Terrorism and making terms with murder

"Neither Jewish ethics nor Jewish tradition can disqualify terrorism as a means of combat. We are very far from having any moral qualms as far as our national war goes. We have before us the command of the Torah, whose morality surpasses that of any other body of laws in the world: ‘Ye shall blot them out to the last man.’

"But first and foremost, terrorism is for us a part of the political battle being conducted under the present circumstances, and it has a great part to play: speaking in a clear voice to the whole world, as well as to our wretched brethren outside this land, it proclaims our war against the occupier."

Future Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir (Likud) in 1943, when he was one of the leaders of the Stern Gang.

'The occupier' means the British. 

750 British soldiers and policemen were killed by Jewish terrorists in Palestine.

The words of the Austrian Chancellor Schwartzenburg in 1849 come to mind. "We shall astonish the world by our ingratitude."

Also these words of Patrick Cockburn's in October 2023:

This is Patrick Cockburn a year later, in October 2024: