Israeli-News.com: Amira Hass – From Occupation to Enclosure, Part 2
This video program is available in full at www.pdxjustice.org and at the Google Video website (search on keywords “pdxjustice” and “Hass”). The program title is “Part 2 – From Occupation to Enclosure: Fragmenting the Palestinian State.” Amira Hass lives and works in the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza. In 1993 she became the first Israeli reporter to live in Gaza, reporting on the grim realities of the Israeli occupation for Ha’aretz, an Israeli daily newspaper. She is author of “Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land under Siege” and “Reporting from Ramallah: An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land”. This panel discussion featuring Diana Buttu and Amira Hass was part of the Rachel Corrie Foundation Peace Works Conference, Cultivating a Just and Enduring Peace for the People of Palestine and Israel. For more information about the Peace Works Conference and about the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice, please visit their website at: www.rachelcorriefoundation.org
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Amira Hass and Diana Buttu are both paid propagandists for the Pals.
Buttu has repeatedly said that kassam missiles “have no warheads”.
Buttu has no problems lying to cover up Palestinian war crimes, so why should we listen to her at all.
Forget about “israeli occupation” – let’s talk about Palestinian policies of war crimes as well as their policy to commit genocide and ethnic cleansing.
Hass? She’s a radical fringe jerk who only the extreme left listens to.
1) Israel looks different from 1948 2008
2) illegal settlements built every yr
3) the wall encompassed even more Palestinian land
4 ) Palestinians have deed to their houses and have been driven off
5) palistinans are living in refugees for 60 yrs
6 ) palistinians Christians and muslims were once jews
7) muslims believe in moses david Abraham and jesus
Jews have become Nazis and Israel is a apartheid country- just like germany 1940s
fight racism eugenic and genetic argument to legitimise israel
Israel Eugenic..genetic pure country
Jews( etho+Zion ) not all jews have god given right to be separate club clanish communal helping jews first acting almost by consensus of the jewish net workNow that may be true for any other group
but theyLEGITIMISE it for themselves .
They used victimhood guilt for getting that.
they are untouchable(m,eans superior banned to be touched by other muslims) in the reverse sense of caste system
The fucking terrorist bitch Corrie is a flat dead pancake. Get the fuck over it!
Of course she’s biased. Bias isn’t the issue, everyone that reports on anything has a bias. The proper question is, is she honest? And she is, but by all means tell us about these “lies”.
that’s a really disgusting comment.
Isrealies are biggest liars, untrustworthy and very deceiving people. Your saying they are dangrous to the world cuz they have nuclear weapons. But Dont the AMERICANS….ISREALIES….FRANCE…..RUSSIANS….PAKISTAN…..INDIA…..CHINA….etc got them but thats fine is it. Americans are motherfuckers who engineered pearl habour and nuked japan with two nuclear bombs. cuz japan was advancing and close to having a nuclear bomb greater than americans but were stopped. SEE how full of shit this is
Israelies have suffered and made many many other people suffered also cuz of its own doing. How the fuck can you have peace with that kind of policies. Why you go after IRAN as you continue to bullshit of its Nuclear weapons, you have NOT PROVED the WAR in AFGANISTAN and IRAQ and its classed as illegal but now go after iran and yes that will make a world a safer palce. You got rid of your OWN MEN binladin and Saddam is the world SAFER? we all know whos the biggest terroriest are….thats YOU..
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Amira is quite straightforward in her dishonesty and makes it quite clear to her readers without hiding behind the bush.This you have to give to the lady
Um, wouldn’t the reporter be the one responsible for bringing both sides of the story to light? This proves she’s biased.
Why would anyone much less a Jew who see’s the Palestinian atrocities firsthand side with these lies?
The presiding judge found in favour of the settlers. Ha’aretz indicated that it did not have time to arrange a defense in the case, and announced that it would appeal the decision. Hass noted that she had brought forward sourced information from the Palestinian community, and said that it was the responsibility of newspaper editors to cross-reference it with other information from the IDF and settler community.
In June 2001, Judge Rachel Shalev-Gartel of the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court ruled that Hass had vilified the Jewish community of Beit Hadassah in Hebron, and ordered her to pay 250,000 shekels (about $60,000) in damages. Hass had reported Palestinian eyewitness accounts of settlers defiling the body of a Palestinian militant killed by Israeli police; the settlers argued that the event did not take place, and said that Hass reported the story with malicious intent.
The Palestinians, along with most other Arabs and Moslems, are single-mindedly focused on the destruction of Israel, to “wipe it off the map.” If Israel were pressured into ending the “occupation” of the territories, it would not bring peace. On the contrary, it would bring about bloody warfare, just as in Gaza and Lebanon, and could well be the end of Israel. Those who advocate the ending of the “occupation” do so either out of ignorance or because they have a death wish for Israel.
That heartland is only nine miles wide at its narrow waist. Israel’s population centers, Israel’s military installations, Israel’s industrial capacity, Israel’s utilities, and Israel’s international airport would be in the gunsights of the Arabs, sworn to the destruction of Israel. The attack against Israel, the hoped-for final assault against the hated Jews, would begin within days or weeks and might well be successful.
While Gaza is isolated, surrounded by Israel and the sea, the “West Bank” is connected to Syria and Jordan. Within days of Israel’s abandonment of that territory, Syrian tanks, Syrian aircraft, Syrian artillery, and Syrian and perhaps even Iranian troops would be stationed on the ridges of the Judean hills that dominate Israel’s heartland.
Having the disastrous examples of the withdrawal from the southern Lebanon security zone and now from Gaza, it is easy to imagine what would happen if Israel would not have learned from experience and — under pressure from the U.S. and world opinion — would commit the folly of abandoning Judea/Samaria (the “West Bank”).
But they focus their efforts and their energy on digging tunnels under the wall that separates them from Israel, in order to attack Israeli military, killing and kidnapping their soldiers, and thus bringing added misery upon themselves.
Destruction and almost civil war. Instead of using their newly won “liberty from occupation,” the Gazans have engaged in what is practically a bloody civil war and have destroyed most of their meager infrastructure. They have demolished and vandalized the valuable and extensive greenhouse installations that the Israelis had created, which could have been the basis for a prosperous agricultural economy and of substantial export income.
But, in the few months since it has abandoned that territory, Israel has been provoked to bloody warfare and has been subjected to daily attacks by Qassam rockets. It is only a matter of time until one of those devices will crash into a school or into a hospital causing untold casualties and destroying vital infrastructure.
Israel, unilaterally and in order to appease the Palestinians, the United States and world opinion, vacated Gaza and evicted thousands of Israeli families and abandoned their homes, institutions, extensive agricultural installations, and valuable infrastructure. Not a single Israeli citizen, not a single Israeli soldier, remains in Gaza.
But instead of acknowledgment and gratitude, the result has been never-ending attacks with Katyusha rockets, led by Hizbullah, the “army of God,” which is supported and egged on by Iran and by Syria. It makes life on Israel’s northern frontier almost unbearable. I
srael’s “occupation” of those territories is a myth. But even so, the hope that Israel’s abandonment of any territory — the same old “land-for-peace” formula — would bring about peace is an illusion and a fallacy. In order to establish peaceful relations with its northern neighbor Lebanon, Israel abandoned the security zone of southern Lebanon.
On the contrary, lured by the prosperity the Israelis have created, tens of thousands of Arabs from adjacent Syria and Jordan have come to live there.
Do people expect France to return Alsace-Lorraine to Germany? Do they expect the Czech Republic or Poland to return the German territories awarded to them after Germany’s defeat in World War II? Of course not! Those countries evicted most of the original inhabitants or caused them to flee. Israel, in contrast, has never evicted a single Arab from these territories.