Occupation 101: Brutal Truths about the Zionist Invasion of Palestine
If you think you're somewhat sophisticated in the brutal and savage Israeli occupation of Palestine, think again. This documentary gives an in-depth view of that never ending Zionist created horror.
Some of the most moving parts of this doc were the interviews with Palestinians, which at first, were confusing, since no translation was provided. But around the third interview, no translation from Arabic to English is needed, as one can sense what they are saying thru their emotions, gesticulations, facial looks and pain in their voices.
The film also details life under Israeli military rule, the role of the United States in the conflict, and the major obstacles that stand in the way of a lasting and viable peace. The roots of the conflict are explained through first-hand on-the-ground experiences from leading Middle East scholars, peace activists, journalists, religious leaders and humanitarian workers whose voices have too often been suppressed in American media outlets.
The film covers a wide range of topics -- which include -- the first wave of Jewish immigration from Europe in the 1880's, the 1920 tensions, the 1948 war, the 1967 war, the first Intifada of 1987, the Oslo Peace Process, Settlement expansion, the role of the United States Government, the second Intifada of 2000, the separation barrier and the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, as well as many heart wrenching testimonials from victims of this tragedy.
How effective is this program? Look no further than Daniel Pipes "Campus Watch," in an article by "Abe" Miller--who I wrote to and whose rabid reply will be in the comments section.
Revising History at Berkeley: Israeli 'Occupation 101'
It was ninety minutes of unrestrained historical revisionism and America and Israel bashing all moving toward one goal: to create a divestiture campaign at Berkeley.
Labels: Palestine
posted by Greg Bacon @ Friday, March 13, 2009
4 Comments:
On Mar 12, 2009, at 4:13 PM, Abraham H. Miller wrote:
Dear Mr. Bacon:
I too have seen this video and numerous others like it. They all remind me of seeing Berlin in the late summer of 1945 and looking at the despair of the German people, children in rags, people scrounging to survive against the bombed out hulls of buildings. Perhaps, the camera would pan to Dresden, and there would be an appropriate voice over about Allied war crimes. No where would there be a mention of Hitler, concentration camps, the murder of allied POWS, the allied attempts to avoid war at all costs, or the invasion of Poland. Welcome to propaganda 101. If you think this is an excellent video, you need an education. If you went to college, you should apply to the bursar for a refund.
The percentages of land, which I believe are the consequences of the Arab invasion of Israel and not the partition, are meaningless. Eighty percent of the land was arbitrarily taken by the British imperialistic power and transferred to the Arabs to give the Arabian Hashemite royal family a country--Transjordan, later Jordan. This was not included in the video, was it? Moreover, as probably are aware, a thousand acres in Illinois and a thousand acres in Wyoming are nor really comparable. The Arabs got the best land. The Jews got land with indefensible borders which added to the motivations for the Arab invasion. Historically, aggressor nations lose land. Take out a map of Germany before and after World War II. Do you see a difference? Do you see German refugees still living in camps four generations later. Tell me, Mr. Bacon, what other people have had refugees for four generations? Please name one. What happened to the nearly one
million Arab Jews kicked out of Arab lands after WWII? How come they aren't living in camps, blowing themselves up in Cairo, Baghdad, Beirut, Damascus, etc. I guess that wasn't in the video.
The Main Stream Media is decidedly anti-Israel. Kindly see the recent issue of Time Magazine on Gaza. The BBC has issued numerous apologies after being confronted with documented bias and irresponsible errors. I spent thirty years studying media, and you invoke some undocumented and totally erroneous cliche and think you know something. Neither ignorance nor arrogance has boundaries.
Gaza is not a concentration camp. People die in concentration camps. Gaza has an exploding population and has shown that it refuses to accept peace and build a state. It would rather export suicide bombers than food. After American Jews, under Sir James Wolfenson, raised millions of dollars to buy the greenhouses for the Palestinians that the settlers left behind, green houses responsible for Gaza's food exports, the Palestinians destroyed them for scrap, forcing --in comical fashion--Mohammad Abbas to go to the UN to beg for money because the people of Gaza could not feed themselves.
"Apartheid," what a wonderful cliche. You are full of them. Do you know the local assistant consul general at the Israeli consulate in SF is an Arab. While you were probably celebrating Israel Apartheid Week, I was listening to Professor Zeidan Atashi, former member of Israel's parliament (Knesset) and a former Israeli delegate to the United Nations. Professor Atashi received his Ph.D. in Israel, and, oh yes, he served in the IDF. Some Apartheid. Mr. Atashi as an Israeli Arab has greater freedom than Arabs anywhere in the Arab world. Some Apartheid.
Anyhow, Mr. Bacon, thank you for writing. Please tell me that you don't have a college education, for if you do, it is difficult to comprehend what we professors created.
You saw a propaganda video and you think you are an expert on the ME. You remind me of the quip,"Oh, yes, he read a book...once."
Do yourself a favor. Do some reading on both sides of the issue. I have. I even go to see the Arabs videos and hear their lectures. Here is some homework: When was the Palestinian state founded? What currency did it have? What Arab states will absorb Palestinians and give them citizenship? Why did Yassir Arafat refuse the peace deal Bill Clinton and the Saudis jointly negotiated at Camp David. What are the three "No's" of Khartoum. Why are they important in understanding the current crisis in the ME? Who contributes more money to the Palestinians, the US taxpayer or the Saudi Royal Family? Finally, if San Diego were hit by rockets fired daily from Tijauana, what would you want the American government to do to protect the people of San Diego? I am tempted to make the last one multiple choice.
Sincerely yours,
Abraham H. Miller
miller - Perhaps, the camera would pan to Dresden, and there would be an appropriate voice over about Allied war crimes. No where would there be a mention of Hitler, concentration camps, the murder of allied POWS, the allied attempts to avoid war at all costs, or the invasion of Poland. Welcome to propaganda 101.
jews like you created propaganda 101, and you moved on to advanced propaganda, masters and phd propaganda.
For instance: jew organizations love to tell the tales of Darfur: the bad Arab Muslims killing African Black Christians.
My what "advanced propaganda" that is!
The jew zionist media fails to tell everyone that it is Muslim Arab Africans killing Muslim Arab Africans.
That's a fact. There is a very small percentage of Christians that live in Darfur/Sudan. The people of Sudan all speak ARABIC.
Another FACT: israel selling arms to African militias, training these militias, since the 60s. BE PROUD, miller! Your people live in a war state and thrive on war weapons! israel's economy would be lost without it.
miller - The percentages of land, which I believe are the consequences of the Arab invasion of Israel and not the partition, are meaningless. Eighty percent of the land was arbitrarily taken by the British imperialistic power and transferred to the Arabs to give the Arabian Hashemite royal family a country--Transjordan, later Jordan. This was not included in the video, was it?
And how does that explain your crimes, miller? Just because Britain did what it did to Arabs before [NO WHERE NEAR COMPARABLE TO WHAT YOU ZIONIST JEWS DID TO ARABS in the 30s and thereof] has absolutely nothing to do with YOU and your TRIBE. Nor does Britain's actions of that time give YOU and YOUR TRIBE carte blanche to STEAL land away from Arabs, MURDER and DISPLACE Arabs.
miller - the Arabs got the best of the land.
THAT is a BLATANT LIE if ever there was one. Quite the OPPOSITE, my fiendish little khazar. jews got the best lands, rich with water and foliage. indefensible borders? LOL...there are no borders! You keep stealing Arab land - see WEST BANK, please. indefensible borders? LOL...oh stop, please! israel HOGS the sea, land and air borders. Palestinians are trapped in a much worse apartheid jail cell. Death Sentences all around for their children. And you and YOUR TRIBE are loving it! Cause it keeps the money flowing from USA tax dollars into israel, which israel would be nothing without.
miller - What happened to the nearly one
million Arab Jews kicked out of Arab lands after WWII?
that is quite a HIGH number, miller. Too high to be true. What "one million" Arab jews from what "Arab lands"? I cannot wait for your answer. As for any of the Arab jews kicked out of Arab lands ask the members of stern gang, irgun and so on. Read the works of Moshe Sharett, mr miller. european khazar "jews" most certainly did kill and drive off the native Arab Jews that lived in Palestine. They also threatened and killed Native Arab Jews living in Iraq. And this was all blamed on the Arab Muslims. Get your facts straight, Khazar miller!
miller - Do you know the local assistant consul general at the Israeli consulate in SF is an Arab.
So? Did you know that Abbas, Dahlan, Mubarek, and Gemayel are Arabs and they have done and do the zionist jew's bidding? Junior hariri is also an Arab, surprise surprise! SO WHAT? So are the Saudi Arabians who do the imperial zionist jew bidding. What is your point? And it is so funny how you bring up the Arabian Hashemite royal family. They also do the imperial zionist jew bidding. After all, the Jordanians didn't install this Royal family, the western nations, infiltrated by zionist jews did.
aaah...so very interesting. JORDAN IS JUST ONE OF YOUR PUPPETS
And so you mention "BOTH SIDES", as if to plead, beg, and protest[methinks thou dost protest way too much] that this "BOTH SIDES" issue is actually even. You are pathetic. With all the disgusting, DIShonest crap you wrote in your above comment, I suggest SINCERELY, that you remove the "Sincerely" from future writings, mister miller.
Yeah, that Miller is one obnoxious prick. Here's my reply to his reply.
He replied to this email, but I booted the damn thing back w/o reading it.
If I want to listen to his kind of swill, I can watch FOX (shudder), read a William Kristol NYT column or watch one of the many Zionst think tanks like AEI on CSpan.
Subject: Re: Occupation 101
Date: March 12, 2009 4:30:34 PM CDT
To: amill727@sbcglobal.net
Thank you for a a view which could come straight from Wolf Blitzer's "Situation Room" or the Forward mag or the New Republic.
Our government has been overtaken by Zionists and Israeli-Firsters who have no problem letting American kids fight and die in wars for Israel, like the one in Iraq.
And please, don't bother to lie your way out of that one, since an article in Haaretz titled, "White man's burden" By Ari Shavit laid out in black and white the 25 or so Zionists and Neocons who were behind the push and LIES involved to get America into that war.
Lies that are being recycled again to fool Americans into fighting another war for Israel, this time against Iran.
So the rest of your obvious propaganda used on me is meaningless. Each day, more and more Americans are waking up to the fact that our country is being bled dry and drained of wealth supporting that nation of racists, Israel.
And yes, the land stolen by Israel from Palestine DOES make a difference, whether that land was in Illinois or Wyoming.
You asked this question: Finally, if San Diego were hit by rockets fired daily from Tijauana, what would you want the American government to do to protect the people of San Diego?
I'd ask my government why we were blockading the land and sea ports of San Diego and controlled the air space. I'd want to know why we never let in enough food, meds or cooking fuel for the inhabitants to survive.
I'd ask why we sent in armored bulldozers to destroy their homes and tear up their orchards and gardens.
And I'd also want to know why we regularly send in special forces assassination squads to kill off the residents of San Diego and why we used Predator drones to shoot Hellfire missiles at the civilians in San Diego. And why those F-16's jets keep screaming over San Diego, breaking the sound barrier to help terrorize those people.
So don't give me your tired-ass IDF talking points that were created by the Israeli Ministry of Propaganda or as it's called in Apartheid Israel, the National Information Directorate, that was planning for the December invasion of Gaza at least EIGHT months before Israel broke the cease-fire on November 4.
You call yourself a college professor? It's easy to see and smell just exactly what it is you're fertilizing young minds with.
gb
Two things,
There is a vast oppression of Christians and non-Christians, who are not Muslim, in Sudan. Those Christians and non-Christians are black. It is wrong. It is genocide. There is an Israeli intelligence hand in it. It is racist. No surprise when Israelis are involved.
The only Jews expelled from Palestine were expelled by the Ashkenazim pseudo-Jews. Those Jews which were expelled were the Karaite Persian Jews and the Ethiopian Jews. The readmittance of the Ethiopian Jews in numbers to be a servant class is another issue. They are mistreated by the Ashkenazim because of their color and Torah only stance.
I'm quite sure all of this embarrasses old "Abe".
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