About this site
This site deals with nonviolent resistance (NVR) as a possible strategy to end the occupation of Palestine. It aims to provide a platform for interested people, mainly Palestinians of course, to discuss whether NVR could help liberate Palestinian land or not.
Palestinians in the territories occupied by Israel in the 1967 war have been living under occupation for over 50 years now. This occupation is the last colonial regime on earth. So far, the Palestinians have not managed to shake it off. Many strategies have been tried and are still tried, namely
- Diplomacy, legal and international pressure, mainly advocated by the Palestinian Authority,
- Grass root pressure (the most prominent example being the “Boycott Divestment Sanctions” campaign, BDS),
- Armed resistance, mainly advocated by Hamas.
So far none of these approaches have been successful. One approach has not been tried yet: a movement of large scaled, prolonged, highly organized, unarmed, completely nonviolent resistance . Smaller actions of NVR have been carried out in the past but they were easily subdued by the Israeli security forces. But would the Israeli security forces manage to bring down a large, strictly nonviolent movement of hundred of thousands of people? One that is carefully planned and managed by the Palestinian leadership and supported by all main political factions? One that would focus on multiple weak spots of the occupation and thus completerly overwhelm the occupying power? This could exert maximum pressure on Israel and bring the occupation to an end.
This site doesn’t intend…
to call for a mass NVR movement to bring the Israeli occuption of Palestinian land to an end. Only the combined leaderships of all relevant Palestinian factions could do that. This site is merely a discussion forum. If meaningful discussion results were to be produced, they will find their way to the right people who then would have one additional strategic option to consider.
Your input matters!
All interested persons are invited to actively contribute to the content of this website and enhance its quality and depth over time.
Next steps
If you want to participate, look at the section Rules first. If you accept these rules you should procced to What is meant by… where a further explanation is offered of what this website means by “Israeli occupation”, “Palestinian land” and “nonviolent resistance”. The next step would be the section Fundamentals where you can also comment, suggest modifications or publish your own articles.
Further content:
There is a blog dealing with current events relevant for NVR. In the blog, you can comment, suggest modifications or publish your own articles. You may also take part in a simulation game. Other works dealing with the issue of NVR as an option for the Palestinians can be found here: View of others.