The Middle East Crisis: Part 1

Welcome back to the Mid Atlantic Historic Walking Tour Podcast.  I want my listeners to know that there is no regular schedule for the publication of this podcast.  New episodes will be posted based on content availability and my time constraints.  I am temporarily refocusing the podcast towards study of the crisis in the Middle East.

I encourage my listeners to be critical thinkers and be wary of what they see, hear, and read in the media.  I am posting the excerpts in this series without expressing any opinion or judgment.  These excerpts are simply items that I have found useful in my study of the issues.  Listeners are encouraged to evaluate them in terms of their own belief systems.

I recently started listening to a talk show on WOR radio called "Lionel".  He is encouraging his listeners to study the complexity of the situation without judging the participants.  His primary message is that terrorism is a relative term depending on the perspective of the individual.  Therefore we should look beyond the archetypes of good and evil and understand all perspectives of the problem.

The following link contains the first hour of his commentary about events in the Middle East when they first started happening.  All of his recent shows are available as a podcast from WOR at http://wor710.com

http://podcast.wor710.com/wor/20190.mp3


To subscribe to Lionel's podcast, add the following link to your podcatcher:

http://wor710.com/pages/podcast/406.rss

Lionel's homepage can be found at:

http://www.lionelonline.com

I think we now can update a famous saying to read: "The podcast is mightier than the sword".

I am also reading a book titled "Inheriting the Holy Land" by Jennifer Miller, in which she discusses her experiences with Seeds of Peace (http://www.seedsofpeace.org),  an organization that helps children and teens of various cultures learn conflict resolution skills.  The website for the book is:  http://inheritingtheholyland.com

Remember: Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.  Appeasement did not work with Hitler.