to a multiplicity of stressors, the levels of which are
extremely high, age very rapidly, their innocence
denied and childhood robbed by a violent military
occupier.
RESISTANCE
A definition of resistance “The refusal to accept
or comply with something.” All people have a legal
right to resist an occupier using all and any means
available to do so. In regard to the case of Palestine’s
struggle for self determination this is no different.
Members of the resistance in occupied France used
everything they could to liberate their country from
the Nazis. Resistance is as resistance does, “resisting authority, especially in an occupied country.” In
the case of the illegal occupier Israel, resistance can
be defined as exhibiting a reduced mental capacity
to embrace or accept change. This use of language
neither addresses the collective pain of the
Palestinians, nor the obdurate resistance of Israel
to comply with international human rights law and
the laws governing war Jus ad Bellum/Jus in Bello.
Yet it, language, provides Palestinian supporters
with a powerful tool based as rightly affirmed in
international law.
2.
Reaffirms the legitimacy of the struggle
of peoples for independence, territorial
integrity, national unity and liberation from
colonial and foreign domination and
foreign occupation by all available means,
particularly armed struggle;”
It is our duty to support the Palestinian struggle
with all the peaceful means at our immediate disposal. Go to it. The bottom line is the internationally recognised fact that Israel has no legal case for
its actions in the occupied territories.
Clive Hambidge
Human Development Director at Facilitate Global.
Clive can be contacted by email:
[email protected]
Soraya Boyd
CEO and Founder of Facilitate Global.
Soraya can be contacted by email:
[email protected]
Let us be absolutely clear Palestinians have the
legal right indeed duty to resist as affirmed by the
General Assembly Resolution 3246 (XXIX) of 29
November 1974:
3.
Reaffirms, the legitimacy of the peoples’
struggle for liberation from colonial and
foreign domination, alien subjugation by all
available means, including armed struggle;
…
4.7. [also] Strongly condemns all Governments
which do not recognize the right to self
determination and independence of peoples
under colonial and foreign domination and
alien subjugation, notably the peoples of
Africa and the Palestinian people;
Further: United Nations General Assembly
Resolution A/RES/33/24 of 29 November 1978:
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