Comment by brigandish
9 hours ago
A standard might be: uses suicide bombers.
An even more radical form would be: uses child suicide bombers.
9 hours ago
A standard might be: uses suicide bombers.
An even more radical form would be: uses child suicide bombers.
Suicide bombers don't make it terrorism.
Were the Japanese Kamikaze pilots terrorists? No--their targets were clearly military in nature. Likewise, was the US pilot that kamikaed a terrorist? No. (His plane had no hope of making it back to the carrier, he could have bailed out but the only possible rescue would be from the very fleet he was attacking. No path with a meaningful chance of survival, as soldiers in hopeless situations often do he chose to take as many enemies with him as he could.)
Terrorism is about the target, not the means.
All in all, Israel is doing most of the killing here. They have access to more sophisticated weapon, but it's no less barbaric.
Using one's own children to suicide bomb is no less barbaric than firing a missile? That's not even true in a mathematical sense, let alone a moral one.
Stop using your thought-terminating clichés about terrorism and look at actual stats:
> As of 19 November 2025, over 72,500 people (70,525 Palestinians and 2,109 Israelis) have been reported killed in the Gaza war according to the Gaza Health Ministry (GHM) and Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including 248 journalists and media workers, 120 academics, and over 224 humanitarian aid workers, a number that includes 179 employees of UNRWA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Gaza_war
How is killing tens of thousands of people less barbaric than killing thousands of people? What kind of twisted morality do you use to excuse mass murder by missiles but not through suicide bombing?
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