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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (100026)6/3/2003 3:19:20 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
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

Are you seriously comparing Israelis to tribesmen who live in bands of no more than a thousand, who have never invented a city? I don't know if is is sheer ignorance or malice, but I know I don't want to waste my time with it. The Israelis are not Indians.

And blowing up schoolkids on buses is terrorism. Except by your definition, where Osama bin Laden is a "freedom fighter".



To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (100026)6/4/2003 2:24:03 AM
From: D. Long  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
That's called fallacy of equivocation. You've deliberately used an ambiguity in a term to use it in the way it way was not intended.

Israel is a modern state, not a "warlike tribal society" ie a culturally primitive social group.

Derek


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