{"id":8931,"date":"2024-06-02T19:58:46","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T23:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/gracecoloredglasses\/?p=8931"},"modified":"2024-06-06T11:24:45","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T15:24:45","slug":"the-palestinians-ironclad-inalienable-right-to-resist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/gracecoloredglasses\/2024\/06\/the-palestinians-ironclad-inalienable-right-to-resist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Palestinians\u2019 ironclad, inalienable right to resist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
Public service announcement for folks out there who are indignant about the fact that \u201cHamas started this trouble, and now Hamas wants to be rewarded with a state.\u201d<\/p>\n
Look, we don\u2019t need an international law to tell us that the right to self-determination belongs to everyone \u2013 but just to be on the safe side, it is part of the United Nations charter<\/a>. All members of the United Nations pledge to uphold this right in the global community.<\/p>\n
Therefore, basic collective human rights \u2013 self-determination, national independence, territorial integrity, national unity, and sovereignty without outside interference \u2013 are essential and universally legitimate. We can all agree to this, right?<\/p>\n
Stay with me now.<\/p>\n
UN General Assembly resolution A\/RES\/38\/17 (22\/11\/1983)<\/a> reaffirms the right to self-determination that the Charter spelled out, adding that \u201cthe struggle of peoples for their independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial domination, apartheid, and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle.\u201d<\/p>\n
(This is not a law, but a recognition of the views of the majority of UN Member States.)<\/p>\n
What\u2019s that you say? You don\u2019t like the idea of \u201cpeople\u201d taking up arms?<\/p>\n
That may be because you already enjoy self-determination. Most of us can\u2019t begin to imagine what it\u2019s like to live under occupation and blockade for a week, let alone our entire lifetime. Palestinians have felt Israel breathing down their necks, controlling every aspect of their lives, every single day. This is not an exaggeration.<\/p>\n
by Emad El Byed, via Unsplash. Devastation in Gaza.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
At this moment, the people of Gaza are desperate for humanitarian aid right now. Israel has withheld even the most basic items from them \u2013 fresh water to drink, fuel to cook with, basic food items to eat.<\/p>\n
But humanitarian aid is not the only thing Palestinians need. What they need<\/em>, what they \u201ctook up arms\u201d for, is that basic collective human right: self-determination. They want to be out from under the boot of Israel, which has kept Gaza \u201con a diet<\/a>\u201d since 2006, and in a full-blown famine<\/a> in recent weeks \u2013 not to mention the genocide<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n
(Israel has violated<\/a> international laws in the occupied West Bank<\/a> of Palestine too \u2013 but that\u2019s a conversation for another day.)<\/p>\n
Not just for eight months, but for decades<\/em>, many in Gaza have been in a daily struggle for basic needs (food, work, travel, safety, etc.) and an existential struggle for justice and freedom.<\/p>\n
The October 7th incident and the outcry<\/a> that followed were not about antisemitism<\/a> (this fact<\/a> has been emphasized<\/a> again and again), but about freedom and self-determination.<\/p>\n
Myths and false accusations have grown out of October 7th \u2013 many of them started knowingly by the Israeli military to dehumanize Palestinians and delegitimize their struggle. These \u201cfake news\u201d stories have been thoroughly debunked (for example, see this<\/a> and this<\/a> and this<\/a>).<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t give in to simplistic conclusions: \u201cPalestinians don\u2019t deserve those rights. First they need to stop being so violent.\u201d No. That is not how human rights work.<\/p>\n
Human rights are our birthright<\/em>. They are not something we must earn, but \u2013 at least in theory \u2013 an integral part of being alive<\/em>.<\/p>\n
Palestinians\u2019 human rights were stolen from them generations ago. The global community should never have let that happen, but since we did, we should be laboring to make it right.<\/p>\n
We haven\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Which is why, for years and years, Palestinians have fought to get their rights back \u2013 sometimes by means of armed struggle, but largely through peaceful means. Few in the West are familiar with the Great March of Return<\/a> in Gaza, an 18-month-long unarmed protest, conducted by tens of thousands of civilians, or the years-long peaceful demonstrations in the West Bank (read this<\/a> and this<\/a>\u00a0and this<\/a>, for example).Palestinians seeking redress in the International Criminal Court risk Israeli retribution<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Because the world (including us) has not restored Palestinians\u2019 stolen rights, Palestinians have taken the work upon themselves \u2013 \u201cby all available means.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n
Palestinians (those in all regions from the river to the sea \u2013 Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel) struggle against their occupier for basic human rights, including self-determination (defined as a people\u2019s right to form its own political entity). Nearly half of all Palestinians live in exile\/diaspora; many left their occupied homeland as an act of personal self-determination.<\/p>\n
Most Palestinians long for statehood, long to get out from under Israeli occupation (in the case of Gaza and the West Bank), or second-class citizenship (in the case of the 20% of Israeli citizens who are Palestinian), or limbo (East Jerusalemites). Some Palestinians in the diaspora long to go back to their homeland; others simply want to know they have a homeland.<\/p>\n
The Palestinian struggle to achieve their basic collective right is a struggle against the entity that is preventing its realization. Obviously, this entity is Israel.<\/p>\n
by Patrick Perkins via Upsplash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n***
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***Their enemy is not Jews<\/strong> \u2013 Jews haven\u2019t hurt Palestinians or taken away their rights. Israel has \u2013 the Zionist project. Palestinians and their allies know this. (Zionism is the ideology that supports a \u201cJewish state\u201d in the historic land of Palestine, without consideration for the indigenous people of that land). Zionism caused the dispossession, exile, and oppression of the Palestinian people, and Zionism is the enemy. It just so happens that, in that particular region, most Jews are Zionists and most Zionists are Jews.<\/em><\/p>\n
Many of us assume the violence of October 7th sprang out of nowhere, or out of deep antisemitism or natural savagery (do the words \u201chuman animals<\/a>\u201d ring a bell?). We are viewing the entire issue through a false paradigm (mainstream media and spokespeople for Israel and the Zionist project speak from this profoundly distorted perspective).<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why many Americans \u2013 and many in the \u201cGlobal North\u201d \u2013 assume the pro-Palestine movement is antisemitic.<\/p>\n
The \u201cviolence\u201d that we charge Hamas with had its start in the violent birth of Israel in 1948 (and years of violence before that), and the inherent violence of Israel\u2019s ongoing occupation and oppression of the Palestinian people \u2013 subsidized in great part by the US, thanks to the Israel lobby (notably, American taxpayers do not share<\/a> Washington\u2019s \u201cspecial relationship<\/a>\u201d with Israel, but the lobby seems to have more influence<\/a> over our politicians than voters do).<\/p>\n
When we take the time to understand the history and ideology of the region (the actual history<\/a>, not the fictional one<\/a>, the actual ideology of Zionism<\/a>, not the sanitized one<\/a>), the Palestinian struggle begins to make sense.<\/p>\n
Go ahead and sit in your discomfort about October 7th \u2013 don\u2019t ignore it. It was a horrific event (an unknown but significant number of Israelis were killed by fellow Israelis<\/a> that day, which is also horrific). As you sit, reflect on 76 years of oppression and dispossession that we have permitted \u2013 that we have unwillingly<\/em><\/a> subsidized<\/em>.<\/p>\n
October 7th was not unlike the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, in which Jews, instead of waiting quietly to die, took up arms against the Nazis. Those Jews perpetrated violence against their jailer and killer, and no one holds that against them.<\/p>\n
Warsaw was a prime example of taking up arms in pursuit of human rights.<\/p>\n
The situation of Palestinians in Gaza is another prime example. Spend a moment considering this possibility<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Asking the wrong questions<\/h3>\n*****
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*****Many Americans looked at the news on October 7th and beyond, and said, \u201cWhat did Hamas think would happen when they attacked Israel?\u201d<\/p>\n
Those with this reaction may not have been aware that for seventeen years, Gaza has been an open-air prison<\/a> \u2013 with Israel guarding the gates.<\/p>\n
But those who know better watched October 7th unfold and said, \u201cWell, that was bound to happen\u201d and \u201chow long did Israel think they could keep oppressing Palestinians before it came back and bit them in the butt?\u201d (That\u2019s precisely what my husband and I said that day.)<\/p>\n
Do we think Palestinians spontaneously ran into Israel one day with no plan, only bloodlust? That they didn\u2019t care about the result? Such assumptions say more about us than about them: we simplistically believe they\u2019re unintelligent, brutish; we know nothing of the courage or despair that would cause a group to take on one of the most advanced military powers in the world.<\/p>\n
Looking at the war that October 7th spawned, do we conclude that Hamas fighters\u2019 effort was counter-productive \u2013 or do we realize that Israel\u2019s response was heinous and excessive?<\/p>\n
What did we expect? That Palestinians would allow themselves to be victimized forever?<\/p>\n
What did we think would happen when months of peaceful protests became nothing but target practice<\/a> for Israeli snipers?<\/p>\n
What did we think would happen when years of \u201cindiscriminate rockets<\/a>,\u201d and their message of resistance, were swatted away<\/a> like so many mosquitoes?<\/p>\n
Why should we<\/em> have a say in how Palestinians resist their oppressor? They don\u2019t need our advice, our armchair lectures. They need<\/em> Israel to get out of their way. They need<\/em> justice. They need<\/em> self-determination. (And yes, they will need us to help rebuild what our weapons have destroyed.)<\/p>\n
Do we think Palestinians are powerless and helpless, able only to live on charity from food kitchens and humanitarian aid deliveries? Or is this simply what they\u2019ve been reduced to?<\/p>\n
Does anyone deserve to be put in that state, let alone forced to stay there for a lifetime?<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re still uncomfortable that the Palestinian leadership in Gaza \u201cchose\u201d to be violent on October 7th, but not that Israel chose to be violent for 27,000 days before that \u2013 how about taking some time for reflection?<\/p>\n
See whether you can become\u00a0uncomfortable with Israel\u2019s seventy-six years of violence and ethnic cleansing.<\/p>\n
See whether you can begin to mourn the fact that the world allowed something like October 7th to be necessary.<\/p>\n
When you can, it\u2019s time to join the work of fighting for Palestinian rights (and the rights of all the marginalized) before another October 7th takes place (because it will<\/em>).<\/p>\n
(This post has been edited since it was originally published.)<\/em><\/p>\n
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As I recently\u00a0wrote<\/a><\/strong><\/span>,\u00a0I have for the time being washed my hands of Christians who\u00a0refuse to engage<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>with the issue of Palestine, and for now (at least until the end of this horrific war) I will be writing about the significance of what is going on \u201cover there\u201d from a global and historic perspective.<\/em><\/p>\n
I\u2019m here for anyone who cares to have an intelligent conversation about reality, instead of living in a silo of confirmation bias.<\/em><\/p>\n
I invite you to subscribe to my<\/i>\u00a0newsletter<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a>. I write about the Palestine-Israel issue regularly, and other issues relevant to progressives or those considering becoming progressive. If you would like to comment on this post, please pop over to my<\/i>\u00a0Facebook page<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/span>.\u00a0All of my posts are there and open to constructive comment. I welcome your thoughts.<\/i><\/p>\n
If you are interested, here are some of my earlier posts on the Palestine issue:<\/p>\n
Further reading on the Palestine-Israel issue:<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nNetanyahu exposes his profound racism in one glorious tweet<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\nRafah attack: Netanyahu\u2019s lies expose the truth about Israel<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\nA waking nightmare \u2013 what just happened in Gaza?<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\nIsrael, the ICC, and the disintegration of our species<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\nThe truth about Gazans as human shields \u2013you\u2019ll be surprised<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\nTHIS RIGHT HERE is happening RIGHT NOW. This is Israel.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\nUnlock the global and historic significance of this moment<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\nWhat to say when you\u2019ve run out of words<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\nA 3-minute challenge to see whether you are alive<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\nDid you know the US is complicit in genocide RIGHT NOW?<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n5 tips for finding the best news reporting on Palestine<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\nYou need to meet this little girl named Hind<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\nDoes Israel really have \u201cthe most moral army in the world\u201d?<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\nWestern \u201ccivilization\u201d exposed for its colossal ruthlessness<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\nTo Biden, Palestinian genocide is already complete<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\nThe lies we believe about Gazan Christians are killing them<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\nCan followers of the Prince of Peace support a group that uses violence?<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\nWhy support for Palestinian resistance is the right response for Christians<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\nA Palestinian Pastor\u2019s powerful message to us: \u201cit\u2019s time to stop praying\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\nChristians: Why do we skimp on compassion when it comes to Palestinians?<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\nDon\u2019t compromise truth on Israel and Palestine<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\nWhat People Of Faith Need To Know About Gaza And Israel Right Now<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n*****
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*****Posts about my Gazan family (in chronological order):<\/strong><\/p>\n
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\n\nFollow this refugee family\u2019s quest for survival in Gaza<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\nThe hardest decision our family in Gaza has ever made<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\nThe unexpected one-word message coming out of Gaza today<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\nThe new normal: eating during a famine in Gaza<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\nThe truth about Gaza: \u201cI swear, we don\u2019t mind death\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\nThe reality of survival in Gaza, on Spiritual Brewpub<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n3 funerals and a wedding in Gaza<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n\u201cWe\u2019re surrounded. Israelis are everywhere. We are dying.\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n\u201cWe were surrounded by tanks. It\u2019s a miracle we got out.\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n\u201cIf I Should Die Before I Wake\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n*****
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