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The only difference between terrorist killing & murder is the reaction from the populace, the press, and the government.

That is the function of terrorism. Its theatre for the press and about creating fear. Its effective. The "Palestinian" narrative was accepted on the world stage through its leaders extreme acts of violence without respect for any taboos including raping and castrating small children.
Samir Quantar is a celebrated hero because he crushed a Jewish child’s skull with a rock, because he made the Jewish father watch this bloody deed and then murdered the father. He has become a symbol to the Arab world of their jihad against Israel, against Jews.

Vlad the Impaler (Dracula), however, is, I think, the first modern terrorist.

The following is an account from the Greek historian Chalkondyles of what greeted the invaders:
"He [the Sultan] marched on for about five kilometers when he saw his men impaled; the Sultan's army came across a field with stakes, about three kilometers long and one kilometer wide. And there were large stakes on which they could see the impaled bodies of men, women, and children, about twenty thousand of them, as they said; quite a spectacle for the Turks and the Sultan himself! The Sultan, in wonder, kept saying that he could not conquer the country of a man who could do such terrible and unnatural things, and put his power and his subjects to such use. He also used to say that this man who did such things would be worthy of more. And the other Turks, seeing so many people impaled, were scared out of their wits. There were babies clinging to their mothers on the stakes, and birds had made nests in their breasts."

Dracula too benefited from the press...