What makes a terrorist a terrorist?

They are not equally illegitimate. They are done in self defense to knock out the enemy's ability to do them harm, and I refuse to hear one more word about how they are illegitimate.Holmes you are doing nothing but repeating the stuff I have answered and it is all irrelevant. I will not go down that path again.My previous five or six posts say all I have to say and the last one boils it down to its essence. Have a good day.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

I don't care how the Koran is being used or misused. The point is that it IS used to justify terrorism, which means that there will never be an end to terrorism because it is ideology-driven, motivated by implacable hatred for Israel and all nonMuslims, which further means that they will never negotiate a real peace and must always be regarded as dangerous, to be dealt with by force when they get too much ability to do harm.

Israel has done nothing illegal or illegitimate in its defensive attack on Hezbollah.

Not if Quebec was hosting terrorists who were bombing us.

Defensive attack is quite correct. It's a matter of motivation. This is what makes Israel the victim, not the action itself, not the number of deaths but the motivation, the purpose, which is purely defensive-- to remove Hezbollah's threat to Israel. As opposed to Hezbollah's purely vindictive hate-driven revenge-driven murderous motivation.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

The deaths are unintentional, and most of them are engineered by Hezbollah. THAT ought to be impermissible.

What a bunch of lies to whitewash murder. Hezbollah is a real threat to Israel and determined to become a bigger threat. They aren't "hiding," they have put themselves in position to attack Israel and they committed the act of aggression of kidnapping Israeli soldiers. Israel is within its rights to demolish their ability to kill more Israelis.

The deaths are unintentional, mostly staged by Hezbollah to get the predictable mindless sympathy of the left, and motivation makes all the difference.

Israel is not driving drunk. They are defending their people from terrorists. And yes sympathy with murderers and sympathy that blames the wrong cause of suffering is mindlessEdited by Faith, : No reason given.

Hezbollah's sure got your number.

I have no sympathy for murderers who set up their own civilian population to be murdered for the sake of PR. You all keep changing the subject but that is the subject.

Jesus forgives REPENTANT sinners, not unrepentant sinners. Unbelievable how you all misapply scripture. Very sad.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

They don't shoot KNOWING the civilians are in the way. Good grief. You guys will come up with anything to avoid recognizing the truth.

I am not a military strategist, and all you armchair strategists do not impress me either. All that matters is that Israel is acting in self defense and Hezbollah is a bunch of murderers and siding against Israel is the wrong thing to do.

Exactly. Underdog does not mean victim. It may mean hateful vengeful murdering suicidal madmen.