"Do people that fire from behind women and children classify as bullying militarist thugs?"

Well, if they are sitting in their lounge room with their families when some bullying better militarily equipped militarist expansionist thugs come over the hill... I'd say no....

but then what you say "people that fire from behind women and children"

might equally apply to the Israeli 'settlers' - even from before the UN 'recognised the state of Israel' when the previous Arabic dwellers tried to get their 'traditional' farms back...