what jewish people as a whole have dealt with in western societies and globally because of anti-semitism the question then becomes what is the proper response to that the zionist answer is of course statehood and there's 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 that's just not the way that it happened. there were people here they lost their homes their livelihood their nation their everything this was a and maintained term that was only three percent palestinian arab and six seven percent jewish how did it suddenly become eighty percent jewish and twenty percent palestinian this was not a normal demographic transition this was a consequence of israel's 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 one nine hundred

forty eight consequences when they lost their land the first time around in sixty seven it was another not another catastrophe. in june of nine hundred sixty seven israel won what was perceived as a stunning under don't retreat of a much larger arab moments during the sixty. three 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 had 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 sixty seven war the united nations security council post-prison lucian to food to citing international go forbidding the takeover of territory by war to food to explicitly calling for israel to withdraw its 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 forbid 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 that prevent palestinians from traveling freely within their own land and a four hundred forty mile security along the israeli border that cuts into palestinian territory. if you're one of the millions of palestinians living under occupation

this is what the conflict is about but one of the most stunning things is how this story the story basically just drops out and is that you hear over and over again that it's israel that surrounded israel is surrounded israel surrounded surrounded it's israel the sun the siege and under threat you described a very small land mass and you know you're dealing with hamas and hezbollah and iran and so on i would like that it's a tough neighborhood the imagery here is so powerful that it's 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 that's not debatable that's 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 israel's invasion of lebanon in one thousand nine hundred two. israel unleashed another massive air

attack on palestinian guerrilla targets in lebanon today from the sky. israeli jets bombing bombing. and the summer of one thousand nine hundred two israel invaded neighboring lebanon in an attempt to drive the palestinian liberation organization out of its income on some southern border with israel what's an 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 else's country world opinion be damned the israeli invasion of lebanon in one thousand nine hundred two 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 self-defense that gallant little underdog israel and suddenly started behaving like a neighborhood bully by the time the war was over the israeli military would kill seventeen thousand nice and palestinians but not the thirty thousand almost all of

them civilians and when they were over one hundred you become a wide everything only her. right through her to recruit others. just a few months later american media coverage would take an even delicate there's been another horrendous turn of events in the middle east hundreds of men women and children perhaps as many as a thousand people and all have been massacred into palestinian refugee camps in west beirut israel's lebanese allies operating with the consent of the israeli government that massacred several thousand palestinian civilians in the refugee camps of supper. 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. it is a policy you feel frantically to really. did. we took our children one for. 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 first time director implicit accusation that the i.d.f. bear any blame for over. tragedy in the shot you look at him are entirely based and without any foundation. the government of israel rejects them with a contempt which they deserve. to use off to the. jewish congress sponsored conference and. public relations strategy. as. participants included p.r. and 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 counter negative press coverage by shaping the

media frame in advance. doesn't just jump into a camera conference delegates it's directed it's managed it's made 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 people's minds but making them think differently to accomplish that we need propaganda. after levanon you start to see the basic has prostrated you know action images of palestinians fighting back against israel's occupation make their way onto american television screens and israeli military crushes this resistance in brutal ways that undercut israel's image as underdog and victim. drain a helicopter gunships deliberately fired a missile into the crowd all civilians last night killing seven palestinians in the morning and seventy more. then israeli officials going to full house ramos and that

occupation doesn't even exist them in framing all palestinian resistance as terrorism and israeli aggression as self-defense the palestinian terror campaign continues it only justifies again and again that we israel 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 doesn't square with the reality on the ground and we know that you have a right to defend yourself you don't have a right to occupy people deny them their human rights and then cry foul when they resist that's not the right to self-defense that. the right to repression that's 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 israel's propaganda has been in reversing the legacy of lebanon if there's any complaints and there should be about

civilian deaths they belong to the responsibility and the blame belongs with one place hamas i don't think anyone should get that wrong the israeli position is the first position they are allowed to to determine the narrative determine the facts on the ground hamas is a terror organization committed to our destruction they fire thousands of rockets at our cities the dominant narrative in the media coverage then israel is retaliating for an attack it has suffered israel says the barrage of rockets is in retaliation to the seven hundred fifty rockets fired from gaza we know this is all retaliation for hamas firing rockets into israel which is the dominant media story of our time what we've seen is really another kind of occupation and not the patient of american media and what we could call the american mind bright pro israel narrative that's the flecked of attention away from what virtually everyone recognizes as the best way to resolve this conflict and the occupation and the settlements so the palestinians can finally have

a state of their own. is. that the prime minister of israel the president of the united states of the the ongoing peace process that began with the oslo peace accords in one thousand nine hundred three was designed to negotiate the terms of israel's withdrawal from palestinian territory in accordance with un resolution two forty two which made an explicit connection between israeli withdrawal and the just and lasting peace. since those lower israel has actually taken more post in your land for its jewish only settlements in one thousand nine hundred three there were approximately two hundred thousand illegal jewish settlers living in the occupied palestinian territories since then that number has more than tripled with approximately six hundred fifty thousand settlers now living in the west bank in east jerusalem so if you look at the result not the words and the pretty phrases what's happened over the past twenty years and most nor graded oslo

was not a peace process it was an annexation process what has happened is that now one in eleven israeli jews live in these illegal sounds so the failure to confront this on an enterprise from the very beginning i think has created a almost insuperable obstacle to the creation of a palestinian state there's no place to put it what we're talking about here is something that is completely indefensible israel knows this israel knows this very well and for that reason wants to talk about anything and everything else they'd rather talk about terrorism they'd rather talk about security we're willing to make great concessions for peace but there is something that i will never compromise on and that is real security the reason they've been able to so effectively change the subject isn't because they're practicing some kind of mass mind control the main reason is that the u.s. government itself has had

a vested interest in promoting the same narrative. for almost fifty years now this goes back to the start of the so-called special relationship with israel in the late one nine hundred sixty s. when the us decides to deputize israel and make it what the next administration called a cop on the beat to protect american interests in the middle east especially u.s. energy supplies ever since the american government has continued to give israel roughly three billion dollars a year military aid while also vetoing one u.n. resolution after another condemning the occupation of settlements the challenge is to make sure that the american people stay on board with the u.s. aid despite what israel is doing a number of well funded public relations organizations have emerged within the united states to help israel justifies purposes especially the occupation and settlements on security grounds one of these groups is the israel project in two thousand and nine the israel project turned conservative poster and rebranding expert frank luntz to determine which talking points used by israeli and u.s.

officials over time at the most effective in maintaining american sympathy for israel once wrote up his recommendations in a two thousand and nine report called the global language dictionary if you want to understand how the propaganda works especially in the u.s. you need to read the luntz document is really clear that the occupation and especially the settlements are a problem. and he points the polls that show a large majority of americans actually think that israel should retreat to the sixty seven borders in fact he says when you talk about land in terms of sixty seven you completely flip american sentiment against you but and this is the solution if you bring up the danger of terrorism you win back the support the key line says is the claim that the fight is over ideology not land about terror not territory in fact these three words terror not territory summarize the basis of the propaganda campaign of the us and loves goes on to say the one of the most

effective ways to make the conflict about terrorism is to refer to an obscure political document written in one thousand nine hundred eight by small group of ideologues the hamas charter that calls for the destruction of israel even though the hamas leadership effectively disowned the charter a long time ago it's been p.r. gold for israel. luntz research has discovered that when americans hear the words of the charter israel goes from bully to victim and sympathy for the plight of the palestinians this place so he says don't just quote it read it out loud again and again. and his advice has been taken up often historically by israel's advocates the hamas charter not only cost results the structures ladies and gentlemen article seven paulse for the murder of every jew it calls for the murder of every jew it's a nazi document we have the israeli prime minister saying movements like

a mass at our national movements are the same thing as isis hamas is like isis hamas is like al qaeda hamas is like hezbollah hamas is like boko haram and they are completely not the same things from us it is as much a nationalist movement. as leaders and a religious movement and for an off from the science priority to its nationalist groans over its religious grounds. this false notion of trauma is part of this all prado network is not bought even by militants for the american military in two thousand and ten the united states central commander of centcom the highest military command in the u.s. issued a testified report the question the current u.s. policy of isolating and marginalizing how mass as well as has played in lebanon the report described the two groups is pragmatic and argued that putting them in now

cater in the same sentence as if they're all the same is just stupid and the us military isn't alone in this assessment. isis itself has attacked the mosque again and again because i'm not radical enough to pragmatic and to compromising i spent a lot of time on my radio program going over a hamas is charter what it says it wants to obliterate israel it wants to destroy the jews it is a sick twisted you know perverted ideology and it manifests itself in different forms muslim brotherhood islamic jihad hamas hezbollah i says al-qaeda you know it's all the same thing meanwhile you hear next to nothing about another extreme political charter that is much more relevance to the conflict the platform the ruling the crude party in israel.

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has stormed into bangladesh killing at least twelve people and forcing more than two million seek shelter the cyclon has weakened since devastated communities along the east coast of india killing at least sixteen people. weapons experts are trying to confirm the latest suspected rocket launches from north korea after the breakdown in denuclearization talks with the us south korea's defense ministry says several launches were detected but they were not ballistic missiles. the u.s. has time restrictions on iran's nuclear program by failing to renew two key sanctions waivers in response iran's president is accusing the u.s. of trying to sow division among the people. the united states is violating international laws and pressuring companies to prevent them cooperating with iran and seeking to weaken our currency and the independence of our country there are huge conspiracies against our country and the american administration is waging

a political and psychological war against us a decision to change the regime in iran washington aims to spread division in the country and the iranians must unite to peace this war the death toll from heavy shelling in rebel held areas of northern syria has now reached at least twenty two the violence has forced the university of illinois to send students home and the eastern part of the region has come under further attack from russian and syrian government air strikes thailand's king. has been crowned monarch after two years of mourning his father. the place the seven point three keno crown on his head in an elaborate coronation ceremony mixing buddhist and hindu traditions. comes been restored to the largest city in after two days of riots sparked by election results at least two people were killed in police force supporters of opposition parties that were barred from last sunday's election those

are the headlines we're back in thirty minutes with the news hour right now it's back to the occupation of the american mind. the hamas charter not only cost resources structures ladies and gentlemen but cost for the murder of every jew it's a nazi document meanwhile you hear next to nothing about another extreme political charter that has much more relevance to the conflict the platform the ruling the crude party in israel well if you look at the language that's in that charter the likud charter it flatly rejects quote flatly rejects the existence of a palestinian state anywhere anywhere on that side of the jordan river in other words completely denying the right of the state of palestine to exist that's far more relevant to have language like the language in the liquid charter be in the charter of a party that is the largest in israeli government driving an israeli state and has

the capacity to act upon the words in their charter in a way that no other party does to strengthen the case that the conflict is about tourism and not turn a tree once points to the effectiveness of another world established israeli talking point to claim that israel gave up control of gaza in two thousand and five in hopes of achieving peace and a two state solution and go to rockets in return we left gaza completely we had guns so they could have turned it into a floor sharing wonderful place to live and look at what they did and they turned into a haven of terrorists coming from all over the world it's completely untrue that israel left the gaza strip they did withdraw their colonists but at the same time they tie in their control over the gaza strip this is gaza's main freight route into israel and normally this road would be bumper to bumper with heavily laden trucks but it's completely closed as is every other border crossing in the country

nothing's coming into gaza and nothing is getting out so the idea that israel less . is one hundred percent guys it remains occupied who can come and go is totally at the israeli discretion in gaza there are constant military attacks by the israeli air force by drones. targeted assassinations go on all the time it wasn't really a withdrawal but the conventional shorthand in the media is that israel was unwilling to give up an enormous amount to the palestinian side and the palestinians responded with violent israel with force since nine hundred sixty seven controlled gaza they gave it to the palestinians as a gesture of peace and all they got a bunch of rockets are you think that is this is the basic frame of israel's p.r. campaign make sure the media stays focused on terrorism and a mosque stream islam as a source of the conflict not the occupation of the supplements if you want to see

this in operation just look at the coverage of any of israel's many attacks on gaza over the past few years. for scale and intensity of this attack was surprising the deadliest operation against palestinians in decades after an intense three week assault thirteen hundred day five thousand wounded. in late december of two thousand and eight israel launched operation coast led to a massive ground assault on the gaza strip if all of these this cockpit video over a period of three weeks israeli military dropped over six hundred tons of bombs on go so it isn't clear yet how many civilians among in the fourteen hundred post indians were killed and thousands more injured the wounded were carried on corrugated iron. and private cars. and bags and you know.

the worst one day casualty telling guys that anybody can. normally in a conflict civilians. can run for their lives as it was one of the few if not the only modern conflict where the helpless civilians who were subjected to massive technologically advanced firepower by the israelis had no escape route with gaza city bombed and burning palestinians he did israel's warning to get out of the way but found they had nowhere to go with brutal murders devastating this attack was murders if you ask any american why that war started they would say because the palestinians are not firing rockets at israel what are the goals of that operation right now to change totally do behavior. is that. they keep shelling is. what this forget is

that for the latter half of two thousand and eight there was a very successful cease fire that curtailed rocket fire into israel dramatically almost to the point in which there was none this was shattered in november of two thousand when israel attacked what they said was a tunnel building project to kill six hamas militants at that point the ceasefire was off when hamas regime rocket attacks off the israel broke the ceasefire israeli officials went on american television and got away with blaming a mosque for breaking the cease fire you know it was come us that you know laterally tore up the cease fire understandings it was from us that is going to the violence that reached a crescendo on christmas day when we had in one twenty four hour period some eighty rockets mortar shells and missiles coming into israel attacking our civilians now we want to work with the palestinian government in the law i was then repeated uncritically by u.s. news media games there's no question here is there that hamas started this well look i don't think israel had any choice it was

a ceasefire that was broken by hamas they fired something like three hundred rockets in the israel i mean this is an act of war what are they supposed to do this compare this to have. media outside the us still with us in to the fact that during the cease fire not a single israeli was killed and the reason for that was because i'm a five not a single rocket no i think you are wrong unfortunately because during that cease fire of six months they were firing rockets on a daily basis on channel four in britain you saw an anchor presenting evidence that the israeli government itself acknowledged that hamas observed the ceasefire was actually a document that's given to journalists by the israeli government and in this document it says and i'm quoting how mass was careful to maintain a ceasefire israel officially recognized until it broke the ceasefire from austin for a single rocket and the propaganda is so powerful that these truisms literally truisms are almost inexplicable the lesson is that this conflict started when we say it started and we say it started when israel was attacked. in two thousand and

twelve and again in two thousand and four these are two devastating attacks on goes . over once again showed that americans remain firmly on israel's side. that. israel can saturate the media with spokespeople but there's still the problem of massive palestinian casualties showing up on television screens. here again the luntz document spells out which talking points have been most effective in spinning the brutal reality of palestinian casualties he says the first thing the pro israeli spokespeople should do is to express empathy for the innocent victims unfortunately innocents do get hurt and we really grieve that we're sad for every pseudonym casualty the entire situation is tragic then luntz tells p.r.

spokespeople to turn the tables and ask the american people what would you do. so what would you do in the united states can you imagine. what america would do if you were facing a similar threat we always try to us cule to question what we you'll do what would you do what would you do if more than three thousand rockets have been fought on your cities what would you do three thousand rockets what would you do if terrorists were tunneling on deal from what would you do if three kids are kidnapped because of a tunnel network what sort of question is this of course anybody would act to defend themselves against unprovoked aggression but it is a question that is completely devoid of any context when massive numbers of palestinian civilians predictably die from israeli attacks israel claims it's part of a deliberate hamas gravity to drum up sympathy. telegenic the palestinians for their cause they want the more dead the better so they end up in this upside

down orwellian world where israelis killing civilians becomes an unforgivable transgression against israelis it is hard to come away with any feeling but that we are in the midst of a world gone mad last week i found a quote of many years ago by a gold mine here one of israel's early leaders which might have been said yesterday we can forgive the arabs for killing our children she said but we can never forgive them for forcing us to kill their children it's not difficult to imagine americans identifying with palestinians who are suffering but they need to be able to see that suffering on their television screens in their newspapers. these whales said today it's new within t.v. he's targeting terrorists and when your sense of the coverage is that there's something that these people did to deserve this or that they are affiliated with terrorists and terrorist minded governments the fallout of that is an inability to

identify with people who are suffering in far greater numbers and far greater proportion. then their israeli counterparts. they have it to shape american perceptions of the israeli palestinian conflict has been taken up by a number of pro israel groups based in the us together these groups are commonly referred to as the israel lobby. nowhere has the power to shape the pro israel narrative move physical than in the u.s. congress. to the efforts of one of the most influential lobbying groups working on capitol hill today the american israel public affairs committee this. is great. good friends from all across. the board in. apex annual conference draws nearly ten thousand attendees from around the country

including the most influential members of both houses of congress from both coaches it would be very hard for ordinary americans to know that they're being deceived that some very competent experts at spin management are in fact deluding them there are many reasons for this one of them is that the american political class has basically swallowed the line oak line and sinker they keep getting rocket attack after rocket attack and then they're criticized for human rights problems because they defend themselves this is particularly true for republicans but responding mr speaker to attacks on their civilian population i mean what is it that they want well we know what they want they want israel obliterated from the map mr speaker but it's also true for many democrats we stand with our ally we stand with the democratic state of israel we stand against terrorism this is ministration well always stand up for israel's right to defend itself.

they made the mistake of actually leaving a pax tax address on one bill that was actually laid before congress and of course nobody was apparently balanced that that in fact write the legislation for them or writes their speeches for them doesn't seem to and least bother you there's nothing happening here that secret or under the table it's not a cabal it's not a conspiracy it is in fact domestic politics the way it's packed. here in the united states there are roughly three dozen or so pro israel pacs that give money over the last fifteen or twenty years they've given fifty five sixty million dollars in american elections there are one or two arab american pacs and i believe last time i looked they've given you know eight hundred thousand to a million so you've got fifty five million dollars of pac contributions on one side and you've got maybe a million at most on the other side the actual views of most people in the american jewish community quoting to every poll diverge greatly from the extreme right wing

neo conservative views of the entire establishment leadership of that community most people in the jewish community are much more liberal they're against settlement they're against occupation and want two state solution and there are some key elements of what we call the israel lobby that aren't jewish so-called christian zionists evangelical christians in america have become israel's star just ally in an increasingly hostile world and the united states roughly a third of the population believes that every word of the bible is literally true if the bible is literally true then the land of israel was promised to the jews by god. i have every right to take it from. listening closely those of you listening in the liberal media. the jewish people are now saying the land of israel . the land of this is really. one of the problems with the influence israel lobby

has in the united states now is it has been hard for government officials to have an honest discussion just look what happened to president obama when he made the mistake of simply saying out loud what the international consensus is we believe the borders of israel and palestine should be based on the nine hundred sixty seven lines with mutually agreed swaps. so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states it didn't matter that obama was just repeating what had been official us policy for decades or the right wing president ronald reagan that said essentially the same thing in the one nine hundred eighty s. an even stronger language u.n. resolution to forward to remains wholly valid as the foundation stone of america's middle east peace effort. it is the united states' position that in return for peace the withdrawal provision of resolution two forty two applies to all fronts including the west bank and gaza when obama said if he was a media the accused by right wing groups of setting up israel for another holocaust

as president obama abandon israel after strong support by eleven consecutive american presidents it appears obama has moved sharply toward israel's enemies and the results could be disastrous the leader of hezbollah has vowed to finish the job it was started up to now america's strong backing of israel made that impossible but with obama's waffling for the second holocaust. it's a pretty ingenious tactic how you supposed to have a rational discussion about the occupation when pro israel extremists call the sixty seven borders exporters. these are the two alternatives you're either going to be now switching to support israel because israel was in fact created in the wake of the holocaust isn't that extraordinary that the two would be that way i have a problem with the idea of exploiting the link and using those six million jews and almost in my mind it's like saying and frankly we want the occupation to continue we are a nation that rose from the ashes of the holocaust. when we say never again we may

never again. i see a lot of manipulation. about the victims. the sense of victim and i'm a child of survivors a local survivor so i'll be the last one to underestimate the importance of history and the history of persecution of jews in the israeli palestinian context but doesn't mean that jews now in israel go every day and think about auschwitz adult there are watchdog groups that keep track of what different media organizations publish or broadcast and if they're not happy about it they either publish their own attack. acts they organize consumer boycotts the media outlets don't see the pushback from the other side they don't see the upside to standing up for for their own reporting so i think in most cases they cave look at how american media covered

israel's two thousand and fourteen attack on gaza the keyword search of all the major networks showed that over the course of the fifty one day assault israel's ongoing military siege on blockade of gaza were barely mentioned compared to the thousands of times a mosque rocket attacks on israel were mentioned but the silence of mainstream media across the board on these issues hasn't stopped right wing pro israel advocates with zero evidence making exactly the opposite claims here that the us news media bends over backwards so humanize palestinians well demonizing israel consistently the times says suppressed any story that with a tray israel sympathetically and of course there's no quite a weapon in the attack austin all that equating critical coverage of israel's policies with anti-semitism any fair minded person falls out in syria knows it's anti american and anti semitic there it is your gloating if you wish man correct yes i am it doesn't it doesn't come more anti semitic. they would they wouldn't they would do violence to you who is

a good journalist at al-jazeera we let it run that were they were violently i largely think so rude an article in which he explained to american jews what their test scores their task is to show that anyone who is a critic of zionism by which he means a critic of the policies of the state of israel must be either and be semi or a neurotic self hating jew that covers one hundred percent of possible criticism so used to be i was always called the self hating jew and everybody like me was called the self hating too i am now not only fit into but they also call me that is them like how i was by four jewish grandparents i'm still an anti-semite my wife was born in a just. those persons camp in germany and i'm an anti-semite look i've done dozens of interviews which begin from the terrorism departure point but when given an opportunity to actually speak and present a different perspective that can dissolve rather quickly is hamas

a terrorist organization. do i get to actually speak now and you get to answer the question it's a simple yes or no question is how long are you invited on here is a mosque whose charter calls for the destruction of israel is that a terrorist organization that's a yes or no question thank you for your question and larry telling to me that it should be telling to your viewers as well by the way that the moment you have a palestinian voice on your program who begins to explain the legitimate grievances of power is not lost a terrorist organization is are let me say that so let me question what part of this can you get through your thick head i think is hamas a terrorist organization and yes or no the only thing that you're going to say is what we want to say and if you don't say it we're not going to let you speak our media operations national media is a scandal when it comes to israel i look at the u.k. with all its deficit and there's real debate for example there is this anchor

called john snow channel four in the u.k. and he interview with mark greg and he grilled him with questions grilled mark record of how does killing children on a beach contribute to that purpose what was the point of bombing the el wafa hospital for goodness sake there are grave problems certainties about whether you are acting within the law. oh yes you are deliberately targeting the neighborhoods in which you know there are women and children you've tried everything with guns or you besieged it for seven years the people live in intolerable and ghastly life and you know that better than anybody why don't you try one other thing. why not talk why not be brave and talk directly with the why not i can never see this in america i never seen anything like this in the united states while the mainstream propaganda system is operating the same as it always has there are definite signs that its control is thought in to unravel over just the past few years the proliferation of social media and internet news sources this made it increasingly

difficult for the israeli government. in pro israel groups in the u.s. to manage american perceptions of the conflict. video footage and reporting from the ground bearing witness to the reality of the occupation and now more accessible than ever on the internet. at the same time a powerful new movement has been gaining momentum and raising awareness of the occupation. while activists from the black lives matter moved have been making explicit connections between police violence against african-americans in the israeli military says repression of palestinians we stand next to people who continue to courageously struggle to resist the occupation people continue to dream and fight for freedom. for a third is in a power. struggle for freedom continued and all of these developments seem to be having an effect those now show that while sympathy for israel remains at all time highs among i would or americans it has been hemorrhaging among young people.

despite the efforts of the lobby something really striking is taking place and pro israel operatives like frank luntz are in a panic in his latest report he calls what's happening with young people a disaster. as the discourse begins to open more people are starting to understand this as a rights based issue not an issue of radicalism this is a movement for the rights of people whose rights are being denied who are living under occupation who want to live in their country freely just like anybody else let's just get away from the fall of jesus and talk about the reality and then maybe be able to persuade people that they should not any longer give their unwavering support to a nation engaged in a policy that's not just inhumane and brutal but ultimately suicidal. given the central role that the united states plays in backing israel seems to me

a marriage. it is all americans have a right to question the to kill or israeli policies and in particular the prolonged occupation the fact that the palestinian people have been kept without a state and without any political rights for decades now in the end this comes down to a battle for the minds of american people a battle of the stories they're told to make sense of this conflict a battle of a perception. the more americans are able to see the reality of occupation with their own eyes to see images of routine daily violence of the repression and the never make their way into mainstream news the more they'll question the image of israel as this tiny little david up against the bullying. and start to wonder who is actually the outcome palestinians who might be the real davids here. and that starts becoming the dominant perception here in the u.s. open seraph it all comes down to american public perception.

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people have to wait your record on this travel in fact a few years ago there is a place only for one state on the land of israel i do not believe in a two state solution the official story isn't there no i'm getting really off you are you i don't care about the official story if you were to go visit today you would say what has the media been telling you now the world isn't black and white there's a lot to graze in here join me mad the hot sun on the front of my guests from around the world take the hot seat and we debate the week's top stories and big issues here when i desire. but i think one of our biggest strengths is that we talk to normal everyday people we get them to tell their stories and doing that really reveals the truth people are still gathered outside these gates waiting for any information most of them don't know whether their loved ones are alive or dead or miami really is a nice word to me we can get to washington d.c. in two hours we can get it on jurists in the rest of central america about the same time but more importantly is where those two cultures north and south america makes sense to teach a great it's a very important place for al-jazeera to be. in two thousand and eight just.

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fired back killing at least two palestinians. north korea launches a suspected weapons test from its east coast amid stalled nuclear talks with the u.s. . cycling forni we can stop the battering india and crosses into bangladesh where at least twelve people have been killed on polar east with the sport and a long wait for a winner in poland the n.b.a. playoffs go into quadruple overtime for the first time since one thousand nine hundred fifty three. color israeli airstrikes and artillery have attacked gaza the palestinian fighters fired rockets into israel israeli military commander saying at least one hundred rockets were fired from gaza the ministry of health in gaza says one palestinian has been killed israel says the palestinian rockets targeted at least

a dozen areas some reaching as far as the town of being around twenty kilometers from gaza no israeli casualties have been reported israeli commandos responded by ordering planes an artillery to attack the palestinian territory including gaza city han eunice and. kerry fourth set is in west jerusalem for so harry what is the latest the you're hearing there. well the israeli military is now saying it's targeted some thirty installations around gaza including training camps and other bases attached to the military wings of hamas and islamic jihad also the israeli authorities confirming an injury to an israeli woman in southern israel it seems that happened in the course of a rocket striking a school area and she was injured seriously by shrapnel she said to be in hospital in a serious but stable condition also in the last few minutes there was

a video released inside gaza by palestinians army jihad saying that the circle of their fire was expanding essentially saying that they have the option of firing longer range rockets mentioning targets such as haifa up in the north west of israel the ben-gurion international airport between jerusalem and tel aviv and also they mentioned dimona the nuclear reactor facility in southern israel as well and so that is that the latest messaging coming out of gaza all of this taking place on a day that began with an israeli drone strike on a vehicle which local media reports in gaza said was carrying a senior islamic jihad commander three people in that vehicle lightly wounded and then the barash of rockets began and all of this following what took place during the border protests on friday when two palestinian protesters were killed and two hamas fighters some fighters were killed in an as strike which followed

a sniper attack on israeli soldiers at the border which ended injured two soldiers so we're in the midst of a continuing military escalation here so hey is there a particular reason why this is happening now. well you remember that is about a month ago it was the last movie escalation and that was deescalated really amid hopes of a longer term truce at least in the works and that included expanding the fishing zone to fifteen nautical miles from six we've just heard in the last few minutes that that has now been closed right down to zero no fishing at all about by the israeli navy as well as closing the crossings at areas in the north and kerem shalom in the south which is the cargo crossing and so that fishing extension that was the only real thing that hamas could say they had gained from that deal with

that nascent deal with the israelis the other promises made or at least understanding's that were reported included increasing the amount of qatari money coming into gaza to forty million dollars a month from fifteen million dollars a month various other economic relaxations and potential job creation programs none of that has yet happened and all of this is taking place at a politically sensitive time for israel as head of the your vision song contest in may and before that the. israeli independence day coming up next week so there is this is a timing issue potentially famous to try to see if it can gain more from the israelis or at least try to get more to be followed through on however a lot depends now on how both sides handle the situation to what extent they escalate and to what extent something could go wrong in terms of a large number of deaths or injuries on either side necessitating if you like

a response. harry force a lie first in western. when i speak now to me. he is a professor of political science at the university to talk more about this thanks very much for being with us so this is another military escalation we're seeing in this area for again in just in the space of just a few weeks what do you read into the timing of this. thank you very much for having me on this program as a matter of fact timing is the most important in a month in this condition right now and as it was indicated the by you would report to mr hardee fosset from was chosen i'm it's the israeli government who has not implemented the latest understanding's or the good note of quiet understandings between israel and on hamas which would brokered by the egyptians before it is

weighted elections which were held on april ninth last month and also are the israeli yesterday killed the three palestinians one of them is a palestinian civilian who wants to put this thing along the borders between gaza and israel and. when i say timing is important it means that i have mass on the other palestinian resistance a goops believe that this is the right timing to put more pressure on netanyahu and his way to government to make israel abide by the previous understanding's timing is very sensitive as it is approaching its. seventy first and independence day and also there you have it in festivities which are supposed to be held in tel aviv in may fifteenth of this month. and definitely his way and would not eskin it further with the palestinians at least until until independence day and you know to fit a vision festivities that's why the palestinians are pushing

a further two atomic is way and make more concessions anthemic also israel to abide by the previous understanding's so what's the potential there for for this to be settled in the form of some kind of ceasefire and for for mediation to take place i mean you mentioned the gyptian sat and what role could they play in or anyone else. well what is happening right now is a high level political and security delegation from have us on this let me just how do are the most important factions in terms of resistance against israel out of visiting cairo since yesterday. a try in right now to. keep the seas find out to keep the understanding's between hamas and israel it seems to me that this is one of those many as commissions we have been witnessing

over the past twenty thousand and twenty ninth in. that i think at the end of the day it's probably one or two days the egyptians would be it would succeed probably again in keeping the ceasefire keeping the understanding's but the question is what's next are unfortunately netanyahu on his way to government under pressure sometimes mican such ns but the problem is when it comes to implementations so that is no. secret that maybe egypt will will succeed again in getting more concessions from that the neo and israeli government but the big question is that without as way and will abide will implement those understanding's or not it will be seen probably at the end of this month good to speak. out and i'm sad a joint staff from gaza thanks for being with us. thank you. at least twelve

people have been killed in bangladesh after cycling forney hit early on saturday more than two million people are being moved to higher ground the storm has weakened it blew in from indy from india where at least sixteen people were killed diane has more. a trail of destruction along india's eastern coast. and winds of around two hundred kilometers per hour have devastated odisha state cycling fania ripped apart homes toggle power lines and left up to the trees covering the streets. welcoming to one quarter i was really afraid when the storm hit us we were lucky that we were all downstairs if my children were up stairs they wouldn't have survived all our belongings our money everything is gone. the storm has weakened to since making landfall on friday but now neighboring bangladesh is bracing itself nearly two million people have been moved to shelters.

we have ninety nine cycle shelters in this area each one can accommodate about five hundred people which means we can give shelter to me about fifty thousand people the government is doing everything it can to help. the extent of the flooding in the city of puri is clear with damage crops and infrastructure india's navy air force and disaster response teams are on standby. but there are teams go to each and every site we get reports from we've been working since morning our teams have been out there since the cycle and calm down. despite the destruction contact told the indian government says the situation could have been worse about one million people were evacuated in additional state airports and schools were closed before the storm. a different outcome from one thousand nine hundred ninety nine when a super cycling killed more than ten thousand people across the state. now emergency. crews are trying to clear the wreckage but many roads are blocked and

some villages completely closed off. the coast of additional state is vulnerable to cycles and tsunamis over the years embankments and shelters were built but for now the focus is on how it will recover from the storm katia lopez today young al jazeera. a weapons experts are trying to confirm the latest suspected rocket launches from north korea south korea's defense ministry says it picked up several launches from the east coast of the korean peninsula the ministry saying they were not ballistic missiles the suspected weapons test follows the failure of the recent denuclearization summit between north korean leader kim jong un and us president donald trump in february rob mcbride has more from seoul this is turning out to be potentially one of the.