And FF, PH.D, it's not like those are grotesque demands.
They are internationally recognized as illegal and contributing to the violent resistance of palestinian organizations.
This isn't muddy water type stuff. Israel has illegal encroached and constructed settlements on domestically (within israel) recognized occupied land.
The ISRAELI'S refer to it as the occupied territories. This is some pretty standard stuff.
As far as terrorist organizations go, Nelson Mandela was only officially removed from the American terrorist watch list in 2008 and he is now seen as an inspirational figure who defied racist apartheid policies using violent and non-violent resistance.
Most of the planet could see what was going on in South Africa and were justly appalled and horrified at the violence. This situation differs in but the smallest of ways.
White South Africans once claimed that such brutal oppression was necessary because if 'the blacks' had their way, they'd kill all the white people. Well, 20 years later, whites are still disproportionately affluent.
The idea that the international community and the united states would allow a newly formed palestinian state to wipe israel off the map is about as absurd as the idea that a newly formed palestinian state would be
able to wipe israel off the map.
It's all theatre for a brutal occupation that would make the Russians blush.
We're talking about real people here that are basically being shot like fish in a barrel. There is nowhere to escape to, there is no safe ground, there is no security and no hope for the future. Calling a house, or more terrifyingly, BOMBING it before you destroy it, isn't an action to be lauded for it's humanitarianism, it's
terrorism. It is
terrorising a population with threats of unjustified, random, lethal force. It's cruel and unusual collective punishment.
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18 U.S.C. § 2331 defines "international terrorism" and "domestic terrorism" for purposes of Chapter 113B of the Code, entitled "Terrorism”:
"International terrorism" means activities with the following three characteristics:
Involve violent acts or acts dangerous to human life that violate federal or state law;
Appear to be intended- (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
- (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or
- (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and
Occur primarily outside the territorial jurisdiction of the U.S., or transcend national boundaries in terms of the means by which they are accomplished, the persons they appear intended to intimidate or coerce, or the locale in which their perpetrators operate or seek asylum.
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This is what terrorism looks like.