Back to literary home page

Figures within Hamas, Hezbollah, etc. who are (for now) shouting over loudspeakers that all Jews must be killed, and are not (for the moment) physically trying to kill Jews, and are therefore consider [..]

As applied by the Times to the Israeli-Arab conflict, this is best explained by analogy: A serial killer breaks into your home and ties up your wife and children. You surprise him just as he’s about t [..]

Terrorists (oops, sorry Mr. Pinch sir, I meant militants, really I did, sir) within Hamas, Hezbollah, etc. who are actively engaged in murdering Jews, and are therefore considered in the Times Buildin [..]

Terms strictly limited to Al Qaeda jihadi attackers of American civilians. Jihadis who attack other countries' civilians are extremists, militants, radicals, etc.

A virtually meaningless term encompassing everything from (a) a dirtbag hitting an old lady over the head to steal her pocketbook to (b) genocidal mass murder.

The tragic outcome of (a) natural disasters, (b) genocidal mass murder, or (c) Israel's attempts to defend itself.

An extremist American political movement that is, at one and the same time, a much bigger threat to the American Way of Life than Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Vladimir Putin and Hugo Chávez put together, and [..]

Any action by Israel that would be described as self-defense if undertaken by any other nation not occupied by those eye-for-an-eye Jews.

The cause of all conflict in the Middle East, and arguably in the entire world. (No other people in the entire history of the whole world ever "settled" anywhere they weren't supposed t [..]