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Palestinian Nonviolent Resistance to Occupation Since 1967 FACES OF HOPE A Campaign Supporting Nonviolent Resistance and Refusal in Israel and Palestine AFSC Middle East Resource series Middle East Task Force | Fall 2005 Palestinian Nonviolent Resistance to Occupation Since 1967 alestinian nonviolent resistance to policies of occupa- tion and injustice dates back to the Ottoman (1600s- P1917) and British Mandate (1917-1948) periods. While the story of armed Palestinian resistance is known, the equally important history of nonviolent resistance is largely untold. Perhaps the best-known example of nonviolent resistance during the mandate period, when the British exercised colo- nial control over historic Palestine, is the General Strike of 1936. Called to protest against British colonial policies and the exclusion of local peoples from the governing process, the strike lasted six months, making it the longest general strike in modern history. Maintaining the strike for so many months required great cooperation and planning at the local Residents of Abu Ghosh, a village west of Jerusalem, taking the oath level. It also involved the setting up of alternative institu- of allegiance to the Arab Higher Committee, April 1936. Photo: Before tions by Palestinians to provide for economic and municipal Their Diaspora, Institute for Palestine Studies, 1984. Available at http://www. passia.org/. needs. The strike, and the actions surrounding it, ultimately encountered the dilemma that has subsequently been faced again and to invent new strategies of resistance. by many Palestinian nonviolent resistance movements: it was brutally suppressed by the British authorities, and many of The 1967 War the leaders of the strike were ultimately killed, imprisoned, During the 1967 War, Israel occupied the West Bank, or exiled. But this repression did not prevent the experience including East Jerusalem, along with the Golan Heights, the and inspiration of the General Strike and other acts of civil Gaza Strip, and the Sinai Peninsula. Debates within Israeli disobedience from providing models for future generations society about how to control this newly conquered terri- of Palestinian activists.1 Here we can find a recurring pattern tory—which some Israelis viewed as permanent gains, part in the history of Palestinian nonviolent resistance. One gen- of a desire to control all of historic Palestine and to create eration sees its attempts to establish new forms of resistance a “Greater Israel”—led to a period of occupation in which violently suppressed, and the next generation must use the Palestinians experienced shifting forms of Israeli military and historical memory provided by these earlier struggles to begin civilian rule. More than 1,400 military orders and regulations, 1967 1968–1970 1973 1974 June (Six Day) War; Israel Israel begins to establish October (Yom Kippur/ Arab League declares PLO the occupies West Bank, Gaza Jewish settlements in newly Ramadan) War begins when sole legitimate representative Strip, Egyptian Sinai, and occupied territories. Egypt seeks to regain by of Palestinian people; Arafat Syrian Golan Heights, expands force Egyptian land that addresses United Nations Jerusalem boundaries and Israel captured in 1967; U.N. which grants PLO observer extends Israeli law over East Security Council Resolution status in 1975. Jerusalem; U.N. Security 338 calls for cease-fi re Council Resolution 242 calls and comprehensive peace for withdrawal of Israeli troops conference. from territories newly occupied. together with British Emergency Regulations left over from the displaying of the Palestinian flag, and similar acts were the Mandate Period and Ottoman Law, provided the basis for systematically repressed. the military rule over Palestinians living in the West Bank and Alternative Institutions and New Forms of Gaza. Violence and repression were a consistent part of this Resistance, 1967-1987 experience. As the legal scholar Lisa Hajjar has documented, However, Palestinians continued to find creative outlets from 1967 to 1987, the Israeli military government arrested for resistance to the violence of the occupation. A major form and detained more than half a million Palestinians in the of resistance was the development of alternative institutions Occupied Territories (at a time when the total population and leadership. Sometimes this took official forms. For ex- of Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza was about ample, in the municipal elections held in 1976, Palestinians 1.5 million); over 2,000 Palestinians were deported from the overwhelmingly elected members of nationalist parties to Occupied Territories; more than 1,560 Palestinian houses positions of local leadership, although many of these figures were demolished; and all forms of educational and cultural were subsequently jailed or exiled by Israeli forces. In 1981, freedom were tightly circumscribed: schools were routinely local political bodies created a new institution, Lajnat al- closed, and more than 1,600 books were banned by the Israeli Tawjih (the Committee of Guidance), to provide national authorities in the Occupied Territories.2 leadership to the resistance to the occupation. Once again, This was also the period when an aggressive settlement Israel arrested many of the members of this group. policy was carried out by successive Israeli governments: Throughout this period, a number of different Palestin- from 1967 through 1987, 135 settlements, with a total of ian grassroots organizations also emerged to provide alterna- 175,000 settlers, were built in the West Bank, together with tive institutions and leadership. Increasingly, these alternative 12 settlements with a population of more than 2,000 settlers institutions came to supplement existing official Palestinian in the Gaza Strip. In addition to the massive military presence institutions that were struggling to provide education, health required to make these illegal settlements viable, the settlers care, and other basic needs to Palestinians living in the Occu- themselves represented a major paramilitary force in the Oc- pied Territories. The project of nonviolent resistance increas- cupied Territories. At the time when the first intifada (Arabic ingly moved from a strategy of protests, non-cooperation, for “shaking off ”) began in December 1987, settlers possessed and steadfastness towards a strategy designed to establish 10,000 firearms of all kinds, according to Hajjar. viable, long-term alternatives to the occupation regime. The In the face of this general state of repression, simple existence of these alternative institutions goes a long way acts of daily life—working, going to school, caring for one’s towards explaining the relative success and longevity of the family—became acts of nonviolent resistance. The Arabic intifada that began in December 1987.4 word sumoud (steadfastness) began to be applied to the daily struggle to survive in the face of the occupation. Meanwhile, the Israeli authorities showed no signs of responding to non- Women ’s Committees: The women’s movement had been violent protests in a way that was any different from the active in Palestinian politics since the beginning of the twen- British response to the General Strike of 1936. Hundreds of tieth century (the first Arab Women’s Congress was held Palestinians, including municipal leaders, university profes- in Jerusalem in 1929), taking an important role in protests sors, and leaders of women’s organization and trade unions, against British rule and in the General Strike of 1936. The were deported from the Occupied Territories for engaging General Union of Palestinian Women was formed in 1965, in nonviolent activities during the period leading up to the but it was in the 1970s that popular Women’s Committees first intifada.3 Rallies, strikes, the distribution of petitions, began to take a more active role. These popular committees 1982 1977 1979 1980 1982 Likud wins Israeli elections, Begin and Sadat sign Is- Israel’s Basic Law on Jerusa- Israeli invasion of Lebanon; Menachem Begin becomes raeli-Egyptian Peace Treaty in lem is extended to East Jeru- PLO evacuated from Beirut to prime minister; Egyptian Washington, D.C. salem; U.N. Security Council Tunisia; massacre at Sabra President Anwar Sadat visits condemns action. and Shatilla refugee camps Jerusalem and addresses the near Beirut. Israeli Knesset; negotiations begin between Israel and Egypt. ~2~ worked with the understanding that strengthening the role of Committees began forming in 1983, and concentrated on women in the struggle against the occupation would change working with Palestinian farmers to improve the quality of both the nature of women’s roles and of the anti-occupation their soil and produce. The absence of a Palestinian national struggle itself. Goals and activities of local Women’s Com- authority during this period, bans that prevented Palestin- mittees varied, but all stressed the need for productive work, ian farmers from exporting their produce to Israeli markets, education, and vocational training for women, as well as and the flooding of the market in the Occupied Territories involving houseworking women in wage-earning activities. with Israeli state-subsidized produce made these Agricultural Relief Committees particularly crucial institutions for the continuance of everyday life under occupation. Trade Unions and Voluntary Work Committees: The role of trade unions began to grow after the 1970s, especially in view of the hardships faced by Palestinian workers. Trade Youth and Student Movements and Prisoner
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