and basel adra, reporter from masafer yatta for local call and +972 magazine.ll link to your new pieces "i was handcuffed and blindfolded for reporting on settler violence" and your new piece for the nation magazine "the destruction of this palestinian community was green-lighted by israel's supreme court." coming up, professor john womack joins us come the legendary historian of the mexican revolution on to seize power. ♪♪ [music break] amy: "stand up for something" by andra day. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. as we turn now to the workers flexing power across the united states in what some are calling a hot labor summer, actors in sag-aftra have entered their fifth day on strike after the union join tens of thousands of members of the writers guild of america in a combined strike. meanwhile, the head of the teamsters has asked white house not intervene if some 340,000 unionized ups workers go on strike without a break. this comes as workers at a waffle house restaurant in colombia, south

you have a place like masafer yatta -- 2800 people's over villages.t was demolished by the army. the children have to walk kilometers to another village they are also threatened with demolition now. >> this is the kind of thing that i desperately wish that people in israel would feel the same degree of passion. people in the united states would ask questions like is this a good use of our taxpayer money to help the israeli army do this it's a -- horrifying to see people who live every day with the prospect that bulldozers to come and destroy all of the buildings in their village and for some to go somewhere else. >> it's interesting. you mentioned the use of our money. we send billions and military aid. this week, we saw for the first time to former american ambassadors to israel come out and tell the new york times that they think we need to stop some of this or all of this aid. it doesn't give us the leverage we thought we had. sometimes, peter, it feels like things are changing in the u.s.. and then on other days it feels like things are the same.