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I guess not strictly news - but with all of the vitriol I have seen in discussions on the Israel situation, that have boiled down to arguments over wording, I feel that this take from the BBC is worthy of some discussion.

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[–] TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

While I get what you mean, I don't think it should automatically mean (even a lot of people think it does) that you can either say Hamas is a terrorist group or Israel is a terrorist state.

In my own view both are terrorist, both commit atrocities and the result of that are innocent lives lost from both sides.

I despise centrism so saying that hurts a little bit on the inside, but this is one of the rare cases where fighting at all is meaningless and both sides that fighting (and commiting atrocities) are in the fault.