Reply #40: Please don't read in things I didn't say [View All]

[aranthus]

It's amazing how, if you challenge even a small aspect of the anti-Israel mantra, people accuse you of supporting all sorts of evil. So let's first deal with what I didn't say:

1. I didn't say that I supported the King David attack; only that it wasn't terrorism. You'll see another post in this thread where I was asked if Hamas attacks on Israeli soldiers is terrorism. I certainly don't support those attacks, but I consistently stated that they weren't terrorist attacks either.

2. I didn't say that the Stern Gang wasn't a terrorist group. I only discussed one incident. There had to have been hundreds, if not more. If people really wanted to prove that Stern was a terrorist group (as opposed to just scoring propaganda points with what appears to be a splashy example), they should have no trouble finding a view legitimate examples of Stern Gang terrorism.

Now for your critique of my position. The fact that the Hotel was not a military base is irrelevant. What matters is whether it was a military target. If you put a military headquarters in a hotel that makes it a legitimate target. Of course the Jews would want to disrupt the administrative headquarters of the the British military presence, including destroying the records the British had of the identities of Jewish militants. It would have been a prime target.

Second, suicide bombings obviously have as a larger purpose the disruption of the Israeli state. The terrorists do that, however, by attempting to indiscriminately kill as many people as possible. That is what makes it terrorism. The King David attack was not intended to kill as many people as possible, but to disrupt the British headquarters by physically damaging or destroying it.