Like George Will and Rush
Like George Will and Rush Limbaugh, Frank Gaffney apparently believes that Israeli lives are worth more than American lives:
"...the United States has lately resumed its strident criticism of Israeli efforts to prevent terrorists from inflicting further damage on the Jewish State at a rate that is, calculated on a per capita basis, far in excess of the losses we suffered on September 11."
As I stated previously ("Counting Corpses, 12-18-01"), putting such mathematics into the service of an argument intended to elicit a moral response is manipulative at best. One human life equals one human life; that is the only legitimate equation. Even God himself did not value the Jews more because of the size of their population:
"The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people. But because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers." (Deuteronomy 7:7–8).
If God thinks that the relative size of a given population has no effect on its worth, why do Will, Limbaugh, and Gaffney?
