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Beirut Daily Star Editorial: Terror is "Sometimes Appropriate"

Today's Beirut Daily Star, which is considered the most moderate English language newspaper published in the Arab world, has an editorial strongly condemning Saturday's suicide bombings at two Istanbul synagogues and lamenting that "far more is needed to dispel the dangerous notion that ours is a civilization that wants its will to be expressed by violence."

Alas, the Daily Star makes it clear that its opposition to the murder of Jewish civilians is not unequivocal. The editorial states:

"One should, to say the least, have an exceedingly pressing reason before setting out to kill innocent Jews at prayer and anyone else who happens to walk by. That reason does not exist in this instance...

"Guerrilla warfare and other forms of low-intensity political violence are sometimes appropriate when all other options have been exhausted. This is not one of those cases."

So in other words, there wasn't "an exceedingly pressing reason" for the bombings of the shuls in Turkey, but in an instance "when all other options have been exhausted," the "moderate" Daily Star's position is that murder of "innocent Jews at prayer and anyone else who happens to walk by" is justifiable.
posted on 11/17/2003