Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land

00:00:50 That year, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 242 calling on Israel to withdraw from the Occupied Territories.

00:04:24 Every Palestinian has to walk through a single ride, two or three check points.

00:07:52 If you don't see that, your heart doesn't skip a beat and say, Something's wrong with the occupation.

00:11:45 So you could sit in a bureau in Jerusalem and file stories

00:15:24 journalists and their editors and try to make sure that the coverage is objective, by which I mean pro-Israel.

00:18:38 and not on the reasons and not on the basic facts of occupation.

00:22:02 that forbids the transfer of population into land colonized by illegal force.

00:25:34 which are illegal under international law.

00:28:57 Israeli colonization of Palestinian land has been a two-fold process.

00:32:46 This woman came looking for her loved ones, not knowing if they were alive or dead.

00:35:56 But there is absolutely no understanding on the part of the American media

00:39:17 And so all too often, anything can be called "defense" and then justified.

00:42:42 Yet, while many innocent people have died on both sides

00:45:49 You never get to see a funeral.

00:48:42 Sources in the Israeli government and Security Services

00:51:54 that the U.S. is merely trying to bring about a Peace

00:55:07 I'm the United States has been brokering an alleged Peace Process for how long?

00:58:08 but whereas there will be some criticisms at the margins

01:01:04 What was being offered to the Palestinians was an impossible deal

01:03:57 Because, on the ground

01:07:03 Can you picture that dramatic moment?

01:10:31 For their refusal to keep silent, they too suffered threats, and intimidation.

01:13:21 in the Middle East will have to be waged here in the United States.

200:01:05 Israeli Reserve officers