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That's the beauty of using masking terms like "terrorists" like Israel is doing to justify their genocide.
You can make "terrorism" the most extreme crime that anyone can commit, a crime that immediately disqualifies you from due process or human rights, then just utterly fail to define what "terrorism" means, so you can slap it on any youtuber who criticizes the government or entire neighborhoods of hispanic or black people so you can start segregating and arresting and creating labor camps... another sneaky way to continue slavery.
Poorly defined, unscientific or non-factual policy is designed to enforce "rules for thee, not for me" and is one of the foundational cornerstones of fascism and oligarchy.
That's exactly what they are doing. Now they are starting to justify military intervention against cartels in Mexico because they've designated them as Terrorists, when there is nothing terroristic about them. They are just Criminal Oligarchs, no different than our president and his friends.
There are several "magic words" that power-mad tyrants love to use to justify every horrible thing they do. "Terrorist." "Criminal." "Pedophile." "Anti-semite" (a relatively new one) and sometimes "rapist."
We've seen them use these buzzwords everywhere over and over, because they work in stoking the fear and disgust and horror in an ill-informed public.
There's no better feeling for a dictator than having millions of people supporting him as he levels an entire country because he told the citizens that it was a place full of child rapists and nazis. See: every major conflict this century.