Impact, on Feb 15 2007, 10:35 PM, said:
Winston
1. I am not from USA
2. It is not the difference of opinion that is the problem - it is the right to exist both as humans (given a stated preference and performance to kill them off) and as a state.
3. Anti-zionism is not terrorism: correct.
4. Killing people randomly in Israel is terrorism.
5. Even killing Jews because they are Jews is terrorism.
6. Your wishful thinking well-intentioned PC view is fine,and may even be pragmatic for you and/or America but IT DOES NOT CHANGE THE BASIC MEANING OF THE WORD TERRORIST OR MAKE IT EQUATE ANY THE LESS WITH WHAT THE GROUP does and is.
Calling a spade (no racial overtone intended) a spade is not wrong - and it avoids misunderstandings.
I appreciate the reply.
Your definition of terrorism is much wider than mine - I do not classify centuries-old conflicts of tribal culture as terrorism; perhaps you do. That is your right.
But to use Israel as an example and thereby imply that threatening Israel is Mulim and/or Arab terrorism is to facilitate a Bushian-like generality upon a culture's beliefs that seem in opposition to your own, IMO. I do not agree that the stated desire to rid the world of Israel is terrorism - it is anti-Zionism and has been around since 1948 and the Arab/Israeli war.
Israelis are not automatically wearing the white hat at all times. Jews themselves have not been above using terror as a tactic, as when they bombed the King David Hotel. The latest Israeli attack on Lebanon over the reported kidnapping of 4 Israeli soldiers was as terrorizing to the civilian population of Lebanon as any threat made against Israel by Hezbollah. It is a fact that Israel has been the target of many real terrorists attacks - it is also a fact that Israel has virtually no allies in the middle east and many enemies - but it is also a fact that Israel is not at pure as the driven snow as their treatment of their national Palestinians shows.
There are terrorists in Spain, Italy, Ireland, and across the globe, each with its own agenda that is not targeting Israel's demise.
A terrorist attack is a terrorist attack, whether it occurs in Israel, the U.S.A., London, or in Rome.
As I stated before, there is no simple solution to the Israel/Arab/Muslin problem - but the U.S. is only making it worse by demonizing and castigating all who oppose the U.S./Israeli views.
And that IMO is why polls show the people of the world consider Bush to be the most dangerous leader in the world - he is forefront in the fight to polarize the world into his world view of black and white.