Robert Hughes terrorism Israel Spain and usa

"Not long ago , a conservative politician in George Bush’s government asked me, rather superciliously, if I could name a single example of “terrorism” that produced praiseworthy political results’ suggested that there were at least three. One was the American Revolution which would unhesitatingly have been classed as “terrorist” by the British authorities and the many loyalist Americans if the term had existed then. The second was the creation of the Israeli state , which could have hardly have happened without the acts of murder against the British, such as the bombing of the king david hotel in Jerusalem, carried out by the clandestine organisation irgun  under the command of, among others Menachem Begin. The third was the killing of Franco’s designated successor as dictator of Spain, Admiral Carrero Blanco, who was blown to shreds by a bomb detonated beneath his car in the winter of 1973. By this indubitably “terrorist” act, Spanish democracy was saved. But of course the American political savant would have none of this. Jewish terrorism, to him, was never terrorism but always morally justified self-defence. People slaughtered Hamas’s suicide bombers were the victims of Palestinian atrocities. People slaughtered by arik Sharon’s tanks were either regrettable collateral damage or else mere fictions cooked up by Palestinian propagandists. and he had never heard of Carrero blanco – Spanish history wasn’t his field and he didn’t find the details particularly relevant. "                
Robert Hughes
Things I didn’t  know  a memoir 2006