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Israel at seventy: time to celebrate and time to lament : Comments
By Alon Ben-Meir, published 17/5/2018The country is consumed by internal conflict and beleaguered by a dysfunctional political system, while its citizens live with a heightened sense of insecurity.
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1 That the protesters were trying to move into occupied territory. The area surrounding Gaza was part of the pre-1967 Israel that is world recognised.
2 That the protesters were unarmed and peaceful, I assume that this means that they weren't visibly carrying guns. That they were using slingshots to hurl rocks at potentially lethal speeds seems to have escaped the journalists. Secondly, many murders of Jews is by Arab activists carrying knives, and shots were fired at the Israelis.
3 The protest was about the occupation. Earlier news reports indicated that it was about Al nutbar where the Arab attempt at genocide failed.