catapult magazine

Both sides are terrorists. It’s just that the Israelis have bigger and more accurate guns. The palestinians have to blow themselves up to kill their enemy. Except did you hear about the lone Palestinian who sat under an olive tree on a hill near a checkpoint, killed 20 Israelis with an old rifle, and then got away? The hatreds run so deep here. Nothing can be done until both sides humble themselves. That’s not going to happen.

ter-ror-ism n. The systematic use of terror, violence, and intimidation to achieve an end. (The American Heritage Dictionary)

what is terrorism and who are the terrorists?

israel seems to have taken a lesson from our book and have lately been known to refer to palestinians as “terrorists”, and, in some cases (suicide bombers in malls), they are correct. while reading the news this morning about israeli forces attacking refugee camps before dawn, however, i was left wondering who exactly were terrorists in that situation. israel has been illegally occupying, according to international law, palestinian territory since 1967 (the Gaza Strip and the West Bank). so, because they have been attempting to use intimidation and violence to achieve their end of the original “biblical” borders of israel for 30 years, would they be labeled terrorists?

Are we playing “Taliban” by supporting them?