Determining whether or not the shelling of an Israeli Kibbutz or the bombing of Hanoi is an act of international terrorism is unproductive debate because
A) whether or not they were terrorism, they had to happen.
B) those events took place during a war.
C) no one wants to talk about it anyway.
D) the United Nations won't come up with a definition of terrorism so that we can classify it.

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The key point is that these events occurred in the context of war, which complicates the classification of such acts as international terrorism. This context often involves state actors, military objectives, and considerations of war legality, differing from the common understanding of terrorism as violence by non-state actors to instill fear for political purposes.

Determining Whether or Not the Shelling of an Israeli Kibbutz