How strange it is that language can betray
certain anomalies in social discrimination
linking words and their values both to
events and to perpetrators and victims.
Infamously in New York City terrorists
cunningly with extreme prejudice infiltrated
the pilot-training industry to avail themselves
of limited practise in what would ultimately
become a wholesale slaughter of horrendous
proportions. Belgium, France, Britain, Spain and
other countries of the West had experience of
terrorist attacks, mourning the deaths of their
nationals at the bloody hands of terrorists. Yet
any time that Jews are violently attacked or
an atrocity targets Jews as in high-profile events
where terrorists infiltrated Munich to entrap
and murder competitive athletes who happened
to be Israeli, who happened to be Jews the
nomenclature chosen to describe terrorists
is 'activists', their deadly crime diminished by
the anodyne descriptive tinged with emotive
sympathy not for the victims but the killers.
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