Jeffrey Goldberg: How "alien" is Hamas' "apocalyptic thinking" to Americans?
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Jeffrey Goldberg, asked by Michael J. Totten what he learned from talking to Hamas, responds: A first-hand understanding of how they think. People in the United States find it hard to understand how people in Hamas and Hezbollah think. It’s alien. It’s alien to us. The feverish racism and conspiracy mongering, the obscurantism, the apocalyptic thinking – we can’t relate to that. Every so often, there’s an eruption of that in a place like Waco, Texas, but we’re not talking about 90 people in a compound. We’re talking about whole societies that are captive to this kind of absurdity.
Jeffrey Goldberg: How "alien" is Hamas' "apocalyptic thinking" to Americans?
Jeffrey Goldberg: How "alien" is Hamas…
Jeffrey Goldberg: How "alien" is Hamas' "apocalyptic thinking" to Americans?
Jeffrey Goldberg, asked by Michael J. Totten what he learned from talking to Hamas, responds: A first-hand understanding of how they think. People in the United States find it hard to understand how people in Hamas and Hezbollah think. It’s alien. It’s alien to us. The feverish racism and conspiracy mongering, the obscurantism, the apocalyptic thinking – we can’t relate to that. Every so often, there’s an eruption of that in a place like Waco, Texas, but we’re not talking about 90 people in a compound. We’re talking about whole societies that are captive to this kind of absurdity.