The meaning of 'War' and 'Terror' in Advanced Oxford Learners Dictionary is:

War: a situation in which two or more countries or groups of people fight against each other.

Terror: the threat of violent action that is intended to cause fear, usually for political purposes.

Let us now pragmatically analyse the situation about war on terror according to this meaning, vis a vis the situation between UK and US against Iraq and Israel against Palestine. Was there threat by Iraq on UK or US? The direct answer is No. The threat was perceived by these two Western powers as subjectively identified by their unintelligent intelligence agencies! Independent third parties like UN or other countries in Europe did not perceive these threats. Therefore terror, if any, was and is being caused by the US and UK who started with an unprovoked armed attack against Iraq and now that the Iraqi people are fighting their war against illegal occupation, US and UK call it terrorist activity! What logic!

In consequence of US and UK's illegal war the people of Iraq now waging a war against occupying powers. Groups of people are fighting against UK and US armed forces in Iraq. Logically therefore the terror created by the UK and US troops has created a situation for fighting a war by groups of people in Iraq, who have not accepted the illegal presence of UK and US troops. Then who are the terrorists, Iraq or US and UK? All is fair in war. Death of innocent people in war situation is covered under the well coined US word 'collateral damage". In case of poorly armed Iraqi people without armed military force taking on the might of UK and US forces naturally collateral damage could well be high.

Exactly the same scenario is taking place in Israel. It is the Israeli illegal occupation of Palestinian land that is causing the war by groups of Palestinians with naturally high collateral damage of ordinary Israeli citizens, as the Palestinians have no armed might and are illegally occupied. The number of UN resolutions flouted by Israel is beyond counting but for Iraq ignoring one, it had to be punished! Why? The whole thing looks like the proverbial kettle calling the pot black!

A dispassionate analysis of the situation leads to the inescapable conclusion that it is the occupied and down trodden Iraqis and Palestinians who are actually waging a war against terror let loose by USA, UK and Israel. Being occupied they have no option but to wage guerrilla war of which both the USA in the Philippines and UK in Europe were the champions during WW 2. Unfortunately now the shoe is in the other foot, so guerrilla war has become metamorphosed to acts of terrorism and the erstwhile champions of guerrilla war now react to it in the dubious format of war on terror anywhere at any time!