So now that we have established that American forces resort to 'collective punishment', do you view the American war in Iraq as terrorism?
If they inflict collective punishment on civilians, then that would be terrorism. But I haven't seen where that was done, except by rogues.
If you have legitimate examples, then so be it. I don't deny that the US has done some terrible things, but to characterize a war & a police
action as identical to terrorism is just plain unsupportable. You seem to be trying to excuse Israeli terrorism by pointing at the US. That
sways me not in the least, nor do I defend US actions abroad.
Instead of crying 'ad hominem' do try and address the subject.
You are calling Israeli policies terrorism.
If you re-read, you'll see that I called one particular policy terrorism, ie, collective punishment. Please try not to reword what I say so as to over-generalize it.
Btw, I called you on your ad hominemsim because you were ignoring my argument so as to make me the straw man. I don't matter in the least.
.....so I'm addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the American occupation in Iraq. I'll use the same source, Wikipedia.
according to Wiki, in a few decades of conflict about 8,000 Palestinians have died, on the other hand according to Wiki between 2003 and 2009, about 100,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed, and there is a total excess death estimate of 1,366,350.
considering the contrast of the figures, I'm very interested in finding your logic in categorizing Israeli policies which have resulted in the death of about 8,000 people in a duration of decades as terrorism, while not using the same standard when we face the extremely high figures of civilian deaths as a result of the activities of the US forces and the US.
You don't seem to be reading & understanding my definition of terrorism & how I apply it. It's all there, but you're rehashing the same
misunderstanding again. I can only surmise that as an Israeli soldier, you're offended by being associated with terrorism & taking
this way too personally. But this isn't about you. Moreover, your outrage at the number of Iraqi casualties is not a cogent argument.
War & terrorism are not the same thing.