Those buildings were all command centers of Hamas.
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Calling the genocide in Gaza terrorism cheapens the word. What is happening in Gaza is far beyond terrorism. If not for the pictures and video evidence, it would be a natural response to not want to believe something so utterly horrible and depraved to be contemporary.
I understand the sentiment of the meme though. It’s easy to believe what Israel is doing if righteous, if their victims are not considered human.
How about the dead Afghani’s? Iraqi’s? They were all terrorists…really??
Killing civilians is terrorism.
It doesn't matter if your delivery system is a suicide bomber or a drone or a manned aircraft... or (to cite a bonified terror weapon) a railroad gun used to siege cities.
Technically, terrorism is conducted by non-state actors against civilians.
If a state does it, it is either a crime against humanity or a war crime.
“Technically” there is no internationally accepted definition of terrorism.
It’s basically the first thing everyone learns when they study the subject.
That is the legal definition. Laws written and agreed upon by representatives of states. One has to consider that it is defined that way out of self-interest. Charges of terrorism are levied against the enemies of states, which are denied the recognition and privileges of statehood, while charges of war crimes exist only to legitimize states and are levied against the losers of imperialist wars by the victors.
Terrorism is the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, to achieve political, religious, or ideological goals.
Genocide is an international crime defined as specific acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.
What happened in 2001 is in fact terrorism.
What's happening in Gaza is in fact genocide.
Both are bad one is worse. If you can figure out which one is the worst one please reevaluate your life choices.
If you can figure out
Do you mean, "if you can't" ?
You think your being funny, but i've lived in Alabama.
Not a lot of room between southern baptist and al-Qaeda.
There's a reason I've been calling fundamentalist Christians in the US, "The Christian Taliban"
Y'all-Queda
Well? 
i would argue you could expand "southern baptists" with "all fundamentalist evangelicals" especially if they subscribe to biblical infallibility.
they tried to brainwash me but i was able to escape. now my own family makes me feel unsafe.
Y-all kay duh?
Yeah. The second one is genocide and (often conveniently undeclared) war.
School shootings and ICE kidnapping innocent civilians are terrorism, though.
school shootings generally aren’t about achieving political or other goals
they’re mass murder; not terrorism
The funny thing is that Israel was behind both of them.
Let’s not pretend that the US is magically incapable of independently being vile, lol.
Israel as a nation state did not exist until 1948. We were committing atrocities well before that.
Brown schoolchildren... Eh who cares. I want cheap gas.
-America.
Immortal technique 911 freestyle.
If you like that you'll like this https://youtu.be/0SZEc2dr5Uk
And if you like that you'll love this https://youtu.be/YoNiroVRJJM
Wasn't 9/11 retaliation born from a coup or something to do with assad?
At the time, they made a big hullabaloo about the U.S. stationing troops in Saudi Arabia, the country of the holiest sites, during and after desert shield/storm.
I honestly don’t know what is a sincerely held belief and what is pretextual.
Afghanistan. The CIA created instability within the country arming fundamentalists that caused a nasty civil war. The point was to bait the Soviets into a quagmire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War
Not enough people consider the world stage when they think about their microcosms!
What's that second image? This being a meme I suppose it is either Palestine or Iran - in both cases I'd argue it isn't terrorism. It sure is equally horrifying at least, but not every (mass)-killing is terrorism. It, if my assumption is right, both is killing of civilians. Or by legal definition, non-combatants. Targeting non-combatants is illegal according to international law. Not that any of these perpetrators care, but not holding them accountable is the real terror imo.
It's Gaza.
If you don't think destroying all the hospitals, water infrastructure, schools, and nearly every building in what is effectively a concentration camp is terrorism... You had better be calling it a genocide
Yeah i do consider what is happening in Gaza a genocide. My pont is that there is a definition connected to words like genocide and terrorism, and in that sense the images are not displaying the same thing. Sure, they are both horrible; but if the bottom image is Gaza than that is not terrorism, just like the attack on 9/11 wasn't conventional warfare. I get that the meme is going for 'when they do it, it's horrible; when we do it, it's fine', and OP is right; both are horrible and both caused a lot of suffering. Those responsible need to be held accountable.
I think it's Gaza.