The sheer size of the event was another point that could be made without fear attack from the other side.
This creates an intolerable situation for Israeli civilians in southern Israel, who have the right to live without fear of attack from Gaza.
Pakistani society also suffers from the great divide between the fortunate who can be brazen and loud, tweeting about online petitions from the safety of relatively cocooned environs, and those who grow up like Malala, even without coming under attack from militant terrorism.
During the nineteenth century, my Mormon ancestors crossed the plains to live their faith without fear of attack from the mobs that had hounded them out of Missouri and Illinois.
"Subversion from within – not attack from without," writes Blair, "has emerged as Mr Putin's favoured technique for controlling events in Ukraine".
One of the strongest arguments for the union has always been that it helps defend the component countries from attack from without.
But did the special structural characteristics of these buildings, qualities that made them so resistant to attack from without, also make them vulnerable to collapse from within, once the fires started?
John Boyd Orr wrote "in the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without".
Sheryl Sandberg could write a book about gender in the business world without facing attacks from other feminists, criticizing her for having a nanny, for talking to male CEOs more than female domestic laborers, or for not representing working-class women – the takeaway being that Sandberg isn't enough of a caretaker, and therefore not sufficiently feminine.
Some activists who have tried marching in the capital without permission have come under attack from right-wing and religious groups, or were beaten up by police.
