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| Ashdod yesterday: An Israeli woman surveys the damage to her store following a rocket attack from the nearby Gaza Strip. Image source: Uriel Sinai/Getty Images |
This Ongoing War..
13 March '12..
We'll start with what might seem an irrelevant news report from less than an hour ago:
A 15 year old Palestinian teenager from Gaza has been transported to Israel for emergency medical treatment in an Israeli hospital. He was seriously injured while preparing to launch a Palestinian Qassam rocket at Israeli civilians in southern Israel, when the rocket suddenly malfunctioned and exploded. The explosion took place in the Shuja'iyya district of Gaza city.
[Source and hit tip: Jameel @ The Muqata]
Next we'll get on to the don'ts. We don't mean to lecture here on how terrorists don't wear uniforms, or that they deliberately, consistently and almost exclusively target civilians and don't seek strategic or military goals, or that they don't answer to governments who then have to answer for their actions (though in the case of the Palestinian Arab terror groups, they not only don't lack a government but they actually have two, one in Ramallah and the other in Gaza City).
No, what we mean is that in terror warfare, there's no universally agreed definition of what makes it terror in the first place. And as a consequence, it's not universally agreed when the terror has passed or what it produced.
(Read full "Just one of the ways in which a terror war is different from conventional war")
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