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Article: The Extremist Within
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- Herizons
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright Herizons Winter 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The Extremist Within.
A peacekeeper slain on his own turf.
The emotions cascade one by one. First, anger at the stupidity of it, then fear of repugnant reprisals sure to come, then, speaking as a Jew, a palpable sense of relief at news that the violence has come from inside the Jewish Israeli community.
I felt that same sense of relief at the news that a white American male was responsible for exploding the calm of a government building in Oklahoma. Finally, I thought, Americans have to dispense with the old polarities and stereotypes. These weren't Arab terrorists intruding on American life. These guys came out of America's inner core.
In the of Yitzhak Rabin's death, too, Israelis have ...