Yes,this attack on Paris is an act of war. But it’s not a war of Islam versus the west when most of its victims are MuslimsPeshawar, Pakistan: a suicide bombing has torn through a police cadet parade and scores of people are dead. I arrive to find fresh blood staining the ground. A mangled motorcycle is strewn across the road. Cars are burned out and upended; shop windows are shattered. Bits of human flesh are embedded in the shrapnel-marked walls of surrounding buildings. Be’er Sheva, and Israel: two buses bear exploded. There is shattered glass,twisted wreckage and a convoy of ambulances ferrying the dead and wounded. There is already talk of reprisals against the Palestinian militants who bear carried out this attack.
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Source: theguardian.com