{UAH} I CRY FOR PALESTINE AND HAMAS(WHOM SOME PEOPLE CALL TERRORISTS)!
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I CRY FOR PALESTINE AND HAMAS(WHOM SOME PEOPLE CALL TERRORISTS)!
I would like to know from the historians whether there is any evidence in history of a sustainable nonviolent resistance to occupation,before we blame what Hamas is doing?
There seems to me to be a weakness with the World War 11 analogy. The Resistance then had friends, powerful friends. The Nazis were not defeated by the Resistance only but with the assistance of powerful friends like the United States that planned and led the invasion of Europe. The Palestinians have practically no friends. They are mostly on their own except for humanitarian aid that is compelled by the Israeli occupation, and sketchy military assistance.
Israel withdrew from Gaza nominally. Her iron-clad blockade of Gaza makes the withdrawal practically meaningless. Israel withdrew from most of the West Bank earlier. She has been seizing Palestinian land there since. Who is to say the same was not going to happen in Gaza.
Hamas may seem stupid attacking Israel today but there is an area parallel. The establishment of the state of Israel is believed to have been hastened by the armed attacks on British Administration and Army by Jewish terrorists. The "worst" of the attacks was the bombing in 1946 of the King David Hotel- headquarters of both the British administration and army in Palestine and Transjordan, by Jewish "terrorist" led at the time by Menachem Begin- a Polish Jew and a future prime minister of Israel.
While one may not support the desperate armed attacks of Hamas and other Palestinian resistance against Israel, one understands their despair and frustration with the worsening state of their daily existence in their homeland. We remember "Give me liberty or give me death" credited to the United States' Patrick Henry. For some Palestinian Arabs, death is becoming preferable to living under an Israeli occupation that arguably has no equivalent anywhere in the world in 2014. Hamas has said over and over again in current cease fire negotiations that she will not accept a ceasefire without a lifting of the Israeli blockade albeit supervised, on Gaza. That for me say everything.
Do you know of a more asymmetric war? What happened to measured response? Is collective punishment moral? Is collective punishment justified given the real "victimness" of powerless non-political children, women, and other non-combatants (including the infirm and elderly) in the "out of their control" situation that they find themselves? Is a military solution to the Palestinians' situation feasible? Your hope must be that the current war in Gaza will achieve better than past wars there did namely- a less motivated, resolute, and violent Palestinian resistance. Does History teach anything? George Habash and his Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine were called terrorists and destroyed.
Then came Yasser Arafat and his Fatah organization/ Palestine Liberation Organization who were also branded worse terrorists and mostly ignored. Then came HAMAS who are now described as worse terrorists still.
Those who wish to destroy HAMAS are well advised to pause and think about her possible replacement(s) given recent history, before they do so. People in the Middle East have long, very long memories. The unfolding tragedy that is the current Gaza war should be beneath the human race in 2014. Should we all not be ashamed that we let and watch it happen?
HANNAH OGWAPITI
MEMBER OF THE UGANDANS AT HEART FORUM
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"War is nothing but a continuation of political intercourse, with a mixture of other means. Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
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