At 15:08 31-12-01 +0000, Alberto Monteiro wrote:

> >I have said repeatedly that I do not support terrrorism; when and where did
> >I say otherwise?
> >
>Sorry, Jeroen, but this is not enough.

Then, again, what *is* enough? Should I first say that we should blindly 
accept anything Israel does, without even a hint of criticism? Should I 
first say that (unless proven otherwise on a person-by-person basis) all 
Palestinians are child-murdering terrorists who hates Jews?


>AFAIK, *nobody* - even Osama
>bin Laden - declares a supporter of terrorism. The sheik of Hamas, for
>example, says that the attacks against Israeli children or old people are
>*not* acts of terrorism, but a legitimate fight against oppression etc.

To some extent, whether or not an act is an act of terrorism is a matter of 
opinion. Most of the world calls the suicide bombings in Israel terrorism; 
Hamas does not. Back in WW2, the Resistance in Europe attacked both 
military and civilian targets. The Resistance called it fight against 
oppression; the Germans called it terrorism.


Jeroen

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