Thread by @RBrulin

Brennan was not DCI in 2010-12... BUT there is a larger point here:
US officials (& the US media) simply never, EVER, use the term "terrorism" to refer to actions by US allies, and especially NOT by Israel.

So despite the hypocrisy, Brennan's statement is quite extraordinary

https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/1332427242488680465

Brennan is of course not in government anymore. To my knowledge (I might be wrong?) the LAST TIME a US official used the term "terrorism" to refer to Israel was in 1985. That's actually a funny story...

In 1985, on a visit to Tunisia, under Sec of State John Whitehead used the term "terrorism" to refer to the bombing of Tunis (where the PLO had its headquarters) by Israel. Note that this bombing was condemned as an "armed aggression" by the UNSC

This is how Kapeliouk described the aftermath of the bombing (which killed over 100, most civilians) in the pages of Yediot Ahronot at the time:

US Senators were outraged that Whitehead could suggest that Israel's bombing of Tunis was an act of terrorism (when it was clearly, to them, a justified use of force v the real terrorists, ie the Palestinians.)
And so Whitehead APOLOGIZED for his remark in a Letter to the Senate

This is described in much more detail in this article of mine on academia: academia.edu/24207548/Compa…
And in my PhD dissertation here: tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00764900/d…

Since then we have learned a LOT about the use of #terrorism by Israel, specifically on role played by senior officers in car bombing in Lebanon in early 1980s.
The main rule has NOT changed however: in US discourse, Israel is only the VICTIM of terrorism, NEVER its perpetrator

About the direct, personal role that Eitan, Dagan, Sharon played in the FLLF terrorist car bombing campaign that killed hundreds of civilians in Lebanon in 1980s, and total silence of US media about these revelations, see:

https://twitter.com/RBrulin/status/1331610105515798528?s=20

This is described in much more detail in this article of mine on academia: academia.edu/24207548/Compa…
And in my PhD dissertation here: tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00764900/d…

Since then we have learned a LOT about the use of #terrorism by Israel, specifically on role played by senior officers in car bombing in Lebanon in early 1980s.
The main rule has NOT changed however: in US discourse, Israel is only the VICTIM of terrorism, NEVER its perpetrator

About the direct, personal role that Eitan, Dagan, Sharon played in the FLLF terrorist car bombing campaign that killed hundreds of civilians in Lebanon in 1980s, and total silence of US media about these revelations, see:

https://twitter.com/RBrulin/status/1331610105515798528?s=20

https://twitter.com/RBrulin/status/1332848775208067073?s=20