FLN leaders justified civilian bombing as equivalent to French aerial bombardment.

Evidence

When the two bombs went off a few minutes later the carnage was particularly appalling in the Milk-Bar, where the heavy glass covering the walls was shattered into lethal splinters. Altogether there were three deaths and over fifty injured, including a dozen with amputated limbs, among them several children. Only Djamila Bouhired’s bomb, placed in the hall of the Air France terminus, failed to go off, due to a faulty timer. Pied noir reactions were expectedly violent, and those sympathetic to the F.L.N. cause were shocked by the callous placing of the bombs. Dr Pierre Chaulet, who was sheltering Ramdane Abane, expressed his disapproval but was told coldly: “I see hardly any difference between the girl who places a bomb in the Milk-Bar and the French aviator who bombards a mechta or who drops napalm on a zone interdite.” — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 559

Categorization

• XREF: The moral equivalence argument between terrorist bombing and napalming villages is a central rhetorical move in the ‘Savage War’ the reader is tracking. — connects to: The F.L.N. justified civilian bombing as morally equivalent to French air attack.; Military commanders privately authorized bombing and collective responsibility in Algeria.; F.L.N. France terrorism avoided indiscriminate civilian bombing — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 970 (+3 more)

Related

• The F.L.N. justified civilian bombing as morally equivalent to French air attack. (similarity 0.94)
• Both Blair and bombers justify civilian deaths as means to a Good end (similarity 0.90)
• F.L.N. France terrorism avoided indiscriminate civilian bombing (similarity 0.87)
• The F.L.N. adopted total war against French civilians in direct retaliation. (similarity 0.85)
• The F.L.N. mirrored French collective responsibility with collective reprisals (similarity 0.83)
• The F.L.N. adopted total war on civilians as its strategy (similarity 0.82)
• F.L.N. attacks on French schools were targeted war against French culture, not random savagery (similarity 0.82)
• F.L.N. terror backfired against France, not the F.L.N., abroad (similarity 0.82)
• Indiscriminate F.L.N. bombing alienated the Muslim working class (similarity 0.81)
• Lamp-post bombs killed almost equal numbers of Muslims and Europeans, hurting F.L.N. image. (similarity 0.81)
• The F.L.N. moved its terrorism into metropolitan France in summer 1958 (similarity 0.81)
• The F.L.N. justified civilian massacre as reprisal for collective repression (similarity 0.80)
• F.L.N. terrorism in France alienated even its expected leftist allies. (similarity 0.80)
• French retaliation massacres played directly into the F.L.N.’s strategy (similarity 0.79)
• Terrorist attacks boosted the F.L.N.’s diplomatic standing despite revulsion (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• F.L.N. France terrorism avoided indiscriminate civilian bombing #contradicts (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 970
• The F.L.N. adopted total war against French civilians in direct retaliation. #qualifies (0.50)
• The F.L.N. adopted total war on civilians as its strategy #qualifies (0.50) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 371