This is where the wisdom of the large scale stabbing campaign encounters its first obstacle in public understanding.
Those of us outside Palestine have no way to sort non-violent protesters from people involved in the stabbing campaign. One can claim that Israel is shooting Palestinians without justification and planting knives near their dead bodies to provide justification, but we have also seen the results of many stabbing attacks by Palestinians. We do not have access to any information to validate or invalidate any of these claims. We are not there.
I think the stabbing campaign was not very effective in appealing for international support. Of course fighting back can be rationalized by people who have been under a very cruel occupation for sixty years, but people outside that context do not have information to justify it. Some Palestinians don't understand why international support for the stabbings is not forthcoming.
This is where the wisdom of the large scale stabbing campaign encounters its first obstacle in public understanding.
Those of us outside Palestine have no way to sort non-violent protesters from people involved in the stabbing campaign. One can claim that Israel is shooting Palestinians without justification and planting knives near their dead bodies to provide justification, but we have also seen the results of many stabbing attacks by Palestinians. We do not have access to any information to validate or invalidate any of these claims. We are not there.
I think the stabbing campaign was not very effective in appealing for international support. Of course fighting back can be rationalized by people who have been under a very cruel occupation for sixty years, but people outside that context do not have information to justify it. Some Palestinians don't understand why international support for the stabbings is not forthcoming.