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Originally Posted by longsuffering
The thing to remember about history is that it is constantly rewritten. Gerry Adams and Sein Fein were terrorists. Nelson Mandela was jailed as a leader of a terrorist or subversive organization. And has been mentioned here, many former Israeli leader and cabinet ministers were considered terrorists prior to the establishment of the State of Israel.
You can't seem to acknowledge that Palestians, or Hezbollah for that matter, have any legitimate grievances. You just slap the terrorist label on them.
Of course I don't support their attacks on innocent civilans but I do consider that they have legitimate grievances with Israel or the IDF.
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I think to be treated legitimate you act legitimate.
Make a case to world bodies, request some sort of arbitration, hold peaceful rallies, list grievances and suggest meetings ...
these are the things that garner that legitimate tag and avoid tags like terrorist.
if you instead spew hatred, talk about the pushing a country's citizens into the ocean and funnel ammunition in from a country that spews similar hatred I think it only natural to be treated like a fringe group or a terrorist.
the best path back to an equitable settlement with Israel is to clean up their own act and put a good foot forward.