Alon Schwarz: Rare Outstanding Journalist Raising The Craft Of Truth Seeking To The Level Of Tragic Art
Battered By Hostile Interviewer—He's My Hero Now; I Know Exactly What This Feels Like And I Hope He Has a TON of Protection In All Forms, Because He Will Need It, For Making This Film, In 2019.
I didn’t think the interviewer was overly hostile. I noted that the film maker invoked The Holocaust twice as a possible justification for Israel’s 1948 war crimes.... surely the penny has dropped with him that if everything he was taught about 1948 was a lie or a half truth then the same would apply to the one event in his story that we are literally not allowed to question
Alon strikes me as another well-meaning guy who has not taken the time to study Islam or Jihad. The most relevant moment in this interview comes at 14 minutes in, when he essentially says the reason he made the film is because he feels that to have a dialogue with the Palestinians, i.e., "a future of positiveness and peace with our neighbors ", Israel has to concede it has hurt the Muslims ... and recognize their pain."
This is the standard view of liberals and the political Left everywhere when it comes to Islamic Jihad and Islamic aggression. "We are the cause of it and if we would just show (Sharia-compliant) Muslims some love, and that we mean them no harm, everything would be all right.".
Recall that Barack Obama adopted this posture, showed the Jihadis more love than any other president before him, and thereby prepared the grounds for more Islamic terror attacks in the USA than under any other presidency - Little Rock, Fort Hood, Boston Marathon, Vaughan Foods, Chattanooga, San Bernadino, Ohio restuarant, Orlando Pulse nightclub, Ohio State, NYC truck attack, etc. etc. etc.
Note there was not a single Islamic terror attack in the US under Trump.
The point is, when you are coming at the problem from the point of view that it is your own culture that is the problem, it is going to terribly skew your analysis, your positioning of the facts, and any suggested solutions you derive from either. To think the chronic nature of the Middle East conflict is Israel's responsibility is to ignore the inherently unyielding nature of 1400 years of violent Islamic Jihad. It is the elephant in the Middle East living room that nobody wants to talk about.
I didn’t think the interviewer was overly hostile. I noted that the film maker invoked The Holocaust twice as a possible justification for Israel’s 1948 war crimes.... surely the penny has dropped with him that if everything he was taught about 1948 was a lie or a half truth then the same would apply to the one event in his story that we are literally not allowed to question
Alon strikes me as another well-meaning guy who has not taken the time to study Islam or Jihad. The most relevant moment in this interview comes at 14 minutes in, when he essentially says the reason he made the film is because he feels that to have a dialogue with the Palestinians, i.e., "a future of positiveness and peace with our neighbors ", Israel has to concede it has hurt the Muslims ... and recognize their pain."
This is the standard view of liberals and the political Left everywhere when it comes to Islamic Jihad and Islamic aggression. "We are the cause of it and if we would just show (Sharia-compliant) Muslims some love, and that we mean them no harm, everything would be all right.".
Recall that Barack Obama adopted this posture, showed the Jihadis more love than any other president before him, and thereby prepared the grounds for more Islamic terror attacks in the USA than under any other presidency - Little Rock, Fort Hood, Boston Marathon, Vaughan Foods, Chattanooga, San Bernadino, Ohio restuarant, Orlando Pulse nightclub, Ohio State, NYC truck attack, etc. etc. etc.
Note there was not a single Islamic terror attack in the US under Trump.
The point is, when you are coming at the problem from the point of view that it is your own culture that is the problem, it is going to terribly skew your analysis, your positioning of the facts, and any suggested solutions you derive from either. To think the chronic nature of the Middle East conflict is Israel's responsibility is to ignore the inherently unyielding nature of 1400 years of violent Islamic Jihad. It is the elephant in the Middle East living room that nobody wants to talk about.