outright falsehoods and instead of continuing with this he said she said battle of words let's not forget that this website's parent company is invested in the israeli government and as i mentioned before the spokesperson for the israeli prime minister wrote r.t.l. a letter admonishing the coverage of this network and provided during the conflict sort of cleared up i went straight to the source stay tuned to hear the exclusive interview i just did with alex spokesperson for the israeli prime minister netanyahu next. to the likes. of you never seen anything like the trouble. after a bus bombing left fifteen wounded in tel aviv israel on wednesday a fragile cease fire remains intact between the israeli military and armed groups in the gaza strip all of this following one of most violent conflicts in the region and nearly four years so how solid is the ceasefire and has israel's aggressive

response to rockets fired from gaza and justifiable well earlier i got the chance to speak to alex the spokes person of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu now i apologize in advance for the cutaways but we had to compensate for long delays in the satellite feed i first asked alex if we can expect another act of aggression in four years since these escalation seemed to happen around the time of israel's elections here's his response. you know it depends on the palestinians terrorists of hamas all we want to squash it and that was the goal of our operation just to provide. safety and stability to normal life to our citizens and we're really really hope it will be quiet and the principle of this ceasefire is very simple. will be met with quiet in eve it will be violated so easily will react begin intensively in order to provide peace and security to its citizens that's what

you were just on our team recently and you were asked about the proportionality of civilian casualties that you didn't really answer the question i wanted to see if you could answer it now or do you think that the proportionality of civilians killed was justified it means six dead in israel one civilian and one hundred sixty six dead in palestine mostly civilians well israel doesn't target civilians and if we heard civilians we see the failure in it but you have to understand that must militants must be behind civilians they fire rockets on our civilians from schools from hosp. because they hide their rockets in hospitals in schools we see that the fire rockets from apartments of buildings so if we do not want civilians in gaza to be hurt we call upon civilians and we do it before every

strike we call upon civilians they will be around that they will not let the terrorists to use them to use their houses to use this schools so believe me we do know that civilians but hamas targets civilians they see a victory in hurting civilians we're really sorry for any casualty but if hamas doesn't want casualties in gaza stop firing rockets in stop hiding in using their own civilians but alex i mean you say they are targeting terrorists how do you legitimize that statement when the democratically elected leadership is hamas i mean when that make all public areas hamas affiliated where are people supposed to go to me it seems like it's just a way to justify bombing any building in sight and say well they should have known better so why people let the terrorists use them why people there the terrorists use their houses for rockets and for firing what do you want us to do you for tomorrow any terrorists will fire on your children from any house what would you do

see we call before every strike i repeat before every strike we drop letters and we speak on the radio and we call upon civilians to get through to leave the places that can be. can be targeted and that's what happens if the terrorists use the civilians so if civilians don't want us to use them let police not let them use them in lead the command control gaza if he really doesn't don't want to be heard that's the only reason and lead them pressure hamas not to fire rockets on israel in that. to use them for firing these rockets we have to provide safety for our children and we target only but if seaview and around but didn't leave the place yet we will do everything not to hurt

them but unfortunately sometimes it happens because there are civilians but it doesn't loosen or their theories that just use them we call upon everybody to stop firing rockets and we call upon all the international community to pressure on hamas not so use civilians one and unfortunately the international community is looking over its condemnation at israel not necessarily gaza right now alex i mean what about what do you think of the international condemnation not just for killing so many civilians dozens of children in this latest offensive but for violating international law by continuing to build settlements and the blockade against gaza excuse me why don't you condemn the commodify rockets on our children i didn't hear that now there is no any kind of blockade on gaza we don't blockade or we just blockade the weapons getting into gaza because these weapons then have been fired on us anything can be imported into gather gaz if it's not the weapon well any kind

of material that can be created for weapons people get inside to gaza from egypt how can you call it blockade there is no blockade for anything which is not weapons so please stop the terror and the nobody will be hurt and when you asking us to condemn. what we can then we condemn it and we see a failure when we heard civilians but i don't hear now you condemning that they fire rockets and our civilians we have to provide peace to our children stop firing in us who will be met by quiet as simple as that ok i first of all i do can down the key. of any civilians alex but when you're talking about there is no blockade and that you only don't allow things that are that could be construed as weapons i mean things like wheelchairs chocolate toys how can these things be considered weapons and then turn over parts of your own government so that you want to put palestinians on a diet to you know refrain from having

a humanitarian crisis so when you hear things like that it definitely leads the international community to believe in something else but i wanted to specifically talk to you about media you said that you've targeted terrorists in gaza but as we know of last sunday the r t office along with multiple other media organizations were bombed two days after this happened you wrote a letter to moscow tsar to branch can you clear the air about what your intention was with this letter well first of all we didn't target the press we targeted the. equipment that was on the building that was. equipment used for propaganda for the sea of humans we didn't hurt the building and we didn't hurt the press so you cannot say that we targeted the prince believe me we don't target press and if you want i can even send you the video of

this attack but only the tenants on the building were then yes i did send a letter with no any connection to that accident to moscow to see. your coverage of this conflict of this operation was very very one sided because we see. the casualties in gaza but you don't short casualties in newsreel we see how speaking about the force that's we. are force about operation but you don't speak about our need to use this force in order to just stop the rockets that's what i wrote in a really really hope that your channel will see the. these really casual to use really plain but twelve years twelve years with cities well bombed under the rocket attack and for the first one we use i will force very very surgically targeting terrorists and then you come and say that we cannot use force

because we cannot have any right to defend ourselves you know two thousand years jews didn't have any force to defend themselves and do you know not want to in any place on earth and we remember what was sixty years ago and you are so at the end we have a little piece of flesh and yet people don't let us leave you know just to work and to have i think what we do very we'll and the fire rockets and austin and act with together so we do have and we do have floors to pretend to provide safety for all children and we will do so as every normal state the united states russia in every state in europe would do as every father and every mother would do well alex first of all we have talked about the israelis who died we just said there are six israelis who died but i mean the proportionality is so extreme and

you just said that you didn't target this building you just targeted something on top i mean i.d.f. spokesperson in a video of even admitted quote we obviously knew there were journalists in the building we were just showing as you were talking extensive damage to that media house the journalists tower one person's leg was actually blown off eight people injured so to say that no people were injured in that attack is completely erroneous but you know you're talking about using force alex i mean the proportionality is just so extreme it's just you know one hundred sixty six palestinians dead but let's talk about palestinian statehood which is coming out of bed once again this year why when you see. that all you guys want to peace and you don't want to harm anyone why is there such aggressive rhetoric coming from high level cabinet officials within the israeli administration foreign minister lieberman suggested that you guys will topple abos government if the international

community votes to recognize palestine as a state. and then that and then he also said that he wants to bomb gaza back to the middle ages i want to remind you something we left gaza seven years ago seven years ago the reason no use really control on gaz of the reason no use really troops in gaza so why the people of gaza instead of firing rockets would not be. schools and gardens in theaters and cinemas while they put all this money in all this effort and firing rockets will left together there is no invasion in gaz for seven years we already declared several times modern ones this prime minister that we do except palestinian state but palestinians doesn't accept that our state is a jewish state and they don't want to provide the security that we need we need to

be a jewish state homeland for jews a secure homeland for jews will left gaza we left gaza in yet we have terror from gaza so where do you want us to do not to use force back to influence them not to fire rockets unfortunately we have it unfortunately i repeat now we didn't target the building we targeted the antennas on the building and we didn't want to target the the journalists believe me and if you really want obese violence to stop please go to hamas and tell them to build a state or to build a school soon to build good life for their people in gaza believe me i will come and volunteer for that instead of firing rockets on us all our lives fire rockets we will respond as simple as that i do apologise for any hurt but again we didn't target the journalists we just wanted to target them tennis we didn't target

journalists and again if anybody was hurt we apology. we apologize and you personally are invited to come to israel believe me you will be the best guest in israel come and see what we have suffered from for all these years from firing rockets again we do for be for the materials to get into gas that the terrorists use for weapons stop firing stop doing weapons and believe me everything will go. for schools for children we believe me jews must the world jews love this family and children believe me we would like to see palestinian leave a very good life but stop threatening and us and start building building life believe me israel's will help the r eight thank you very much alex. one other thing i told alex was you know it's really hard when you have a blockade to actually bring construction materials and he's saying you know build

gardens one of the palestinians build schools and gardens well they can't do that with the lack of materials through this blockade unfortunately to cut the interview short because of severe time constraints there's a lot more that could've been said alex thank you for the apology for bombing artie's media office in gaza and maybe i'll take you up on the in the taishan to come to israel for a chance to speak to you face to face now if you like what you see so far go to our you tube channel youtube dot com slash breaking the set and subscribe i got a facebook page at facebook dot com slash break in the set to follow me on twitter at abby martin breaks my preaching for now but stay tuned to hear about the campaign to divest from companies that are profiting from israel next. she good leverage or kirby was able to build and reach most sophisticated which on certainly doesn't give a darn about anything mission to teach creation and why you should care about

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me please don't talk t. don't come. here. just last week the associated students of u.c. irvine unanimously passed a divestment resolution making it a priority for their university to withdraw funds from the companies that profit from the israeli occupation. so let's take a look at some of these companies caterpillar incorporated by supplying armored plated and weaponized bowled those are as israel's able to tell you what the destruction of palestinian homes veolia environmental services company profits from the construction and expansion of jewish only settlements by operating a landfill in the west bank exploiting palestinian natural resources to serve the settlements northrop grumman corp this defense company produced parts of the apache helicopters an f. sixteen aircraft used by israel against gaza during israel's assault in two thousand and eight motorola this tech giant profits from israel surveillance

systems checkpoints and military camps in the west bank as well as communication systems of the israeli army. so to talk more about the campaign to divest i was joined earlier by ana bolter the national organizer for u.s. campaign to end the israeli occupation i first asked her to explain what exactly divestment means. and a best mate is essentially the opposite of investment the idea is to stop investing in this case corporations that profit from the israeli occupation and the incredible work of the students at u.c. irvine students for justice in palestine u.c. irvine chapter being just one dozens if not maybe over one hundred or hundreds now around the country that are working on campuses to end their campus since institutional complicity in the israeli occupation u.c. irvine victory is actually one of several over the past couple of weeks and through their hard work they were able to actually convinced much of the student population that it is not me interest it's not in the. sort of ethical fiber of

their of their campus and are they are believed to be profiting from the bloodshed are about this but people and so they were able to ask this tremendous resolution calling on the university to divest and these corporations that are targeted have been the targets of campaigns now or in some cases over a decade and we're seeing really the culmination week the culmination of hard work by people all around the country targeting caterpillar targeting some of the different corporations that you mentioned and we see that truly what was climbs seemingly impossible think something that seemed very much out of reach is now happening around the country a kind of domino effect that shows that israel's occupation and u.s. complicity in it is real well after and i think a lot of people at least americans like myself i look at you know the occupation

and feel so helpless because you know we're paying over three billion dollars of our tax dollars to fund the israeli military. area and the occupation essentially and really this divestment and as if the so important for people to really take a nother role to protest these corporations are there any corporations that people should be looking out for and also these corporations have a stake in maintaining the ob occupation in terms of influencing on the u.s. government i know that there's a lot of corporate c.e.o.'s who sit on think tanks that also draft policy prescriptions you know about any sort of corporate influence and maintain this occupation and i'm sure and let me actually start by saying that is one of the things that so brilliant about the boycott divestment and sanctions p.d.s. is the acronym that you'll hear. more and more i think the b.d.s. movement really empowers people to take action the idea is that all of us are are able to and the complexity of ourselves personally in terms of our own of our investments our own choices in the kinds of products that we buy and i can tell you

about a few of them has asked our institutions whether it's our universities or our our churches or other institutions in fact let me just say that the we divest campaign that's targeting many are corporations is a nationwide coalesced coalition led effort to call on financial giant. which handles many retirement funds for campuses for churches or n.g.o.s for hospitals to divest from the israeli occupation and so in your town in your city there are probably dozens of client organizations and kind of companies. that are offering t.i.a. crash to their clients so there is something but each and every person around this country each and every organisation to get involved in the divest campaign or the broader media and it's something that people can do instead of simply hearing outlets like you said so some of the corporations targeted are are you know you mentioned many of the important ones caterpillar murder all of the old yet the only

hewlett packard's another great one. very complicit in the israeli occupation and we're seeing more coalition led efforts to for example pledge that that we're going to say she will not purchase our hewlett packard technology as long as you let accurate is complicit in the israeli occupation and another very important one is soda stream which is a settlement made product this is a product produced primarily in. illegal israeli settlement and what it does is it turns tap water into soda water basically and it's actually heavily marketed now in the holiday you know christmas shopping season and so there activists around the country and in fact around the world that are saying do not buy soda stream in during this shopping season and fact boycott it spread the word and what's very important about boycott is not simply to have a a laundry list of things that you personally won't buy but to use this as

a ray of educating people about the israeli occupation about things i think do about the ways in which we are complicit through our military aid and where our own investments and purchasing there's actually a great new website it's your holiday so to street dot wordpress dot org where you can see some of the great resources that people around the country are using to speak out against sort of stream flyers at center and can write letters to the stores to ask some of these big chains whether it's macy's or nordstrom's or cosco just stop to stop selling these illegal products that are marketed as made in israel they don't they don't distinguish between what's made in israel which is what's made in settlements and so a lot of people who oppose the center and made it inadvertently purchased its products in terms of actual complicity or. you know negotiations with the u.s. government caterpillar is actually an excellent example of

a corporation that is not only providing weapons to the israeli government which. and provided the israeli government but has been heavily complicit in being further into policies and so that's why i did it and it's been a very big target it really it in my sense u.s. corporate complicity and he is very. i was an a bolter of the national organizer for the u.s. campaign to end the israeli occupation. quote black friday guys you know the day when mindless consumers camped out in front of stores for days on end and trample each other to death just to save a couple hundred dollars on merchandise things like this that makes me so proud to be an american check out some of the most memorable black friday moments in recent years. the holiday shopping season got off to a violent start

a temporary wal-mart worker was trampled to death by shoppers eager for post thanksgiving bargains seconds after the doors opened something went dangerously wrong. crazy black friday shoppers began piling up on each other. black friday shopper is accused of using pepper spray at a wal-mart in los angeles police say the woman was trying to keep other people away from merchandise that she wanted to buy. revile human display you think that if you stop someone on the ground you'd stop to help them but this is america where people pepper spray and kill each other over the last tickle me elmo on the shelf but strikes me as the most interesting is that with thousands of people camping stampeding and even trampling over each other you would think that there would be a right cops present to keep the peace but no it's only for the people protesting capitalism not supporting it it's apparently unacceptable for occupy wall street

protesters to camp out on public sidewalks but not for consumer driven zombies to feed into the brainless materialistic culture that makes of american society but there is a light at the end of the tunnel here one of the biggest black friday shopping havens wal-mart saw its workers strike today after they were targeted for retaliation for speaking out about substandard work conditions in the company's first ever walkout that's about time while normal citizens are getting laid off left and right during this dragged out recession c.e.o.'s have been totally unaffected in fact they've been making out like bandits cornu a recent report by g.m. my ratings c.e.o. souther pays by fifteen percent last year after twenty eight percent rise the year before meanwhile according to labor department workers saw their wages fall two percent in two thousand and eleven according to huffington post income inequality between c.e.o.'s and workers has consequently exploded with c.e.o.'s last year earning two hundred nine point four times more than workers compared to just twenty

six point five times more nine hundred seventy eight mean c.e.o.'s are taking home a larger percentage of company gains so look guys these giant corporations don't care about their workers so i think it's time to stop buying from them this christmas i am for you buy local buy from independent artists musicians mom and pop stores in your neighborhood that's the real way to get your community to thrive because after all the most important way to vote is not at the ballot box it's with your wallet. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

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