September 11, No Commemoration in this School
By Barry Rubin
I remember vividly watching the World Trade Center afire eight years ago on American television, sitting at my desk in Tel Aviv. At one point the television announcer said: “Nothing will ever be the same.”
At that moment, I spoke back to the TV (actually it was my computer screen) by saying: “I don’t believe that at all.”
And indeed since then we’ve seen all too many examples of how things are the same, or worse; how lessons have been forgotten or turned into their opposite; how terrorists and their ideology and their supporters have been, shall we say, sanitized or ruled off-limits to criticism; and in some cases victims have been demonized.
Today, my ten-year-old son, Daniel, who is going to a Maryland public school for this year noticed that no mention was being made of the anniversary of the attacks that killed about 3,000 Americans, including some local residents who were on planes or were working at the Pentagon. He said the class should discuss it and the teacher replied they would do so at the end of the day.
I remember vividly watching the World Trade Center afire eight years ago on American television, sitting at my desk in Tel Aviv. At one point the television announcer said: “Nothing will ever be the same.”
At that moment, I spoke back to the TV (actually it was my computer screen) by saying: “I don’t believe that at all.”
And indeed since then we’ve seen all too many examples of how things are the same, or worse; how lessons have been forgotten or turned into their opposite; how terrorists and their ideology and their supporters have been, shall we say, sanitized or ruled off-limits to criticism; and in some cases victims have been demonized.
Today, my ten-year-old son, Daniel, who is going to a Maryland public school for this year noticed that no mention was being made of the anniversary of the attacks that killed about 3,000 Americans, including some local residents who were on planes or were working at the Pentagon. He said the class should discuss it and the teacher replied they would do so at the end of the day.
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