The terror org Hamas’s name is an acronym, but was afterwards glossed to mean strength or zeal. That vaguely fits, so maybe? But I’m no expert on Proto-Semitic etymology.
I frankly don’t see, whatever its goals, how systematically attacking civilians can not be terrorism. (Since Native Americans to my knowledge don’t do that, I wouldn’t call them terrorists, no).
This the first time you’ve heard the classic phrase “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter”?
Because yes, oppressors always see oppressed freedom fighters as terrorists, because the only way to get your freedom from an oppressor is to take it, usually by force.
Is it etymologically related, in the way that “salaam” and “shalom” are, or is this just a particularly spicy coincidence?
The terror org Hamas’s name is an acronym, but was afterwards glossed to mean strength or zeal. That vaguely fits, so maybe? But I’m no expert on Proto-Semitic etymology.
Terror org? The fuck? I didn’t realize that fighting for your freedom from a brutal oppressor made you a terror org.
Do you call native Americans terrorists too?
Terrorism, according to Wikipedia, is “the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims.”
Hamas is doing that, see examples.
I frankly don’t see, whatever its goals, how systematically attacking civilians can not be terrorism. (Since Native Americans to my knowledge don’t do that, I wouldn’t call them terrorists, no).
This definition fits israel just as well or better, do you typically refer to it as a terror org?
Israel is a state, not an organization.
This the first time you’ve heard the classic phrase “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter”?
Because yes, oppressors always see oppressed freedom fighters as terrorists, because the only way to get your freedom from an oppressor is to take it, usually by force.