"In its extreme form, the logic of victimhood does not allow room for even the possibility of there being other victims."

Exactly. And it becomes the justification for any number of blitzkriegs, any number of invasions, any number of atrocities on the part of the eternal self-appointed victims (as they see themselves).

That's the emotional engine that drove Nazi Germany into WWII and the Final Solution, and it's the emotional engine that drives Israel. It is also becoming the emotional engine that drives Israel's most bitter Palestinian and Arab and Persian foes.

It sees only itself as victim, only its own terrorist acts as justifiable (even noble), only its own losses as something to mourn. The USA, since 911, has also fallen into that same psychological trap of imaginary victimhood and that will cause further death and suffering in distant places as a result.

It's very stupid and unproductive behaviour all around...but predictable, when people simply cannot see past their own victimhood complex.