Photo Credit: Bernard Gagnon / Wikimedia Commons
The Arch of Triumph in the ruins of the ancient city of Palmyra is now another casualty of radical Islam as practiced by ISIS terrorists in Syria.

The loss of Palmyra is not just a crime against humanity, but an attempt to erase the lives of the people who lived there for millennia before contemporary Islamists showed up with their bombs, their dynamite, and their racist ideology of death.

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Michael Lumish
Michael Lumish is a PhD in American history from the Pennsylvania State University and has taught at PSU, San Francisco State University, and the City College of San Francisco. He regularly publishes on the Arab-Israel conflict at his own blog, Israel Thrives (http://israel-thrives.blogspot.com/). Lumish is also the founding editor of the scholarly on-line discussion forum H-1960s. He can be contacted at [email protected].