[Ads-l] "One man's terrorist..."

[Joel Berson]

I wonder if one can find something similar in the history of provincial Massachusetts.  The British thought the Americans were terrorists; the colonials thought they were revolutionaries.

Joel

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The modern cliche' that "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom
fighter" seems first to have been formulated in so many words by
Gerald  Seymour,
in his IRA thriller *Harry's Game* (1975).

But Seymour may have been inspired by Yasser Arafat's statement to the UN
General Assembly on Nov, 13, 1974:

"The difference between the revolutionary and the terrorist lies in the
reason for which each fights. For whoever stands by a just cause and fights
for the freedom and liberation of his land from the invaders, the settlers
and the colonialists cannot possibly be called terrorist...."

JL

"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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