Well, steve, if being "an integral part of the government" is the requirement for NOT being a terrorist, Israel, BEING the government, cannot be terrorist, either.

Tiresome comment. Like-with-like would be to compare Hezbollah with an Israeli party, Likud, let's say, which equally don't work too well. Hezbollah started its life as a resistance movement, and, in many respects, that's what it still is. There is not a movement in Israel to compare. Israel doesn't need a clandestinely-armed resistance movement. It has one of the biggest armies on earth, bankrolled openly by Washington. How horrid of Hezbollah to be sneaky enough to have to rely on smuggled weapons! That aside, you appear to be unconsciously condoning any act by a country just because "it's too big to be a terrorist". To you, it appears, being big excuses from all kinds of horrid behaviour. Let's not forget the repeated incursions into neighbouring sovereign territories that have resulted in the indiscriminate (yes, Keith) slaughter of civilians. Thousands killed in those two refugee camps. Refugee camps. Shall I say it again? Hundreds of maimed children thanks to cluster bomblets left all over the Lebanon countryside. Children. Shall I say it again? Families and their homes destroyed by bulldozers and helicopter gunships in Gaza. Families. Shall I say it again? I don't care whether you call those terrorist acts or not. Ask those families, refugees and kids whether they had their lives destroyed by terrorists and they'll tell you they don't give a damn. It's a bloody word, that's all. Let's talk right or wrong instead. OK. Now that's sorted, lets discuss whether those IDF actions were right or wrong (and yes, I do know what happened in Sabra and Shatila).

Unless you demand different standards for Jews...

If that is a puerile attempt to goad me into antisemitic remarks, it won't work. You need to sort yourself out, mate. Sounds to me like you're the racist round here.