Israeli Terror Against Families, Even Their Own

[MaggieL]

Words have meanings, and semantics is important. Otherwise you wouldn't be trying to use semantics as a political tool yourself.

By calling Israeli immigration policy "terror", you attempt to create a moral equivalance between their attempts to defend themselves, and the genuine terrorism they are trying to protect themselves from. You can agree that this particular effort is justified, or not...but calling it "terror" cheapens the word. Being separated from your spouse is terrible. Wondering every second if the bus you're riding in is about to be shredded by thirty pounds of C4 and two thousand steel nails is terror.

Calling this policy "terror" is a propiganda technique, pure and simple. To dismiss criticism of it as "semantics" is disingenuous.

"The slovenliness of our language enables us to have foolish thoughts." --Orwell