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I mean, terrorism does have a meaning, beyond just being something any government is going to call a rebellious armed group, what else are you supposed to call a group or individual whose actions are intentionally designed to provoke fear in order to further their goals, to distinguish them from a similar non-state armed group that doesn't use that strategy?
Then Id like the 'settelers' who engage in terror campaigns using extrajudicial beatings and killings to also be called terrorists by the media, but that's never going to happen so this is a fine compromise.
What does compromise have to do with truth? If someone is committing an act of terrorism they are a terrorist, regardless of how righteous or awful their cause. Regardless if it is government backed or rebel backed. It is the action and the intent that matters.
If a settler commits an act of terrorism they are a terrorist. If a Hamas person commits an act of terrorism they are a terrorist. If little old lady with a old tabby cat, 9 grandchildren, and spends her weekends helping at food bank commits an act of terrorism she is a terrorist.
Im just asking the media to be consistent in their logic and labeling. What does the media have to do with the truth?
Not going to argue with you there.
But is their goal terror for a political purpose? I thought they were just going in and taking land and doing slow genocide. That isn’t terrorism (I mean, it’s worse), it’s a different thing.
Is driving Palestinians out of their homes for the crime of being Palestinian in order to assign their land not political? Its seems pretty close to ethnic cleansing, remove the Palestinian, implant the Jew, repeat.
No, it’s not political. It has a political element, but so does basically everything. Which would render the word “terrorism” useless.
The main goal of annexation isn’t politics. It’s theft. The Palestinians have a thing the Israelis want (land) and the Israelis are stealing it. That’s conquest, and genocide, not terrorism
Maybe we should reserve the term genocide for the act of trying to kill/destroy a population. Israel is doing horrible things to bully the Palestinians to leave, but they're certainly not trying to exterminate them
Bold take that a conquest between two states is not political.
So all war, ever, including defensive war, is terrorism? Not super useful.
There are multiple definitions of political, and you’re using the least useful one.
All war is political, dont shift the goalposts. Non state entities (settlers in this case) doing acts of war on specific ethnic populations is political terror.