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Detaining Citizens: Law of Armed Conflict [Graham & Kavanaugh @ Supreme Court Hearing]

2020-11-23T06:30:06.567Z

Culture in Decline: War on Nature

2013-03-13T04:01:33.638Z

War. We love it, right. Blowing stuff up, watching people suffer and die… it’s exciting. Violence, domination, retribution and other attributes of this competitive “warring” fascination clearly dominates our media with films, television and other expressions constantly glorifying and reinforcing this gesture of conflict.
In fact, it has been found that by the time an average kid reaches the age of fourteen, in the west, he or she has visually witnessed over 8000 depicted acts of murder.
So given all this it might make you wonder, does art imitate life, or does life imitate art. Likewise isn’t it interesting how most of the people in America sleep quite well at night while their military forces routinely invade, slaughter and steal from other nations at will, as of course all global empires have done historically.
This time the global civilian death toll is well over one million in the past decade alone, many of them women and children, and yet the same American culture shutters in horror and confusion when some dude stumbles into an American school yard and randomly wipes out a couple dozen or so kids.

Killing Children in Palestine

2013-02-06T22:36:11.655Z

Warning: This video contains film and images of War Crimes committed against the Palestinian people by Israel between 2008 and November 2012. Its been shown to the world again to highlight the horrors or war.

Netanyahu, Unaware of Camera, Reveals Himself

2013-02-03T21:16:00.399Z

Netanyahu - "America Won't Get in Our Way..It's Easily Moved"
(Bibi thought the camera stopped recording)
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations on Iran.

Referring to the US, Netanyahu also says, "They asked me before the election if I'd honor [the Oslo accords]. I said I would, but ... I'm going to interpret the accords in such a way that would allow me to put an end to this galloping forward to the 1967 borders. How did we do it? Nobody said what defined military zones were. Defined military zones are security zones – as far as I'm concerned the entire Jordan Valley is a defined military zone ... Why does this matter? ... Because at that moment I actually stopped the Oslo Accord."

Now, this gives rise to a few questions. Firstly, what is it that America wants that Bibi does not? The answer is - for decades, America has wanted peace in the region by negotiating a two-state solution.

Secondly, what did Bibi mean when he said, "They won't get in our way?" ... our way ... Did he mean they won't get in his way of destroying Palestinians?

Thirdly, did Bibi mean "They" won't get in his way of "hitting them" with so much "pain" - like the current war?

Bibi then went on to explain that he knows how to manipulate the world, including America, in his attempts to get rid of Palestine and says "The main thing, first of all, is to hit them [Palestinians]. Not just one hit, so many painful its that the price will be to heavy to be borne. The price is not too heavy to be borne, now. A broad attack on the Palestinian Authority. To bring them to the point of being afraid that everything is collapsing."

It doesn't stop at this as Bibi goes on to describe how he can easily manipulate the world, including America, into saying "Israel has the right to defend itself." He says very clearly ""The world won’t say a thing. The world will say we’re defending. Especially today, with America, I know what America is. America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in the right direction. They [America] won’t get their way ... They won’t get in our way. They won’t get in our way.”

Some here may excuse Bibi's 2001 comments as being 11 years old. However, at the time the video surfaced, 2010, the Jerusalem Post (http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=182159) explained: "That was 9 years ago. Is there a “New Bibi?” Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy wrote, “Don’t try to claim that he has changed since then. Such a crooked way of thinking does not change over the years.” Netanyahu, he said, is “a con artist” who thinks “Washington is in his pocket and that he can pull the wool over its eyes.”

FULL VIDEO FROM WHICH THIS CLIP IS TAKEN MAYBE VIEWED AT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaIQHWfj5f4

FULL TRANSCRIPT OF THE VIDEO AT: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/21/1163724/-Netanyahu-America-is-a-thing-you-can-move-very-easily-They-won-t-get-their-way

Checkpoint - Every Day Life in Palestine

2013-02-03T17:58:27.433Z

What would be like if you had to go through Military checkpoint to cross the street, go to the Kitchen or the Toilet in your own home?

Checkpoint (original title: Machssomim) is documentary film showing the everyday harrassement of Israeli soldiers and the harsh realities for Palestinian civilians at several of the regions Israel Defence Forces checkpoints.

It is made by Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir, Filmed over two years, 'Checkpoint' depicts the harsh and banal routine of these crossing points and documents the day-to-day situations that form a microcosm of the situation.

An ambulance is stopped, and the sick people inside brought out to explain their ailments. A mother is separated from her very young children. Young Palestinians laugh and throw snowballs at Israeli soldiers, who jovially respond in kind. One Israeli soldier harasses a pretty Palestinian girl. Another refers to the Arabs as "animals," and suggests the documentary crew is making a film for the Discovery Channel. Palestinians wait in the pouring rain while an Israeli soldier eats his lunch.

Another young soldier gets into a prolonged argument with a Palestinian man because he'd told the man an hour earlier that he would be able to cross back over the checkpoint to return home, and now a curfew is in effect.

After his superior reluctantly lets the man through, the embarrassed soldier turns to the filmmaker and pleads, "Try to make me look good...not like the bad guy." Language barriers constantly interfere with the soldiers' ability to do their jobs. "It's not my decision," is a constant refrain as they turn people away.

Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir once served his army reserve duty as a checkpoint guard, which was what inspired him to make this documentary, Checkpoint. For 80 minutes, Shamir simply shows us videotape of what happens at the various checkpoints that the Israeli government operates, which are in place to regulate the travel of Palestinians, purportedly in an effort to combat terrorism. The documentary uses no narration, and the soldiers and Palestinians at the checkpoints are never identified. The subtitles simply tell the audience where the checkpoint being videotaped is located. Checkpoint was shown by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.