Meryl Yourish notes that since September 2000, Israel has seen more than 7,000 people killed or injured in terrorist attacks of its population of 5.4 million Jews . . . she asks how many September 11ths that adds up to, proportional to the U.S. population. Of course, when you check the link to the IDF statistics, it’s 928 killed and the rest wounded, including soldiers; the actual number of civilians killed is 653. If you just compare the 7,000 to the 3,000 or so killed on September 11, it’s more than 100 times our loss; if you compare the 653 number, it’s more like ten September 11ths. But no matter how you splice the numbers, it’s a heck of a lot of blood spilled in four years. It’s something to chew on, before condemning the Israelis for anything.