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It's not just that. For a lot of people it's convenient to apply the connotations of "terrorist" to everything besides actual terrorists, e.g., the AP is perfectly willing to call the UKIP or Tea Party "terrorists" while refusing to call groups like Hamas terrorist.
This is similar to the way the US government has declared war on poverty/drugs/cancer, while calling actual wars "kinetic actions".
Could you link to an article in which the AP calls the Tea Party "terrorists"?
The term terrorist is often used to describe nonstate actors. Hamas is govern and that makes it a state actor.
That's basically the same justification of why the CIA employee who isn't a military solider isn't a terrorist when he bombs rescuers against the laws of war with a drone.