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and therein lies the danger you've probably read barbara tuckman's magisterial book about how europe stumbled into the first world war. the guns of august. this is kind of the missiles of april. and as in the guns of august and 1914, there was a lot of signaling mobilization, a military, lots of back-and-forth they still miscalculated, they still entered an epic war, world war i hopefully, the two sides here will avoid the missile's of april becoming like the guns of august, where we end up in a big war. i think we can avoid that i get that israel put a post-it note on the safe in iran to let them know they were there. this after president biden apparently told prime minister netanyahu to take the win, is that more signaling was biden saying what he needed to say for his constituency and

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The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell

have the arab countries somewhere in the middle and we end up in a really, really bad situation. >> well, i think that is an excellent historical connection to make. july 1914, and a world dragged into one of the bloodiest conflict in history, it could turn out, obviously, that that idf strike on the damascus embassy in iran, that killed senior quds leaders, a dozen of them killed, it could ignite a similar, widespread regional war in the middle east. i must admit though, i am enormously encouraged by richard engel reporting on the ground, which i have been trying to follow on google, with al jazeera, and the iranian press, they are clearly playing down the israeli impact, denying it even occurred, minimizing it import. so, tomorrow, what we will

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The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell

israelis have acted in the past, that will give us a good idea. they don't want a full-scale-- and they also have a legitimate grievances that can be resolved politically. they are not irrational actors. they have legitimate grievances. the central element in this question, which hasn't been mentioned much in the coverage i have watched on many american tv stations is this question of palestine, because this really started with gaza. >> palestine is off the table at the moment, but that is netnyahu's whole thing, he's been doing that for 15 years. the questions of palestine in the minds of israelis is off the table, because the question of iran was central. benjamin netanyahu exists politically, because of the threat of iran, this has, for better or worse, played into his hands. >> yes, iran and hezbollah. you mentioned 1914, i thought that was really brilliant.

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The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell

will not be giving up on and potentially might see to advance that goal. >> let us know if you hear anything, on with us, mike memoli, joining us now is nbc military analyst, the retired four start army general, billy mccaffrey, a decorated combat veteran of vietnam, a former battlefield commander in the persian gulf, a former cabinet minister, and a former cabinet member and a former member of the national security council. general, it is good to see you. i think we need a little historical context here, let's go all the way back to 1914 on an obscure streetcorner that seems like an isolated incident in world war i. the word here is that somebody miscalculate somewhere, and you have iran, which has allied with china and russia, and syria, and you have israel, which has allied with the western countries and you

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Letter: The story of the Christmas Day Truce of 1914

For decades, there were stories of the Christmas Day Truce of 1914 -- and a recently-found letter tells that story well.

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Alex Wagner Tonight

mentally ill to run away. the term draped mania was not removed from medical textbooks until after 1914. human experiments in racist propaganda and fake science were used to prove something that we all know now is patently false black people did not benefit from slavery, cried obviously. but this year in florida the echoes of those falsehoods can be heard once again yesterday at the florida board of education approved new standards for black history instruction that require lessons from middle schoolers to include quote, how slaves developed skills which in some instances could be applied for their personal benefit. the old racist trope from the 1850s that slavery done benefited the enslaved seems to have been resurrected in florida, in middle schoolers in that state may be required to learned. more on that unlearning of american history is coming up

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Alex Wagner Tonight

carolina senator john calhoun, who in 18 37th speech argued that slavery was a boom to black people. never before has the black rays of central africa from the dawn of history to the present day attained a condition so civilized and so improved, not only physically but morally and intellectually. this kind of thinking gave rise to junk science like -- which translate to runaway madness. it was a clinical term of the 1850s based on the belief that slavery so vastly improve the lives of the enslaved. that they would have to be mentally ill to run away. the term drapetomania was not removed from medical textbooks until after 1914. human experiments in racist propaganda and fake science were used to prove something that we all know now is patently false black people did not benefit from slavery, cried obviously. but this year in florida the

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Inside Museums

and islamic arts, housed in a 16th century palace a stone's throw from the famous blue mosque, was founded in 1914, thanks in part to — who else? osman hamdi. today, it boasts the richest collection of islamic art in the world — at least, that's what it says on its website — including 1,700 carpets. oh, this is a — this is a holbein rug. this is a 16th century rug, which is now known as a holbein rug, what, because presumably rugs like this feature in the work of hans holbein? yes! and so, now they're known by historians of carpets as holbein rugs — is that it? yeah. god, how fascinating. let me see if we can pull up an image. this is, you know, in the national gallery, his huge painting, the ambassadors. two westerners, and there in the middle is an islamic rug. anyone who has looked at historical western art will find all of these quite familiar, but in a very broad, generic fashion. yes. different centuries have different motifs and different colours and they all have an idea, they all want to say something. this looks like a hummingbird. i think so.

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but the spirit that animates the picture, that's something different, something more authentic, if you like. i think it's a great fusion between western painting and the concept of orientalism. he knows the textile. he knows the architecture. there's this rich heritage there, and he just puts them together in a really fine way. it inspires me a lot. i'm keen to see some of ardan�*s work to discover how she put some of that inspiration to use. but first, she wants to give me a quick tour of another museum nearby to show me the kind of historical islamic artefacts that once inspired the orientalists, including osman hamdi. the museum of turkish and islamic arts, housed in a 16th century palace a stone's throw from the famous blue mosque, was founded in 1914, thanks in part to — who else? osman hamdi. today, it boasts the richest

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that once inspired the orientalists, including osman hamdi. the museum of turkish and islamic arts, housed in a 16th century palace a stone's throw from the famous blue mosque, was founded in 1914, thanks in part to — who else? — osman hamdi. today, it boasts the richest collection of islamic art in the world, at least, that's what it says on its website, including 1,700 carpets. oh, this is a — this is a holbein rug. this is a 16th century rug, which is now known as a holbein rug, what, because presumably rugs like this feature in the work of hans holbein? yes! and so, now they're known by historians of carpets as holbein rugs — is that it? yeah. how fascinating. let me see if we can pull up an image. this is, you know, in the national gallery, his huge painting, the ambassadors. two westerners, and there in the middle is an islamic rug. anyone who has looked

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