What would give Israel the right to kill them in self defense? What would a terrorist have to do in order to be legitimately killed by Israel?
You continually claim that "occupiers have no right to self defense"? So the answer is nothing, right? No matter what a member of Hamas did, Israel would have no right to defend themselves using any type of force, let alone lethal force.
Its a perverse and immoral inversion of the law.
If you really are attacked, no one expects you to just sit there and take it. If someone is shooting at you, you'd be an idiot not to shoot back. But no one is shooting at you. No one is attacking you. No one is a direct threat to your life. And unless your life is threatened, you cannot use deadly force. It is your governments policy to shoot any (and all) Palestinians. Women, children, the disabled, everyone. No one is innocent.
Bernstein: This notion of the Israeli government that every single person in Gaza is guilty, that there are no innocent people in Gaza. What does that say to you?
Buttu: The Israelis have had this policy for quite some time. Avigdor Lieberman has said many times in the past that there are no innocents in Gaza. This is why we see them deliberately targeting children and people in wheelchairs. They can excuse the death of an eight-month-old child who died yesterday from gas inhalation. This process of demonization is what allows them to continue to perpetrate a massacre.
And here they address one of your claims...
Bernstein: Some people refer to this as a war between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But there have been no Israeli casualties, none. How can you consider that a war?
Buttu: It is not only zero casualties, nobody has been even remotely injured. The Israelis are gunning Palestinians down. It is like shooting fish in a barrel. These are people who are nowhere near this electrified fence that the Israelis claim to be defending. This is a one-sided massacre...
And this is my gift to you. This is what these protests are all about...
Buttu: What the Israelis don’t seem to understand is that many Palestinians feel they have nothing left to live for. The Palestinians are coming out en masse and saying, “We’ve lived through fifty-one years of this. Enough! We want to be able to go home.” Others are saying, “We’re tired of the blockade. We just want to live a normal life.” These protests are sustained by the will of a people who want to see a better life. Nobody in this world is going to stay quiet when their freedom is being denied. To expect that somehow the Palestinians are just going to sit and wait for people like Trump to come up with a deal is simply farcical.
You have no right denying them that freedom.