montelatici, et al,
I don't think you understand the concept at all. The Palestinians are trying to associate themselves with African National Congress to assume the color of an oppress but courageous people. They try to cast a shadow of evil, attempting to equate the Israeli Government as an "Apartheid State" hoping that the target audience actually don't understand what "Apartheid" means in practice and legally.
They Hostile Arab Palestinian wants to shake the descriptive equivalence of "terrorist. Jihadist, and Radical Islamist" and trade it for something heroic; while all the time conducting activities that target the children, elderly, the infirm and those who protected under Customary International Humanitarian Law, through ambushes, assaults, bombings, rocket attacks, kidnapping and murder of the defenseless.
The Hostile Arab Palestinians want to pretend that their past criminal activities have not established a legacy, a consistent pattern over time (7 decades), of deviant behavior that do not conform to social norms and values; or elicit negative response. They want to pretend they are somehow heroic, yet are terribly lacking any depth of character. The Hostile Arab Palestinians (individually and collectively) unwilling to face their fears in the destiny they have shaped, and meet the challenges head on. They are incapable of making the hard decisions or compromise for the peace in the greater good, even when the likely outcome appears unfair. None of them are committed to a notion of what is right or honorable, or have the strength and determination to take the hard to and build a better tomorrow.
Hero's NEVER kidnap and murder teenagers, kill and drowned the infirm in wheelchairs, target and attack the citizenry that are not involved directly in hostilities. Shield themselves from attack by blending their military operations in with the densely populated non-combatant citizens.
Evidence of a pattern of deviant behavior is relevant to establish that an offender has had, and will have, serious difficulty controlling his behavior.
Freedom fighters are only terrorists in the eyes of the colonist/oppressive regimes. The Muhajedin were considered freedom fighters when they were fighting the Russians, now that they are fighting the U.S., their sons and grandsons are considered terrorists. So don't give us the bullshit about the Palestinian freedom fighters being terrorists.
The Palestinians are no more terrorists than the ANC were when they were bombing shopping centers in downtown Johannesburg. The ANC lost every engagement with the South African Apartheid State security forces (which had nuclear weapons as Israel has).
They lost more and more land to the whites. But, the constant attacks and war on the whites finally forced the whites to come to the table and agree to majority rule. Violence against an oppressive regime is the only answer. Peaceful resistance against a powerful oppressor gets you nowhere, unfortunately.
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Rebels are people/citizens who refuse to accept an allegiance to the current government, people/citizens that resists and rise-up against the government or sovereign rulers; people/citizens who challenge any authority, control, or tradition. No one ever calls or describes the Hostile Arab Palestinians as "rebels."
Radicalization and recruitment are also a large part of the problem because they involve getting more individuals involved and supporting the movement. Terrorism is a highly complex and constantly changing form that ranges from nationalist-separatist organizations and political groups and individuals that commit terrorist acts to be in furtherance of the goals of Islam; an ideology holds that Islam is not only a religion, but also a social and political system that governs the legal, economic and social imperatives of the state according to its interpretation of Islamic law. Based on other or mixed motivations or ideologies the contemporary Jihadist often appears intent on a course to intimidate or coerce a government as a means of influence to achieve the Jihadist agenda.
Jihadi terrorists in Europe December 2006
By: Edwin Bakker Data collection: Teije Hidde Donker & Edwin Bakker
NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS --- CLINGENDAEL
Our analysis of the characteristics of the 242 individual
jihadi terrorists leads to the following general picture.
Jihadi, or jihadist, refers to a person who believes that an Islamic state governing the entire community of Muslims must be created, and that this necessity justifies violent conflict with those who stand in its way.
Although jihad is a concept that can be found in the Quran, the terms jihadi, jihadi ideology and jihadi movement are modern concepts related to the rise of political Islam in the 19th and 20th centuries.
⢠(Political Islam is also called Islamism, and its adherents Islamists.)
There are many contemporary Muslims and others who believe that Islam and politics are compatible, and a wide spectrum of views about how Islam and politics relate. Violence plays no part in most of these views.
Jihadis are a narrow subset of this group who interpret Islam, and the concept of jihad, to mean that war must be waged against states and groups who in their eyes have corrupted the ideals of Islamic governance. Saudi Arabia is high on this list because it claims to be ruling according to the precepts of Islam, and it is the home of Mecca and Medina, two of Islam's holiest sites
They are mostly single males that are born and raised in Europe; they are not particularly young; they are often from the lower strata of society; and many of them have a criminal record. 53 Their socioeconomic background and their often tainted criminal history are reflective of many youngsters in immigrant Muslim communities in Europe, to which most of them belong. Given the fact that more than 40 percent of them were born in Europe and an additional 55 percent have been raised in European countries or are long-term residents, the label āhome-grownā is very appropriate to this group. If we look at the circumstances in which these individuals became involved in jihadi terrorist activities, a picture emerges of networks including friends or relatives that do not seem to have formal ties with global Salafi networks; that radicalize with little outside interference; and that do so in the country in which they live, often together with family members or friends.
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Freedom Fighters are more in the category of those that are heroic. They are not Jihadist.
A
resistance movement can be an organized effort by some portion segment of the population to resist the legally established government or an occupying power and to disrupt civil order and stability; if in fact that was true. And a
"freedom fighter" would be a person who takes part in a resistance movement against an oppressive political or social establishment. The Palestinians often point to Additional Protocols (
Article 1(4) Additional Protocol I to Fourth Geneva Convention) to justify this concepts. You will notice that Protocol includes the phrase: "against racist rƩgimes in the exercise of their right of self-determination." Israel is not a Racist Regime, it is actually a more racially diverse population than the Palestinians; nor has Israel prevented the Palestinians ability to "exercise of their right of self-determination." The Palestinians exercised their right to self-determination when they formed the Holy War Army
(lead by Hasan Salama a former German Fallschirmjaeger and special commando, Waffen SS with direct connections to Operation ATLAS, jointly operated by Abwehr and the Grand Mufti al-Husseini) and the Arab Liberation Army
(lead by Fawzi al-Qawuqji, former a Colonel of the Wehrmacht) when they joined with the aggressor Arab League Forces. NOR, did Israel prevent the Arab Palestinian in their Secession to merge with Jordan. NOR did Israel prevent the Arab Palestinians from declaring independence in 1988. The Arab Palestinians ARE NOT "freedom fighters," but by their own admission they are Jihadist.
As Khaled Meshal stated:
Jihad and the armed resistance is the right and real method for the liberation of Palestine, and the restoration of all the rights, together with, of course, all forms of political and diplomatic struggle including in the media, public and legal [spheres]; with the need to mobilize all the energies of the nation in the battle.
Most Respectfully,
R