Tag: Occupation

  • US-Israel Alliance: Obama’s “Green Light” to Israel Attack on Gaza

    US-Israel Alliance: Obama’s “Green Light” to Israel Attack on Gaza

    A short interview broadcast by CNN late last week featuring two participants – a Palestinian in Gaza and an Israeli within range of the rocket attacks – did not follow the usual script. For once, a media outlet dropped its role as gatekeeper, there to mediate and therefore impair our understanding of what is taking…

  • Tears of Gaza: The War They Don’t Show You

    Tears of Gaza: The War They Don’t Show You

    “Disturbing, powerful and emotionally devastating, Tears of Gaza is less a conventional documentary than a record — presented with minimal gloss — of the 2008 to 2009 bombing of Gaza (dubbed ‘Operation Cast Lead’) by the Israeli military. Filmed by several Palestinian cameramen both during and after the offensive, this powerful film by director Vibeke…

  • Gaza, The World’s Largest Open-Air Prison

    Gaza, The World’s Largest Open-Air Prison

    A look at life under occupation. Gaza has the look of a Third World country, with pockets of wealth surrounded by hideous poverty. It is not, however, undeveloped. Rather it is “de-developed,” and very systematically so, to borrow the term from Sara Roy, the leading academic specialist on Gaza. Even a single night in jail…

  • REMEMBER: Rachel Corrie 23yr Old American Activist Crushed by Israeli Bulldozer

    REMEMBER: Rachel Corrie 23yr Old American Activist Crushed by Israeli Bulldozer

    A clip from the documentary “Occupation 101“, a film which details the Israeli invasion and occupation of the Palestinian lands. If this story of Rachel Corrie, and activist killed while trying to prevent Palestinian homes from being demolished by Israelis, doesn’t touch your heart, you’re just not human. This girl is a real American hero.…