What makes a terrorist a terrorist?

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Is it permissible to kill hundreds to save dozens?

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Especially when those hundreds are as "innocent" as these dozens.

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"These monkeys are at once the ugliest and the most beautiful creatures on the planet./ And the monkeys don't want to be monkeys; they want to be something else./ But they're not."
-- Ernie Cline

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Irrelevant. If I drive drunk and unintentionally kill people, it's still illegal.

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Actually, the analogy I think of is a group of police officers firing into a crowd of people to try to take out an unseen gunman.

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"These monkeys are at once the ugliest and the most beautiful creatures on the planet./ And the monkeys don't want to be monkeys; they want to be something else./ But they're not."
-- Ernie Cline

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Exactly what must Israel do to be removed from such scathing criticism....

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For starters, announce unequivocably that the entire West Bank and Gaza Strip will become part of a truly independent Palestinian state, with the negotiations being concerned with water rights, mutual security needs, and the resolution of claims by Palestinian families who have lost property in Isreal.Making good faith efforts to eventually cease being an occupying power will go a long way to moving Israel toward the moral high ground.

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"These monkeys are at once the ugliest and the most beautiful creatures on the planet./ And the monkeys don't want to be monkeys; they want to be something else./ But they're not."
-- Ernie Cline