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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (100003)	6/3/2003 2:33:11 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

<The only "civilians" of military age in a warlike tribal society are women and cripples> OK. Let's explore this. If there is no specialization in a society, if there is no separate class of soldiers, if the entire adult male population are warriors, then it isn't terrorism to target all of them, whether they are in uniform or not, whether they are holding weapons or not? Is that your position? If it is, then Israel in 2003 meets the definition of a "warlike, tribal society where all adult males are warriors". So, attacks on them, when they are in nightclubs, isn't terrorism. Using your definition of terrorism. Every time you try to precisely, objectively define "terrorism", to demonize the Palestinians, you end up tying yourself in these semantic knots.