Last Friday saw Round Two of the Gaza border protest ~ Nine killed during Friday ‘March of Return’ ~

The IDF killed nine Palestinians and wounded hundreds with live fire as soldiers defended Israel’s border fence with the Gaza Strip from infiltration on Friday in what was the second deadliest day since the “Great March of Return” began on March 30.
 

 
Amid warnings from Israel and the US to stay at least 500 meters from the border, Palestinians brought masses of tires to burn, using the smoke to shield their movements from the IDF.

 
Naturally, as Elder of Zion reports, with regard to the death of a Palestinian photo-journalist ~ Hamas’ tire burning successfully blinds Washington Post ~

Again, the incident needs to be investigated and the IDF has done a terrible job explaining its position. But the only ones who benefit from the accidental shooting of a journalist is Hamas, and the Washington Post was obligated to draw the clear line from Hamas policy to the dead journalist. And in that, it failed.

 
For an objective picture of what was happening on the border here’s an account from Richard Kemp, a former commander of British forces in Afghanistan ~

“One thing people don’t appreciate if they haven’t seen it is that this is not a peaceful demonstration,” he said. Despite Hamas’s claims, Kemp said that seeing the clashes close up revealed the reality.
 
“This is a deliberate and specific intent by terrorist organizations to penetrate the State of Israel and kill civilians, and the IDF has no option except to use lethal force to stop such a dangerous threat.”

 
The real tragedy in all this is that these people wouldn’t be dying if they hadn’t been deceived their whole lives ~ Palestinians’ Refusal To Talk Peace Stems From Their Determination To Believe Myths. As Matthew Brodsky writing at The Federalist explains ~

The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is at its core a clash of unbridgeable historical narratives, not just a dispute over land, territory, and security. The Palestinian objective has been to convince the world of their history and righteousness, which is designed to unify their national movement and delegitimize any Israeli or Jewish claim to both sides of the 1947 United Nations partition that called for establishing separate Jewish and Arab states. This narrative is based largely on a self-deluding fiction that has permeated the peace process and guarantees the conflict will continue.