I heard part of this on the radio, and it was so bizarre that I listened to the whole thing online.
I heard part of this on the radio, and it was so bizarre that I listened to the whole thing online.
This is SO messed up, on so many levels, in so many ways. Aside from the wack job conspiracy theories, which, my god people are stupid. This is a terrifying view of imnsho cold, calculating extremism. Something that is not unique to any one group, any one label.
There's also, sadly, a small but critical blind spot (sounds to me, anyway) where they talk about the fact that for whatever reason, the authorities in Israel just didn't think an Israeli, especially a Jewish one, no matter how radicalized, would kill an Israeli. That's a horrible, sad lesson. Now we all call that "domestic terrorism", I guess to separate it from "those people" being just "terrorists", because even we still keep assuming that it had to be someone else, someone from outside. No American would do that (implied in America). I'm not sure we've learned it, yet.
It's also a really valuable question as to what difference it might have made if Rabin had lived and signed the Oslo peace accords, and what that might mean to what is happening now, and what could happen in the future.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/570/the-night-in-question#play
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/570/the-night-in-question#play
This is SO messed up, on so many levels, in so many ways. Aside from the wack job conspiracy theories, which, my god people are stupid. This is a terrifying view of imnsho cold, calculating extremism. Something that is not unique to any one group, any one label.
There's also, sadly, a small but critical blind spot (sounds to me, anyway) where they talk about the fact that for whatever reason, the authorities in Israel just didn't think an Israeli, especially a Jewish one, no matter how radicalized, would kill an Israeli. That's a horrible, sad lesson. Now we all call that "domestic terrorism", I guess to separate it from "those people" being just "terrorists", because even we still keep assuming that it had to be someone else, someone from outside. No American would do that (implied in America). I'm not sure we've learned it, yet.
It's also a really valuable question as to what difference it might have made if Rabin had lived and signed the Oslo peace accords, and what that might mean to what is happening now, and what could happen in the future.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/570/the-night-in-question#play
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/570/the-night-in-question#play
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