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Only BBC Would Call Munich Terrorists “Paramilitaries”

The BBC just called this person “paramilitary.” If this is what the Beeb’s verbal gymnastics comes to, let’s really whitewash the ’72 Munich massacre and call the Black September gunmen who murdered 11 Israeli athletes “brain…

Pesach Benson
May 19, 2011
12:00 am

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The BBC just called this person “paramilitary.”

If this is what the Beeb’s verbal gymnastics comes to, let’s really whitewash the ’72 Munich massacre and call the Black September gunmen who murdered 11 Israeli athletes “brain surgeons.”

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Tags: BBC, Black September, Munich massacre, Munich Olympics, terror

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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