e. The Arab Palestinians in their effort to create a Palestinian state consider their violent civil conflict against the Israeli government to be a just action in the 1990s, although this perception is not shared by the Israelis. Just war, thus, is a perception, as opposed to being a concrete reality.
Assessment of Selected Instances of Revolutionary
In the modern era, revolutions and civil wars are largely guerrilla actions. Guerrilla warfare as a form of resistance to foreign occupation or an unpopular domestic government has been around "for the better part of forever . . . ." Guerrilla warfare is "usually the struggle of a weak people against superior numbers and technology. Guerrilla armies have to be built from scratch, amongst a people whose original military organization proved inadequate or even non-existent." In such a context, people must be persuaded to fight in a guerrilla force, as opposed to being forced into an army by government
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