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Murdered journalist Daniel Pearl’s reported last words, “I am a Jew, and my mother was a Jew,” are reminiscent of the conviction shown by the Holocaust victims Frankl recounts entering the gas chambers. Like many of the millions of innocent people who have died for their religion or their nationality in the past, Daniel Pearl’s death was an affirmation of his life...
...chilling brutality of this murder juxtaposed with Daniel Pearl’s last words illustrate three very important points. First, they show the honor and dignity of this great reporter; second, they represent a stark and awful demonstration of how evil the radical fanaticism of our enemy is; and finally they are an alarming indication of the intensity of the widespread anti-Semitism in much of the Muslim world...
...Daniel Pearl, it is said, did not take stupid chances. But the world, as we see, sometimes has horrible surprises...
...Still, I think I would rather have dinner - in Belgrade or Islamabad or Jerusalem - with people like Daniel Pearl than with either the faculty of Harvard University or the first 100 names in the Boston telephone book. Why? It's their knowledgeable, companionable talk, the stories that their curiosity has unearthed and accumulated - their confidence that the world is a fascinating place and that journalism, though it may sometimes be wrongheaded or squalid, is also critically important and, quite often, a huge amount of fun. Correspondents like Pearl are the true students of the world's diversity (as opposed...
...bias. Commentators, left and right, howl dogmatisms. Some of them take fat fees from companies like Enron in exchange for a few hogsheads of bloviation. But there should still be enormous respect and affection for the curiosity that you find in the eyes of real journalists, people like Daniel Pearl - not the mere shuck-and-jive entertainers and careerists but the intelligent ones who ask questions and respect facts...