“The Jews are the canary, as always”

So writes Natalie Solent in connection with the slaughter at Beslan. She explains:
“Once it became acceptable to a broad section of Islam (and to Western apologists for terrorism) to select Jewish children as targets it was only a matter of time before non-Jewish children would also be selected. Children are the most convenient terrorist target as they are physically easy to control or kill, and because people will concede more to save them. The only thing that stops a Beslan happening every week is the shreds of morality that remain even in the minds of terrorists. Once the taboo was breached for Israeli victims it was breached for everyone.”
Norman Geras’ commentary about Beslan appears here and here.

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