socialistsephardi:

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This attempt to assign responsibility for the actions of the Israeli military to Hamas is a distraction on two counts. The first is that even though the march was supported by Hamas, it was organized primarily by independent activists who were largely non-violent and unarmed. Although Hamas officials have claimed that many of its members were killed during the demonstration, it is beside the point: Israel chose to shoot these unarmed protesters by the dozen anyway.

The second count is that even Israel’s own military leadership has long predicted that a day like Monday would arrive. “The economy in the Strip is on the verge of total collapse, like from zero to below zero,” a senior Israeli official told Haaretz this past January, warning of an imminent “uncontrollable blow-up.”
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Gaza and the Question of Culpability