All are described as being within the context of legitimate resistance to the occupation of Ireland.

Palestinians call the rocket attacks legitimate resistance to Israeli military actions.

Worse, any Hezbollah attack on Israel was seen by the world as legitimate resistance.

The effect of such bombings, he said, is to make even "legitimate resistance" look like "blind terrorism."

It called his struggle against Israeli occupation "legitimate national resistance."

Do you support such attacks as legitimate resistance?

It disturbs me when I hear terrorist attacks described as legitimate resistance.

Tell the Iraqis who have died that this is legitimate resistance.

But he added that "a line has to be teased out" between legitimate resistance and terrorism.

I asked if he considered the violence in Iraq to be legitimate resistance.