As Palestinian villagers decide to take dismantling the Israeli occupation into their own hands, the Real News Network's Lia Tarachansky speaks to Jesse Rosenfeld on segregation and the West Bank. Checkpoints and roadblocks play a key role in separating Palestinians from Israelis and Israeli appropriated areas, from commercial areas, and from each other. Since the beginning of the second Intifadah in September 2000 the number of checkpoints in the West Bank increased to over 500. In an act of resistance, the International Solidarity Movement organized a symbolic action of dismantling four roadblocks segregating four villages from each other. Hours after the protest Israeli bulldozers replaced two. This action comes days after former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told in a Yediot Ahronot interview he believes Israel must withdraw from most of the Occupied Palesitian Territories.
Jesse Rosenfeld is a Canadian freelance journalist who has been based in Ramallah since 2007. A former news editor at the McGill Daily and a founding editor of the Montreal Magazine Siafu, Rosenfeld has written for NOW Magazine, The Montreal Mirror, THIS Magazine and the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.
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anyone in their shoes would do the same.
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- regjoeschmo
- 1 year ago
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Awesome.
Non-violence is the way.
The Palestianians need to commit to non-violence to free themselves from the Israelis like the people of India did to rid themselves of the British.
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Is there some organisation somwhere in the civilised world called the United Nations?
I was once held the belief that their existance was to sort out problems of this nature . Or was wrongly informed?
Maybe the Israelis actions are outside the UNs` jurisdiction?
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- themanwithadog
- 1 year ago
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Israel says God gave them the authority..check out the story here...they literally crucified a Palestinian person to a pole as well as beat some to near death while taking property from the innocent Palestinians. Will the UN do anything? they are becoming worthless and a money waster
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- WorldPeaceTV
- 1 year ago
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The 65 UN Resolutions that Israel has never complied with (1955-1992). The UN cannot force Israel to comply, it has its limitations. The UN is not worthless, it does a lot of excellent work that never gets mentioned in the media. The UN is not a global police institution, either.
Click on the link.
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- Vierotchka
- 1 year ago
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So why make rules that are suppose to help the world and not have them enforced? I can make a rule now and who is going to enforce it except for me? Unless I hire someone to enforce. The UN says alot. they are right, but nothing happens. Who can police then?
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- WorldPeaceTV
- 1 year ago
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65 resolutions they've ignored...
they won't allow Nuclear inspections...
by Bush's logic, we should be invading any minute...
