Right To Accomplish Aims ‘By Any Means Necessary’ Oddly Unsupported By Law, Morality

Human rights organizations assured Palestinians that the lack of sources will not materially affect Palestinian aspirations to brutalize Jews.

New York, December 5 – International legal scholars noted with some puzzlement today that Hamas-led Palestinian brutality during and after the massacre of October 7 appears to conflict with all norms, legal restrictions, or other sensibilities when it comes to attempts to rid the land of Jewish sovereignty, given what the scholars called the puzzling absence of any such proviso in any of the accepted sources on the parameters of resistance to foreign occupation.

Following a Hamas-led Palestinian invasion of southern Israel on October 7, during which the perpetrators murdered 1400, raped hundreds of women and girls, kidnapped hundreds of people, mutilated and tortured hundreds more, all while proudly recorded many of the atrocities on their own body and dashboard cameras, defenders of the operation within Palestinian society and around the world touted the “right to resist occupation by any means,” an argument that resonated in certain legal circles at first, but soon lost steam as research began to show that in fact no “by any means” dispensation exists no matter the cause.

They found, in fact, that the limitations on military activity pertain precisely to the circumstances the Hamas advocates claimed freed them from such considerations.

“We obviously agreed with most of our colleagues in the human rights community at first,” recalled University of California at Berkeley doctoral researcher Rashid Atlaib. “It’s more or less axiomatic in the human rights community that the Palestinian right to resist anything trumps everything else. But then… someone asked me for a source for purposes of some conference or paper or whatever, and I realized I couldn’t find one.”

“Oh, don’t worry,” she continued, “I just advised them to use the usual buzzwords and throw around the terms ‘racist,’ ‘Apartheid,’ and ‘settler-colonialism’ that didn’t work. Almost always does. But it raised some questions that I might explore in a future paper. Not that I would ever publish the results if I value my career.”

Human rights organizations assured Palestinian officials and activists that the lack of textual, jurisprudential, or documentary support for “resistance by any means” will not materially affect Palestinian aspirations to brutalize Jews or anyone else they encounter along the way. “All you have to do is wait for Israel to do anything at all,” write Omar Shakir of Human Rights Watch, “and the rest of us will make enough noise to distract the rest of the world from remembering the spark for this conflagration. It’s a tried and true formula.”

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