This is an archive of the former website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which was run by the now defunct Maoist Internationalist Party - Amerika. The MIM now consists of many independent cells, many of which have their own indendendent organs both online and off. MIM(Prisons) serves these documents as a service to and reference for the anti-imperialist movement worldwide.

Again on the State Department's opportunist legal definition of terrorism

Some people have asked MIM whether Hamas has been taken off the U.$. terrorist list. When MIM first wrote about the State Department propaganda of October 5th, the web page of the State Department was not completely updated yet.

Now it is and you can see that Hamas and others are still on the 2001 list as MIM stated in its previous article on terrorism and the State Department's definition. State Department labels Hamas and others "terrorist."

Also, people should look again at the definition the State Department says constitutes the definition of terrorism. Note the use of "any" which means that it should be quite easy to get the U.S. Government designated "terrorist" in U.S. courts. Also, note that the State Department makes it clear that U.S. law trumps foreign law on the definition of terrorism. If Hamas is not defined as carrying out terrorist acts in Palestine, but the U.S. law would designate such acts as "terrorism," then Hamas acts will be considered terrorism. Such is in fact what is happening.

Nonetheless, being on a legal list of the State Department and State Department policy or strategy are not the same thing.

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