When - for a brief moment - the Americans got it

Finally, I'd like to re-post something I wrote three years ago.

One of the immediate reactions to 9/11 here in Israel - crass though it
might have been - was "now the Americans will finally understand what
we've been going through." In the year leading up to 9/11, Israel had
suffered dozens of terror attacks. Parents looked to avoid putting their
children on public buses (in fact, we have