welcome to break in to set i'm abby martin well earlier this week m s n b c contributor rula jebreal made waves when she criticized the media's coverage including that of her own network of israel's aggression in gaza in an interview with ronan farrow winter brill accused pro israel lobbying groups like a pack for hindering politicians ability to speak honestly on the conflict however she took her critique one step further condemning the amount of air time israeli politicians like netanyahu are given compared to their palestinian counterparts. one of them has given to the palestinian voice and ninety nine percent of the

israeli voice and that's why the public opinion is pro israeli which is the opposite in the rest of the world we're going to hours of her statement jabril tweeted that all of her forthcoming t.v. appearances on amazon b c had been cancelled after the network came under fire for cancelling her contract amazon b c as chris hayes invited her on yesterday to challenge her view that journalists have a responsibility to cover the reality of palestinian suffering and hilariously all of curse her title as amazon b c contributor had been revoked the network decided to label her as a palestinian journalist instead wow as churlish max blumenthal pointed out on twitter can you imagine people like a lake being titled as a jewish american when being interviewed about israel the simple answer is you can't because as we've seen time and time again the mainstream media paints palestinians as the other alone distant voice that can. only sympathize with its

own people and once someone is merely labeled palestinian it's acceptable to exclude them from the debate and let's break the side. please. please they believe very hard to take that leap. when you have to act with that hurt their little. league.

if you've ever been to thailand or amsterdam you would know that prostitution is a blooming industry in many parts of the world for me and billions of dollars and millions of visitors every year now of course prostitution laws vary by country but whether it's an outright ban or fully regulated industry one thing is for sure just like drug use there will always be a demand and there is no long the world will ever change that while fishel numbers are difficult to gather in the uk it's illegality and according to a two thousand and four a.b.c. poll as many as thirty percent of single american men over the age of thirty admit to having paid for sex at least once in their lives now the debate over legalization or decriminalization usually falls under a moral argument often ignoring the benefits that such a policy change could generate specifically for the woman involved except in the case of nevada a multiple counties in the state do currently permit people brought. falls in with

resound in success according to the new york times eighty four percent of women working in illegal about a brothels feel safe perhaps because most of them work for themselves and therefore don't need abusive and controlling pimps in the picture furthermore these legal prostitution hubs have no evidence of trafficking but as for the hers the rest of the country excuse me unfortunately the underground nature of prostitution leaves little data for social scientists to observe until this month when the national bureau of economic research published a report on the effect of decriminalize in indoor prostitution the report cites a fifteen year study showing that as much as eighty five percent of all sex work activity in the u.s. is moving indoors to places like escort agencies in the soft part of the years and the internet it also highlights a curious case study of the decriminalization of indoor prostitution in the state of rhode island c. in two thousand and three or rhode island district judge ruled that indoor prostitution was no longer a felony by two thousand and nine however its governor signed

a law once again criminalizing the practice while the motivations for the initial ruling and following the ban are debatable the data observed during the time it was decriminalized is irrefutable not only did decriminalize prostitution lead to a decrease in sex related arrests but a thirty one percent drop in rape reports as well as significantly fewer cases of us t.d.'s it's a first of its kind study in the us and one that blows previous hypotheses out of the water as they relate to rape and as today's not only first sex workers for the entire population now in regard to sexual violence it's been argued that decriminalization would lead to an increase market which then leads to an increase in violence against women but once again the data suggests otherwise in fact the authors of the report that quote decriminalization may also reduce violence by increasing sex workers willingness to cooperate with police and reducing operates.

these for police corruption prostitutes commonly report a reluctance to contact the police when they are the victims of theft or violence this is perhaps one of the most important takeaways especially considering the fact that sex workers are often the victims of police violence themselves see cops routinely target prostitutes during sting operations and in some absurd cases even have sex with prostitutes before arresting them you know just to make sure and it happens more often than you'd like to think just this month a police officer in florida was arrested by another undercover officer posing as a prostitute that continued crackdown on sex workers is only costing taxpayers at the end of the day one only has to look at the case of jennifer sue we heard a sex worker in ohio who had been arrested forty five times on separate charges eventually costing ohio residents one hundred thousand dollars so let's stop

sitting up on our high horses and judging every sex worker as a drugged out lowlife was being demeaned by the industry and stead we should embrace the fact that legalizing and decriminalizing prostitution was actually empower women who choose this profession give them the resources they need to protect themselves and others because as much as you may want to turn a blind eye to reality you can't deny the facts. earlier this month obama congress for a three point seven billion dollar a merge and see package to address the flow of unaccompanied minors crossing into the u.s. but the funding as little more than a turn a kit to stem the growing humanitarian crisis along the us mexico border just this week the senate responded to obama's request by slashing one billion dollars of that funding. the initial amount was simply over budget this blatant dismissal

comes as congress eagerly preps for its august recess and as lawmakers prepare for a five week vacation from governance tens of thousands of children sit in the holding cells military bases and repurposed warehouses along the border waiting and limbo for their cases to be heard so help me break down how bad this crisis really is and why congress is stalling immigration reform i'm joined by breaking the separate manual got up on what's going to be good to see you so let's talk about this emergency three point seven billion dollars funding what exactly was it going to be used for and why are lawmakers rejecting the some right and of that three point seven billion about that you mentioned that congress is now saying you know this is this is way we're way over budget we're not going to we're not going to spend it with syria and iran and we get it we've got to send it all funding apartheid in israel. the money is going to kind of give a little bit of relief to ice agents and c.p.b. agents and the department of health and human services that are completely

overburdened with the amount of just the influx of unaccompanied minors right now and unfortunately congress going into august which by the way that headline read that the funding for border protection is going to be running out by september that is actually according to jay johnson from homeland security will be running out by august at the rate that it's burning right now so it's desperately needed we're talking about a record number of unaccompanied minors coming in and the fact that congress is leaving town for five weeks so it's a really really bad message not to say that if they were here they may go so you really don't know but it does send a really really bad message that they're not going to be more it's a shame that it's even going to wrap before even the expected deadline because as we know the system itself is so overburdened as it stands talked about the stresses already on the right i mean we're talking right now seventy thousand children that have come in unaccompanied minors are not here with their parents of this is just children that we're talking about since october by fall of this year by september the white house is already estimated. it's going to be upwards of ninety thousand

we're talking about a system that was designed into the bush administration to house eight thousand kids and were expected to before the end of the year be at ninety thousand i mean these statistics are really really troubling in the fact that we're now being forced to turn abandoned warehouses that makeshift shelters for these kids turn military facilities into these kids so this funding is desperately needed not only for you know border patrols going rather money but for health and human services to find a place for these children right and i remember reading reports of these kids are sometimes being beaten in these warehouses i mean abysmal conditions sometimes you know better than where they left behind of course being driven out by by so much violence in latin america where you're from many not only do is this overcrowding the facilities taking place but also the processing i mean and that's and that's adding to this problem is the length of time that it takes a process these kids. and are you ready for these statistics with this is

a really really troubling. it can take upwards of nineteen months to process a single case and as of june of this year and this is department of justice statistics here three hundred seventy five thousand cases are pending ok so we're not only talking about you know an influx into a system that's designed to house a thousand kids we're talking about thousands and thousands of cases are going to take well over a year probably over two years to process i think because that's the system we keep hearing about this immigration system that's broken in america this is what's broken about it we simply it we're not just dealing with the millions of undocumented immigrants that are in the country already we're having to deal with the thousands tens of thousands that are that are continuing to come and overcrowded the existing facilities having to put them in difficilis facilities that don't even exist and then deal with. this is it in no way their fault these are kids that are coming into a system that simply cannot and remedy for and what's on fortune. that the bait is

so dumbed down because you have republicans actually blaming obama for creating this crisis and then you have obama kind of the deporter in chief responsible for more of the board and this is the saddest part about this argument is that it's so heavily politicized we should really be taking this for what it is which is a humanitarian crisis now thankfully the media in america eat the weather p.m.s. n.b.c. c.n.n. fox news or tear or whatever is turning that page and we are treating it like a minute here in crisis but we now need the political will from congress to see at the same rate and unfortunately states are taking the matters into their own hands for better or for worse talk about yet and i mean this is another one of those things that sends the wrong message to the federal government should be setting the standard the federal government should be setting the guidelines for what we should be doing in terms of immigration policy as a result like you said states are taking matters into their own hands california new mexico connecticut connecticut several states are passing their own versions of the dream act so that certain cities across the country are passing their own of their own legislation to give licenses to undocumented immigrants these are the

sort of like the positives that are coming out of this but it shouldn't be up to the states to do it should be up to the federal government other states don't have that heart friendly approach texas for example send a thousand troops a thousand national guard troops rick perry a thousand national guard troops to the border that again sending the wrong message in a half hour a message and we have got thirty seconds flat but i mean a lot of a lot of this problem as we mentioned before stems from the drug war and a lot of these policies in latin america central america that's driving these kids actually to the u.s. you're from honduras talk about how that's all part of it right i mean i'm not going to blame all of us policy for the reason that the this immigration crisis is going on but yes the the u.s. drug or u.s. policies economic policies that are drug displacing workers in honduras creating violence that's forcing these kids to leave that's all a big factor that's all something that we need to start looking at exactly there's so much here a man really appreciate come on thanks for coming out of you talking about the roots of the power. an israeli conflict and why understanding it can help and the

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them. since july eight israel has been engaged in a brutal offensive against gaza dubbed operation protective ship but the country's bombing campaign and subsequent invasion of gaza has reached a tipping point with scores of civilians dying every day the media is no longer able to ignore the bloodshed at least six hundred ninety palestinians have been killed at the time of this broadcast and over four thousand five hundred left injured according to the middle east i at least one hundred sixty one of the dead are children that's one child being killed every hour work and gaza according to the un now on the israeli side three civilians and thirty two i.d.f. soldiers have died during the latest siege according to palestine. in health

officials israel's military has targeted mosques schools and more than twenty five health facilities including elderly care units and hospitals so far over one hundred thousand palestinians have been displaced from the violence as horrifying as these developments are this is a tragic tale that's all too familiar here in the west we're taught that israel is a country surrounded by. one side of the conflict what are its roots and who is the true instigator of violence to break it all down i'm joined by alison weir author of against our better judgment the hidden history of how the u.s.

was used to create israel and founder of if americans knew thanks so much for coming on allison. thank you for having me so als and for the last decade the media has been saying any violence is justified by israel's right to defend itself from rocket fire going back all the way to two thousand and one debunk the talking point that all of this started with hamas rockets. yes it's very easy to divine that the media just sort of doesn't bother to look at the actual facts for some reason the fact is that the first rocket from gaza was launched in april of two thousand and one in two thousand and one a total of four walk rockets were launched from gaza i was in gaza before that in february and march of two thousand and one before any of these rockets had been launched and i personally saw and you know many other people did too that israeli forces were shelling gaza at that time nightly they were also shelling parts of the west bank in gaza i would go through some residential neighborhoods and specially

in southern gaza that were completely bullet riddled by israeli mortar fire rocket fire they were using f. sixteen s at that time already helicopter gunships. i saw large residential homes full of families that were in ruins in february and march of two thousand and one already that year i believe israeli forces had killed about thirty five palestinian children. before any of this rocket the rocket launches started so obviously there was a great deal of violence coming from israeli forces. that preceded the rockets and also i'm sure. sure go on what i was going to mention there the other thing that the media says which is of course following the israeli talking point is that it is because of hamas that israel is engaging in a one one assault after another on gaza but hamas was elected in two thousand and

six and we already saw a number of invasions of great many many people killed long before hamas was invested according your organization allison israel currently has two hundred sixty two jewish only settlements built on confiscated palestinian land and have demolished over twenty thousand palestinian homes the cycle is about famous map showing palestinian land loss since one nine hundred forty six through the year two thousand i don't know if we have that map showing those for subsequent states under what legal pretense is this being justified. well it's really not legal this is against geneva conventions you cannot acquire land through conquest but israel continues to do this israel it's important for americans to realize that israel has never declared its borders you know we are consistently told it's the only democracy in the middle east and yet it has not declared its borders because it

does it has from the beginning had a plan to expand those borders and it has done so and in addition it's never it's never written the constitution there are in the constitution so it can change its basic laws whenever it wishes to and it does that in israel so that they pulled out their troops from gaza years ago but allison as someone who's been there extensively who studied the area very extensively talk about how the population is still being controlled in the occupied territories how the border is still regulated in a way that blocks essential staples from reaching the people. yes the gaza has basically many people call it quite accurately a large open air prison israel controls the board. there's it's very difficult to get in the gaza and to get out of gaza because israel and egypt which controls the southern border and does very much what the u.s. and israel wanted to do makes it impossible often impossible to leave gaza and to

get into gaza it's very difficult so after the massacre that occurred a few years ago in which about one thousand four hundred palestinians in gaza men women and many many many children were killed their homes huge huge parts of gaza were destroyed i saw that two going in a year later very little had been rebuilt because israel was preventing building materials from going into gaza so people were still still living in tents the schools had not been rebuilt many hospitals have not been rebuilt clinics i talked to an israeli palestinian physician who explained to me operating rooms were under supplied they didn't have they often didn't have anaesthesia that necessary for just simple standard operations they didn't have x. ray film to use for x. rays they were very significant medicines and medications lifesaving ones that were

insufficiently available in gaza itself there were a great many of the small children who were suffering different types of diseases easily treated ones some of them causing excruciating pain for for toddlers for example who then were not being allowed to leave gaza to go for medical care gaza has been under a siege since hamas was elected in two thousand and six but truthfully before that when i was there in a few years before that it was also very difficult to get into and out of gaza even again before hamas was elected right so we have all the borders closed even chocolate pasta anesthetics i don't see how any of those things could be judged. if i had to not be allowed in gaza none of those things could be made into weapons you talked about before two thousand and six let's go back all the way it began in you wrote a book called against our better judgment which talks about the hidden history about how israel was created and why it was formed what role did the u.s.

play and its creation elsom. well in researching my book i was astounded to learn that the movement to create israel called political scientists and has existed in the united states since the late eighteenth hundreds and i grew up here and i i had never even heard of that movement but it's a very significant one. u.s. officials in the state department and the pentagon and our intelligence agencies were actually opposed to supporting zionism zionism was the intention of creating a jewish state in palestine land that was already inhabited by a population that in the early one thousand nine hundred was approximately. eighty percent non non jewish think it was but no actually it was ninety five percent at that point that was non jewish so the idea was to dispossess that population and create a jewish state on that land. there were major manipulations in the united states

to push the scientist agenda i was astounded to there are a great many books that have documented that just most people don't know about them because most of them are out of print but there was major activism on behalf of zionism some of it was very public much of it was kept hidden there were a number of front groups for the groups that were in palestine at that time working to fight against the palestinians who were living on that land so it was. if people want to go want to know where did this violence in gaza start do you go back to july twelfth there or maybe june eighth when the the three israelis were abducted you learn that just before they were abducted for palestinian children had been killed you learned that from the beginning of two thousand and fourteen january first there had been already thirty palestinians killed before those

three were abducted so where do you start where do you go back to understand the beginning you go back to the creation of israel which occurred with a war of conquest in one nine hundred forty seven and one nine hundred forty nine in which approximately three quarters of a million people were pushed out to make way for a jewish state the palestinian role in this their their original crime was simply being on land that someone else wanted. and all we hear today is that hamas is this terrorist organization that's constantly using human shields and that they rejected the cease fire alison i mean how did hamas come to be and why did the palestinian authority and fatah. phailin gaza and gaining support. well gaza and the west bank both it's important to remember that there are very much under the control of israel the governments with within those two entities are there. largely because israel allows them to function to

a degree i mean israel controls the borders we're talking about governments basically within prisons so they have only they have very limited power of gaza but there were there was of a fair election in which hamas won the election under fire which was the main palestinian authority things had gotten worse israel had taken more palestinian land it had created more suffering for palestinians the palestinian authority had been a unable to stop that so here we have hamas a. chance to change parties that's usually considered a very positive thing for a democracy to see that there is a sharing of power that a power different party can be elected it was pro-trade accurately at that time is not corrupt that it would fight for the rights of palestinians to try to prevent the continued confiscation of their land so there was an election held by all

accounts it was a fair election hamas was elected. israel did not want that so immediately gaza in particular came under a great deal of pressure especially economic pressure. hamas was demonized although it had won in the election there are resistance forces in the palestinian territories that are armed but hamas was also a political party that had done a great deal. had organized clinics schools etc which of course then makes all of those fair game i guess for bombing targets we have about twenty seconds left alice and obviously the two state solution. doesn't get on the table what can people do to help stop this violence alison we have about fifteen seconds. this really is power comes from the united states it's our over eight million dollars per day really now it's moving up to about ten million dollars per day coming from

the united states and the diplomatic shielding once more americans start letting their elected officials know that we did not want our money used this way that we do want peace in the middle east and that funding israel prevents it thank you that's the only thing i thank you so much we do need to stand up and demand that to be an alice in where all the founder of americans knew her shit. thank you thanks so much for watching be sure to follow me on twitter at abby martin join me again tomorrow when i break the set all over again. it's technology innovation all the developments around russia we. covered. i think. we're going to go digital the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the

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