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Fear of calling a terrorist a terrorist
By Bradley Burston
Tags: media, terrorism, Israel News 

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This week the people of London mark the anniversary of the 7/7 suicide bombings, which claimed the lives of 52 people. This might be as good a time as any to look at the challenges journalists face in covering intentional, ideologically based lethal attacks on civilians, which is to say, terrorism.

Journalists are right to fear calling a terrorist a terrorist. The word is often misused, its power exploited, its capacity for bias unbounded, its application all too often judgmental, inflammatory, grossly inexact, even racist.
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Sometimes, though, terrorism actually is terrorism.

Last week, a Palestinian drove a bulldozer past a building which houses a number of major world and Israeli news media outlets, ramming the earth mover over and into a succession of cars in an incident which shocked and perplexed a public and a journalist corps which, until that moment, believed that they had seen it all.

There were those among the Israeli press who were all too ready to definitively declare the incident - which at first appeared a possible accident - as outright terrorism.

At the same time, there were those, many of them members of the international news media, who chose a different option, one which, initially at least, seemed much better grounded in journalistic ethics.

Their approach could be seen as a two-dimensional, literal, oddly bloodless, thoroughly anonymous reading of certain facts at hand. "Man shot dead after Jerusalem bulldozer rampage" read the headline in the U.K. Guardian newspaper's online edition." Accompanying picture captions read like a shuttered window: "Bulldozer crashes into Jerusalem bus." "A man seized control of a bulldozer in Jerusalem today and used it to overturn a bus before he was shot and killed. Warning: contains images of dead bodies some may find disturbing."

One of the journalistic lessons of 7/7, like the September 11 attacks four years before, was this: All terrorism is local. That is to say, editors, reporters and news outlets for whom the word terror was long off-limits, may truly comprehend the word and the necessity of its use, only when terrorism strikes their own community. So it was in London, as in New York.

The reactions of journalists, accordingly, may also be seen to be emotional in the extreme, especially when viewed by those who have yet to be stricken. Sometimes, when a Palestinian terrorist strikes, it is the natural reaction of some observers to find new and creative ways to explain why Israel - and only Israel - was truly to blame.

So it was, that last week, when this space carried a dispatch called Palestinian terrorism as a natural act, I received a number of letters which took me to task - one taking the trouble to call me a racist ******* - for failing, in the same essay, to list Jewish massacres of Palestinians, failing to condemn runaway settlement construction, failing to list hundreds of Palestinian villages leveled, failing to denounce house demolitions and expulsions of Palestinians in East Jerusalem, killings of Palestinian children, and "the occupation of lands stolen in 1967."

In other words, for failing to explain why this man did what he did with the bulldozer, and why it pales in comparison to what Israel has done and continues to do.

For the benefit of this reader, and many others, I would like to say this. I do unreservedly and without apology condemn Jewish massacres of Palestinians, runaway settlement construction, the leveling of Palestinian villages, house demolitions and expulsions of Palestinians in East Jerusalem, the killings of Palestinian children and the occupation.

Call me a racist, but that doesn't change my opinion of the man with the bulldozer one bit.

Just as Palestinian murders of Israelis, Palestinian inculcation of children with racist anti-Semitic incitement, and radical Islamic Palestinian refusal to accept the possibility of a Jewish state, change not one whit my opinion of Baruch Goldstein, who slaughtered 29 Muslims at prayer in Hebron in 1994.

Sometimes, terrorism is just that.

There are those who argue that the bulldozer driver was not a terrorist because he did not belong to an organization which ordered him to kill, or because he used drugs, or was otherwise emotionally unstable.

I would suggest that terrorism is terrorism whether committed on orders or on one's own volition. I would suggest that terrorism is terrorism even if the terrorist is not a model of emotional health. It isn't just anyone off the street, one supposes, who has the emotional instability to intentionally detonate a bomb belt he has strapped to his midriff, or who intentionally flies the plane he is riding into a skyscraper

I would also suggest that terrorism is equally execrable, equally unjustifiable, equally obscene whether committed by a Jew for supposedly Jewish causes, or a Muslim for supposedly Islamic ones.

As for the question of state terrorism, I would suggest this. IDF soldiers and officers have committed war crimes, they have killed innocent people in incidents which could have been prevented, and Israel has an obligation to see that they be punished. The government must see to it that its policies do not harm innocent people, and it is the job of the press to make sure that when this happens, it comes to light, and that officials take steps to see that it does not recur.

At the same time, the Palestinians, and Hamas in particular, can no longer have it both ways. You cannot pretend to be a legitimate government, and still countenance, sponsor, and otherwise permit terrorism to continue.

Terrorism is many things, but justifiable is not among them. The person who justifies terror in any form, is declaring that it is legitimate in certain cases to kill innocent people. If justifying the murder of innocents because they belong to a certain hated group is not abject racism, I'd like to know what is.

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  2.   Psychological warfare 03:39  |  Anonymous 08/07/08
  3.   Bradley 07:01  |  Yosemite 08/07/08
  4.   The terror on the face of the mothers. 09:09  |  Maureen Ann 08/07/08
  5.   Terrorism Is Terrorism!! 09:10  |  Moshe 08/07/08
  6.   #1 myrta on the excuse trail! it was not a bulldozer 09:10  |  victor hardman 08/07/08
  7.   kol ha`kavod bradley 09:12  |  yonatan 08/07/08
  8.   state terrorism, an ugly reality 09:20  |  Ben 08/07/08
  9.   Bradley and peace lovers in a tough position 09:21  |  ScotGuy 08/07/08
  10.   First, Israel must accept Hamas as a legitimate government 09:22  |  Clickfool 08/07/08
  11.   Bradley when will terrorism become local to Haaretz? 09:23  |  x-ray 08/07/08
  12.   Anonymous in Chicago 09:25  |  x-ray 08/07/08
  13.   Reap what you sow 09:29  |  Natallie Durson 08/07/08
  14.   THE MURDERER HAD RECENTLY JOINED ISLAM . 09:40  |  Bill 08/07/08
  15.   Definitions, definitions ... 09:47  |  Cynical 08/07/08
  16.   what is terrorism? 09:58  |  KMS 08/07/08
  17.   Supporting Terrorism On Haaretz 10:01  |  Tex 08/07/08
  18.   not quite... 10:08  |  max 08/07/08
  19.   NO TERRORISM, THERE WOULD BE NO ISRAEL 10:10  |  indrajaya 08/07/08
  20.   Response for Bradley 10:11  |  Esther 08/07/08
  21.   #14 Bill There are approximately 23 631 New Zealand Muslims. 10:21  |  Maureen Ann 08/07/08
  22.   Bradley tries to justify his premature judgement of bulldozer man 10:22  |  Michael 08/07/08
  23.   I agree with you Mr. Burston - but 10:28  |  Steve the Pals. 08/07/08
  24.   #4 maureen - The JOY on the face of the mothers. 10:44  |  CK Tan 08/07/08
  25.   Bouncing the blame off your "terrorists". 10:58  |  Steve the Pals. 08/07/08
  26.   #13 natallie d - RIGHT on the money! 11:02  |  CK Tan 08/07/08
  27.   Destroying soup kitchens, orphanages, clinics is terrorism 11:04  |  Michael 08/07/08
  28.   Mental disorder and terrorism 11:06  |  Michael 08/07/08
  29.   Having it both ways... 11:08  |  H50 08/07/08
  30.   #19 indrajaya - and suharto was a SAINT 11:11  |  CK Tan 08/07/08
  31.   Important differences 11:35  |  Ibrahim 08/07/08
  32.   By the book 11:45  |  FreeOne 08/07/08
  33.   Bradley is complicit 11:50  |  peter 08/07/08
  34.   #23 - Steve 11:52  |  ScotGuy 08/07/08
  35.   language of "terrorism" too loaded 11:59  |  raymond deane 08/07/08
  36.   To #14: Bill 12:01  |  An Arab Neighbor 08/07/08
  37.   Bradley Burston is a brainless, no-talent clown 12:06  |  Tarik 08/07/08
  38.   Burstom 12:13  |  j10 08/07/08
  39.   Finally an Israeli admits that Israel committed war crimes? 12:24  |  zack 08/07/08
  40.   IDF terrorist. Go on say it, Bradley. 12:36  |  Michael 08/07/08
  41.   NOT EVERY MUSLIM IS A TERRORIST 12:40  |  Iskander 08/07/08
  42.   Looking truth in the eye 12:44  |  Tom 08/07/08
  43.   Don`t worry j10 #38 12:54  |  Esther 08/07/08
  44.   #39 - When will the Palestinians their love for terror? 13:00  |  ScotGuy 08/07/08
  45.   #6 Victopaul Harrisman and his usual tripe 13:00  |  Labhras 08/07/08
  46.   Problems do not age well 13:06  |  allang 08/07/08
  47.   Brad and the settlers 13:20  |  JJ Burke 08/07/08
  48.   #44 13:22  |  Rab Burns 08/07/08
  49.   #35 raymande rattles the pots and pans again 13:37  |  victor hardman 08/07/08
  50.   Bradley, that`s enough with "balancing" Baruch Goldstein with the 13:46  |  S 08/07/08
  51.   Peace Plan: The US should appoint Slowman as peace mediator 13:47  |  Bursting Brad 08/07/08
  52.   Even for you bradley,this is truly a mendacious article! 13:52  |  lakshmi 08/07/08
  53.   Good Points Bradley! 13:54  |  Ronnie Wolman 08/07/08
  54.   Playing with words is also terrorism. 13:55  |  Akram Zekaria 08/07/08
  55.   Rerrorism as such is not that impressive anymore and 14:02  |  17 08/07/08
  56.   * 36 ARAB NEIGHBOUR 14:10  |  BILL 08/07/08
  57.   to Myrta#1 14:17  |  Hilda 08/07/08
  58.   * 21 MAUREEN ANN 14:28  |  BILL 08/07/08
  59.   Definition 14:45  |  Super Synic 08/07/08
  60.   Terrorist Definition 15:09  |  Jasper 08/07/08
  61.   Right complaint for the wrong case 15:09  |  Tosefta 08/07/08
  62.   Absolute truth vs Zeitgeist / 6 15:10  |  Bob 08/07/08
  63.   Absolute truth vs Zeitgeist / 7 15:11  |  Bob 08/07/08
  64.   #2 anonymous 15:28  |  Edith 08/07/08
  65.   Again comparing 1 and 148 15:54  |  Mladen Andrijasevic 08/07/08
  66.   studying the Motives and the Responses. 15:58  |  Tzfonit 08/07/08
  67.   #39 - When will Pals admit that they use terrorism? 16:04  |  ScotGuy 08/07/08
  68.   Bradley, the aftermath of an IDF raid is the worst form of terror 16:13  |  Palestinian in UK 08/07/08
  69.   We`ve had the deranged people before 16:21  |  x-ray 08/07/08
  70.   Up To A Point, Mr. Bradley Burston 16:22  |  Jeff Northridge 08/07/08
  71.   #21 Moureen , Poor New Zeland . 16:22  |  TOMY 08/07/08
  72.   Steve, #23 16:45  |  Tex 08/07/08
  73.   PUKe: Talk About Monkeys 16:49  |  Tex 08/07/08
  74.   Bob yous #62 #63 16:50  |  Super Synic 08/07/08
  75.   Psychological warfare 16:54  |  Anonymous 08/07/08
  76.   Myrta #1 16:54  |  Truth 08/07/08
  77.   #4 maureen ann...."because the heart... 17:02  |  Pastor Joseph 08/07/08
  78.   #10 the clickFOOL again 17:05  |  Pastor Joseph 08/07/08
  79.   terrorists are on both sides 17:06  |  eric 08/07/08
  80.   nationalist inspired murder is terrorism 17:07  |  Ilan 08/07/08
  81.   Fear Of calling a terorist a terorist...... 17:08  |  Zoe 08/07/08
  82.   #13 Durson, how about... 17:10  |  Pastor Joseph 08/07/08
  83.   Islamic terrorism 17:16  |  Super Synic 08/07/08
  84.   all very well burston... but 17:20  |  ravi 08/07/08
  85.   #14 and instructions... 17:48  |  Edithann 08/07/08
  86.   Bradley.First About time You & Others stopped mentioning Baruch G 18:10  |  KATHY 08/07/08
  87.   #70 - Jeff N. right on the money 18:30  |  ScotGuy 08/07/08
  88.   how rude to call the palis nazis eric 18:31  |  x-ray 08/07/08
  89.   Palestinians Must Prove themselves to Burston 18:50  |  Hank N Tennessee 08/07/08
  90.   Pals 18:52  |  Steve 08/07/08
  91.   Clicktool, every one of your comments is complete 19:04  |  jj 08/07/08
  92.   Pal in UK, have seen a lot more than you 19:12  |  jj 08/07/08
  93.   This is the problem w/no true definition of what is a terrorist 19:13  |  Czarkazem13 08/07/08
  94.   Who Really Killed Yitzhak Rabin?+Eli Cohen`s family Unable to See 19:30  |  K 08/07/08
  95.   The difference between Israel and its enemies 19:30  |  Shalom Freedman 08/07/08
  96.   ISRAELI TERROR FOR SIXTY YEARS PLUS 19:39  |  JH 08/07/08
  97.   77 Pastor Joseph, I thought Israel was governed by Olmert. 19:45  |  Michael 08/07/08
  98.   #68 - To Pal in the UK -- Where Is Your Proof? 19:47  |  CB 08/07/08
  99.   People Die for Controversy - Don`t They 19:59  |  Eli Wapniarski 08/07/08
  100.   ravi # 84 That Is False In General 20:05  |  Jeff Northridge 08/07/08
  101.   Burston entangled in doublethink 20:20  |  Michael N 08/07/08
  102.   Bradley; It`s really not complicated. 20:24  |  Gray 08/07/08
  103.   #96 JH 20:50  |  Iskander 08/07/08
  104.   POLLITICALLY correct thuggery will not allow truth.In Canada 20:57  |  PETER SM 08/07/08
  105.   Bradley; Please consider.... 21:20  |  Gray 08/07/08
  106.   GRAY it is very simple.Yet again there was NO truce on the W.Bank 21:38  |  PETER SM 08/07/08
  107.   we don`t call them traitors 21:47  |  Sam 08/07/08
  108.   #86 Kathy idolises terrorists---re Goldstein 21:56  |  Labhras 08/07/08
  109.   Hundreds thousands victims of terror are muslims 22:13  |  Al 08/07/08
  110.   # 87 ScotGuy Of Course Jeff.N Is right.. 22:13  |  KATHY 08/07/08
  111.   # 105 Peter SM re:Gray..It is Futile To Try Arguing Points.. 22:34  |  KATHY 08/07/08
  112.   JH, Thanks for reaffirming UNR 181 23:01  |  Ramius 08/07/08
  113.   # 97 Another Dummkopf from the UK .An Imposter!. 23:03  |  K 08/07/08
  114.   Tzfonit @66 23:10  |  Gabe! 08/07/08
  115.   Perhaps Michael in the UK 23:16  |  Scharker Yid 08/07/08
  116.   #111 Kathy /petersm re GRAY 23:18  |  Labhras 08/07/08
  117.   #113 K re my good friend Michael in the UK 23:27  |  GOD 08/07/08
  118.   Peter sm; Wrong, wrong and, what are you thinking? 23:30  |  Gray 08/07/08
  119.   clickfool, are you crazy? 23:41  |  meh 08/07/08
  120.   to all of you palestinian supporters 23:44  |  meh 08/07/08
  121.   Bradley, Bradley 23:46  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 08/07/08
  122.   Gray from below the Mason Dixon Line 23:54  |  Ramius 08/07/08
  123.   Queen Victoria joins us......# 91 00:09  |  Clickfool 09/07/08
  124.   Oh GOD 00:48  |  Ramius 09/07/08
  125.   K 113 Get a grip and lay off the caffeine. 00:57  |  Michael 09/07/08
  126.   #24 CKTan. Your shouting tells me a lot about your indoctrination 01:59  |  Maureen Ann 09/07/08
  127.   Response part 1 02:00  |  Che Vive 09/07/08
  128.   Response part 2 02:01  |  Che Vive 09/07/08
  129.   Jeff Northridge #70 02:04  |  Free Gilad Shalit 09/07/08
  130.   #86 Kathy. What - "prevailing circumstances." 02:06  |  Maureen Ann 09/07/08
  131.   # 118 No,Right,Right,Peter SM Is Right And You Wrong.As Usual. 02:28  |  . 09/07/08
  132.   # 103 Iskander re:JH Good Reply to that one.And 02:35  |  . 09/07/08
  133.   #77 `Pastor` Joseph. What "fallen men?" 02:41  |  Maureen Ann 09/07/08
  134.   #125 maureen `commie,leftist, elitist, terrorist loving 03:20  |  Pastor Joseph 09/07/08
  135.   #119 meh.....clickFOOL is crazy...no question 03:24  |  Pastor Joseph 09/07/08
  136.   Lahbras; Thanks, I`m not sure what is so difficult to grasp 03:30  |  Gray 09/07/08
  137.   Terrorism? 03:56  |  Truth 09/07/08
  138.   Zionists know what they are doing 04:00  |  Truth 09/07/08
  139.   #129 maureen `i think im a god` ann 04:12  |  Pastor Joseph 09/07/08
  140.   maureen ann re. Pastor Joseph...you`re blind as usual 04:17  |  meh 09/07/08
  141.   indrajaya, don`t make God a liar. 04:26  |  meh 09/07/08
  142.   GRAY No you are wrong,not to mention dishonest "80,000tons"?? 04:55  |  PETER SM 09/07/08
  143.   NOTHING like the threat of a riot,a fatwa a throatcutting 05:18  |  PETER SM 09/07/08
  144.   CHEVIVE There are lots of things that are of world concern 05:39  |  PETER SM 09/07/08
  145.   "TRUTH" There were no barriers before your homicide bombers 06:06  |  PETER SM 09/07/08
  146.   Peter sm; Heavens, it`s those" "Armed Red Cross ambulances now... 06:15  |  Gray 09/07/08
  147.   Thank you 06:28  |  marsally 09/07/08
  148.   #139 You am... pasture Joseph. 06:32  |  Maureen Ann 09/07/08
  149.   Ramius As a matter of fact... 06:42  |  Gray 09/07/08
  150.   `Judgement Day` and its limitations 06:43  |  עלום שם 09/07/08
  151.   Bravo B.B. 06:46  |  citizen zerob 09/07/08
  152.   Racist bullshit 06:46  |  Montrealer 09/07/08
  153.   #148 Terrorist lover maureen... 07:11  |  Pastor Joseph 09/07/08
  154.   BILL , or is it BULL, IN New Zealand 08:01  |  PADDY 09/07/08
  155.   If you beat a dog daily 09:01  |  candida 09/07/08
  156.   "Pastor" Joseph is angry with me # 135 09:14  |  Clickfool 09/07/08
  157.   For Paddy - all you need to know about Bible Bill # 154 09:17  |  Clickfool 09/07/08
  158.   The problem in Israel .... 09:18  |  Dutch 09/07/08
  159.   Inadequate definition 09:21  |  Colin Wright 09/07/08
  160.   Why not? 09:26  |  Colin Wright 09/07/08
  161.   Gray, early Zionists just wanted a home 09:34  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 09/07/08
  162.   Clickfool - beaming technology!? 10:12  |  PADDY 09/07/08
  163.   GREY.Distorting again. Ambulances once used to transport muntions 11:03  |  PETER SM 09/07/08
  164.   Kol HaKavod to Mr. Burston 11:12  |  Sally Forth 09/07/08
  165.   GREY 2.Senior Islamic Jihad commander&the Hamas member killed 11:24  |  PETER SM 09/07/08
  166.   NUT ALI Durson 12:20  |  Christian Van Nieker 09/07/08
  167.   Gray`s "Early Zionist Period" 12:21  |  Tex 09/07/08
  168.   Rhetoric a la Durson, continued... 17:45  |  Joe Sittizen 09/07/08
  169.   Hey Dutch, Mahmoud Darwish is... 17:51  |  Joe Sittizen 09/07/08
  170.   #159 colin WRONG again 23:12  |  Pastor Joseph 09/07/08
  171.   #158 dutch from the usa...thought we got rid of you 23:14  |  Pastor Joseph 09/07/08
  172.   Joe Sittizen, Nothing complicated about theft & violating the law 00:07  |  dutch 10/07/08
  173.   # 117 05:31  |  Aziz 10/07/08
  174.   #172 dutch trots out NON-EXISTENT laws for NON-EXISTENT people 06:47  |  CK Tan 10/07/08
  175.   #173 CK...thanks CK... 08:12  |  Pastor Joseph 10/07/08
  176.   Pastor Joseph 22:29  |  Czarkazem13 10/07/08
  177.   #176 22:47  |  Pastor Joseph 10/07/08
  178.   czarkazem13 haven`t you heard of hard preaching 04:06  |  meh 11/07/08
  179.   #177 pastor joseph....that`s right, they can call you 04:13  |  meh 11/07/08
  180.   Judgment call 08:55  |  Brian 11/07/08
  181.   CONFUSED LAST SENTENCE 12:57  |  Israeli 11/07/08
  182.   Meh 18:59  |  Czarkazem13 11/07/08
  183.   Will we get the results of this survey? 00:32  |  Edithann 13/07/08
  184.   #182 Of course, Jews have the right to be 07:43  |  meh 13/07/08
  185.   Meh, part 1 18:54  |  Czarkazem13 14/07/08
  186.   Meh, part 2 18:59  |  Czarkazem13 14/07/08
  187.   we NEVER aim at ciivilians 09:31  |  paul 16/07/08
  188.   BILL #14 01:31  |  Mona 17/07/08
  189.   Terrorist - who Decides? 01:46  |  Mona 17/07/08
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