maybe the terrorists didn't want togo after hindi sites in a hindu country?

maybe there wasn't an active Christian center to attack - where the Jewish synagogues and meetingplaces and congregations would perhaps stand out more - to get more bang for the buck. Of Course it's a strike against Israel...but also it was NOT JUST Jews who were targeted -

i don't know enough about any of this but i am pretty sure that Jewish people aren't even suffering the most - what about bosnia and serbia and somalia and sudan and darfur and AFGHANISTAN???

for years i have wanted to see all Jews feeling as protective of ALL peoples - not to claim a greater suffering anytime in the past 50 years - Jewish people learned Very Well after the holocaust as well they should have - and they are ON the problem and it will NOT happen again... to them -

meanwhile it's happened to millions of others - civil rights workers in the South - andrew goodman comes to mind always when i think of heroes - but of course he wasn't killed for being Jewish - he was killed for being good and yes, evil hates good - it had nothing to do with being Jewish or even being a Yankee -

he is a hero as much as any soldier who ever threw himself on a grenade to save his buddies nearby -

i don't accept that Jewish people have suffered so especially over the centuries - and the long, long ordeal that slaves went through in this country - not just death but having your wife or mother or sister or daughter raped by a white man - we can see for ourselves, with our own eyes, Every Day blacks who have a bone structure or features that are living proof of an interracial sexual relationship, probably NOT consensual for the mother...

and Jewish people have banded together to protect and promote each other - in a way i hope oppressed people will be more able to do now - Barack Obama's win is uplifting millions and millions of people - i know because i have talked to hundreds and hundreds of them - and i am so happy to see a whole race of people make a quantum leap in feeling justifiably proud, and better, of themselves - some of the dear conversations i had this year - i will never forget the goodness of people who have every reason to be mad and embittered by too much wrong for too long over centuries to masses of their people -

did Jewish people suffer a disproportional loss relative to others? torture-murder is abhorrent to be done to anyone - i could care less if the victim is Jewish - i don't want to be lectured that i don't care enough about what is done to Jews - i care about everyone equally. period. and the Jews are NOT oppressed in their daily lives and whole lifetimes as people of color have been. But it isn't a contest. Forget hate-crimes... all crimes are hateful -

let's keep being good and if that makes any one of us more of a target for evil, well then it does. but the rewards of a good life lived to do good far outweigh the slim chance of being tortured-murdered for it. mostly, so many people will LOVE us for that. and that is a wonderful thing.

and while we are at it, could we join forces to STOP the sex trafficking of women and young girls - THAT seems to be hurting more people over years of their lives - i don't know how anyone recovers from that...

could we give up feeling that Jewish people suffer more or women or gays or whatever - and band together against the worst abuses going on that can be stopped with will and determination - could we all stop looking out for ourselves and look out for those suffering the most at any given time? in the 1940s, that was jewish people. now it's girls and women in the sex trade/trafficking - God knows the unspeakable horrors so many endure day after day, year after year, much longer than 4 or 5 years - let's stand for the most hurting people now - fix that or improve it substantially - and then move on to the next most hurting people - starving parents watching their children starve? i think that is a horror just as bad in a different way - to see a gluttonous greedy world that doesn't care enough to figure out how to distribute the food supply fairly... the callousness of that is a special evil because it is SO UNNECESSARY - dear God, we could solve this in 5 years if we decided it was as urgent as it, in fact, is - let us honor goodness, the goodness of rabbis and the patient suffering of so many who have nothing - by doing what we can so easily do to eradicate the evil of greed and gluttony in ourselves. Stopping terrorism and guerilla raids is harder and actually impossible - that kind of evil will always be with us to some degree - BUT feeding starving people when we have plenty? THAT we can do - and we can do it NOW - and we can do it in the name of the the dear rabbi and EveryOne who was terrorized and brutalized then and throughout human history...