilized” world should feel ashamed for leaving the Israelis alone during the Second Intifada.
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One of the feedback for this article. From Berlin.
Playing off victims against other victims ...
... that's for sure not heroic.
Ever thought about that 9/11 had the bigger effects on world history and that because 9/11 happend in the heart of world power no. 1 are the reasons why it got such extraordinary attention?
If you want you can find thousands, even millions more forgotten victims in many other countries (Sudan, Kongo, Cambodia etc etc) - but comparing them and their "value" with each other is in my eyes trampling on them just one more time again.
Peace and all the best to the families and the beloved of the victims in Israel and anywhere else in the world!
berlonski , berlin (09.08.11)
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