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The definition of 'terror' is extreme fear. The '-ism' at the end of the word 'terror' is a suffix indicating that 'terror' refers to acts and activities related to causing extreme fear, while 'terrorizing' refers to the act of causing extreme fear. The word 'terrorism' refers to methodologies on which the use of terror is based. Anyone who resorts in acts and activities to cause extreme fear is a terrorist. But, when two or more people form or people join the forming of a group to cause extreme fear, they are members of a terror group, not a terrorist group, as that is an undefined political pleonasm. Here is why: The aforementioned does not explain what kind of terrorist they are. A terror-ist, someone who spreads extreme fear, may also refer to a tyrant, a dictator, an autocrat, even the military that has taken over a civilian ruling like in Myanmar. Again, "terrorists" is a popularized collective name that is even used on social media against anyone who posts content that is pro-Palestinian. This kind of brandishing has been since the speech by US President George W. Bush from September 20, 2001, when he introduced 'the war on terror'. Canada, the European Union, Israelis, Japan, and the United States have designated Hamas as a terrorist organization. Australia, New Zealand, Paraguay, and the United Kingdom have designated only its military wing as a terrorist organization (as of 2021). It is not considered a terrorist organization by Brazil, China, Egypt, Iran, Norway, Qatar, Russia, Syria, and Turkey. In December 2018, the United Nations General Assembly rejected a U.S. resolution condemning Hamas as a terrorist organization. The question arises when is it correct to label Hamas as an armed terror organization?
Hamas does not reside in the Israeli-occupied territory, and that territory was never consecutive and historically Israeli. The Israelis do not live in a time of peace as they have never lifted their self-declared state of war since 1967. That is why the United Nations still considers the Israelis as war belligerent. So, labeling Hamas as a "terrorist organization" is purely based on Zionized politics, not with criteria as written above. According to the Law of Belligerent Occupation, occupation means a situation when, during an international armed conflict, a territory, or parts thereof, comes under the effective provisional control of a foreign power. The latter brings us to Article 51 in the UN Charter:
Gaza is not a country. It is part of the occupied State Of Palestine. We can at least say that the occupation of Gaza has never ended, despite the withdrawal from Gaza in 2005. This brings us back to the Law of Belligerent Occupation that provides occupied people the right to form armed groups to resist occupation. Hamas is, in this regard, a resistance group, not a "terrorist group." The adamant stubbornness the Israelis always have shown, that Hamas is a "terrorist organization," is to protect a long-lived desire that their ancestors, the European migrants, brought into British Mandatory Palestine but introduced in Basel, Switzerland in 1897: Zionism. Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions stipulates the provision of the right of self-determination when people are under foreign and colonial rule. The Israelis are descendants of European Zionist migrants and currently a people from around the world. They all are not autochthonous to the region and, thus, are frankly foreigners. The foreigners in the West Bank, actually in the whole of the occupied State Of Palestine, are of the same definition as those from Britain, France, and the Netherlands when they went to the American continent more than 400 years ago to take the land of the indigenous people. Lots of wars were waged to remove these people from the areas where the Europeans wanted to settle. That's how the United States and Canada came to exist. It is also the way European Zionist migrants created theirs. Members of Hamas have the full right to resist the Israeli occupation of Gaza and the annexation of the West Bank. If they take and use that right, they must distinguish themselves from the civilian population, or based on articles 43 & 44 of the Additional Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions, at least carry their weapons openly during attacks and deployments. |
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No one is aware, and many don't even know, that there is not one problem but two. Both have a totally different story as the widely known Palestinian problem started with the partition of the collapsed remains of the Ottoman Empire by France and Britain in 1916. The two countries also stood at the beginning of the Gaza problem that began with losing control over the Suez Canal after the then-president of Egypt had nationalized the French-British Suez company. The French and the British wanted the canal back but were eager to start a war with Egypt. They asked the Israelis for help who attacked Egypt in 1956 by seizing Gaza to colonize it until 2005. Under the colonizers' administration of the Hof Aza Regional Council, there were 21 settlements in Gaza. The land was allocated so that each Israeli settler disposed of 400 times the land available to Palestinian refugees and 20 times the volume of water allowed to the peasant farmers of Gaza. The first settlement was Kfar Darom, which was established in 1947 and reformed in 1970. In 1987, several Palestinians were killed by an Israeli truck driver. The attack, not an accident as altered by CAMERA in Wikipedia, triggered the First Intifada, a Palestinian uprising against Israeli West Bank and Gaza occupation. led Yassin and six other Palestinians to found Hamas. The way the Israelis crushed the Intifada prompted Hamas to emerged. In fact, Hamas is created by the Israelis this way. In 2003, Ariel Sharon proposed the withdrawal from Gaza in the wake of a peace agreement between the Israelis and Egypt. That agreement has led to the dismantling of settlements in the Sinai.. Sharon's proposal came into effect in 2005 with the dismantling of the 21 settlements. The dismantling didn't take place without resistance by settlers. In 2006, Hamas won the 2006 Palestinian legislative elections and assumed administrative control of Gaza and West Bank. In response, Egypt and the Israelis blockaded Gaza by closing the land borders, preventing air traffic from and to Gaza, and stopping all maritime traffic into the territorial waters of Gaza. |