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In article <JIME.92Apr10103806@bullwinkle.atc.ll.mit.edu> jime@bullwinkle.atc.ll.mit.edu (Jim Eggert x6127 g41) writes:

>Israel did _not_ acquire its land in the same way that that America
>acquired its land.  (stuff deleted.)

>This is not at all similar to the US, where the initial revolution was
>fought as a war, not as a terrorist action,....

>=Jim  jime%atc.ll.mit.edu (Jim Eggert)

Actually, if my understanding of the American revolution is correct,
the above statement is not very accurate.  The American revolutionaries
(herein referred to as ARs) did not have the manpower to wage conventional
war as defined in their day and age.  So they resorted to hit and run
tactics, small sniper teams, and definately used force against civilians
that they thought were collaberating with the British.  While these are
mostly accepted military practices now, they were not at the time.
Therefore, one could argue that the ARs practiced a limited form of
non-standard warfare, which people of the time could have called terrorism.

Also, remember that terrorism is nothing new.  It has been around for
thousands of years.  It is just that with bombs and timers, and a mass
media that can get reasonably accurate word of events to the majority
of the world in very little time, terrorism has become a much more
powerful tool for manipulating the population.  Unfortunately, there is
no technological solution as of yet.
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