another sign of change in the discourse

Susie Kneedler tells me that an ad on National Public Radio for today’s "All Things Considered" teases a story by saying that "Jewish terrorists of 1947 were the first terrorists of the modern era." Or words to that effect. Huh. I brought this up with pr pro Marion Dreyfus the other night at a party. "But they warned the people," she said of the Irgun blowing up the King David Hotel in ’46 (pictured).The Arabs never do that, said she. Does a flimsy warning excuse killing 91 people? Was Arlosoroff warned before Revisionists murdered him on the beach in Tel Aviv in ’33 after he’d made the mistake of speaking about living with the Palestinians? Was Rabin warned before a rightwing nut shot him? (I shouldn’t have got into an argument with Dreyfus. Should have said, It’s a cycle of violence. And where was my country in the cycle of violence in Iraq? It has not taken sides.)