RE: Newly Elected Muslim Congresswomen Favor Eliminating Israel
⁜→ P F Tinmore, et al,
This act, where Arab Palestinians play at being the victims, is getting old. It can only be valid
IF (and only IF) it can be shown that there is no other reason or scenario in which the Arab Palestinian can be the victim and still use ONLY "armed struggle" as an organizations policy.
※ Initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences, are in contradiction to the principles of
the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS).
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The Palestinian Arab people assert their absolute determination and firm resolution to continue their armed struggle and to work for an armed popular revolution for the liberation of their country and their return to it.
※ AND Customary and International Humanitarian Law says that "civilian who participates directly in hostilities loses protection against attack when they participates directly in hostilities loses protection against attack
(see Rule 6 C&IHL)."
P F Tinmore said:
All of the land that Israel acquired involved guns.
Defense against the Arab-Moslem attackers.
It is Israeli troops V Palestinian civilians.
(COMMENT)
It is true, that all the territory under discussion involved the used of force at one point or another. But then that is true for every country in Europe, Russia, and the Middle East, Central Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. The (original source) law pertaining to what most people cite as the → prohibition on the use of force is actually Article 2(4) of the UN Charter:
All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.
It does not prohibit any nation from using their Armed Forces to repel an aggressor, and it does not include territory lost by the aggressor in a failed military expedition.
OR PUT ANOTHER WAY
It does not prohibit Israel from using force to repel Arab League agressors or taking in hot pursuit of withdrawing Arab Forces territory overtaken in the process.
This was true in the Great War (AKA WWI) when the Allied Powers defeated the Axis Powers
(of which the Ottoman Empire was a part) acquired territory under Article 16 of the Treaty of Lausanne
(the territory under discussion).
(TODAYS APPLICATION)
You can no more claim that the Arab Palestinians are an unarmed civilian rabble posing no military threat, then you can claim that penetration operations, infiltration Tunnels, Kidnap and Murder of unarmed civilians, suicide bombings, launching rocket and mortar barrages, organized Massive Scale Incidiary Protests and Demonstrations, spontaneous attacks against the Occupation Power, etc, etc, etc are examples of an "unarmed Arab Palestinian people."
The idea that the Arab Palestinian People are not engaged in either direct hostilities against the Israelis, or indirect support of Hostile Arab Palestinians engages in direct armed action against the Israelis, is simply an illusion. The idea that the general population could not stop HAMAS from their hostile operations is just a fallacy. Similarly, the Arab Palestinians of the West Bank
(formerly sovereign territory of the Hashemite Kingdom) are composed of several organizations that are either Jihadist, Fedayeen Activist, Hostile Insurgents, Radicalized Islamic Followers, and Asymmetric Fighters. The idea that are poor unarmed and peaceful civilians is simply an irresponsible assumption. Everyone from the age of Ahed Tamimi
(Palestinian activist) to old grandmother has the potential for staging a spontaneous lone wolf attack. It happens quite frequently.
People don't challenge you because they simply don't know the world that can explain your propagandist style approach to the discussions.
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Most Respectfully,
R