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Resistance To Israeli Occupation - A Right?

Jewish resistance

After the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939, Jewish ghettos were set up in major cities such as Warsaw and Lództo control the millions of Polish Jews. Inside the ghettos the Jews were forced to live on starvation rations, and following Hitler's move towards the final solution in 1941, shipment began to the extermination camps.

Despite being trapped in effective death camps, Jewish resistance groups managed to operate. In January 1943 German forces tried to level the ghetto, but were beaten off by Jewish resistance fighters supported by the Polish Home Army, another Polish resistance movement. The second attempt to destroy the ghetto led to the uprising of April 1943. Jewish resistance was led by Mordechaj Anielewicz, and included members of the Jewish Combat Organization and the Jewish Military Union. For one month the Polish Jews fought off the German army and SS, but their resistance was eventually crushed and the Nazis exacted their final revenge.

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Resistance to Israeli occupation - a right?

Palestinians are a people under occupation who has the right to self-determination under the UN Charter.

The use of force as part of resisting occupation in the Palestinian case is therefore derived from the international legitimacy to recourse to armed struggle in order to obtain the right to self-determination.
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"...it is essential if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression that human rights should be protected by the rule of law." (preamble) - Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Right - Occupation Israeli Resistance

The main difference, is that the Jews during world War II were not advocating the destruction of the German people.
Hamas, the "dually" elected representatives of the Palestinians want just that, the destruction of the Jews and the death of their citizenry. Their stated goal is to kill every Jew in Israel and would do this if they had the power to do so.

Hamas (and by extension the Palestinian government) wants to drive our every Israeli from what is now Israel. This their stated goal.

While the German Machine wanted to completely eradicate the Jewish Population, the current Israeli Government and the People want to co-exist with Palestinians, but without the constant threat of suicide bombers. Therefore when the Palestinians choose to send a suicide bomber to kill innocent women and children, or fire rockets indiscriminately, the Israelis respond. The Israelis have conceded land and have released terrorists in order to show that they have peaceful intentions. They have been rewarded with rockets fired onto their country, and with murderers who are willing to kill themselves, and innocent women and children in the process.

Rather off topic, but... The average Arab in Jerusalem has more rights then the average Saudi Arabian, Iranian, or Syrian does. Maybe the Muslim world needs to look inward before they blame the jews for all of their problems.

Resistance To Israeli Occupation - A Right? Judaism Studies

Its anyone's right to resist an oppressive occupant. Why would you allow your family to live in impoverished conditions and do nothing about it.