Jay Nordlinger writes a brief but poignant reflection on Thursday night’s massacre of nearly 100 innocents in Nice, France. Here’s Nordlinger at National Review Online:
Permit a little walk down Memory Lane — not a good walk. In the summer of 1982, I was in Paris briefly. I had just graduated from high school. An event made an impression on me: a terror attack in the Marais district, the Jewish district. Terrorists assaulted a deli called Goldenberg’s. They killed six people, including two Americans. That was thought to be a helluva massacre: six people. (Five were killed in our Boston Massacre, 1770.) Today, the number seems quaint. The terrorists were Abu Nidal and his gang. Saddam Hussein, in Iraq, sheltered Abu Nidal and his gang. This is worth remembering when the Republican presidential nominee says that Saddam was a great foe of terrorists, and therefore a force for stability. In 1982, you might have said, “Ah, Jews. Arabs and Jews. Whaddayou expect?” But the whole world — the whole civilized world — is now Jews, so to speak.
Read his whole post here.
