And it can be explained only by racism. Our suffering simply does not matter. Debate over the means of Palestinian resistance must be engaged, nonetheless. Indeed, it is very attractive to say to hell with them all. The point, however, is that we struggle to win, not to score or not score debating points.
Armed struggle is a complex and loaded question.
We are not living in a pacifist world. Morally, and in terms of international law, recourse to arms is sanctioned. The right of a people suffering from colonial oppression to take up arms in its struggle for independence is established by virtue of experience, morality and law. The concept of terrorism, on the other hand, is farcical, from a moral and legal point of view. Arbitrarily grounded in the foreign policy interests of the US, to pay any attention to it would be absurd.