Is it etymologically related, in the way that “salaam” and “shalom” are, or is this just a particularly spicy coincidence?
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The terror org Hamas's name is an acronym, but was afterwards glossed to mean strength or zeal. That vaguely fits, so maybe? But I'm no expert on Proto-Semitic etymology.
Terror org? The fuck? I didn't realize that fighting for your freedom from a brutal oppressor made you a terror org.
Do you call native Americans terrorists too?
Terrorism, according to Wikipedia, is "the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims."
Hamas is doing that, see examples.
I frankly don't see, whatever its goals, how systematically attacking civilians can not be terrorism. (Since Native Americans to my knowledge don't do that, I wouldn't call them terrorists, no).
This definition fits israel just as well or better, do you typically refer to it as a terror org?
Israel is a state, not an organization.