The UN can’t (read: won’t, because it gives equal voice and votes to terrorist dictatorships instead of only bona fide democracies) agree on a definition of terrorism on the one hand, and yet condemns the 9/11 attacks on the other. Reason and solution in one: anyone with a brain knows that the difference between terrorism and freedom fighting is in the deliberate targeting of innocents.
Calling Shalhevet Pass (z’l) (a one year old baby girl who was shot through the head while in her pram by a Palestinian Arab terrorist sniper) just a very young female officer-to-be in the IDF is a pathologically sick cop-out and justification for murdering Jews – men women, and yes, even little baby boys and girls (lo aleinu, G-d forbid).
And any media source that uses the words militant or anything other than terrorist when it is appropriate is hiding comfortably behind the UN’s abject failure in this regard – but will have to answer for their decision to do so. Since any rational mind can come to the clear definition as I have, a media source that does not employ the word terrorist where necessary cannot be taken seriously, believed or relied upon as credible, possesses questionable morality, and aids and abets terrorism in seeking (read: transparently pretending) to be even-handed.
A person who physically denies or actively seeks to deny the basic right to life specifically of innocents forfeits that of their own, and becomes fair game.
And anyone who abuses their right to free speech through incitement to violence forfeits at least that of their own. Seems simple enough to me. Fair and appropriate measure for measure, Midah K’Neged Midah*.
* Note that I am well aware of Judaism’s general understanding that eye for an eye implies financial compensation, rather than a judge letting the victim now poke the aggressor’s eye out. That would be childish. What I intend here is imitatio dei – mirroring of G-d’s ways as demonstrated. Pharaoh drowned boys in the Nile, so G-d drowned the Egyptians in the Red Sea. Miriam waited alongside the river to see what would become of Moshe, so the entire nation waited for her to recover from tzara’at (spiritual affliction of the skin).
