hannah arendt wondered what it meant to her to be jewish, especially in germany. many people interpreted arendt's account of rachel farnhagen's life as arendt's personal biography . writing this book was an excuse for arendt to find her jewish identity. that too, in the period when anti-semitism once again threatened german jews. arendt didn't just write a biography . he was caught between the two identities of being a jew or a german. this was a very difficult period for arendt because he was opposed to many positions of the zionists but he wanted to do something for the jewish people. until he was arrested and interrogated for 8 days and finally decided to leave germany with his mother . hannah arendt was one of the participants in the eichmann trial who wanted to narrate what she saw and heard with her pen. at the beginning of the book, the author of the book eichmann in jerusalem considers the judges and prosecutors to be the representatives and voices of david bengurion, the prime minister of the zionist regime, and in the final pages of the book , he criticiz

. >> i'm always reminded of wonderful quote from hannah arendt, the great german american philosopher. she said every revolutionary the day after the revolution becomes a conservative, because suddenly you have a lot, you can lose because that you want to preserve and likewise, the iranian regime has a lot to lose. i told harmony. as i mentioned, he's the longest serving autocrat and the world, you don't get to be the longest serving autocrat and the world. if you're suicidal. >> and so his a bind right now is that if he doesn't show any reaction, he's going to lose face, both the eyes of its proxies and in the eyes of its people. >> and every dictator wants to be here. but if he reacts to strongly, he could lose his head. he's an a real bind, right now. >> and i think they're probably in a shell shock trying to figure out right now how they should react. >> and the last thing i'll say, jim, is that iran and its proxies are very effective when there's an element of surprise like the october 7 hamas attacks on israel, when everyone is paying attention on high alert are much less effect