Daniel Pearl HY"D was an Islamic terror victim not a Holocaust victim

Several years ago here in Israel there was a big argument about expanding the Memorial Day for fallen soldiers to include terror victims. The context that brought the issue to a head was the crash of two transport helicopters on February 4, 1997 on the Lebanese border in which 73 IDF soldiers were killed. Were they soldiers who died in action? Would they be honored on Memorial Day? Clearly they