RE: Palestine Today
⁜→ P F Tinmore, toastman, et al,
Well, what "P F Tinmore" is saying is, deceptively correct. There is no one single law that, from an international law perspective, defines "terrorism." But there ARE
"19 international legal instruments to prevent terrorist acts" created since the early 1960's.
This nonsense that there "is no international law definition for terrorism" is legal wrangling, worthy of an Arab Palestinian but not the rest of us.
There is no international law definition for terrorism.
It is just a 5th grade name calling thing.
But there is a definition . And it absolutely applies to what the Palestinians do. This is why they will NEVER get what they want ...
(COMMENT)
We know, for instance, that what the Gazans are doing along the Gaza Strip and Israelis border are acts of terrorism under
the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombing (1997). So, if you violate
(as the Arab Palestinians do on a near-daily basis) the convention, you ARE a terrorist be international definition.
Article 2
1. Any person commits an offence within the meaning of this Convention if that person unlawfully and intentionally delivers, places, discharges or detonates an explosive or other lethal device in, into or against a place of public use, a State or government facility, a public transportation system or an infrastructure facility:
a.With the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury; or
b.With the intent to cause extensive destruction of such a place, facility or system, where such destruction results in or is likely to result in major economic loss.
2. Any person also commits an offence if that person attempts to commit an offence as set forth in paragraph 1 of the present article.
3.Any person also commits an offence if that person:
a.Participates as an accomplice in an offence as set forth in paragraph 1 or 2 of the present article; or
b.Organizes or directs others to commit an offence as set forth in paragraph 1 or 2 of the present article; or
c.In any other way contributes to the commission of one or more offences as set forth in paragraph 1 or 2 of the present article by a group of persons acting with a common purpose; such contribution shall be intentional and either be made with the aim of furthering the general criminal activity or purpose of the group or be made in the knowledge of the intention of the group to commit the offence or offences concerned.
We know, for instance, that the financing of terrorists, whether direct or indirect, through groups claiming to have charitable, social or cultural goals or which also engage in illicit activities such as drug trafficking or gun running; is a violation of the
"1999 International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism."
This application of the "5th-grade name calling" description is nothing more than the Arab Palestinian trying to make such activities that are encompassed in the 19 Conventions as inconsequential. We all know
(that would be everyone except the mentally deficient Arab Palestinian) that the collective disbursal of "explosive or other lethal device"
(explosive or incendiary weapon or device that is designed, or has the capability, to cause death, serious bodily injury or substantial material damage) is more than just "5th grade name calling." We know this instinctively as reasonable adults. We do not have to reach back to 1938 and the working definition of "acts of terrorism"
[Article 1§2 • Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of Terrorism (1938)] to make that determination. As
Hercule Perot would say, the little gray cells are working.
So when are friend P F Tinmore comes back with this "name-calling" slapstick
(humorously embarrassing), we can just move-on knowing that --- it means he has no legitimate comeback at all.

Most Respectfully,
R