I'm pretty much over the word terrorism, especially when insufferable liberals use it to describe every Islamic and/or Arab person, country, or group (or those who are sympathetic) that does something they don't like. The word basically means nothing anymore and arguably never did. Most people and/or groups that are designated terrorists are only designated such because we (the US) have insisted on it. I have been called a terrorist or a terrorist sympathizer literally dozens of times on this fucking board, by insane reactionary conservatives to annoying shitlibs that seemingly get all their notes from Jake Tapper, simply because I am pro-Palestinian. A DT poster said I should be on the terror watch list yesterday.
Hell, by definition, a ton of different actions taken by the United States and Israel could and should be considered terrorism. For example, orchestrating and initiating coups in sovereign countries (including, but not limited to, Iran) and our many acts of deliberate destabilization (including, but not limited to, Iran) but only aren't because they are nation states.
Israel has, just since October 7th mind you, mercilessly bombed Lebanon, killing thousands of and displacing over a million civilians, and deliberately destroyed critical non-military infrastructure. I don't know what to call that besides just straight up terrorism. And since it's being perpetrated with US weapons and money, state-sponsored terrorism. Hezbollah is an active Lebanese political party with a paramilitary wing that was formed in direct response to Israeli aggression and violence. Does Lebanon have a right to defend itself? I guess not, since it is an Arab country that the US/Israel doesn't like.
Pretty much everything Israel has done in Gaza in the last several decades could and should be considered terrorism. Their enforcement of apartheid measures in Israel proper and the West Bank, and the active and open sponsorship of settler violence in the West Bank are quite literally terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism.
Saying they are not our proxy when they could not sustain even a single one of their aggressive campaigns without our military and financial support is laughable.
You are using semantic differences in order to twist yourself into knots to not have to face the facts that there are far more similarities than you'd like to admit. Your contention is, effectively, that as long as a nation state does it, it's not terrorism. Whether or not you recognize that's what you're doing is irrelevant, it's simply reality.