A simple google search with the words ?Palestinian violence? yields over 86,000 pages, while a search with the words ?Palestinian civil disobedience? generates only 47 pages. Sometime in 1846, Henry David Thoreau spent a night in jail because he refused to pay his taxes. This was his way of opposing the Mexican-American War as well as the institution of slavery. A few years later he published the essay Civil Disobedience, which has since been read by millions of people, including many Israelis and Palestinians. --- Kobi Snitz read the book. He is an Israeli anarchist (awalls.org) who is currently serving a 20 day sentence for refusing to pay a 2,000 shekel fine. ---- Thirty-eight year-old Snitz was arrested with other activists in the small Palestinian village of Kharbatha back in 2004 ...

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