How exactly could he have been a hero in such circumstances? How could he have resisted? No, Daniel Pearl was a victim. From the tone and content of his last words, he wasn't defiant, he wasn't assertive, he made no ringing declarations of anything - everything he said, he said under duress. I am a Jew.'" The way he "quietly defied his captors." That "as the world would later learn, Pearl never capitulated to his captors, acknowledging his nationality, his religion and his beliefs openly and proudly." I surfed some Jewish Web sites and found tributes to the way Pearl "stood up to his terrorist captors to assert his Jewish identity, illustrated by his last words, 'My mother is Jewish. I am a Jew." The words that came afterward have been edited out of his legend. Still, I was surprised to hear these last words because according to the legend of Daniel Pearl, his last words were, "My mother is Jewish. That's what hostages do - they have no choice and are in no position to resist. I WASN'T shocked, of course, that Pearl made such statements - he was being held captive by his soon-to-be executioners, and he recited any propaganda they told him to recite. And also the continued American military presence in Afghanistan." ![]() And the support for the dictatorial regimes in the Arab and left-wing world. Twenty-four uses of the veto power to justify massacres of children. "We Americans cannot continue to bear the consequences of our government's actions, such as the unconditional support given to the State of Israel. "We can't be secure, we can't walk around free as long as our government policies are continuing and we allow them to continue." ".this is the sort of problem that Americans are going to have anywhere in the world now." ".only now do I think about some of the people in Guantanamo Bay." All this was in line with the heroic story of Daniel Pearl as it has come to be known in the Jewish world, which was the story I knew.īut then I heard Pearl go on to say things I hadn't expected, that were completely out of character with the legend: I am a Jew." Then he went on to mention his father's Zionism, his family's trips to Israel and the street in Bnei Brak named for his great-grandfather. (Not to see the video, only to listen to the audio.) I heard the famous part, "My name is Daniel Pearl. I was surfing YouTube one day and decided, just out of curiosity, to listen to Daniel Pearl's last words. ![]() (function (a, d, o, r, i, c, u, p, w, m) (document) Rattling the Cage: Daniel Pearl's last words, uncensored - The Jerusalem Post
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