Using Non-violence
Michael Barone has an excellent read on the use of non-violence to overthrow regimes:
Nonviolent protest, Ackerman and Duvall argue, means “separating governments from their means of control.” They admit that nonviolent protest does not always work. Some dictators are too ruthless; some populations—Germans in Nazi Germany—are not willing to oppose their rulers. But nonviolent protest can be a force more powerful than busy policymakers, preoccupied with negotiating with governments, are inclined to think.
We are seeing non-violence at its best in Ukraine, as Barone states in this essay. I’ve always believed that non-violence could have been used successfully by the Palestinians had their goal been the creation of a state alongside Israel. The reason that this was never attempted, however, is that was never the goal: the true goal was the annihilation of Israel and the subjugation of the Jews living there. Therefore violence was the only choice to achieve that aim since the Jews would never submit to their own destruction.
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