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0 pointskuzimoto6y ago0 comments

The important thing to note here about the March of Return "demonstrations" is that is was not entirely peaceful.

From Wikipedia:

> Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Al-Zahhar, admitted in an interview to Al Jazeera "when we talk about 'peaceful resistance', we are deceiving the public. This is a peaceful resistance bolstered by a military force and by security agencies, and enjoying tremendous popular support."

So you basically had a bunch of militants using civilians as cover. They were throwing Molotov cocktails and using kites with incindiary devices.

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yellowapple6y ago

This is consistent with the typical strategy of "setup missile launchers in hospitals and schools so that when Israel fires back they look like the bad guys for blowing up hospitals and schools", literally using civilians as human shields.

To compare this with the Hong Kong protests is absurd and intellectually dishonest.

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