How To Win a Cosmic War
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Date: 25 November 2009
No Compromise, No Negotiation, No Surrender
This week, the anatomy of a “cosmic war.” Scholar Reza Aslan tells us that terrorist groups like Al-Qaeda are fighting a new kind of battle—it’s about identity, not land; ideas, not armies. And he says the war can’t be won. Our story originally aired in May 2009.
Reza Aslan, author of How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror
Israel’s Holocaust ‘Obsession’?
Begins at 22 min 30 sec
In a controversial new book, Avraham Burg argues that Israel is “stuck in Auschwitz,” using the Holocaust as the defining experience of Jewish identity. The former speaker of the Israeli Parliament says his country's preoccupation has led to an unhealthy nationalism that mourns the past, fears the future and feeds violence. Our story originally aired in June 2009.
Avraham Burg, author of The Holocaust is Over: We Must Rise from Its Ashes
Jews and The Shoah: Another View
Begins at 38 min 26 sec
Daniel Gordis also views Israel as Holocaust-centric, but doesn’t think it impacts Israeli politics as negatively as Burg suggests. He emphasizes Israel’s mandate to remember, and points out that the country was founded by survivors of the Holocaust. Our story originally aired in June 2009.
Daniel Gordis, author of Saving Israel: How the Jewish State Can Win a War That May Never End
