Rabin:
Our english teacher forces us to pick some issue and talk about it for a few minutes and then to discuss it with everyone. How original.
Anyway, i'm next and since I couldnt find any normal issue I decided to make it about Rabin since today was the Rabin Memorial Day.
Since good grade=good discussion=controversial topic I decided to focus on the almost personality cult we see around him.
I have the first part ready, but I dont have enough material to prove my(absolutely correct) claims.
So, I expect by tommorow morning to see a long discussion on the issue, with facts, links and statistics.:doitnow!:
Anyway, I wrote the very beginning, here it is:
6 years ago, Yitzhak Rabin was assasinated when he was leaving a peace rally in Tel Aviv. The assassin, Igal Amir, opposed Rabin's ideology and believed that the things Rabin was doing and the decisions he was making would inevitably lead to the destruction of the State of Israel and decided to act. Like the true patriot he thought he was he decided to sacrifice himself to save his country and to kill Rabin.
This is how it always happens. A man, with this or another perverted ideology, decides that he is going to save his people by killing an elected political leader.
The lesson we need to learn from this assasination is the lesson of respecting democracy, respecting the choice of the majority and making sure that the next murder will never happen. But does this really happens?
In the official ceremonies, the ceremonies in the schools and the speeches of many politicians you can hear them talking about this issue, but what is the emphasis on? Is the emphasis on the importance of respecting democracy, as it should be, or on how wise, correct, brilliant and peaceloving Rabin was? In other words, do we teach the next generations the lesson learned from the murder, or do we simply encourage(I need some other word) personality cult? After all, if the deed of the murder itself is what matters, how Rabin is more important than [insert name here] who was killed in the teract in Hadera yesterday?
Is it really neccessary to hear about the Rabin legacy? Does his legacy is more important than the legacies of other prime ministers only because he was murdered? How essential is to tell in every opportunity that he was a good student and a good soldier? How many times we need to hear stuff like "he was a dedicated warrior in the battlefield and a determined warrior for peace"? And how do the youth who cried in the Rabin Square after his death different from those who cried after Stalin's death?
We also see that the only people who dare to critisise him are the Israeli far right wingers, but he sure deserves criticism. He was the one who gave guns to the Palestinian Authority.
Now i'm supposed to write the other opinion, and yadda yadda. Discuss.
Kidnapped Soldiers
(19:40) IDF: Kidnapped soldiers are most probably dead
By The Jerusalem Post Internet Staff
The likelihood that the three soldiers kidnapped by Hizbullah near Mount Dov on the Lebanese border more than a year ago are dead is very high, OC Manpower Maj.-Gen. Gil Regev said at a press conference in Tel Aviv a short while ago.
He said the intelligence information upon which the assessment is based is reliable. He did not identify the source of the new information.
He said IDF Intelligence now believes the three soldiers died shortly after being wounded during the kidnapping. However, he added that the IDF cannot say with certainty they are dead.
Earlier this evening, Regev met with the family of one of the soldiers and informed them of the IDF's assessment of the situation. He said he would meet with the other two families after the press conference.
Regev said the IDF will continue to search for the kidnapped soldiers and attempt to bring them home.
He had nothing to say about kidnapped Israeli businessman, reserve colonel Elhanan Tannenbaum, who was apparently abducted while on a trip abroad.
Taken from http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/10/29/News/News.37164.html .
Discuss.
UPI and Radiological Bombs
http://www.bid4assets.com/Newsroom/index.cfm?fuseaction=displaystory&storyid=277394
A) WTH are radiological bombs?
B) UPI - Is it a big, respectable and trusted news agency or just another rumour spreadingt one?
C) Discuss.
Our english teacher forces us to pick some issue and talk about it for a few minutes and then to discuss it with everyone. How original.
Anyway, i'm next and since I couldnt find any normal issue I decided to make it about Rabin since today was the Rabin Memorial Day.
Since good grade=good discussion=controversial topic I decided to focus on the almost personality cult we see around him.
I have the first part ready, but I dont have enough material to prove my(absolutely correct) claims.
So, I expect by tommorow morning to see a long discussion on the issue, with facts, links and statistics.:doitnow!:
Anyway, I wrote the very beginning, here it is:
6 years ago, Yitzhak Rabin was assasinated when he was leaving a peace rally in Tel Aviv. The assassin, Igal Amir, opposed Rabin's ideology and believed that the things Rabin was doing and the decisions he was making would inevitably lead to the destruction of the State of Israel and decided to act. Like the true patriot he thought he was he decided to sacrifice himself to save his country and to kill Rabin.
This is how it always happens. A man, with this or another perverted ideology, decides that he is going to save his people by killing an elected political leader.
The lesson we need to learn from this assasination is the lesson of respecting democracy, respecting the choice of the majority and making sure that the next murder will never happen. But does this really happens?
In the official ceremonies, the ceremonies in the schools and the speeches of many politicians you can hear them talking about this issue, but what is the emphasis on? Is the emphasis on the importance of respecting democracy, as it should be, or on how wise, correct, brilliant and peaceloving Rabin was? In other words, do we teach the next generations the lesson learned from the murder, or do we simply encourage(I need some other word) personality cult? After all, if the deed of the murder itself is what matters, how Rabin is more important than [insert name here] who was killed in the teract in Hadera yesterday?
Is it really neccessary to hear about the Rabin legacy? Does his legacy is more important than the legacies of other prime ministers only because he was murdered? How essential is to tell in every opportunity that he was a good student and a good soldier? How many times we need to hear stuff like "he was a dedicated warrior in the battlefield and a determined warrior for peace"? And how do the youth who cried in the Rabin Square after his death different from those who cried after Stalin's death?
We also see that the only people who dare to critisise him are the Israeli far right wingers, but he sure deserves criticism. He was the one who gave guns to the Palestinian Authority.
Now i'm supposed to write the other opinion, and yadda yadda. Discuss.
Kidnapped Soldiers
(19:40) IDF: Kidnapped soldiers are most probably dead
By The Jerusalem Post Internet Staff
The likelihood that the three soldiers kidnapped by Hizbullah near Mount Dov on the Lebanese border more than a year ago are dead is very high, OC Manpower Maj.-Gen. Gil Regev said at a press conference in Tel Aviv a short while ago.
He said the intelligence information upon which the assessment is based is reliable. He did not identify the source of the new information.
He said IDF Intelligence now believes the three soldiers died shortly after being wounded during the kidnapping. However, he added that the IDF cannot say with certainty they are dead.
Earlier this evening, Regev met with the family of one of the soldiers and informed them of the IDF's assessment of the situation. He said he would meet with the other two families after the press conference.
Regev said the IDF will continue to search for the kidnapped soldiers and attempt to bring them home.
He had nothing to say about kidnapped Israeli businessman, reserve colonel Elhanan Tannenbaum, who was apparently abducted while on a trip abroad.
Taken from http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/10/29/News/News.37164.html .
Discuss.
UPI and Radiological Bombs
http://www.bid4assets.com/Newsroom/index.cfm?fuseaction=displaystory&storyid=277394
A) WTH are radiological bombs?
B) UPI - Is it a big, respectable and trusted news agency or just another rumour spreadingt one?
C) Discuss.
But why dont we see it as a major headline everywhere???
