Every time I hear someone call Hezbollah or Hamas a Terrorist organization I remind myself that my Spanish Grandfather who was on the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War was imprisoned by Franco the Fascist and likely called Terrorista.
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Every time I hear someone call Hezbollah or Hamas a Terrorist organization I remind myself that my Spanish Grandfather who was on the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War was imprisoned by Franco the Fascist and likely called Terrorista.
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@chris Visited in 2018, and a majority of schools, and hospitals in Southern Lebanon were run by Hezbollah. I didn’t buy their t shirt at a tourist stop, but it’s not black and white as a “terrorist”* organization.
***terrorists but also a government? They run the healthcare it seemed for sure.
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@irfan the lines so often blur
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@chris The Republicans in the Spanish Civil War didn't rape and murder innocent civilians. Big distinction, and comparing him to Hamas and Hizbullah is an even bigger disgrace to your grandfather's legacy.
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@servers while my grandfather certainly was not one of them, the Republican side was accused and found to have committed certain serious and bloody acts of war and revenge that would shock today. Nothing like Franco, but I am honest with the factual reality that that is what happens in these kinds of conflicts just as I am willing to see the factual reality of the similarities that the Hamas, Hezbollah, Israel conflict has with other revolutionary/guerilla type wars in the past. None of this is new, including calling the other side “terrorist” when it is politically convenient.
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸replied to Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 last edited by
@servers and politics aside, I also said what I said to emphasize the fact that when it is your family, your country, your community under threat, the definitions of “terrorist” change dramatically.