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There is no legal requirement for occupied people to be non violent. Violence might not be the best tactic, but no Palestinians are going to The Hague.While Mandela and his ANC party did employ violence in the struggle against South African apartheid, it is an insult to both Gandhi and Martin Luther King that Hamas can make any comparison between itself and the advocates of real non-violence.
According to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University, King’s notion of non-violence had six key principles, including:
Does this really sound like Hamas’s definition of non-violent protest?
- One can resist evil without resorting to violence;
- Non-violence seeks to win the “friendship and understanding” of the opponent, not to humiliate him;
- Those committed to nonviolence must be willing to suffer without retaliation as suffering itself can be redemptive;
- The resister should be motivated by love in the sense of “understanding,” or “redeeming good will for all men.”
This is the reality of the protests at the Gaza border:
Why is it non-violent when Palestinians throw stones and firebombs yet anyone else would be arrested and prosecuted for doing the same thing in another country? Is it the bigotry of low expectations that judges Palestinians by such low standards of what constitutes non-violent activities?
(full article online)
AP Exposes Hamas Definition of 'Non-Violence' | HonestReporting
There is no reason to expect Islamic terrorists to be non violent. Islamic terrorists should expect their violence to be met with an appropriate response.
Israel's settler colonial project is constant violence.