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.

00:04:22 There are hundreds of checkpoints in the West Bank.

00:07:36 No empathy. No sympathy.

00:11:21 and that a typical day would involve conversations

00:14:53 Finally, if any news stories critical of Israeli foreign policy do surface

00:18:10 this is an example of riots that are going on where the authorities are taking measures to crack down.

00:21:13 You can't defend yourself when you're militarily occupying somebody else's land.

00:24:50 The reasons they're acting the way they do.

00:28:00 But their communities are illegal under International Law...

00:31:18 The demolition of Palestinian homes

00:34:58 BBC for example, the suicide bombings are generally put in the context of the occupation.

00:38:05 A Palestinian man emerged from a taxi on a busy shopping street in downtown Jerusalem

00:41:15 Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared on National Television tonight

00:44:30 Palestinians claimed that in Jenin, hundreds of bodies are buried under the rubble in the center of town.

00:47:15 you know, raining death from the skies, is something normal.

00:49:59 following the funerals of five boys.

00:53:13 The United States has struggled for decades with widely varying

00:56:17 of supporting Israel as a kind of base for projection of U.S. power in the region.

00:59:11 Yes, Wendy?

01:02:08 Then you've got to go through Israeli checkpoints.

01:04:42 And even if it is, by the time it is concluded

01:07:55 The committee's work has attracted a range of Israelis

01:11:11 it would be impossible to maintain the lie that any criticism

01:13:57 Americans need to wake up.