If he said they aren’t then I don’t agree. Hamas control Palestine. Hamas are a terrorist organisation.
There are/were terrorists active in a lot of states - but I'm not sure that's what is usually meant by Terrorist State.
To me a Terrorist State is one that is involved in inter-state terrorism, one that promotes, funds, facilitates terrorism in other states primarily, even though in its own home country there mightn't be much terrorism.
I get that mightn't be everybody's idea of what a Terrorist State is - hence my question.