From time to time, the Palestine Center distributes articles it believes will enhance understanding of the Palestinian political reality. The following article by James North and Philip Weiss was published by Mondoweiss on 14 November 2015.
“Today’s a day to grieve for Paris, not score political points”
Like so many others in the world in the last twelve hours, we’ve gone back and forth to the screen to find out the latest news from Paris. But really, it doesn’t make sense to be glued to the media right now. No one knows that much; there’s been a lot of misinformation, and the most important facts we know so far seemed pretty clear at the start, a small group of self-styled Islamist radicals had carried out terror attacks in Paris, with massive loss of innocent lives. Right now the French people and the families of the victims have our deep condolences. We’re pulling for all the injured to come through. We want to put an arm around the frightened young urbanites near the Bataclan.
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