Crime I Met Yaron Lischinsky the Day Before He Was Murdered


I met Israeli diplomat Yaron Lischinsky 30 hours before his murder. It was around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday. I was leaving the Middle East Forum’s annual policy gathering at a hotel in Washington, D.C., a little early in order to decompress before the evening session and catch one of the final episodes of “Around the Horn.” Lischinsky’s conference nametag caught my eye as I hurried towards the elevators. In my line of work, you are all but obligated to strike up notebook-free conversations with diplomats whenever one happens to be sitting alone outside a hotel ballroom. I turned around and backtracked down the concourse. So you work for the embassy, I said to this clean-shaven man with pleasant cantilevers of wavy hair who looked a decade younger than me, and who turned out to be a researcher in the embassy’s Middle East policy division. I mentioned I had only been to the Israeli mission once, but had been amused by the complex’s proximity to its Chinese counterpart. Seems like you work in an interesting neighborhood, I observed. Yes, he replied, there are always protesters, sometimes for them, sometimes for us, though he added that the pace and intensity of the anti-Israel picketers had lessened in recent months.

Lischinsky is now dead, and we were speaking informally, realities which make it both unfair and unethical for me to share any more of what he said to me. At some point Yemen came up—the former foreign minister of the country’s internationally recognized government was speaking at the conference later that night—and I found myself explaining the long-ago American domestic politics of the Yemen conflict to someone who I assumed was too young and maybe too new to Washington to know much of anything about these bygone local controversies. He listened attentively, cracking a smile when I observed that the American effort to stop the Saudi and Emirati campaign against the Houthis, and the subsequent removal of the Houthis from the U.S. terror list, represented the biggest progressive foreign policy victory of the past decade.

Maybe he knew all about it already. But I am no longer all that young, and at 37 I have an ever-growing awareness that my own knowledge and sensibilities already belong somewhere in the past, and in any case this soft-spoken, cerebral, and unflappably diplomatic Israeli instantly struck me as the kind of person who had trained himself to absorb more information than he gave away. I asked for his business card. He handed me one and said I could get in touch if I was ever in Washington and wanted to visit the embassy again.

In my experience the diplomats of the Jewish state are among the least Israeli of Israelis. They are restrained and secular and quiet and usually know how to dress themselves; they speak with every possible accent, and it’s hard to imagine them whacking at a matkot ball, fighting their way onto a bus, or davening during halftime of a basketball game. They are the normal and cosmopolitan faces of a rambunctious and inherently tribal country. But it is the tension between the rigors of diplomacy and the character of their homeland that also makes them deeply Israeli: whatever their religious practice and whatever their politics, Israeli diplomats are inevitably Jews among the nations, a tiny sub-tribe that serves as the official foreign representation of the world’s only Jewish state, the first in 2,000 years and one of the most hated and lied-about countries in the entire history of humankind. To carry out this mission for fairly low pay on behalf of an often-dysfunctional foreign ministry, in places far from home where spies and activists and journalists and local Jews are circling you or even actively targeting you at any given moment, requires a typically Israeli mix of creativity, resourcefulness, and optimism. An American or even an Egyptian diplomat can coast on the prestige of their government, but an Israeli one cannot. They have a job that can’t be done on auto-pilot.

Moreover, they have a job that can’t be done without great personal investment. It is challenging work representing an unpopular country with a self-sabotaging government, and it carries its own special burdens. In Oslo, some years ago, the Israeli ambassador calmly explained to me what had and hadn’t changed since riots at the embassy gates in both 2008 and 2009. Over the past 70 years, Israeli diplomatic facilities have been the target of state-backed terror plots in India, the UK, Thailand, Turkey and of course Argentina, where Iran blew up the entire embassy. In 1973, Black September-hired gunmen murdered Yosef Alon, an IDF colonel and the military attaché in Washington, outside his Maryland home.

When we shook hands and parted ways I noticed how different Lischinsky was from the great majority of Israelis I’d ever met, but also how typical he was of the country he represented. This was a smart kid, I thought, one who knows not to reveal too much to strangers in public fora but who is evidently dedicated to his thankless, indispensable work. He was friendly without being falsely familiar; he seemed to know it would be unseemly to share too much about his work at the embassy, but somehow undiplomatic or even dishonest to share nothing at all. Israelis, including the quieter diplomats, are generous enough in spirit never to completely hide themselves. Lischinsky also had one of the most crucial of all Israeli qualities: youth.

How do we repay the service and dedication of Yaron Lischinksy and his would-be fiancée Sarah Milgrim, a fellow embassy staffer murdered right beside him? One should study Jewish texts and undertake mitzvot in their memory, as the tradition teaches us to. Then we should look ahead to the predictable consequences of this horror and resist them as best we can.

Security, and the constant expectation of catastrophe that inspires our vast and expensive infrastructure of safety, are among the defining characteristics of American Jewish life in the 21st century. We are so used to going through a metal detector to enter a JCC or a synagogue that we no longer even think about the logic behind it or the possibility of any better way of living. Already it’s considered normal that Jewish and explicitly Israel-related events are conducted in quasi-secrecy, with their times and locations withheld until the last second. Israel-phobic intimidation has triumphed even in New York, where Israeli films don’t get screened, Israeli cultural events are scarcer than ever, and Israeli restaurants sometimes hide the national origin of the cuisine they serve. The murder of embassy staffers outside a Jewish museum a short walk from the National Mall is sure to hypercharge everyone’s worst fears, making us vulnerable to the rise of elaborate new bureaucracies, protocols, and mental habits that may never go away. But at no point in the past 5,000 years has it ever been risk-free to be a proud representative of the Jewish people. Total safety is an illusion—we can dream up novel ways of being quiet or careful, but we also know there are inherent risks to being who we are that no amount of caution or care can eliminate. Past a certain point, a safety obsession becomes a convenient alternative to dealing with other, tougher things.

One such thing, worthy of hard consideration: America is now a country where significant numbers of young people don’t really read, attend religious services, have sex, date, or even socialize, opening up a void of meaninglessness that destructive and often foreign agendas can fill. The alleged Washington killer is a 31-year-old activist who reportedly was affiliated at one point with the Chicago branch of the pro-China Party for Socialism and Liberation, which is one of the organizing forces for radical activists in cities across the U.S. A month ago, I wrote about how violent fantasies had become unremarkable within the anti-Israel scene in Pittsburgh, to the point that a Lebanese-born Air Force reservist and a local pastor’s daughter active in the city’s BDS movement built and detonated at least four homemade bombs as part of an inchoate plot against their Zionists enemies. A small but highly motivated contingent of our country’s anti-Israel extremists, brought together through conviction and a lack of any stronger motivator in life, believe the time for nonviolent protest has passed.

They are a threat to Jews and to American social harmony in general, but at least they understand the nature of the war they’ve convinced themselves, and each other, that they are in. Our enemies are dedicated people with a rapidly weakening sense of moral constraint. Thus they impose upon us the urgent need for an equal seriousness. They force us to face a hostile world without apology, without recklessness, without delusion, and without fear—to face it like the young man I met outside a hotel ballroom who had only 30 hours left.
 
you mean the secular country
"Likud respectfully reprimands their coalition partners that it is not the governments platform to strip non-jewish women naked in the town square and whip them with belts"
that lets christians do whatever they want and administer their own religious sites?
Unless of course they are Palestinian, in which case they sniper women taking shelter in their churchs. Or defend their little kikelets spitting on christian pilgrims as jewish tradition.

Your time is nearing done, Christ-killer. Enjoy it.
 
See the kikery in action!
you're a retard.

the act of shooting people outside of the AJC event was inherently a targeted political act because he did this as an act to protest Israel's actions.

The randomness that I was talking about is that when the shooter shot the two random people, he hit two people that happened to be leftist zionists that worked in the Israeli embassy. He had no idea that he was shooting people who worked for Israel. In his view, he just shot two random Jews.

I know it's hard for wignats to understand nuance but come on.

"Likud respectfully reprimands their coalition partners that it is not the governments platform to strip non-jewish women naked in the town square and whip them with belts"

this didnt happen. what is it with inbred brownoids here making up stuff that didn't happen
 
The first problem with the killing is that it happened in America. This makes America look bad. The second problem is that there is a growing faction of violent anti-whites. I wish the stupid, and very much white jews hadn't started this shit, but here we are. Thanks guys! The third problem is that this will be used as a rallying cry by fucking idiot boomers to support Israel more without doing jack shit about the anti-white propaganda getting thrown at everyone.

Also, American Jews =/= Israelis, so your side's tendency to conflate the actions of both is pretty dumb, but then again, your profile pic is a swastika made out of the word "nigger" and a fantasy huwaifu you'll never have irl because you're too busy arguing on an image board while all the girls in your neighborhood are probably knocked up by Tyrese and Jose.
Lol, typical kike. Always spreading bullshit about race-mixing. Also lol at the idea American leftist jews aren't similar, or connected to Israel leftist jews. What bullshit.
 
this didnt happen. what is it with inbred brownoids here making up stuff that didn't happen
I was being facetious, I thought with your people's high verbal IQ yoohud get it. Beyond Likud the remaining members of their coalition are retarded, truthfully inbred parties, are Jewish Orthodox creeps. Who would happily impose a islamist style government over israel. Your ethnic solidarity and media control getting some dumb rave whore to be 2nd place in Eurovision doesn’t change any of this.

And I am 6 gorrilionfold whiter than you. Your JIDF talking point about sowing opposition to jew worship bt associating it with being a smelly brown thing won't work in the same way your whining about this lanky kike being a supposed christian works on boomers. It is over for you a
Kristaus killers. I am being kind by asking you to enioy the evening of it all.
 
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Beyond Likud the remaining members of their coalition are retarded, truthfully inbred parties, are all Jew Orthodox creeps. Who would happily impose a islamist style government over israel.
with no chance of ever getting a majority so it's irrelevant. only a retard would believe that the govt would be taken over by the haredim

And I am 6 gorrilionfold whiter than you.
never claimed to be white so
 
By that logic, you shouldn't care about the attack on the embassy in Benghazi, because people die every day. Someone said on the original thread about the attack that the attack on diplomats should be considered a massive red line for all the societal implications that result, which I'm inclined to agree with.

Also, American Jews =/= Israelis, so your side's tendency to conflate the actions of both is pretty dumb, but then again, your profile pic is a swastika made out of the word "nigger" and a fantasy huwaifu you'll never have irl because you're too busy arguing on an image board while all the girls in your neighborhood are probably knocked up by Tyrese and Jose.
The logic is that jews as a group have created the current cultural environment in the US and all the sociopolitical problems along with it.

Them dying in the racially diverse hell hole they created for us is something to be supported. I'm glad this happened to them. Fuck them.

And these were literally Israeli diplomats you fucking tard. It's not like they weren't a part of the very machine that created the circumstances of their own murder.

Nice of you to fantasize about BBC when your jewish tricks fail you though.
 
One such thing, worthy of hard consideration: America is now a country where significant numbers of young people don’t really read, attend religious services, have sex, date, or even socialize, opening up a void of meaninglessness that destructive and often foreign agendas can fill.
Most of the article sucks, but this is at least is something to think about.
 
. I mentioned I had only been to the Israeli mission once, but had been amused by the complex’s proximity to its Chinese counterpart. Seems like you work in an interesting neighborhood, I observed
It's Embassy Row, you stupid piece of shit. Of course the Chinese embassy and Israeli embassy are near each other.

Most of the major embassies in DC are on Embassy Row. It's several streets in the same concentrated area.

Even a dumbass journo should know this. The now-dead guy must have thought this writer was an absolute idiot.

God I hate journos.
 
The logic is that jews as a group have created the current cultural environment in the US and all the sociopolitical problems along with it.

Them dying in the racially diverse hell hole they created for us is something to be supported. I'm glad this happened to them. Fuck them.
Israelis and American leftist Jews are a world apart lol in politics

i know you're a wignat and naturally retarded but i genuinely hope you can tell the difference between assassinating specific people who are threats to the state and randomly executing two people who you didn't know were Israeli
 
with no chance of ever getting a majority so it's irirrelevant.
On retarded burgers that might work, but we both now that's not true. If we remove Likud and New Hope from the coalition, that is 31 out of 120 seats, and you are telling me the "spit on the christian" and "Be a yeshiva retard" parties are irrelevant? They never have a chance of getting a majority alone( well give it 30 years , the secular whores of israel will be replaced) but they are coalitioned with one right now. This is my final post on the matter out of respect. If Lischinksy was properly baptised, may he rest with the Saints. You kikes are at the end of the rope, drop gracefully at the very least.
 
this didnt happen. what is it with inbred brownoids here making up stuff that didn't happen
never claimed to be white so
I remember when you cried a fucking river about me being racist and went on some big bullshit spiel about how Jews don't see race and Israel was for all races, as long as they were Jews.

You're not having any difficulty here identifying race.
Huh.
Funny that.
 
Anyway this could have gone in the thread about the incident. The alleged shooter is still a retard unable to accomplish anything than getting people who supported him put under heavier scrutiny, I remain unimpressed about all the kvetching about how the deaths of these low level retards is a red line that must be addressed or it’s the end of America, be less Jewish and pay for adequate security yourselves Rabbi.
 
i know you're a wignat and naturally retarded but i genuinely hope you can tell the difference between assassinating specific people who are threats to the state and randomly executing two people who you didn't know were Israeli
Ah yes, white ethnonationalism is a political philosophy for retards, but Jewish ethnonationalism is awwww riiiiight.

And splitting hairs over justification for illegal extrajudicial assassinations ‘in the interests of the state’ is pure kikery. You’re the one crying about “targeted political killings” then immediately walking it back with “b-but it’s okay when Jews do it” when your hypocrisy is called out.
 
The logic is that jews as a group have created the current cultural environment in the US and all the sociopolitical problems along with it.

Them dying in the racially diverse hell hole they created for us is something to be supported. I'm glad this happened to them. Fuck them.

And these were literally Israeli diplomats you fucking tard. It's not like they weren't a part of the very machine that created the circumstances of their own murder.
Literally everything you said, even if we were to assume it was true, is the product of American Jews. Come on buddy, I know you could antisemite properly if you put your mind to it.
Nice of you to fantasize about BBC when your jewish tricks fail you though.
Having black dick spring to mind first thing when I call you out on your LARP? Who are you, Nick Fuentes?
 
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Lol, typical kike. Always spreading bullshit about race-mixing. Also lol at the idea American leftist jews aren't similar, or connected to Israel leftist jews. What bullshit.
Lol, typical huwite getting triggered by the mention of racemixing. Just as planned.

I think Netanyahu, Itamar Ben Gvir, and Bezalel Smotrich would be quite surprised at you calling them left-wing, since they're all the main policy drivers in Israel and have been for some time. The left hasn't been prominent in Israel since 2009, despite the best laid plans of George Soros.
 
I remember when you cried a fucking river about me being racist and went on some big bullshit spiel about how Jews don't see race and Israel was for all races, as long as they were Jews.

You're not having any difficulty here identifying race.
Huh.
Funny that.
talking about how Jews ideally shouldn't see race in terms of treating each other respectfully and that Israel is for all Jews regardless of race doesnt mean that race doesnt exist. the whole point of being not racist is acknowledging that race exists.

pointing out how im not a white person or how brownoids have a distinct posting pattern doesnt go against what i said

white ethnonationalism is a political philosophy for retards
no, white ethnonationalism is a political philosophy commonly adopted by retards such as yourself, there's nothing wrong with it inherently. You demonstrate this perfectly when you got mad at Jews for biblical reasons, someone else pointed out how you were wrong, and you said that you actually dont care about christianity.

justification for illegal extrajudicial assassinations ‘in the interests of the state’ is pure kikery
can you really not tell the difference between "this person is going to kill someone if he isn't taken out" and "whoever shows up to this event deserves death"
 
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