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Originally Posted by Chill Cosby
This point interests me.
I, personally, don't believe Israel is a terrorist state, but because you seem to have dodged some of the evidence before, I'm curious:
What, would you say, is the key difference between Hamas, a terrorist organization, and Israel regarding the way in which they conduct combat?
I don't mean intent, nor who is at fault and causing the other to retaliate, (as that is the whole core of the debate, with many on each side) but their ACTUAL method of combat. The way they attack the other side, the residual cost of each attack. I find it fairly interesting that there really doesn't seem to be too much of a difference.
What is it that DEFINES Hamas as a terrorist group? And do you find it interesting that in the name if a seemingly nobler cause, Israel is guilty of many of the same things?
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You can define Hamas as a terrorist group based on their conduct of launching rockets, kidnapping citizens, the suicide bombings and the bus attacks etc that they've openly claimed credit for.
On the other side of things, since they won the election and they have continued these activities after forming a government you could argue that what they are doing is an act of war between governments and in that case if we recognize Hamas as a legitimate government then they are just as guilty of their activities as Israel, with the exception being that Hamas willingly puts their own citizens in harms way.
Its one or the other, there's no in between.