If Americans Knew.org
“International law grants a people fighting an illegal occupation the
right to use ‘all necessary means at their disposal’ to end their
occupation."
The American media call our search for freedom “terrorism,” thus
casting the Palestinian in the role of the international prototype for
the terrorist. This has shaped Western public consciousness and resulted
in an international bias that tends to describe instances of violence
against Palestinian civilians in neutral language, reducing Palestinian
losses to mere faceless statistics, while using emotional language and
visuals to describe Israeli losses.
This distortion of the Palestinian resistance has clouded all
reasonable dialogue. Many of our efforts to defy the arbitrary rules of
the occupier are reflexively dismissed as “terrorism,” and we are always
expected to apologize for and condemn Palestinian resistance—despite
the lack of agreement on a definition of terrorism, and the fact that
the right to self-determination by armed struggle is permissible under
the United Nations Charter’s Article 51, concerning self-defense.
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