I explained in my first column why there was opposition to American policy. You say, Rebecca, that you have been given a fresh new perspective on things by experiencing bomb scares in London. Well, ask yourself why there would be bomb scares in London. Think about how many hundreds of thousands of Africans, Asians, Irish, Scots or Arabs have died at the hands of British colonialism. I'm not justifying terrorism, but we do need to investigate why these things occur.
Chances are, there are reasons for it.
It is the job of the reporter to find out what they are. It is good, Rebecca, that you got out of this area to see what is happening elsewhere in the world. I had an opportunity to do that as well. I lived in Israel for a year on a Kibbutz, where we would hear daily reports of young Arabs and Jews dying from violence, waiting to hear if we knew anybody killed that day. We had to be specially careful not to leave bags unattended at bus stations because the police would assume they were terrorist bombs.