This is not a battle that protesters are coming to with guns. They're coming to it with their bodies and they're confronting very real policies of violent repression. The protesters paid with their lives to get people to question whether these policies are justifiable.In this article, the Times also stopped being the stenographer for the Israeli army. It notes that of the 20 Gazans killed by Israeli soldiers on March 30, the first day of the protests, "Videos showed that some were shot as they had their backs turned to the fence."
Halbfinger also counters the Israeli contention that the Gazan demonstrators plan to invade en masse. He noted that this past Friday, April 6, although ". . . many protesters threw stones or rolled burning tires toward the fence, far more could be seen doing little more than standing around - chanting, singing and shouting."
The analysis does quote a retired Israeli general warning darkly that the barrier fence is "not as strong and robust as people might think." But then Halbfinger immediately adds his own rejoinder: Israel's soldiers are still "aiming rifles at unarmed people."
Comment: "[If] our first connection is through information, that's the tie that's got to be broken." Precisely MSM's agenda. Polarization is step one for MSM biased news. Step two: eliminate alternate news. Step three: MSM 'news' becomes the new truth. This is the concept that should be explored, not the bogus ideas above.