Gaza | January 30, 2009 | 11 comments

Israel's Apartheid against Palestinians-2

source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUaeID9Lap0

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On Sunday, January 25, CBS "60 Minutes" aired an amazing segment exposing Israel's apartheid against Palestinians. The piece is by Senior CBS Foreign Correspondent Bob Simon, who is Jewish living outside Tel-Aviv and produced by Robert G, Anderson.

This is part two of the series. Part one can be found here:
http://current.com/items/89769413/israel_s_apartheid_against_palestinians_1.htm
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  • StopIsraelsGenocide
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      StopIsraelsGenocide  

    • My husband is Palestinian but was born and raised in Chicago, so he is an American citizen. When he goes overseas to visit, the israelis spit and step on his passport. When he wants to go to the city there, he waits for an hour or more atleast at checkpoints and when they see his passport he told me they tell him they hate America, they hate Americans. He said they give Arabians that were born in america the worst time of all. He was detained and made to strip but naked at the airport his last visit and they jewish soldiers called me and his sister in the US to confirm his story of visiting his mom there, and that he had family in the US. Rediculous. How the world has been so blind i dont know.

    • 3 years ago
  • sepia346
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      sepia346  

    • 60 MINUTES' coverage on the situation in Gaza and Israel was a real opening in the American media discourse on the situation. Of course they have received much criticism and attack from anti-peace pro-Israel networks, and it is important that we show that there is support for this shift towards more honest reporting. Please send a letter to Bob Simon and CBS...it will only take a moment.

    • 3 years ago
  • kewldd
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      kewldd  

    • The PLO was formed in 1964, three years before any so called "occupation." Three years before the Six Day War which miraculously gave Israel control of all land between the Jordan and Mediterranean.

      20% of Israel's population is Arab, and they have full rights, yet NO Jews...NONE...are allowed to live in a so-called "future palestinian state????"

    • 3 years ago
  • Highr0ller
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      Highr0ller [removed]  
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    • Gaza Invasion: Powered By The U.S.

      Taxpayers are spending over $1 billion to send refined fuel to the Israeli military -- at a time when Israel doesn't need it and America does.

      By Robert Bryce

      Editor's note: Generous support for this article was provided by the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute.

      January 31, 2009 "Salon" Jan. 16, 2009--- Israel's current air and ground assault on the Gaza Strip has left about 1,000 Palestinians dead, including 400 women and children. Several thousand people have been wounded and dozens of buildings have been destroyed. An estimated 90,000 Gazans have abandoned their homes. Israel's campaign in Gaza, which began more than two weeks ago, has been denounced by the Red Cross, multiple Arab and European countries, and agencies from the United Nations. Demonstrations in Pakistan and elsewhere have been held to denounce America's support for Israel.
      It's well known that the U.S. supplies the Israelis with much of their military hardware. Over the past few decades, the U.S. has provided about $53 billion in military aid to Israel. What's not well known is that since 2004, U.S. taxpayers have paid to supply over 500 million gallons of refined oil products -- worth about $1.1 billion –- to the Israeli military. While a handful of countries get motor fuel from the U.S., they receive only a fraction of the fuel that Israel does -- fuel now being used by Israeli fighter jets, helicopters and tanks to battle Hamas.

      According to documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, between 2004 and 2007 the U.S. Defense Department gave $818 million worth of fuel to the Israeli military. The total amount was 479 million gallons, the equivalent of about 66 gallons per Israeli citizen. In 2008, an additional $280 million in fuel was given to the Israeli military, again at U.S. taxpayers' expense. The U.S. has even paid the cost of shipping the fuel from U.S. refineries to ports in Israel.

      In 2008, the fuel shipped to Israel from U.S. refineries accounted for 2 percent of Israel's $13.3 billion defense budget. Publicly available data shows that about 2 percent of the U.S. Defense Department's budget is also spent on oil. A senior analyst at the Pentagon, who requested anonymity

    • 3 years ago
  • WorldPeaceTV
  • WorldPeaceTV
  • kuffar
  • sepia346
  • Highr0ller
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      Highr0ller [removed]  
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    • "I think that Gaza is now being used as a test laboratory for new weapons," Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian doctor who had recently returned from Gaza told reporters in Oslo.
      "This is a new generation of very powerful small explosives that detonates with extreme power and dissipates its power within a range of five to 10 metres
      "We have not seen the casualties affected directly by the bomb, because they are normally torn to pieces and do not survive, but we have seen a number of very brutal amputations."
      The dreadful weapons are known as dense inert metal explosives (DIME), "an experimental kind of explosive" but only one of several new weapons that Israel has been using in Gaza, the world's most densely populated regions.
      Israel could not possibly have found a better place to experiment with DIME or the use of white phosphorus in civilian areas than Gaza.

    • 3 years ago
  • Highr0ller
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      Highr0ller [removed]  

    • Why Israel won't survive
      by Ali Abunimah

      The merciless Israeli bombardment of Gaza has stopped -- for now -- but the death toll keeps rising as more bodies are pulled from carpet- bombed neighborhoods.

      What Israel perpetrated in Gaza, starting at 11:30am on 27 December 2008, will remain forever engraved in history and memory. Tel al-Hawa, Hayy al-Zeitoun, Khuzaa and other sites of Israeli massacres will join a long mournful list that includes Deir Yasin, Qibya, Kufr Qasim, Sabra and Shatila, Qana, and Jenin.

      Once again, Israel demonstrated that it possesses the power and the lack of moral restraint necessary to commit atrocities against a population of destitute refugees it has caged and starved.

      The dehumanization of Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims has escalated to the point where Israel can with full self- righteousness bomb their homes, places of worship, schools, universities, factories, fishing boats, police stations -- in short everything that sustains civilized and orderly life -- and claim it is conducting a war against terrorism.

      Yet paradoxically, it is Israel as a Zionist regime, not Palestine or the Palestinian people, that cannot survive this attempted genocide.

      Israel's “war” was not about rockets -- they served the same role in its narrative as the non-existent weapons of mass destruction did as the pretext for the American-led invasion and occupation of Iraq.

      Israel's real goals were to restore its “deterrence” fatally damaged after its 2006 defeat in Lebanon (translation: its ability to massacre and terrorize entire populations into submission) and to destroy any Palestinian resistance to total Israeli-Jewish control over historic Palestine from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.

    • 3 years ago
  • VoyagerFilms
  • Highr0ller
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      Highr0ller [removed]  

    • They are trying to deflect the attention from Israel with these responses.

      Jews think we are all second class citizens (the ''chosen'' race) and they have treated the Palestinians in a way that if dogs in my part of the world were treated like that there would be a HUGE outcry.

      To clarify the point made re the signposts on the road to Mecca.............non Muslims have no necessity to go to Mecca to worship and we take the ring-road outside the city. I frequently went by car to Taif from Jeddah and we would skirt the Holy City of Mecca. Mecca is already stretched with all the Muslim pilgrims, so we Christians are not allowed in.....only Muslims allowed. Anyhow Saudi Arabia is a DICTATORSHIP and has no pretence to DEMOCRACY which ISRAEL says it is. In Medina there is a part of the city we could not go to too. I have stayed in Medina a few times....................whole areas of the city are open to all.

    • 3 years ago
  • nortey_2002
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      nortey_2002  

    • wow now can you argue with facts like this and this is produce by an Israeli that shows that all Israeli's don't agree with the war crimes there country has done

    • 3 years ago
  • kuffar
  • sepia346
  • sepia346
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      sepia346  
    • kuffar:

      Showing this image here is as irrelevant as somebody posting a video about Israeli apartheid system as a response to a post about Saudi regime's racism.

      Saudi regime's racism is undeniable. I don't think any reasonable person deny that. Besides, its racism is not against non-Muslims only. It is against Shiites too, and also against Sunnis from Shafi'i school. They are all under pressure, and they are all discriminated against.

      My question here is: Do you have any answer to the video about Israeli apartheid system, or you just want to change the subject?

    • 3 years ago
  • GoliathandDavid
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      GoliathandDavid  
    • kuffar:

      It's shocking to realize the guy who constantly accuses the opposition of being anti-semites is this prejudiced. A few fundamentalists don't represent an entire religion, race, or nation. Saying King Abdullah speaks for all Muslims is as absurd as saying Pat Robertson speaks for all Christians.

    • 3 years ago
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