Rosenbaum wrote

This is the double standard at work: Jews are somehow more wicked in their desire—and the means they chose—to survive when it forces them to make unwelcome choices.

Methinks this is the double standard of the "He started the fight, when he hit me BACK" variety.

For many Jews and Americans, here or in Israel, the "trouble" started when Palestinians decided to revolt, the first or 2nd intifada.

The insidious nature of Rosenbaums type of reasoning is that he equates jews and Palestinians in their victimhood, when the latter suffer about 4 times more casualties than Israelis, where the overwhelming majority of Israeli victims are soldiers, where for every Israeli kid which dies (and there are not many) there are 10 to 15 Palestinians children who die. So, if some jews, some Americans and all of Europe is more on the side of the Palestinians, it's not strange, it's a simple matter of numbers and underdog.

On a slightly cynical note, no other victims in history have received more media attention than the American and Jewish victims. About no group, are there more historic texts than about the six million jews. Don't get me wrong, everyone who has seen a movie about the cruel efficiency and massive processing of the death camps (especially those by uncensored German leftwingers), must agree to it's special place in history, even its evilness.

The 2750 sept. 11 victims are all known and remembered, not only by their immediate family but also their community.

Compare these victims to the nameless millions in Africa or even the Middle-East, who will never be remembered, who lie in unmarked graves around the world, and you'll see that the term "Upper Class Victim" when applied to Jewish and American victims is no exaggeration.

Jews are not more wicked in their desire to survival.

Israelis are more wicked in their misrepresentation of themselves as victims, while their own actions cause far greater suffering to a far more helpless opponent. It's hard to see for the rest of us, how a group with the support of the mightiest military and economic power in the world and in history, deserves the term victims.

All Saudi financial backing pales in comparison with the might of the US Tax dollar.

The failure of Israelis foreign policy has been that it hasn't firmly embedded it self economically with natural partners like the Lebanon, Jordan and Marocco.

It's complete dependence on one partner only, the U.S. taxpayer, has forced Israel in this uncomfortable position.

Conceded, it's extremely succesful in doing so, and as long as America backs it, it will BE succesful.

I just feel sorry for Natalie Portman and Woody Allen. But even more so for Edward Said.