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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Depends how you define terrorism, I guess. Bombing a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires would be terrorist to most, but I suppose a die-hard Jew hater would consider all Jewish people as complicit in Israel's occupation of Southern Lebanon.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Massacring 20,000 children in Gaza is terrorism, for example.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

So do you stand by Hezbollah are not terrorists? Is it for the reason I gave or some other one?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There's a difference between terrorism and war, even if it's equally despicable. For example, the Nazis were too big to be called terrorists.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Whom does the IDF wage war against? Their own population. That's terrorism.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

To whatever extent that terrorism and war are separate, it’s only a way for those in power to tell uninformed people which violence to support or who to hate. “We’re going to war to bring freedom” vs “Those terrorists are attacking the [colonial] government!”