Zionist terrorism

Irgun fighters training in 1947. (photo: Archive of Jabotinsky Institute in Israel/CC BY 2.5)
Would pre-state Zionist militias be terrorists by today’s standards?
A Zionist Union MK gets heat for saying not all Palestinians who use violence against Israeli soldiers are terrorists. Can attacks against uniformed soldiers be considered terrorism? By Tomer Persico Labor MK Zohair Bahloul in recent days raised the ire of Israeli politicians from across the political spectrum, including members of his own party, for…
By +972 Magazine April 10, 2016
Freed Palestinian prisoners are greeted as they arrive at the Mukata Presidential Compound in the early hours on December 31, 2013 in Ramallah, West Bank. (Activestills.org)
The release of killers is not a cause for celebration
An objection to a +972 post. I looked at the photo essay published in +972 Magazine yesterday, about the West Bank celebrations for the 26 released Palestinian prisoners, and I thought: are we celebrating these killers’ release, too? Are we cheering them as heroes too? +972 practices what’s called engaged journalism – the writers, editors…
By Larry Derfner January 1, 2014
Palestinian shepherd in Um Faqara prevented from reaching his land by IDF soldiers August 2012 (Activestills)
Overplaying the ‘terrorism’ card
The reaction to this week’s killings of two IDF soldiers showed that Israel’s moral condemnation of deliberate civilian killings is a tactic, no more.      The most powerful argument Israel makes in its campaign to paint the Palestinians as the bad guys and itself as the good guy is to point out that Palestinians…
By Larry Derfner September 24, 2013
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