THis morning while driving to pick-up some medicine at the local drug store, a notice on the radio mentioned that there was a "protest" blocking access to LAX (L.A. International airport) in which the "protesters" had used barriers to block the road. I thought, "Wait a minute, a protest involves people trying to bring attention to their cause, but DISTRUPTING VITAL INFRASTRUCTURE like airports, roadways, etc. was TERRORISM!!!" These so-called "protesters" weren't just trying to "bring attention" to their cause, they were TRYING TO INTIMIDATE, DISRUPT AND CAUSE LOSS/INJURY to innocent people. That is a form of terrorism. 

See, the only really operative definition of "hatred" is; "the desire or attempt to witness or bring loss, injury or destruction to another".  Hatred isn't just disagreement, it's an active desire to see harm come to another because of personal or ideological disagreement. 

We have now entered a period of history where launching a Mongol-style terrorist attack on someone (the Hamas attack on Israel) is represented in so-called "civilized" arenas as a "protest". And making no mistake, the October 7th attack on Israel was exactly like a portal had been opened from Hell and thousands of demons were unleashed on innocent people minding their own business. 

So it appears that we now live in a world where largely and increasingly, terrorism is to be regarded as indistinguishable from any other sort of "militancy" and domestic terrorism is no different from any other sort of "protest". 

IMO, in regard to the element of radical Islamism, all of this goes back to the conquest of large swaths of the Muslim Empire by the Mongolians. See, the Mongols SOP was to inflict the most horrifying punishments imaginable on anyone who opposed them including exactly the sort of Hellish atrocities seen on October 7, 2023 against Israel. 

In ancient times, the Mongolian methodology was effective at helping them conquer the Muslim Caliphate and if Muslims are anything, they are attentive to methods of effective conquest.

There is a problem however for the radical Islamists of today trying to reverse the dissolution of the eleventh Caliphate. The Ottoman Empire was dissolved by the Allies (English, French and United States) just after WWI. Using terrorism (like the Mongols) is INEFFECTIVE as a means of modern conquest. The result of the use of nightmarish terrorism is that the victims merely retaliate against those who use it with overwhelming military force. 

IOW, for such barbaric Mongol-style terrorism to be effective, it must be used together with equally-devastating conventional military force, so it effectively becomes a "force multiplier". Without the military prowess as possessed by the Mongols, all that terrorism does is to strongly galvanize the victims into resolute, relentless, overwhelming military force to eradicate those who attacked them. 

So in a long-term strategic sense, the use of a nightmarish Mongol-style attack on Israel had EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE RESULT of the desired one. Hamas et al using an ancient methodology of barbaric, no-holds-barred strategery (sic) in the 21st century was (to say the least) ineffective. It was doomed to failure from the beginning, because Hamas never possessed the ability to also launch an effective, concurrent conventional attack on Israel at the same time. It was therefore irrational to apply ancient strategery (sic) to a modern situation. 

This irrationality is seen in a lesser sense with today's pro-Hamas domestic terrorism in blocking traffic and trying to shut-down LAX - nobody's mind was changed by the action, unless it was to change those who might have been neutral into opponents. Irrational.