[arielb1]

The people of the West Bank have engaged in terrorism against Israeli civilians up to 2005 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Intifada - and that's not particularly ancient history.

[umanwizard]

If the Ukraine war goes on for 50 more years you might start to see Ukrainians attacking Russian civilians too, once it’s clear they have no other option.

[msrenee]

I don't have a lot of background in this, so tell me if I'm off-base. Israel is occupying land that it took from Palestine, is it not? I don't feel that terrorism is the correct term for attacks on an occupying force.

[bawolff]

Umm, that's basically the definition of terrorism.

9/11 didn't happen out of the blue, it was a response to american foreign policy in the middle east.

The troubles didn't happen because the IRA thought British rule was legitimate

Etc.

The vast majority of terrorism is because one group is controlling a region that the other group thinks they should not.

[msrenee]

I see what you mean. I never thought about it that way. It kind of just depends what side you're on whether it immediately leaps out as terrorism.

[bawolff]

Yeah, typically if you agree with them they are "freedom fighters" if you don't they're "terrorists".

In my opinion, most long running conflicts tend to have both sides doing terrible things over the course of the conflict, so its rare there is one side that is "good" and one that is "evil".

[burnoutgal]

The IDF have also murdered a lot of innocent palestinians, but if you do it dressed like a soldier somehow it's not "terrorism"

[denton-scratch]

People in the UK have engaged in terrorism against UK citizens up until the present; that doesn't justify the UK occupying Ireland, and installing groups of settlers.

I know, that's exactly what England did under Cromwell; one of my ancestors was such a settler.