Suppose, just suppose, that a strong state lay next to a weak state. The strong state attacked the weak state,
annexing its territory and interning its population in a camp.
Time passes and the strong state begins to build settlements in its acquired territory.
The internees witness this and protest they should be allowed to return to live
on their land. Their protests are
ignored by the strong state.
More time passes and the internees see more development and settlement of their
land. They become louder in their
protests and begin a campaign of weekly going to the fence which holds them in
and demonstrating. They appeal that the
laws between nations prohibit their internment and settlement on their lands.
The strong state responds by stationing its army around the fence and taking
pot shots at the protesters. No other
nation intervenes.
Over 21 months, 220 demonstrators are
killed. More than ten times that number
have gunshot wounds.
It becomes plain to the dispossessed that peaceful protest is not getting them
anywhere.
They will have to seek another strategy.
That, I propose, is why almost four years after the Great
March of Return, the Al Aqsa
Flood occurred.
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