[lit-ideas] Re: Islam, Israel and the Code of the West

  • From: "Simon Ward" <sedward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 23:23:31 +0100

Wikipedia includes a discussion page for its Irgun entry that covers the 
question of terrorist or not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Irgun

Right at the bottom, it comes down to whether such an organisation called 
itself such and since, as it says, Ben Gurion admitted Irgun was a terrorist 
outfit, then so be it.

Simon
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Simon Ward 
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  Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 10:39 PM
  Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Islam, Israel and the Code of the West


  "Guerilla: "Any member of a small defensive force of irregular soldiers, 
usually volunteers, making surprise raids, esp behind the lines of an invading 
enemy army."  [from Webster's New World College Dictionary]  "Guerilla" would 
fit the American Revolutionists, the French Resistors, the Apaches, and the 
Irgun."

  How can you say Irgun were Guerillas? You might as well say the IRA weren't 
terrorists. 

  Come now Lawrence, admit that you agree with Irgun's campaign and don't care 
how they went about it. 

  In which case, being a terrorist is more about belief than methodology. At 
for Lawrence.

  Simon

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