Hamas elaborated that “this crisis is not between two neighboring warriors. . . . In reality it is the aggression of an oppressive occupation on an unarmed population. . . . The occupation itself is the highest form of terrorism, violence and aggression.”86 Hamas’s publications condemned the implicit “equalization of power” that they inferred from demanding that both parties cease violence: that was akin to “compar[ing] the victim to the executioner, the murderer to the murdered.”87 Hamas insisted that to end violence, the occupation itself had to be dismantled. Its own attacks were portrayed
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