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Article: I am a Jew and my father was a Jew: Danny Pearl and the failure of leadership. (Guest Column).
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- Alberta Report
- Article date:
- March 18, 2002
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In the summer of 1963, at the height of the Cold War, and within spitting distance of the thermonuclear abyss, American president John F. Kennedy stood before a crowd of Germans in West Berlin. In Bostonian-cadenced German, he famously proclaimed, "Ich bin em Berliner." ("I am a Berliner.") At the time, that wall-divided city was held fast by the claws and sinews of a formidable adversary, the formerly super-powerful Soviet Union. Memories of German responsibility for the Second World War were less than two decades old. It was an act of supreme political courage for an American president to identify himself with the besieged former enemies of the United States and the ...
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