AC writes:
For those wanting compelling, video evidence of Palestinian non-violent
resistance and the sin inherent in subjugating humans to live under the
boots of others, see the following two videos shot on Friday February 13, at the International Solidarity Movement site,
one which shows the Israeli army meeting non-violent resistance with
the compulsion of a bludgeoner as it forcefully occupies a family's
house and another documenting the same ferocity applied again to
non-violent resisters in the aftermath. If one reads and watches the
material, it speaks for itself in lucid prose. Elaboration is
superfluous but may prove helpful.
Nothing that the soldiers did in the videos was outside of the
law; occupying powers are the law, despite international agreements —
everything done by them can and will be justified by various forms of
legal witchcraft and declarations of military necessity. Furthermore,
nothing that the soldiers did was wrong. They are the occupiers, they
were proceeding in their legal activities in their capacity as
occupiers, they were met with unlawful disobedience, and they acted to
complete their objective in accordance with their mandate. Lastly,
nothing that the soldiers' political and military leaders, in their
position as occupiers, do is wrong or illegal. They believe that they
have a legitimate right to the land and that any contrary view or
infringement upon that right is unlawful, wrong, and deserving of death.
But to anyone who maintains a tender heart and uncorrupted
conscience, everything was unjust. What is legal and just are two
disparate things, and the law of man can very well be the enemy of
justice. All of the resisters in the videos understood this principle
deeply. Notice the variety of their accents, Palestinian, Israeli,
European, etc. It doesn't require a certain nationality to have an
unsullied conscience, to know with doubtless resolve the injustice of
what was and is being done.
[Be sure and check out this second video here. Brave great international volunteers!]
