Looking at lives "in proportion"? Absolutely.
How have you missed that bit of salesmanship by which it's driven home to Americans the "real toll" of suicide bombings in Israel as if the horror that is indiscriminately terrorizing and taking of innocent, civilian human lives weren't sufficiently appalling on its face?
I believe one Israeli life counts for somewhere in the neighborhood of a couple thousand American lives. If I'm not mistaken, there was an article on the phenomenon recently.
It's a trial-attorney sort of world, I'm afraid.
Isn't that an unjustly cynical interpretation and condemnation of what they have said? I have yet to see such a suggestion at all. All I have seen is reference to population numbers not value of individual lives lost.
Referencing the proportional impact of x number of lives lost between countries is a very far cry from saying one life is worth more than another. The first is a legitimate statement on the impact upon a population, the latter is immoral.
One has to be paranoid at best to disregard face-value and extrapolate such a sinister message from a legitimate statistical observation.
That is untrue and utterly offensive. I am shocked you would write it.