Notice how fast Hezbollah went from being a terrorist group to a guerrilla group?

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080713/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_lebanon

Israel to swap prisoners with Hezbollah Wednesday

By JOSEF FEDERMAN, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 8 minutes ago

JERUSALEM - The Israeli government said it will swap prisoners with the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah on Wednesday, closing a chapter between the enemies two years after they fought an inconclusive war.

The prison service said Sunday Israel would free five Lebanese including the perpetrator of one of the most notorious attacks in Israeli history. In exchange, Hezbollah will return two soldiers it captured in a cross-border raid that sparked the 2006 war. Israel believes the soldiers are dead.

After nearly two years of negotiations through German mediators, Israel's government approved the release on June 29, but it took several weeks to work out final arrangements. The Israeli announcement came a day after the government received a report from Hezbollah on a missing Israeli soldier who disappeared in Lebanon two decades ago. That report was one of the last sticking points.


Can't have our allies making deals with terrorist groups and our media knows this.

[spanone]

1. good catch...they get to name the enemy....when negotiating-guerilla...when killing=terrorists

[LeftishBrit]

2. The old saying...

is "I am a freedom fighter; you are a guerilla; he is a terrorist."

[Igel]

3. Some news services and writers simply don't say "terrorist".

They say "militant", they say "activist", they say all sorts of things. "Terrorist" is a value judgment, and while the reporters have no problem making some value judgment, that's not one they go on record making.

You'd have to show that Mr. Federman previously called them "terrorist", or that somebody changed his word "terrorist" to "guerrilla" for the reason you gave.

Good luck.

[reprehensor]

4. Subtle.

Sort of. Thanks for posting your observation.