Standby for a statement you won’t often read here; there’s a great article in today’s Guardian. It’s by Alex Stein and, among other things, it says:
Archive for the 'Mumbai' Category
It’s usual to hear terrorists and their attacks being characterized as cowardly. Sometimes this is true, sometimes it isn’t.
We hear a lot these days, from assorted boycotters and human rights campaigners, that there is no connection between anti-Zionism and antisemitism, that the two positions have as little to do with each other as supporting Manchester United has with a passion for philately.
The news from Mumbai is grim: five hostages have been killed at Nariman House, the Chabad center in the city, and battles continue at the Taj Hotel.
As it’s still too soon to say with any degree of certainty who the Mumbai terrorists are, or who sent them, I’ll confine myself to making a couple of really obvious points.
