Terrorism
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1096 Days of Darkness It’s been 1096—two years of nights that never end.The sun still rises,but for too many, it doesn’t shine. October 7—a date carved into hearts,a wound that doesn’t close.The world moved on,but the screams still echoin homes that stand half-empty,in chairs that stay untouched at the table. Children still waketo the sound…
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On October 18,2026, I interviewed Tal Hartuv. She as an artist and also works as a guide and educator with Yad Vashem.She was brutally attacked by two Hamas terrorists disguised as Israeli police in 2010 while on a hike in the hills of Jerusalem with her Christian-American friend, Kristine Luken.Ms Hartuv and her friend were…
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This blog will contain images from that awful day. Never Forget. On September 11,1941 the construction of the Pentagon had started. Sixty year later, terrorists tried to destroy it. An image etched forever in my mind. After burning for 56 minutes, the South Tower of the World Trade Center collapses, killing more than 800 people…
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Before I get into the story of Mohamed Atta, there is something I need to get off my chest. It appears that in the last few years, there has been a gradual downgrading of acts of terrorism. Terrorists are no longer called terrorists but militants. There are two definitions of a militant:1, Engaged in warfare…
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The Olympic Games are meant to represent peace, unity and international friendship. In 1972, however, the Munich Olympics became the scene of one of the most shocking terrorist attacks in modern history. On September 5, eight members of the Palestinian terrorist group, Black September, entered the Olympic Village and attacked the Israeli delegation. By the…
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On the morning of 27 August 1979, Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, a member of the British royal family and one of the most prominent figures of the twentieth century, was assassinated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). The bombing, carried out while Mountbatten was aboard his fishing…
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(Repost from 09 August 2024) Today, I had the privilege to interview Aziz Abu Sarah. Aziz Abu Sarah is a peace builder, cultural educator, entrepreneur, author, and international speaker. He is a Palestinian peace activist, journalist, and tourism entrepreneur who founded MEJDI Tours and is a resident of East Jerusalem. When Aziz was nine years…
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The Omagh bombing, which took place on August 15, 1998, stands as the deadliest single atrocity of the decades-long sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland known as the Troubles. Just four months after the historic signing of the Good Friday Agreement, a car bomb exploded in the busy centre of Omagh, County Tyrone, in an attack…
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Below is a historically grounded overview of major Islamist terrorist attacks in the late 20th and 21st centuries. The list is not exhaustive—there have been hundreds of attacks globally—but it includes many of the most consequential, influential, and widely documented incidents associated with Islamist extremist organizations or ideologies. It is important to distinguish between Islam…
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I don’t get shocked easily but the murder of Daniel Pearl shocked me and had a profound effect on me, why I don’t know, meaning he was not the first one to die by Al-Qaeda terrorists and he wasn’t the last either. But it did touch me. Daniel Pearl (October 10, 1963 – February 1, 2002)…
