Hồng: I read from the news we have a war between Palestine and Israel
Amir: I hope not.
Amir: We prefer to call it escalation.
Eskimo’s settings is obviously the snow: snow, snowflakes, ice, glacier, melting water, cold, summer cold, storm. so, it is only naturally hundreds of words (or lexemes) would be arising to express the creativity of the surrounding settings:
- “Kanevvluk” for fine-snow,
- “Qengaruk” for snow-bank,
- “Muruaneq” for soft-deep-snow, etc.
It made me wonder if war is the this region’s settings, and if with new communication opportunities it made us create so many words for war?
Think about it, we have a lot of words about war which is not war, seemingly. That in the local context it is not a legal / cultural definition between relatively peaceful and/or modern countries but a state of affairs. And perhaps out of Israeli glasses there is only one war and that is a “War of No Choice”, which is present at the northern side by the way.
Jihad, campaign, liberation of Palestine, resistance to the occupier, civil revolt, the Zionists, the Jews, the Arabs, Operation X, guiding hand, terrorist attacks, divide and rule, provocation, Unrest, takeover, surgical strike, targeted assassination, real estate dispute, geography struggle of holiness, Jerusalem as an explosive barrel, riots on the Temple Mount, incitement to violence, random incitement, exploitation of the religious context, stone-throwing, riot repulsion, repelling the rioters, changing the rules of the game, creating new equation, incendiary balloon terror, balloon bombs, ecological terrorism, situation heats up, identifying seven lunches, administrative punishment, illegal construction, conflict, the aggression …
And we are able to distinguish between them, to war —As I previously referred to as “War of No Choice”.
The current situation with many rockets fired at civilians in Israel, is not perceived as war, and not exactly as a terror. One suggestion for what contributes to this equation is the missile defense system, and the mediations done through Arab countries like Egypt.
I would ask you the following question, is cyberattacks on national infrastructure an act of declaring war?
So maybe for the definitions I brought here, we are not referring to this as a declaration of war or occupation, but a solution that needs to be found for people who don’t experience freedom.
You can of course raise a hand or be cynical if you like, and ask what freedom is?
The second question we can ask is what is terrorism?
PLEASE comment and enlighten us.
