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‘Rebels’ Without A Pause

After a Katyusha hit Kiryat Shemona yesterday, the Lebanese army found and dismantled four more rockets. It prompted this fuzzy headline in The Scotsman: Lebanese Rebels Fire Rocket at Israel How can the paper's headline…

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After a Katyusha hit Kiryat Shemona yesterday, the Lebanese army found and dismantled four more rockets. It prompted this fuzzy headline in The Scotsman:

Lebanese Rebels Fire Rocket at Israel

How can the paper's headline writers describe the suspects as "rebels" without pause? There are no "rebels" in Lebanon firing rockets at Israel. In that light, "rebel" might be a more polite way of calling the rocket team "resistance fighters."

Why not just call it "terror" instead?

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