Judea Pearl

So once you have the idea of playing, what will prevent it from playing with us as instrument for his or her understanding, yeah?

For instrument for environment.

It becomes part of its environment.

My son's tragedy pushed me into public life.

And my interest with the social problem and cultural problem, the way you are describing.

I started the foundation after his death with the same belief that it's a matter of communication, dialogue with people.

between the East and West, Jews and Muslims.

And I got pushed into that very heavily.

And I started, together with the Pakistani scholar, we started the Daniel Pearl Dialogue between Muslims and Jews.

And we went from town to town and we had the meetings and the discussions, audience discussions.

I even took a trip, which I describe in the book, a trip to Doha in 2005.

as part of the conference to bridge East-West relationship and to understand what prevents the Muslim world or the Arab world, the Muslim world, yeah, from modernizing and become enlightened as we are.

And I was very, very, that was the first time that I found the barriers which I didn't believe exist.

And this was the barrier of Israel.

We came there with the idea that they would like American help in getting modernized and progressive.

And we came out, my conclusion is that they had a different idea in mind.

And we are talking here about moderate Muslim scholars from all over the Muslim world gathering in Doha for this conference, the purpose of which was what can an American do to speed up the process of progress and democratization of the Muslim world.

And their idea was, if you want us to modernize, we'll give you that favor.

We are going to do you the favor of modernizing ourselves on one condition.

We want Israel head on a tray, on a silver platter.