# Palestinians: Freedom fighters or Terrorists?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [May 12, 2004, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palestinians-freedom-fighters-or-terrorists/244739 "2004-05-12T05:15:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palestinians-freedom-fighters-or-terrorists/244739/41 "2004-05-13T11:18:42Z")

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**FA:** \*Just curious but how closely did you read the ‘revised’ charter? […] Let me quote some of the ‘revised’ charter that your link sent me to \*

No, I think you’re the one who had an accidental reading glitch here. If I understand you correctly, you went to my first [link](http://www.usembassy-israel.org.il/publish/peace/plo_note.html) at the US embassy in Israel website, where there’s a note on the 1996 emendations to the PLO charter. You then went to the link at the bottom of that page, which takes you to the text of the **un-revised, original 1968 PLO charter** , which is what contains all the anti-Israel stuff that you were quoting.

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**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palestinians-freedom-fighters-or-terrorists/244739/42 "2004-05-13T11:44:02Z")

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FinnAgain, you were being dishonest, even if you didn’t realise it.

the Nazi’s weren’t being opressed. They never claimed they were opressed. They came to power in a period of high unemployment and a stagnant economy. They rallied under a banner of pride in their country and their roots. They saw Germany as a whole as being repressed by the WWI armistice. They never had a rally cry of “Help Help! We’re being opressed!” it was more a cry of “Make Germany Strong Again!”.

Freedom Fighters fight for the establishment of a country.

The Nazi’s already HAD a country before they went on an expansion plan. If they had have rounded up a private army and then went to invade Alcase Lorraine and use that as a base to take on the rest of Germany, then I might see how you can press them into the term “freedom fighters”.

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