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Since I moved to live abroad in the Western world, I’ve been hearing the terminology Terrorism in the News, sessions, conferences, speeches. It seems to me that it became a must to attach this word whenever they talk about the Middle East or about the Islamic world.
I was always questinioning the real definition of this world, though I haven’t got a specific answer but I reached to an analysis that explains the hard reality we’re living in.
Terrorism is actually attached always to the weak side of any war that happens in any spot in the world, if the weak side wants to defend itself then its TERRORISM, where any attack by the powerful side is a SELF DEFENCE.
And that’s always the case in Palestine. Israeli military again bombed the starving imprisoned population of 1.5 in Gaza, while the whole world was not only watching in silence but they also justified the ongoing massacre.
Even some Arabs outlets unfortunately criticized the Palestinian resistance and asked to put an end for it as if it was the reason behind the Israeli attack on the Palestinian nation.
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And my question is: How can the whole world equate the Palestinian homemade rockets with the might of the Israeli military machine?
Is that blindness or misunderstanding to justice?
But I guess it’s only because Terrorism became a normative term which is used to describe what the ‘other ‘does , not what we do, or it became a terminology that powerful countries like America and Israeli hide behind as an excuse to justify their attacks.
It’s worth mentioning to say that Terrorism was always existed and justified such as the attack on the Native Americans 150 years ago, the Jews in Nazi Germany, attacks on Afghanistan, Iraq and the Palestinians.
But because such terrorism serves the interests of the powerful countries and maintain their occupation and colonialism plans, it’s always justified by using so many terminologies such as, self-defence, end up the terrorism, save the world and others ,But for weak sides to resist becomes illegal by definition.
In my point of view, the only difference between an Israeli soldier killing a child and a Palestinian civilian killing Israelis is the uniform. Maybe the other difference is that the Palestinian has even more courage, he sacrificed his life for the sake of his country, but the soldier hides behind his tank and shoot the small children.
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I’m not justifying the killing of civilians in any of the sides, but I’m trying to understand the meaning of TERRORISM, but I’m afraid I won’t understand it as long as there is not justice in the world.
