“Terrorists” itself is a bit of a sneaky choice of words, because it’s very vague but sounds very bad.
If they had to talk about deterrence, proportionality and the actual demands and interests of the various factions involved it wouldn’t sound so good for them anymore. Instead, it’s them vs. “terrorists”, being against them is being for “terrorists”, and any attempt to argue with that is doomed to scuttle in the semantic molasses of WTF it even means.
You can still not like Hamas for being brutal theocrats that don’t care about human rights.
According to Norwegian news the ambassador compared it to calling the Earth flat.
*And the Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visited the disputed area of the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on Wednesday and called this a response to European countries’ recognition of Palestine.
We will not even allow a statement about a Palestinian state, said Ben-Gvir.
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