There are extremists on all sides, as the Israel-Palestine situation clearly shows.
[q=War Angel]Only against British military targets, which makes them guerilla combatants, not terrorists.[/q] A terrorist is a terrorist, I thought there was no middle-ground. "Freedom fighter", "guerilla", "terrorist"... it all depends on one's opinion. Most of the Al Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan were detained as terrorists, even though they were captured while fighting against the soliders of the US and others.

Since when did military lives matter less than anyone else's? Those British soliders were there to protect peace, but terrorists attempted to murder them for that very reason. Saying that they were "only" military is like saying that Al Qaeda's attack on the Pentagon was less serious because it's "only" a military target.

Israeli terrorism is by no means a relic of the past, either. Yitsak Rabin was murdered by one of his countrymen when peace started looming too close, running the risk of ending several generations of hatred and bloodshed.