Those Contradictory Militants

- Posted in Arab / Islamic Terror
I Say Terrorist, You Say Militant ... Let's Call Reporting Off. A caution signal about news media reliability regarding Arab-Israeli coverage has long been the use of "militant" as a sanitizing substitute for "terrorist" in describing attackers of Israeli non-combatants. Terrorism, defined by the   read more ...

The 1929 Mass Murder of Jews for the Sin of Sitting While Praying

- Posted in Arab-Israeli Conflict
Summary ... Edwin Black is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of [IBM and the Holocaust][1]. This article is based on research from [Banking on Baghdad: Inside Iraq's 7,000-Year History of War, Profit, and Conflict][2] (Dialog Press). His latest book is [The Farhud: Roots of   read more ...