[letter to editor of the NYPost]--
The murder of schoolchildren in Russia by Islamic terrorists has a precedent ("The Beslan Savagery," Editorial, Sept. 4). On May 15, 1974, Yasser Arafat's terrorists took over a school in the northern Israel town of Maalot. They murdered 22 children and wounded 60 before they were killed by Israeli commandos. An American doctor who was vacationing in Israel treated many of the survivors. He reported that the Arab gunmen aimed at the faces and heads of the children.... |