Exclusive Audio: 9/11/01: Reactions To Horror in Jerusalem's Old City - Jewish, Arab, Christian
Podcast: www.davebrianbender.com
"On the evening of September 11th, 2001, I visited Jerusalem’s Old City to gather reactions in the wake of the attacks, as a reporter for The Jerusalem Post newspaper. While some Palestinians celebrated, calling it a fitting response to US support for Israel, other Christian and Muslim Arabs were dismayed by the scope of the horror.
"The experience was, for me and photojournalist Mati Milstein, one non-stop, audio-grabbing lope from the Damascus to the Zion Gates through the echoing length of the Old City's exotic warrens and souk:"...
As some of you may be aware, The Won is seeking to desecrate 9/11 as a "Day of National Service" instead, with the excuse that "We need to move on".
I recall, years ago when we were toppling the Taliban rule in Afghanistan, the Taliban leader Mullah Omar whining to some journalist that we should "Get over it!".
To which my response must be not only "No!", but "Hell No!!!".
Like many, I was at work on that day, learning of it when co-workers told me to check out CNN on the internet, and watched it play out, watching with horror when the buildings collapsed with so many still inside.
The next day, Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts, normally a fairly angry liberal, wrote a column ( reproduced at WTC Trbute - We'll Go Forward From this Moment ) in which he observed...
Let me tell you about my people. We are a vast and quarrelsome family, a family rent by racial, social, political and class division, but a family nonetheless. We're frivolous, yes, capable of expending tremendous emotional energy on pop cultural minutiae -- a singer's revealing dress, a ball team's misfortune, a cartoon mouse.
We're wealthy, too, spoiled by the ready availability of trinkets and material goods, and maybe because of that, we walk through life with a certain sense of blithe entitlement.
We are fundamentally decent, though -- peace-loving and compassionate. We struggle to know the right thing and to do it. And we are, the overwhelming majority of us, people of faith, believers in a just and loving God.
Some people -- you, perhaps -- think that any or all of this makes us weak. You're mistaken. We are not weak. Indeed, we are strong in ways that cannot be measured by arsenals.
And concluded with...
So I ask again: What was it you hoped to teach us? It occurs to me that maybe you just wanted us to know the depths of your hatred. If that's the case, consider the message received. And take this message in exchange:
You don't know my people.
You don't know what we're capable of.
You don't know what you just started.
But you're about to learn.
THIS is how I'll remember 9/11, for a VERY long time to come.
Sol -
Crazy thing happened. I actually commented at LGF for first time in long time... kind of feel like I'm almost a founding resident there, sordove... since 01.... on the latest spencer thread and went against the grain a bit with Charles... he answered me twice and then canceled my account "pre-emptively"...
Not that I care, I don't need to comment there though now I couldn't even search for my old comments there I guess without an account?
It's just really sad that that is what the blog world has completely devolved into... my gang over here on my turf and yours over there if you cross paths do it very gingerly and cautiously....
Except in this case wey're talking about a guy I had the utmost respect for and been reading his blog almost daily since 01 and met the guy in person... whatever that's worth...so you figure he knows I'm just posing a question when I go somewhat against the grain...
Not to put too much imptnce on it, but in the end it's kind of sad that the "blog wars" and discussion has devolved to the point that if even an "ally" and "fan" says something on a topic (Spencer and gang) that I guess are apparently hot spots for him that he just bans you and then brags about it... apparently he presumes that everyone or anyone that would question him is a troll plant? and can't even recognize the difference.
You could search my name and see my latest comments...
I emailed him a polite email as well and never heard a word back after being there 9 years....
ironically on the same night he complained that Powerline never returned his polite email regarding Wilders etc..., lol...
Take care.
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Great post!
We have several videos of that tragic day posted on COMMON CENTS...
http://www.commoncts.blogspot.com
Exclusive Audio: 9/11/01: Reactions To Horror in Jerusalem's Old City - Jewish, Arab, Christian
Podcast: www.davebrianbender.com
"On the evening of September 11th, 2001, I visited Jerusalem’s Old City to gather reactions in the wake of the attacks, as a reporter for The Jerusalem Post newspaper. While some Palestinians celebrated, calling it a fitting response to US support for Israel, other Christian and Muslim Arabs were dismayed by the scope of the horror.
"The experience was, for me and photojournalist Mati Milstein, one non-stop, audio-grabbing lope from the Damascus to the Zion Gates through the echoing length of the Old City's exotic warrens and souk:"...
Read More and Podcast: www.davebrianbender.com
As some of you may be aware, The Won is seeking to desecrate 9/11 as a "Day of National Service" instead, with the excuse that "We need to move on".
I recall, years ago when we were toppling the Taliban rule in Afghanistan, the Taliban leader Mullah Omar whining to some journalist that we should "Get over it!".
To which my response must be not only "No!", but "Hell No!!!".
Like many, I was at work on that day, learning of it when co-workers told me to check out CNN on the internet, and watched it play out, watching with horror when the buildings collapsed with so many still inside.
The next day, Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts, normally a fairly angry liberal, wrote a column ( reproduced at WTC Trbute - We'll Go Forward From this Moment ) in which he observed...
Let me tell you about my people. We are a vast and quarrelsome family, a family rent by racial, social, political and class division, but a family nonetheless. We're frivolous, yes, capable of expending tremendous emotional energy on pop cultural minutiae -- a singer's revealing dress, a ball team's misfortune, a cartoon mouse.
We're wealthy, too, spoiled by the ready availability of trinkets and material goods, and maybe because of that, we walk through life with a certain sense of blithe entitlement.
We are fundamentally decent, though -- peace-loving and compassionate. We struggle to know the right thing and to do it. And we are, the overwhelming majority of us, people of faith, believers in a just and loving God.
Some people -- you, perhaps -- think that any or all of this makes us weak. You're mistaken. We are not weak. Indeed, we are strong in ways that cannot be measured by arsenals.
And concluded with...
So I ask again: What was it you hoped to teach us? It occurs to me that maybe you just wanted us to know the depths of your hatred. If that's the case, consider the message received. And take this message in exchange:
You don't know my people.
You don't know what we're capable of.
You don't know what you just started.
But you're about to learn.
THIS is how I'll remember 9/11, for a VERY long time to come.
-
Sol -
Crazy thing happened. I actually commented at LGF for first time in long time... kind of feel like I'm almost a founding resident there, sordove... since 01.... on the latest spencer thread and went against the grain a bit with Charles... he answered me twice and then canceled my account "pre-emptively"...
Not that I care, I don't need to comment there though now I couldn't even search for my old comments there I guess without an account?
It's just really sad that that is what the blog world has completely devolved into... my gang over here on my turf and yours over there if you cross paths do it very gingerly and cautiously....
Except in this case wey're talking about a guy I had the utmost respect for and been reading his blog almost daily since 01 and met the guy in person... whatever that's worth...so you figure he knows I'm just posing a question when I go somewhat against the grain...
Not to put too much imptnce on it, but in the end it's kind of sad that the "blog wars" and discussion has devolved to the point that if even an "ally" and "fan" says something on a topic (Spencer and gang) that I guess are apparently hot spots for him that he just bans you and then brags about it... apparently he presumes that everyone or anyone that would question him is a troll plant? and can't even recognize the difference.
You could search my name and see my latest comments...
I emailed him a polite email as well and never heard a word back after being there 9 years....
ironically on the same night he complained that Powerline never returned his polite email regarding Wilders etc..., lol...
Take care.