Transcripts For ALJAZ The Occupation Of The American Mind 20

Transcripts For ALJAZ The Occupation Of The American Mind 20240713

Forcing the meeting to be suspended and as she left the chamber some even threw objects after some politicians say its time for them to step down. In a post poll bungs home home people have had a very difficult time very very tell time how ravel our chief executive mrs kerry re feels to respond all to resolve the problem. All 53 months of very clear not one less and i really urge if she cant call them on call and she has no determination to govern all and she has no ability and even capable in a ministration hong kong please that down scott has the latest from hong kong. The big security presence here outside the Legislative Council was to prevent any protesters from interrupting this policy address by carrie lamb but what they didnt expect is there to be interruptions in side the Chamber Twice she tried to deliver the speech twice she was shouted out chants from prodemocracy members of the Legislative Council after that after the 2nd attempt the session was called off and everyone exited the chambers outside some prodemocracy Legislative Council members spoke to the media they said that some said that she need to step down because she doesnt have the legitimacy to rule hong kong anymore so about an hour later she was able to deliver this address by video link now this is something that has never been done by a chief executive here in hong kong before they normally are delivering their policy addresses inside the Legislative Council during a session so this is the 1st time that has happened it lasted about an hour and touched on subjects that was expected but what was interesting obviously touched on what was happening on on the streets here in hong kong but she also talked about the future Public Housing needs to be expanded shes going to work on that livelihoods need to be improved here but obviously those are issues that can be dealt with in the future but right now theres a lot more than need to be dealt on the streets of hong kong right now. Well as scott was just saying there hong kong leader kerry was forced to give her address through video link instead of in the chamber and during her speech she said the International Community is waiting for hong kong to return to normalcy tom seek a home got. Employees of all trades and sectors as well as small medium and Large Businesses alike are deeply worried about the prospect of hong kong people are asking will hong kong return to normal or is hong kong still a place we can live in peace many sectors of our society have condemns the radical acts of rioters and have supported the government to strictly enforce the law to end violence. Democrats are accusing the tumble ministration of stonewalling the investigation into whether the president should be impeached Vice President mike pence trumps lou every day giuliani and the white house are refusing to submit documents to the inquiry while the 12 democrats who want to replace donald trump in the white house have now presented a unified front calling for his impeachment they were also fiery exchanges during their 4th debate in ohio about health care Foreign Policy and gun violence. The European Union and the United Kingdom have been holding the last ditch talks to try to work out a break the deal that can be discussed as the Leaders Summit and brussels on thursday negotiate says a from the u. K. And the e. U. Are attempting to reach an agreement by the end of the week ahead of britains official departure from the e. U. On october the 30 fast the news breaks a negotiation Michelle Banja says obstacles remain but theres still potential for a deal while those are the headlines the news continues here. With your lawyer 2014 is ready to launch a devastating new tree took on the gaza strip. Over the course of 51. 00 days its ready to drop 20000. 00 tons of explosives goes into the densely populated area the size of the delphia. Killing over 2000 i was in terms of thousands more. The overwhelming majority of these casualties were civilians distributed these being bombarded from the sea and into israel launched at least 160. 00 strikes on the gaza strip. And there is one less hospital in gaza now. Today. Flattened what the hospital. The sheer scale of the attack spoke outrage and condemnation around the world israels month long pounding of gaza shocks many people around the world mass demonstrations have been held in many of the worlds major cities. But in the United States the story was different polls show the American People holding firm in their support for israel this is the latest you know or see poll the american shows 57 percent of those polled say israels action in gaza is justified 34 percent say unjustified these numbers were striking but they were news of the course of the conflict in which palestinian casualties so far outnumbered israeli casualties the American People have consistently shown from 0 sympathy for israelis for palestinians its very difficult to force Public Opinion on any question from the Media Coverage that people rely on to form opinions and i think the most prevalent lesson from looking at the coverage is that the coverage tends to see this conflict from the israeli side study after study has demonstrated that israeli perspectives dominate american Media Coverage so by far the most common thing weve heard is that everything comes down to israels right to defend itself israel is a state that implements its rights to defend itself and its citizens it is a talking point that is set from the top and by the top i mean from the highest officials government officials who are commenting on this issue which is the media obsessive we cover the repeats a mans gotta do what a mans got to do in your country has got to do what a countrys got to do we have to defend ourselves in the most recent war in 2014 when we looked at Mainstream Media outlets almost by a margin of 3 to one israeli spokespeople over represented compared to palestinian spokespeople so almost every time you turned on the screen there was a israeli representative on the screen telling you israel is the one thats in a position of defense it is being attacked and basically israel is saying hey you dont have to be a Rocket Scientist to understand that the fuck is flying your head youre allowed to defend yourself add to this the fact that you have american elected officials. Also reinforcing israels right to defend itself as ive said many times israel has a right to defend itself against rocket and tunnel attacks from hamas and what gets pushed out of the frame entirely is the fact that out the for almost 50 years palestinians have been systematically this possessed from their land and the noise of their most basic human rights. Pioneers and refugees from countries of the oppression young and old they are going to our land. They will march to their world view resettlement to build. One response they want real will respond to palestine. Zionism the nationalist movement that emerged in europe in the late 18th hundreds was dedicated to the idea that the jewish people of to centuries of living as persecuted minorities within other countries were entitled to state an historic palestine the biblical homeland of the jews more than 3000 years before but there was a basic problem with the choice from the start palestine was already home to hundreds of thousands of palestinian arabs who had been living in palestine for centuries. After world war 2 when the holocaust the situation reached a break point ultimately the British Colonial government made the decision to withdraw and to pass the problem on to the newly created United Nations in 147 Un Resolution 181 recommended that palestine be split into 2 parts. Jews who are a 3rd of the population would receive 56 percent of the land palestinians who are 2 thirds of the population and possess move 90 percent of historic palestine would receive 44 percent these terms were immediately rejected by arab leaders is unfair but in the spring of 148 was on its leaders to create israel a state on the proposed borders anyway triggering the 1st arab israeli will. Get out. Early morning. After winning a crushing victory israel took possession of even more land by the time almost this was declared in 949. 00 israel controls 78 percent of historic palestine the creation of the new state would be celebrated by israelis as a triumph but to this day it is commemorated by palestinians says the nakba the arabic term for the catastrophe in memory of the hundreds of thousands of palestinians who were driven from their homes to make way for the new jewish state were all told approximately 700000 people more than half of august on its native population were up rooted way theres a lot of sympathy that can be generated i think rightly so for what jewish people as a whole have dealt with in western societies and globally because of antisemitism the question then becomes what is the proper response to that design a stance or is of course statehood and theres many people who would sympathise with that if it was in fact done in a vacuum and if it was in fact done for a people without a land in a land without people the reality is thats just not the way that it happened. There were people here they lost their homes their livelihood their nation their everything this was a in 1000 town that was 93 percent palestinian arab and. 7 percent jewish how did it suddenly become 80 percent jewish and 20 percent palestinian this was not a normal demographic transition this was a consequence of israels desire to create a jewish state and to do that it have to get rid of as many palestinians as possible the palestinians use the term catastrophe to speak of the 1948 consequences when they lost their land the 1st time around in 67 it was another knockback another catastrophe. In june of 967. 00 israel won what was perceived as a stunning underdog victory over much larger arab moments during the 6 day war with a tree in addition to taking land from egypt and syria israel began to militarily occupy all remaining palestinian territory in the west bank the gaza strip and East Jerusalem suddenly all of palestine is now lost we now had no Palestinian Land left under palestinian control you have a huge palestinian population living as refugees are living under occupation. Palestinians are governed under military law they are essentially prisoners they are treated as if they were all prisoners of war they have no rights. In the immediate aftermath of the 67 war the United Nations Security Council post resolution 2 food 2 citing International Law forbidding the takeover of territory by war 2 for 2 explicitly calling for israel to withdraw its own forces. To this day israel has largely failed to comply. Not only Holding Palestinian territory the compass getting additional london building massive jewish settlement blocks in the west bank in East Jerusalem in direct violation of the food Geneva Convention which expressly forbids states from transferring civilian populations into territory it occupies. In addition israel has established an inter matrix of Security Control on Palestinian Land to secure the settlements including checkpoints the prevent palestinians from travelling freely within their own land and a 440 mile security bill along the Israeli Border that cuts into palestinian territory. If youre one of the millions of palestinians living under occupation this is what the complicates of out but one of the most stunning things is how this or this story basically just drops out and instead you hear over and over again that its israel that surrounded israel is surrounded israel surrounded surrounded its israel the sun the siege and under threat you described a very small land mass and you know youre dealing with hamas and hezbollah and iran and so on i would like that its a tough neighborhood the imagery here is so powerful that its almost impossible to have a rational discussion about the legitimate grievances of palestinians hamas is a terror group and it is committed to killing jews and wiping israel off the face of the earth thats not debatable thats a fact none of this is by accident this is the result that with the liberal effort to shape american perceptions of the conflict a propaganda effort that really begins to take shape with israels invasion of lebanon in 1902. Israel unleashed another massive air attack on palestinian guerrilla targets in lebanon today from a sky full of israeli jets bombing and bombing. In the summer of 982. 00 israel invaded neighboring lebanon in an attempt to drive the Palestinian Liberation Organization out of its income on some southern border with israel whats the israeli army doing here in beirut the answer is that we are now dealing with an imperial israel which is solving its problems in someone elses country World Opinion be damned the israeli invasion of lebanon in 1902 was a watershed it was israel breaking out beyond its immediate region to aggressively attack another country and it was a bit of a shock to many people in the interests of selfdefense that gallant little underdog israel as suddenly started behaving like a neighborhood bully by the time the war was over the Israeli Military would kill 17000 lebanese and palestinians and the 30000 of them civilians and when they were over 20 years later become a wide everything only her offspring fell. Right through her to recruit rather quickly. Just a few months later american Media Coverage were taken even theres been another horrendous turn of events in the middle east hundreds of men women and children perhaps as many as a 1000 people and all have been massacred into Palestinian Refugee camps in west beirut israels lebanese allies operating with the consent of the Israeli Government that massacred several 1000 Palestinian Civilians in the refugee camps of separate. And American News media at the pictures to prove it by all appearances groups of men had been ordered to stand against the wall and then gunned down in cold blood. Today more palestinians trying to clean the relative. Have not returned our children once. Theyre killing our family this was a game changer in terms of how israel was going to deal with the question of publicity they went on the offensive for the 1st time. The idea of any blame. Tragedy in the shot you look at him. And without any foundation the government of israel rejects them with a contempt which they did. 2 years after the lebanon invasion the American Jewish congress sponsored a conference in jerusalem to devise a formal Public Relations strategy known in hebrew as. Participants including advertising executives media specialists journalists and leaders of major jewish groups the primary aim of the conference was to develop strategies to spin unpopular israeli policies and to come to negative press coverage by shaping the media for a minute its. Used doesnt just jump into a camera conference delegates its directed its managed its made to accessible. Israel based advertising executive Martin Fenton would put it in even more blunt terms propaganda is not a dirty word he said face it we are in the game of changing peoples minds but making them think differently to accomplish that we need propaganda. After levanon you start to see the basic has prostrated in action images of palestinians fighting back against israels occupation make their way onto American Television screens and Israeli Military crushes this resistance in brutal ways that undercut israels image as an underdog and victim. 3 helicopter gunships deliberately fired a missile into rattle civilians last night killing 7 palestinians and mourning 70 more. Then israeli officials go into full house romos and that occupation doesnt even exist in framing all Palestinian Resistance as terrorism and Israeli Aggression as selfdefense the Palestinian Terror Campaign continues its only justifies again and again that we will have to continue to defend ourselves. And so this becomes the framing of the situation israel is defending itself which means israel is not the aggressor here that doesnt square with the reality on the ground and we know that you have a right to defend yourself you dont have a right to occupy people deny them their human rights and then cry foul when they resist thats not the right to selfdefense thats the right to repression thats what israel is asking for here let us do away with these dissenters these palestinian dissenters and call it defense and when you look today at how the media cover the conflict you see just how successful israels propaganda has been in reversing the legacy of lebanon if theres any complaints and there should be about civilian deaths that they belong to the responsibility and the blame belongs with one place hamas i dont think anyone should get that wrong the i

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