I looked it up and saw this is the name of the Israeli who disclosed that Israel had a nuclear weapons program, showing photos that proved the same. I think that if anyone in the Middle East should be trusted with nukes then it should be Israel, but I don’t understand how that disclosure —though momentus— envinces self-hatred.Israel state employees then and now knew and were made aware that Israel's nuke program was supposed to be a secret; giving away someone's secret deliberately (not accidentally) is an act of betrayal. He betrayed his own people, hence a self-hater. On Snowden, he easily also can be argued to hate his American-ness, given how he betrayed his nation.
You make a good point, but...you could say he so loved his vision of what America is supposed to be that he accepted that his actions would require him leaving in order to stay alive.
It's puzzling that I frame it in those terms because for decades dirty, stringy-haired, pot-smoking hedonists waved such arguments in my face and they disgusted me.
I can't believe I'm saying this:
I think the people who betrayed America were his superiors. As Ike warned us, our intel community is now so huge and powerful that members of congress, the media, Prez Candidates and even Prez Elects can be spied upon with impunity, the entire US media closing ranks to ensure the crimes are coverd up.
After the Snowden matter I first hated him, but then as the enormity of what he described became clear I gradually became a convert. Though he's mostly a Lefty I support his decision. Assange, too, bleached hair, an ex-Cultist and a Lefty, I also support.
I think we disagree about the nature of crime, loyalty and the basic Operating System of the USA, which for me is the Constitution.