On Jul 24, 2006, at 12:54 PM, Bryan Atinsky wrote:
> I hope to end this discussion here, because the important thing is
> finding a way to end Israel's aggression against the Palestinian and
> Lebanese peoples...and this discussion is digressive from this
> centrally
> important issue...but in short...
>
> www.leninology. blogspot.com wrote:
>> Brian Atinsky wrote:
>>
>>> I am interested in your definition of terrorism. Do you have some
>>> sort
>>> of objective definition or is it like the definition of a weed: a
>>> plant
>>> you don't like?
>
>>
>> Good point, and your answer is the closest to a proper definition
>> I've
>> ever found.
>
> Well then, that is all very nice and circular. Hezbollah has
> definitely
> not done a terrorist attack, because you support their actions and
> define it as such. Fine.
>
>> But I must mean something by it, so I suppose I
>> mean it in the sense that Hezbollah has not conducted attacks on
>> civilians in Israel until this war,
>
> That is patently false. Are you telling me this is the first time they
> have shot Katyushas at civilian targets in Israel? C'mon man, this is
> embarrassing. I seem to remember driving up north near Kiryat Shmona a
> few years ago when Katyushas started hitting the city, and had to
> divert
> my route, but I guess I dreamt it, because they have never done it
> before because you said so. And all the other news reports over the
> years, figments of my imagination? Granted they were often sent in
> retaliation for Israeli attacks in Lebanon, but we are talking about a
> long history of targeting civilians.
>
>> and even here it has responded to
>> Israel's attacks on Lebanese civilians and could be said to be
>> engaging
>> in a military rather than terrorist strategy (hence the sinking of a
>> warship).
>
> Wait, I want to get this straight...because Israel is extensively
> targeting civilian infrastructure and populations (aka, committing
> acts
> of terror or whatever you choose to call it or not) and Hezbollah
> hit a
> military target such as the Israeli Navy gunboat, then this means that
> when Hezbollah targets Israeli cities in the north, they are military
> targets and not civilian targets?
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