\r\n\tUS analyst, Stephen Lendman (Oct 13, 2013):<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights states “(e)veryone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.” No one has the right to deny them.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tResisting lawless occupation is universally recognized. Palestinians may use “all necessary means at their disposal” to do so. More on that below.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tConsider daily life. Longstanding militarized occupation is ruthless. It’s criminal. It’s unrelenting. It’s suffocating. It’s vicious. It denies Palestinians fundamental human and civil rights.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tCollective punishment is policy. So is economic strangulation. Free expression, assembly and movement are denied.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tState terror, closed borders, isolation, land theft, settlement expansions, exploitation, targeted killings, abductions, political imprisonments, roadblocks, checkpoints, separation walls, other barriers, curfews, and never ending fear reflect daily life.
\r\n\tInternational law is clear and unequivocal. Self-determination is inviolable. It’s universally recognized.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tArticle 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights states:
\r\n\t“All peoples have the right of self-determination.”
\r\n\t“By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.”
\r\n\t“All peoples may, for their own ends, freely dispose of their natural wealth and resources without prejudice to any obligations arising out of international economic co-operation, based upon the principle of mutual benefit, and international law. In no case may a people be deprived of its own means of subsistence.”
\r\n\t“The States Parties to the present Covenant, including those having responsibility for the administration of Non-Self-Governing and Trust Territories, shall promote the realization of the right of self-determination, and shall respect that right, in conformity with the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations.”
\r\n\tArticle 1 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights repeats the same language.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tGeneral Assembly Resolution A\/RES\/33\/24 (November 1978):
\r\n\t“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.”<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tGeneral Assembly Resolution A\/RES\/3246 (XXIX) (November 1974):
\r\n\t“Reaffirms the legitimacy of the peoples’ struggle for liberation form colonial and foreign domination and alien subjugation by all available means, including armed struggle.”
\r\n\t“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.”<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tGeneral Assembly Resolution 2649 (1970):
\r\n\t“Affirms the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples under colonial and alien domination recognized as being entitled to the right of self-determination to restore to themselves that right by any means at their disposal.”<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tAccording to Princeton University Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination director Wolfgang Danspeckgruber:
\r\n\t“No other concept is as powerful, visceral, emotional, unruly, or as steep in creating aspirations and hopes for self-determination.”<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tThe 1960 General Assembly decolonization resolution states:
\r\n\t“The subjection of peoples to alien subjugation, domination and exploitation constitutes a denial of fundamental human rights, is contrary to the Charter of the United Nations and is an impediment to the promotion of world peace and co-operation.”
\r\n\t“All peoples have the right to self-determination; by virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.”
\r\n\t“Immediate steps shall be taken, in Trust and Non-Self-Governing Territories or all other territories which have not yet attained independence, to transfer all powers to the peoples of those territories, without any conditions or reservations, in accordance with their freely expressed will and desire, without any distinction as to race, creed or colour, in order to enable them to enjoy complete independence and freedom.”
\r\n\t“All States shall observe faithfully and strictly the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the present Declaration on the basis of equality, non-interference in the internal affairs of all States, and respect for the sovereign rights of all peoples and their territorial integrity.”
\r\n\tGeneral Assembly Resolution 181 called for an Independent Arab state by October 1, 1948.
\r\n\tIt asked “all Governments and peoples to refrain from taking any action which might hamper or delay the carrying out of these recommendations.”
\r\n\tIt called for the Security Council to be empowered with “the necessary measures as provided for in the plan for its implementation.”<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tIn the late 1980s, Francis Boyle drafted Palestine’s declaration of independence.
\r\n\tOn November 15, 1988, the Palestine National Council (PNC) adopted his Memorandum of Law. It “proclaimed the existence of the new independent state of Palestine.”
\r\n\tIt legally qualifies. Its territory is determinable. Its borders are negotiable. Palestine existed for millennia.
\r\n\tIt has a fixed population, a functioning government, and capacity to have normalized relations with other states.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tOver 140 nations recognize its legitimacy. Militarized occupation denies it. Resisting it is universally recognized. According to Boyle:
\r\n\t“Palestinians have a perfect right under international law to resist an illegal, colonial, genocidal, criminal, military occupation regime of their lands and of their homes and of their People that goes back to 1948 so long as it is done in a manner consistent with the requirements of international humanitarian law.”<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tUN Charter Article 51 affirms “the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense” against armed attack.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tIsrael attacks Palestinian civilians repeatedly. Daily examples explain. Since 1967, Israeli security forces and settlers destroyed over 800,000 Palestinian olive trees. It’s the equivalent of razing New York’s Central Park 33 times over.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tResisting tyranny is a universal right. Hamas Political Bureau head Khaled Mashal called for doing so. Palestinians “need to take a clear stance,” he said. “(I)t is essential to keep the resistance strong.” Liberation depends on it. “All factions must agree on a unified strategy and a unified goal.”<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tUN Special Rapporteur for Palestinian human rights Richard Falk calls resisting occupation “a legally protected right.” It bears repeating. Liberation depends on it.<\/p>","content_source":null,"content_url":null,"content_columns":"0","content_date_start":"2014-03-13 20:23:55","content_date_finish":"2014-03-13 20:23:55","content_date_register":"2014-03-13 20:23:55","content_date_last_edit":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","content_show_img":"1","content_show_details":"1","content_show_related_img":"1","content_show_slider":"1","content_show_title_slider":"1","content_comment":"0","content_score":"0","content_recorded":"0","content_confirmed":"1","content_status":"1","content_kind":"0","old_id":"121920","tag_id":null,"tag_word":null,"tag_service":null,"tag_total":null,"tag_soundex":null,"attach_token":"3892460410","attach_date_register":"2014-03-13 20:24:00","attach_id":"117877","attach_file_ext":"jpg","attach_file_header":"image\/jpeg","attach_img_type":"2","attach_img_width":"320","attach_img_height":"120","attach_file_media":"1","attach_show_watermark":"0","score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"visit_count":"278","visit_date_last":"2025-05-10 05:41:13","attach_title":"Palestinians has right to resist","node_title":"Commentaries","ot_node_left_right":"[{\"node_id\":134, \"left\":25, \"right\":26}]"}]]