Colonel Jacques Baud: Hamas and Hezbollah are resistance movements not terrorists, fighting an illegal occupation

Swiss Colonel Jacques Baud in this podcast

I mean obviously you have groups like Hezbollah or Hamas who are designated
by the West as terrorist but if you start to establish criteria for terrorism then you find both Hamas and Hezbollah don't fall in this category, not even all these groups that exist in Iraq, for instance, who are Shia and of course people will say Iran backed groups. Well, but these are resistance movement against an illegal occupation. That applies to Iraq which is still occupied by the US. This applies to Hezbollah which is still occupied by Israel. This applied to Hamas which territory is still occupied by Israel. And I remind you the decision of the international court of
justice of July 2024 saying that all occupation of the Palestinian territory, meaning Gaza, East Jerusalem and the West Bank, is illegal. Period. And the decision of the international court of justice that Israel must get out of these territories and Hamas, Fatah and all these groups are in fact resistance movement against an illegal occupation period. So in that sense they don't fall into the category of a terrorist organization although they might use a terrorist methods if you want but again we don't have evidence of that and that is something that we need to say.