In the wake of mass detonation of Hezbollah members' pagers and other communication devices, which were almost certainly rigged with explosives by Israel, it has been frequent to describe these events as acts of 'terrorism.' Conversely, journalist Matthew Petti suggests to me that in general, the term terrorism is not a meaningful word. Petti's point is not a defence of Israel's actions in this case, but rather alludes to how the term tends to be used polemically by various actors simply to label opponents they particularly dislike.
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