Они пришли туда с флагами и раззадорив себя выкрикиванием лозунгов и бросанием камней в израильских солдат, попытались прорвать заграждения на границе. В ответ израильтяне стали кидать гранаты со слезоточивым газом, пытаясь отогнать людей от заградительной полосы. Когда это не помогло, был открыт сначала предупредительный огонь, а потом стали стрелять на поражение. Вдобавок к этому, из-за бутылок с зажигательной смесью, которые стали...

I think, Jake, you miss the obvious in your criticism that my writings represent, “a half-truth,” and that my intention is to mislead. My intention is provide a consistent commentary on the history of Jewish persecution/survival in the Christian West. Since the mission of the crusades was to fight the Muslims and drive them out of the Byzantine Empire and later, out of the Holy Land, then you are likely correct that more Muslims than Jews may have been murdered. But the Muslims were “the enemy,” while the Jews were innocent, and lived as neighbors to Christians in the Diaspora. It seems to me there is a significant difference in killing an adversary, and murdering your next-door neighbor, no? Whatever the morality of war, or the justice or greed behind the Crusades, the Muslims were