On: Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon...

[maronato]

"Terrorism" is one of the most useful terms for dehumanizing and delegitimizing a group's actions. It's only a useful term insofar as it's applied only to the enemy.

Mental gymnastics will be in full force here and in the media/politics to recategorize it.

I have no doubt a headline saying "Israeli politicians' hand-held radios explode, killing three, one day after pager blasts" would receive very different responses in this thread.

[maronato → maronato]

And yes, politicians here is correct since

> Hezbollah is a Lebanese Shia Islamist _political party_ and paramilitary group

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah