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   From: skid-markjoe@cpusa.org   
      
   On 11 Feb 2026, Antonio  posted some   
   news:a054f6961c89a995025320@radio-eriwan.ru:   
      
   > The Greeks have a problem: how physically to stop the influx of   
   > “Syrian refugees” that Turkey has unleashed upon them.   
   > Fortunately, (not for the first time), Israel has provided an answer:   
   > shoot these “infiltrators”…in the knee. It works.   
   >   
   > When is it appropriate for sovereign state to use lethal force to   
   > resist invasion? In international law, you’d think the answer would   
   > be “always”, but some people claim that an “unarmed”   
   mob—not   
   > visibly armed, or with only some of its members throwing Molotov   
   > cocktails—must not be resisted. In 2018, we got an angry letter from   
   > an otherwise-friendly reader distressed that we were defending   
   > Americans on Facebook who had called for lethal force to be used at   
   > the border.   
   >   
   > VDARE.com editor Peter Brimelow replied that is was “precisely   
   > because VDARE.com is prepared to think the (to the   
   > conventionally-minded) unthinkable that we have “moral   
   > legitimacy.” He added three points:   
   >   
   > Firstly, we were right to nail the Daily Beast’s lie that the posts   
   > were not about “Killing Immigrants And Minorities” but about   
   > border security, specifically what to do about mobs rushing the border   
   > in force, to which the Border Patrol is only able to respond with tear   
   > gas, rubber bullets, and pepperball.   
   > Secondly, we were right to point out the Daily Beast is calling for   
   > censorship—the totalitarian recourse of Cultural Marxists. Indeed,   
   > that’s how we know they are Cultural Marxists—not   
   â€œliberals.”   
   > Thirdly, we were right to point out that the Israelis do, in fact,   
   > systematically defend their border against very similar politicized   
   > public incursions with deadly force. This is one example from   
   > Wikipedia’s article “2018 Gaza Border Protests,” which I   
   am   
   > fairly confident has been closely vetted for bias:   
   > Seven Palestinians were killed in violent protests along the border   
   > fence, in a continuation of the "March of Return" protests. According   
   > to the IDF, "The rioters are burning tires and are hurling rocks,   
   > explosive devices, firebombs and grenades at IDF troops and the   
   > security fence".[254] The demonstrations were arranged by Hamas, with   
   > the aid of special units formed to expand the protests. Four   
   > Palestinians were shot dead after they crossed into Israeli territory   
   > and approached a sniper's post.[255]  [Hyperlinks in original,   
   > emphasis added].   
   >   
   > Haaretz, a Leftist Israeli paper, has just published an investigation   
   > of Israel’s defensive tactics on the border. It seems now that a lot   
   > more than seven Palestinian rioters have been killed:   
   >   
   > Over 200 Palestinians were killed and nearly 8,000 were injured during   
   > almost two years of weekly protests at the Israel-Gaza border. Israeli   
   > army snipers tell their stories   
   >   
   > '42 Knees in One Day': Israeli Snipers Open Up About Shooting Gaza   
   > Protesters   
   >   
   > By Hilo Glazer, Haaretz,  March 6, 2020, also here.   
   >   
   > When I say that Haaretz is Leftist, I mean that it’s anti-Israel in   
   > the sense that the New York Times and Washington Post are   
   > anti-American. Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic has described its   
   > stance as “cartoonish anti-Israelism and anti-Semitism”. He says   
   > that a lot, but he may have a point here.   
   >   
   > Haaretz’s Glazer was able to interview several anonymous Israeli   
   > Army snipers. They confirmed that that Israel’s response to these   
   > mobbings by massive numbers of Palestinians threatening the security   
   > fence is to shoot them, carefully, in the legs.   
   >   
   > This is not a guaranteed non-lethal tactic, but it has produced   
   > relatively few deaths (215 in two years):   
   >   
   > The mass demonstrations on Israel’s border with the Strip began on   
   > Land Day, in March 2018, and continued on a weekly basis until this   
   > past January. These ongoing confrontations, in protest of Israel’s   
      
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