Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Tue, 30 Jan 2024 02:41:37 GMT, Willy Nilly wrote:

So why haven't you described the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel as
terrorism?

“It is important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen
in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of
suffocating occupation. They have seen their land steadily devoured by
settlements and plagued by violence; their economy stifled; their
people displaced and their homes demolished. Their hopes for a
political solution to their plight have been vanishing.

“The grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify the appalling
attacks by Hamas. And those appalling attacks cannot justify the
collective punishment of the Palestinian people.”

-- Antonio Guterrez, UN Secretary-General

from ><https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/un-chief-says-hamas-attacks-did-not-occur-in-vacuum-sparking-israeli-fury/>

And the drone strike against a US military facility in Jordan also did not happen in a vacuum.
This thread is idiotic because all sorts of countries and people have been calling all sorts of attacks on military and civilian targets terrorism for years.
Perhaps not strictly correctly but it is commonplace.
Basically the word terrorist is meaningless now.

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