Murdering Israelis As Entitlement, The Meaning Of Resistance By Any Means

Does anyone have the right to murder?

Is there a right to sexually abuse?

Is there a right to mutilate and commit other crimes against humanity?

Enormous effort is devoted into creating narratives about occupation, colonialism, settlers, or something else to excuse and justify murder and other crimes against humanity.

Missing from the conversation are the most basic of questions.  

Are there exceptions for murdering, sexually abusing, mutilating and committing other crimes against humanity?

How this is answered helps determine if there can ever be an end to the conflict between Israelis and the Arabs now called Palestinian and if peace can ever be possible not only for the people of the middle east, but for all people everywhere in the world. 

How this has been answered is the very reason this conflict and war have been intractable.

There has been enormous effort to delegitimize and demonize Israelis and use this to justify murder, sexual abuse and other crimes against humanity against them. 

Resistance by any means is licensed to commit murder, sexual abuse, mutilation and other crimes against humanity against the demonized.

Past or present grievances and claims of injustice, whether real or not, never legitimize murder, sexual abuse and other crimes against humanity.

The Jews of Israel have their own long history of being driven out, ethnically cleansed, murdered and massacred, not only from Europe, but from lands throughout the middle east and North Africa, including before 1948 in British controlled Palestine and after in the 1948 UN recognized state of Israel, including in the recent mass murder of Israelis of all ages on October 7, 2023.  

Countless millions of people all over the world have been aggrieved past or present. This does not give a single person the right to murder, sexually abuse and commit other crimes against humanity. Jews do not have that right; Arabs do not have that right. No one has that right. Many have claimed that they do, and it is always with disastrous consequences. Hitler and co thought they had that right to murder and abuse, and it resulted in genocide, Europe destroyed and the deaths of over 70 million people. Stalin thought he had that right, as did Mao, the Khmer Rouge, the Japanese empire, ISIS, Hamas and others past and present, and it has already resulted in the slaughter of hundreds of millions of people. 

War is a great evil, but war and murder are not the same. War at times can be defended. Murder, sexual abuse and other crimes against humanity are never defensible.

Ultimately, it must cease to matter what narratives prevail, or who is demonized more and legitimized less.  

Murdering, sexual abusing, committing other atrocities, must become like poison to humankind and completely repudiated or there will be no future left for anyone.

There are some things in life that are as clear as day and night and are black and white with no shades of grey.

There are terrible things that no human ever has the right to inflict upon another. These are things that are black and white, with no shades of grey.

Murdering, sexually abusing, mutilating, descerating bodies, committing other atroctiies, are grave cruelties and crimes that no human being has the right to inflict upon another. 

Yet there they are, people defending grave evil and the people that commit these grave evils.

They think that if they accuse a country, a people of occupation or something else, it gives the ones they consider the oppressed or victims the right to murder, even babies and children, defenseless people of all ages, and to sexually abuse women, girls, others, and commit other atrocities.