Hezbollah and Likud

[Brad DeLong]

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Brad DeLong" <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu>
>
>>Seth brought up Likud as another example of a former terrorist
>organization
>>which morphed into primarily a political party.
>
>-"Peace for Galilee" was an unjust, aggressive war. The massacres in
>-the Palestinian refugee camps were war crimes. Likud has a war
>-criminal at its head, and I would not consider it an example of a
>-"former terrorist organization which morphed into a political party."
>
>I think Seth was going farther back in time, since the Likud is a lineal
>product of the pre-Israel terrorist groups the Irgun (Begin) and the Stern
>Gang (Shamir), which were terrorist groups by most definitions.
>
>-- Nathan

Is there anyone here whose definition of terrorism does *not* include 
the Irgun and Stern?

Brad DeLong