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Originally Posted by Fuzz

It sounds like you disagree with the UN definition. But even then, you see how this could quite easily cause feelings of terror in the general population too, right?
Is this person I'm standing behind in line going to get blown up by Mossad?

I bought this used phone, but I don't know if it's safe. Who's was it before me? Does it have a bomb in it?

Does the UN have a definition? My understanding was no one has agreed to what terrorism is formally.

https://guide-humanitarian-law.org/c...e/3/terrorism/

criminal acts, including against civilians, committed with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury, or taking of hostages, with the purpose to provoke a state of terror in the general public or in a group of persons or particular persons, intimidate a population or compel a government or an international organization to do or to abstain from doing any act.” The Security Council recalls that such acts are “under no circumstances justifiable by considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or other similar nature

Do you like this one from a UN resolution? It requires criminal acts, not really applicable in the war scenario we are in as it would state even killing the Hezbolah person would be terrorism

How about 1999

any . . . act intended to cause death or serious bodily injury to a civilian, or to any other person not taking an active part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, when the purpose of such act, by its nature or context, is to intimidate a population, or to compel a government or an international organization to do or to abstain from doing any act.”

Requires intent to harm civilians as opposed to collateral damage


The EU definitions essentially have a Carve out for War.

Here’s the Wikipedia entry with a few more definitions

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definition_of_terrorism

Which one do you like?

I will happily call this terrorism if the intent of the action was to harm or terrorize civilians rather than the result of the actions. And with Israel’s history this certainly is a possibility.