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  • butterflyattack@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    It is not a terrorist organization to go out and cause terror and trouble.

    Did you not notice the events that started this recent shit? Hamas certainly engages in terrorism, as does the IDF.

    • Cypher@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      There’s an old adage that one man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist.

      Allowing a label to dictate your view of the events is naive at best.

      • pascal@lemm.ee
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        11 months ago

        I always say “if you look at it from the current government point of view, Luke Skywalker was just a terrorist.”

      • djdadi@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Uh, it’s a nice saying, but it’s not really that true. There are some defining differences in terrorists and fighting a war

        • TokenBoomer@lemmy.world
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          10 months ago

          Anyone or government can call an individual or group “terrorists.” To the British, American revolutionaries were terrorists. Every movie you’ve seen where the hero fights back against an evil government is a terrorist. Jason Bourne is a terrorist.

    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Did you not notice the giant wall around Gaza and the starvation and israeli bombing of their infrastructure before October the 7th?

      Are you gonna call the Ukrainians terrorists too for blowing up the train track that connects Russia to China?