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...anyone possibly recommend watching the video of Daniel Pearl?s murder? On it, the terrorists who abducted the Wall Street Journal reporter in Pakistan force him to declare his Jewish heritage and condemn the U.S. government; they then saw the head off his limp body and brandish it while a list of demands scrolls up the screen. It is awful, evil, dehumanizing. But does that mean it?s not also a part of history? Last week a weekly newspaper declared that it was. The Boston Phoenix provided a link to the footage from its Web page and showed Pearl...
...Daniel Pearl was an innocent civilian whose family never volunteered for the spotlight. So were the victims of 9/11. But the debate over their images started as soon as the airplanes struck the World Trade Center. HBO?s recent documentary In Memoriam used amateur video to chronicle Sept. 11; as someone jumps to escape the flames, a voice off camera lectures, "Don?t take pictures of that! What?s the matter with you?" Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani defended the images, arguing that we have not only a right but an obligation to watch...
...unlike Pearl?s family, made her own choice. But Pearl?s murder too was an assassination, aimed at his country and his ethnicity. And the video is not simply raw footage of violence - the beheading scene is only a couple of seconds long - but a produced propaganda tape. Intercut with Pearl?s statement are war scenes from the Palestinian territories: an injured baby, Israeli soldiers. Using Muslim grievances to justify slaughtering a Jewish civilian should be insulting to all those whom the terrorists want to co-opt. But it evidently is not, given the terrorists? continuing ability to win recruits...
...learned about Pearl Harbor from a man whose shoes I was shining,” he recalls...
...sentiments shifted again after Pearl Harbor, and even in the late 1960s, when students began agitating for ROTC’s expulsion, over 100 students might participate in the program in any given year...