Yes, but they also show that some of the "nonviolent" protest included at least 2 mobs tearing down the fences between countries.
Which is generally frowned upon by most any country. Canada, US, Egypt.Switzerland. On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/05/israel_and_palestine_0?fsrc=scn%2Ffb%2Fwl%2Fbl%2Fherecomesyournonviolentresistance > > "FOR many years now, we've heard American commentators bemoan the violence > of the Palestinian national movement. If only Palestinians had learned the > lessons of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, we hear, they'd have had their > state long ago. Surely no Israeli government would have violently suppressed > a non-violent Palestinian movement of national liberation seeking only the > universally recognised right of self-determination. > > Palestinian commentators and organisers, including Fadi > Elsalameen<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/fadi-elsalameen/finding-palestines-gandhi_b_617490.html> > and Moustafa > Barghouthi<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/opinion/17iht-edbarghouthi.html>, > have spent the last couple of years pointing out that these complaints > resolutely ignore the actual and growing Palestinian non-violent resistance > movement. For that matter, they elide the fact that the first *intifada*, > which broke out in 1987, was initially as close to non-violent as could be > reasonably expected. For the most part, it consisted of general strikes and > protest marches. In addition, there was a fair amount of kids throwing > rocks, as well as the continuing threat of low-level terrorism, mainly from > organisations based abroad; the Israelis conflated the autochthonous protest > movement with the terrorism and responded brutally, and the *intifada* quickly > lost its non-violent character. That's not that different from what has > happened over the past couple of months in Libya; it shows that it's very > hard to keep a non-violent movement non-violent when the government you're > demonstrating against subjects you to gunfire for a sustained period of > time." > > Let's see if this continues and what Israel's, and the World's response is > going to be. There has not been a concerted effort to support protesters in > Syria, for example. Was this on News channels in the US btw? > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:337961 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
