Haviv Gur's Japan analogy is prescient. Your Ramallah encounters expose Palestinians' perverted, inverted world view. How do they get to think that way? Education. From nursery to university and Tik-Tok. But Islamic fanaticism can, CAN be defeated, transformed, not only on the battlefield, but more fundamentally in the classroom. It will…
Haviv Gur's Japan analogy is prescient. Your Ramallah encounters expose Palestinians' perverted, inverted world view. How do they get to think that way? Education. From nursery to university and Tik-Tok. But Islamic fanaticism can, CAN be defeated, transformed, not only on the battlefield, but more fundamentally in the classroom. It will take a generation -- all right, two --, but it must begin now or we look forward to more October 7th's and 9-11's, living with King Kong on the other side of a big wall. Imperial Japan was destroyed with atomic bombs, and then resurrected in classrooms, re-cultured, Westernized. In 1945 one would have been crazy to predict that today's baseball stars would be Japanese.
Haviv Gur's Japan analogy is prescient. Your Ramallah encounters expose Palestinians' perverted, inverted world view. How do they get to think that way? Education. From nursery to university and Tik-Tok. But Islamic fanaticism can, CAN be defeated, transformed, not only on the battlefield, but more fundamentally in the classroom. It will take a generation -- all right, two --, but it must begin now or we look forward to more October 7th's and 9-11's, living with King Kong on the other side of a big wall. Imperial Japan was destroyed with atomic bombs, and then resurrected in classrooms, re-cultured, Westernized. In 1945 one would have been crazy to predict that today's baseball stars would be Japanese.