I have explained my advocacy for nonviolent resistance to oppression many times. But the world is addicted to war and has convinced most people it’s the only solution. Wars dampen a situation temporarily but then the same issues unresolved show their face again.

I don’t like it but I understand why Hamas and Hezbollah exist though they must know they’ll have no real impact on Israel. 

Violence grew out of frustration that no good-faith negotiation and compromise  was being pursued.

The analysis of nonviolent direct action by Palestinians while the IDF continued its predations along with colonists’ violence is quite remarkable. It showed it could be done.

It could still be done now. But it seems like courage is in short supply.

On virtually every continent, nonviolent movements for social and political change are attempting to forge peaceful transitions to democracy, guarantee human rights, secure justice, bring down repressive dictatorships, and end military occupations. 

During the First, Al-Aqsa, Intifada a mass nonviolent movement was underway in the Palestinian uprising, a remarkably coherent nonviolent mobilization to end a military occupation. 

Walter Lippman called nonviolent action the “political equivalent of war.” 

Nonviolent action, if sometimes contentious and defiant, favours outcomes of reconciliation and democracy, things that military approaches and guerrilla warfare cannot claim. Nonviolent resistance was less costly than armed struggle and fit the limited abilities of the disarmed Palestinians. 

The forming of Israeli-Palestinian committees, begun in 1981, represented the first visible indication of the approaching intifada, as the activist intellectuals broke with tradition and pressed for direct negotiations with the Israelis. The Israelis rejected this approach. 

Two years into the intifada, an Israeli journalist wrote, “Practically no weapons have been used against the occupation army. No one doubts that secret arsenals of guns exist in the occupied territories—they are, in fact, used to execute informers—yet the decision not to use them against the occupation soldiers has been generally obeyed. This is all the more remarkable, and perhaps even unique, if one considers that thousands of close relatives of people killed, maimed and imprisoned are seething with rage.” 

Hunter S. Thompson called it the “Geneva Conventions of the mind.”

 

Wars make millions for a few people and at the same time reduce the population by millions.

23 minutes ago, Photoguy21 said:

Wars make millions for a few people and at the same time reduce the population by millions.

Win win ... 😂

Very nice to mention all the conventions etc...but behind any war, it's usually an issue of money by those in charge. Even the Hamas or Hezbollah do not wish the ongoing fights and wars to Stop as it would not justify their power, existence, control on their people and all the money they are getting.