at the head of those was the continuing problem of the oppression of the palestinian people. >> alex odehad come from the west bank. >> exactly. >> let's talk about the pattern at the time, what was taking place. i want to go to a quote of the jdl after alex was murdered. irv rubin brushed off the attack saying -- in 2002 irv rubin died in jail while awaiting trial. talk about the wave of terror in the united states at the time. >> yes, i would like to talk about that because this is part of parcel the whole pattern in history that occurred. you have to remember the founder informant was an fbi in the 1950s. he used a pseudonym to infiltrate the john birch society and he was a paid informant for the fbi. he did not start the jdl until 1968. and from that time on, if one had a rap sheet, and i printed this out from the internet, over 20 pages of bombings and fire bombings, killings, etc. that were caring in the united states because the jdl -- that were occurring in the united states because the jdl became the shop roots of those were wanting to pressure the soviet union to reduc-- members