Return to the legitimate struggle against the occupation, without violence and following international norms and legitimacy".
"We are not terrorists, and we reject a description of our legitimate struggle as terrorism," he said.
We are willing to observe the principles of peaceful, nonviolent and legitimate struggle for a very simple reason: Using uncivilized means cannot achieve civilized ends.
For these Palestinians, represented in Hamas and elsewhere, Zionism equals colonialism and imperialism, rather than the legitimate struggle of a persecuted Jewish people for a homeland.
The FARC see that as a chance to claim the vindication of history for what they insist was a legitimate struggle.
Today, rather than allowing ourselves to be divided by old wounds, we Iranians should unite to support our compatriots in their legitimate struggle for freedom.
Islamabad denies those allegations but offers moral and diplomatic support to what it describes as the Kashmiris' legitimate struggle for self-rule.
The longer war drags on, the more likely a legitimate struggle for self-determination will descend further into a cycle of communal violence, poisoning the possibility of a mutually acceptable political settlement.
At the same time, Syria said it adhered to a convention among Arab countries that distinguished between terrorism and "legitimate struggle against foreign occupation," a phrase that effectively excluded all Palestinian organizations that attack Israel from the terrorist label.
