"Cui bono" is uncalled-for. It's a technique used by investigators and detectives trying to solve a crime.
I think Nadine was looking for sympathy and empathy from people who had suffered terrible losses and could possibly be expected to finally understand what Israel is facing.
Looking at it in retrospect, I, personally, couldn't possibly blame any Brit from feeling hope that Pearl Harbor would lead to active US engagement in warfare that might somehow take some of the pressure off themselves.
Not that most British would have wished Pearl Harbor on their worst enemy. And nobody had any reason to believe that Pearl Harbor might cause Hitler to declare war against the US, which was irrational.
WWII, unlike WWI, was an existential struggle against inconceivably brutal totalitarianism. Western Civilization itself hung in the balance.
Similarly, for Zionist Jews, Israel is engaged in an existential struggle. I don't think that Israelis or Zionist Jews wished injury on the US, but it's not immoral to hope that, having suffered a terrible blow, there might be fellow feeling. Many in the US felt that way after the bombing in Madrid, that 3/11 would be Europe's 9/11, that finally Europeans would understand what we are going through. |
