"Pray God It Wasn't an Arab ..."

It is a strange experience to be sitting in my favorite little restaurant in East Jerusalem, watching the BBC and Al Jazeera accounts of the deadly mayhem in Boston, watching from a land which has experienced more than its share of deadly mayhem. So many Arab friends have expressed their sorrow at our loss. It was my host, Mo Tahan, watching with me, who uttered the prayer of many ... "Pray God it wasn't an Arab ...."