Ideologia, obiettivi e strategia della resistenza nonviolenta in West Bank: i casi di studio del PSCC e del villaggio di Al-Ma'sara tra creatività ed inclusione sociale

The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is still a thorny reality placed in a context of harsh religious and political infightings. The situation was exacerbated with the birth of the State of Israel in 1948 and with the subsequent ¿Six-day War¿ in 1967, which entitled Israel to annex a large part of the lands historically belonging to Palestine. Nowadays, the expansion process is still in progress and constitutes one of the root causes of the tensions between the two sides. In June 2002 Israeli government began the construction of the so-called "separation barrier" between Israel and the Palestinian Occupied Territories (OPT). Simultaneously to its building, all over the West Bank territory Palestinian civil society started to develop a Non-violent Resistance Popular Movement that in 2009 was officially instituted as ¿Popular Struggle Coordination Committee¿, headquartered in Ramallah (OPT), whose main objectives are to redress structural asymmetry by opposing to Israel's actions of barrier construction and land expropriation due to new illegal settlement expansion, and to gain broader international visibility. PSCC presents a unique form of community-based organization and resistance in the tradition of the first Palestinian Intifada. This diverse, non-partisan committee conducts resistance to Israeli occupation in various forms, such as marches, strikes, demonstrations, direct actions and legal campaigns, as well as supporting BDS Movement. For their active commitment Bil'in, Nil'in and Al-Ma'sara villages are acknowledged all over the West Bank to be the most prominent symbol of non-violent resistance in OPT. The purpose of the project is to examine arguments and data concerning what non-violent resistance method produces and how it does it. Under international law, the Palestinians have the right to resist Israeli occupation by any means, including arms (short of breaches of Geneva Conventions and other international humanitarian laws, such as targeting non-combatants), which is highly engaging to explore why, paradoxically, they have chosen non-violent means.