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Joseph
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My position is (and has been) very clear. Civil disobedience is only okay when a) the cause being fought for is just and represents a serious failing by the authorities and b) the alternatives have been proven ineffective. What this means is that most instances of civil disobedience is wrong because they fail at least one of the points. For example BLM (failing Point “A”), Kach and JDL (both failing Point “B”). On the other hand, it is my strong belief that Peleg meets both Points “A” and “B”. Therefore they are left with no alternative but to engage in civil disobedience.

It is also worth noting that civil disobedience is not uncommon for political and religious leaders as well as law abiding activists in the United States and other countries to engage in.

That all being said, even when civil disobedience is justified, initiating a physical altercation with authority figures (or others) is not. That having been said, and despite the non-contextual partial clips lasting however many seconds out of a much longer interaction, I’m aware of no evidence of any protester initiating a physical altercation (where the other party hadn’t first physically engaged in with that protester or any other protester.) To summarize, if a protester had initiated such engagement, that protester (to the exclusion of the others) committed a condemnable action.