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HRDs anti-Wall resistance is "unique," representing an effort to enforce international law and the ICJ ruling, especially with no outside support. They're on their own because Israel and the world community violated their legal obligations to halt construction, dismantle portions built, and make restitution for damages.
Resistance and civil disobedience are legitimate forms of self-defense against lawlessness and repression, Henry David Thoreau saying people shouldn't let governments overrule or atrophy their consciences. They're obligated to confront injustice directly, including by defying the law when it's wrong.
Stop the Wall.org asks:
"does the continuing confiscation of houses, destruction of property and forced evictions taking place in the West Bank in order to build the Wall constitute big enough crimes or risks to justify the measures taken by Palestinians to dismantle the Wall? And can these measures be further justified by showing that they have a notable impact on those crimes or risks?"
Forms of Repression
From April through June, 2010, STW recorded 114 arrests (mostly minors or persons in their early 20s) compared 89 during 2009 - "a dramatic increase in repression" against legitimate resistance, Adeeb Abu Rahmah, a member of the Bil'in Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements, one of many affected.
On July 10, 2009, he was arrested during a weekly demonstration, spent 11 months in the Ofer Military Complex, then, on June 30, 2010, was sentenced to two years in prison for "encourag(ing) violence....activity against public order (and being) present in a closed military area," Bil'in's designation every Friday from 8AM - 8PM to prevent demonstrations.
Amnesty International (AI) expressed concern saying he could be "the first activist against the fence/wall to be brought to a full evidential trial in a case of this kind," setting a worrisome precedent for others, criminalizing their legitimate resistance, how all police states operate, Israel one of the worst, a democracy in name only like America.
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