Mike Hudack is a tumblelog.

Palestinian terrorists on Tuesday night fired at least two rockets at Beersheba, adding some 187,000 residents of the largest city in the Negev into the ever-widening range of the rockets attacks.

Widening range, rockets strike Beersheba kindergarten | Israel | Jerusalem Post

I’m extremely sympathetic to the Israeli position in this conflict, and should mention again that I just returned from Israel a month or so ago.  Being there offers an entirely new perspective on the entire conflict.  

Still, I think that we should get our terms right.  Terrorists didn’t fire rockets at Beersheba.  Irregular forces did.  Firing artillery at enemy population centers, while potentially illegal under international law, isn’t really a “terrorist” act.  At least not as we understand the word “terrorist” these days.  Hamas, after all, is at this point effectively a state actor…