Terrorism and the Search for Justice

For decades, it seems, we've read and watched stories about suicide bombers in the Middle East. We process the information without emotion, as we do most news stories.  Then 9/11 happened and suddenly suicide bombers took on a new meaning for most Americans.  With that new understanding, award winning journalist Mike Kelly looks back at a story of a suicide bombing in Israel, that took place in 1996, years before 9/11.  The story, fraught with the humanity and frustration of loss, would have, if we knew better than, presaged so much of what’s happened since….in Israel, in Palestine, and in America.  Mike Kelly's story is Bus on Jaffa Road: A Story of Middle East Terrorism and the Search for Justice.My conversation with Mike Kelly: Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe