She was influential, affluent, and a powerful symbol promoting peaceful resistance in a brutal place. Unfortunately, Israel is not equipped to prevail in a confrontation with peaceful resistance, and so she was murdered. Passive opposition is the only weapon possessed by the Palestinians which can defeat Israeli efforts to eliminate all of them, which, from my perspective, appears to be exactly what Israel intends to do. Israel will not accept co-existence with any Palestinians—even those who resist them only peacefully—but Israel will gladly accomodate the wishes of every Palestinian who prefers martyrdom to peaceful resistance. Israel knows how to kill a violent Palestinian, and apparently Israel thinks that by Part 1: Attention builds over a slain civilian, article in the Christian Science Monitor’,CAPTION,’www.csmonitor.com’);” onmouseout=”return nd();”>murdering a peace-activist grandmother in the quiet afternoon sun, that it will inspire violence among Palestinians who might otherwise be peaceful, thus driving them as fair game into its field of justifiable fire.
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I don’t follow the tragic events in the Palestinian territories as closely as I could; it upsets me too much. I can only hope that a movement of peaceful resistance will not die but grow and flourish among Palestinians as a result of this good woman’s death, disproving once and for all the cynical expectations of their oppressors.