The War on Terror המלחמה בטרור

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"As an immigrant, these approaches are shocking. Basic "War on Terror" concepts vs terrorism came from Israel. Yet Israel has forgotten them."

Yes, one plan is to put together a regular show where we discuss topics, maybe we'll field some questions as opposed to the straight lecture type talks. There have been requests, there have been some followings and asking for me to do more talks like that. I understand, it's not necessarily me, it's a product of where I grew up.

Obviously, anyone who's in the know could hear my accent and know I came from New York City. Professionally, I grew up in a time post around 9-11, post 9-11 during the war on terror, and I think that brings an opinion and a source of opinions that for some reason, those thoughts and those ideas have left the general Israeli psyche. They've been left with these much softer, much more delicate approaches, which is completely incompatible with the Arab world.

As an immigrant, as an oleh, I didn't just arrive, but as an immigrant, some of these ideas are shocking to me, and probably shocking to many Americans who come over in my age group, who lived through and grew up through the post 9/11 and 9/11 world, and understood the War on Terror, and knew that these were very, very basic ideas of how to deal with terrorism.

Basic, because they came mainly from how Israel used to deal with them, not negotiating with terrorists. That used to be an Israeli principle, and now they're the main ones who negotiate.