APPARENTLY, ONLY ISRAELIS CAN BE "TERRORISTS"

The Independent finds terrorism
After years of soft-peddling Islamists who blow up public buses as 'militants', The Independent finally found some Mideast 'terrorists' -- the Jewish 'Bat Ayin group', one of whom was convicted by an Israeli court. Here's the headline: Israeli jailed for role in terror group that attacked Arab schools

Without minimizing this group's acts, how can The Independent call the small-time Bat Ayin gang's activities 'terror,' but not the more sophisticated, systematic anti-civilian murders of Hamas and Al- Qaida? In coverage of Al-Qaida's attack on the US consulate in Jeddah, the paper uses the words 'militants,' 'assailants,' and 'attackers.'

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