Occupation 101: Voices of the Silenced Majority
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance... it is the illusion of knowledge. A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Unlike any other film ever produced on the conflict - Occupation 101 presents a comprehensive analysis of the facts and hidden truths surrounding the never ending controversy and dispels many of its long-perceived myths and misconceptions.
The film also details life under Israeli military rule, the role of the United States in the conflict, and the major obstacles that stand in the way of a lasting and viable peace. The roots of the conflict are explained through first-hand on-the-ground experiences from leading Middle East scholars, peace activists, journalists, religious leaders and humanitarian workers whose voices have too often been suppressed in American media outlets.
The film covers a wide range of topics - which include - the first wave of Jewish immigration from Europe in the 1880's, the 1920 tensions, the 1948 war, the 1967 war, the first Intifada of 1987, the Oslo Peace Process, Settlement expansion, the role of the United States Government, the second Intifada of 2000, the separation barrier and the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, as well as many heart wrenching testimonials from victims of this tragedy.
I don't support Iranian government and that bloody Saudi government's poppet of US, both were originally paid, placed and controlled by the US government. This is another twisted lies designed to brainwash and creates lies by US government and its popped media. Shame on you frontline. you pretend to be honest but cunningly and intentionally covered up the truth and tried to erase the fact that khomani and shah were both placed by the US government. Iran had a democratic Iranian Government (Dr Mossadegh) who rightly nationalized Oil and based on that, US and UK prime minister Winston Churchill and the Eisenhower administration decided to overthrow Iran's government. Shame on you again and that bloody report.
Very sad situation.
For Gods sake.
Will someone put ALL the facts together, and make a serious documentary, all I have seen until now, is a promotion of the ideology and view of one side or the other.
This film once more gives a view of half the story.
no good.
Rabbi Isroel Dovid Weiss say Zionism has created "rivers of blood and is an ideology that takes God out of the equation of Judaism and replaces it with Israeli nationalism which is contrary to God's law.
I can't imagine what will happen to Israel over time. The best solution is for it to become a secular, integrated state sharing power with the Palestinians (abandon Zionism). That doesn't seem likely given the direction the Middle East is taking, but miracles do happen. It wouldn't take much to get Palestinian leaders to agree. t can't envision a two-state solution under these circumstances. In any case the situation now is intolerable and cannot last. I hate to think of the worst case scenarios.
I look at other places in the world: The Congo, Myanmar, North Korea, the Baltics- the list goes on and on. The dehumanizer is also dehumanized. There has to come a day when brutality must be abandoned, if for no other reason than the incapability of the oppressor to continue doing evil despite his own self-disgust.
The Israelis share a common arrogance with Americans due to greed,money and power. This, however, is changing little by little as the Americans grow more isolated from the rest of the world. I know that great number of us here in Canada view the American policies as pigheaded and we view most Americans as undereducated and self-serving. Not to mention an almost extremist level of patriotism.
There are many Americans and a growing number of Israelis who are beginning to realize that they have been fooled by a powerful propaganda machine run by Zionists in both Israel and the US.
One shouldn't speculate on suicide bombers until they have lived in a repressed state,it may seem brutal in their delivery but so are conventional weaponry. Violence is never the correct answer but when you corner someone their only option is to fight for their life.
Until paranoid leaders such as Netanyahu stop bullying the desperate Palestinians this conflict will never end.
Peace
If this is not Arab anti-Semitic propaganda, I don't know what is. Just listen to what they are saying, is it "Jews and Arabs" or "Israeli and Palestinian"? No, it is "Palestinian and Jews". Nation and Race. They put the face of a child on the cover and everyone is eating this shit thinking it is candy, if they knew what they ate they would spit it out.
The beginning of the film are actually placing Gandhi together with suicide-bombers. I don't think Gandhi would like that. They are very eager to show dead Arab children, then some quick lies about what happened, no documentation, it is children getting shot without reason, and when they mention the stone throwing then more lies about the children doing this without any clear reason. Why do the children throw rocks?
Because the adults do. They go to the mosque and get served Muslim violence racist pseudo-religious propaganda from the imam, then out to throw stones on the blood-thirsty devil-Jews. The children at home are watching "Mickey Mouse" (Hamas Muslim propaganda) on the TV talking more about Jews that need to be stoned. So what do the children do? They go throw stones at *heavily armed soldiers* (I would try to stop children doing things like that if I were their parents and I would turn off the sick show on the TV and tell the children to be nice.
I would even stop other children from doing that, saying stop that, you can get hurt) together with the adults. This is everyday work for those soldiers, they respond with tear-gas to try break up those very peaceful demonstrations. Now the demonstrators got tear-gas grenades to throw back. If they get some serious weaponry from Iran->Hezbollah->Hamas->Population. They sure as hell don't try raise an army, but go shoot at Jews pronto. Bringing children with them is common strategy, then if it gets serious enough, someone will get hurt. And if it is children, then photo and film it and show it to the world, what this blood-thirsty race did to them. I'm sure they are not not nearly as eager to show movie clips of rabbis picking up shattered human remains after the coward suicide-bombers are easily persuaded into meeting loads of virgins in paradise. Very brief they mention the human casualties, but just because there's 4000 Arabs and 1000 Jews, but no more talk of that, to not get into the fact that 1000 people have been murdered by Arabs. No words of [Iranian] rockets getting more and more advanced striking Israeli territory randomly and certainly not rarely. They actually have to build a missile defense system there. Jews in Palestinian territory have to drive in armored vehicles escorted by soldiers or else certainly getting into trouble. Arabs in Israel on the other hand don't get a mob of people stoning them, in fact they are not mentioned at all, even if they are 20% (officially) and breeding like rabbits. Jews in Palestine are also minority, but certainly not welcome.
There's no peace, Arabs don't want peace, they read their holy book and it talk about how they need to erase all Jews from the world, mixed with what they think are facts read from the 'Learned Elders of Zion' So those in Palestine have build their own jail by this, since it's clearly not safe to have them free. If they had the weapons, I'm sure they would not defend the west-bank or Gaza, but run into Israel to kill every last one Jew in a second holocaust. This is their religion. The Jews just want to live in Israel and have a homeland after being pacifists for 2000 years after they got ethnically cleansed in Israel and ended up in Europe and Russia, then more extermination for the next two millennium. But when they returned to their homeland and fought for it, things quickly improved. I have to finish, just some quick comments that probably could be improved. to get the story a bit more balanced, where I talked for the Jewish side, since they had nothing to say. I don't support killing children, war-crimes or illegal occupation.
There's no point talking about the Zionism, it is the present day that matters. I'd like to see a documentary that is objective, balanced and neutral of this conflict, telling both stories, but I doubt there are any. And most of all I would like hearing someone talking about humans as in those living there. No doubt there's bad people on both sides, and bad people with guns are usually worse.
Now I have to run for the bus in occupied Norway, where I am as a white man, native Norse, will be sitting in that bus surrounded by Arabs, not bothering to learn my language, or have friends that are not Muslim. Or wait, did I say that? It's not allowed to talk about my ethnic group, even if the Muslims have gone public saying they want to replace it with more Muslims, the tactic is breeding children 4-5 for each 1 Norse, get in majority and demand sharia-law. They want to occupy my country, my religion and my culture. But anyone being concerned by this in Europe is quickly labeled islamophobic and racists extreme-right wing, even if they simply tell the truth. Welcome to the world, and have a nice day.
If the people of Isreal are so darn advanced and Intelligent. Here is a thought build an Island and move there. Dubai did it so can you. Free the Palestine!
Thanks for the film; for all of my life I have been a strong supporter of the right of Israel to exist, but cannot support the oppressive manner in which it is brutalizing the Palestinians. As a Canadian, I am ashamed that our government chose to not support the Palestinian resolution at the UN. I have not seen any of our North American media indicate good reasons why the US and Canada should not support the resolution, other than Israel did not support it. I am afraid that is not good enough. At the very least, I am now of the view that Israel should be investigated for alleged war crimes against the Palestinians and if the evidence is there, it should be held accountable.
The "break the bone strategy" scene disgusts me to no end
God watches the Israeli people and weeps.
The hired ethnic hitmen and Zionist attack dogs continue the disinformation campaign across message boards, discussion forums, blogs, and social media, the virtual equivalent of the Mossad international death squads, who violate diplomatic protocols, steal passports, trespass sovereign countries, all in order to carry out extrajudicial assassinations against their enemies- which, at this stage, consist of most of the civilised world. Gentiles are only of instrumental importance to the Zionists, for whom lying, cheating, stealing, and killing form part of their code of "ethics".
The reason why I'm wastin time responding to whoever or whatever is calling himself objectiveWesterner is for the sake of a truly objective observer who happens upon these comments
Ethnic cleansing. Almost all the Jews, about 850,000 were forced
out of Arab countries. The arabs living in Israel were given full
Israeli citizinship. But the so called palestinians in Arab host countries
in Lebanon, Jordan were subject to apartheid, not by Israel but by their arab host countries. The Palestine refugee camps were built by
Arabs. In 1970 Jordan expelled many of these so called palestinians
and many were ethnically cleansed into Gaza.
If Israel wanted to level Cairo they would have done so on the first day of the six day war, why would they wait till the fourth?
Below are the cites of american investigations of the Liberty incident.
Navy Court of Inquiry June 10-18, 1967 The attack was a case of mistaken identity. Calm conditions and slow ship speed may have made American flag difficult to identify. No indication the attack was intended against U.S. ship.
CIA Report June 13, 1967 The attack was not made in malice and was a mistake.
Joint Chiefs of Staff Fact Finding Team (Russ Report) June 9-20, 1967 Outlined "findings of fact," bud did not make any findings about the actual attack.
Clifford Report July 18, 1967 No premeditation, but "inexcusable failures" by Israeli forces constituing "gross negligence."
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations 1967 Secretary of Defense McNamara testified he supported conclusion that the attack was not intentional.
Senate Armed Services Committee Feb. 1, 1968 No conclusion. Secretary McNamara makes comparison of attack on Liberty to that on Pueblo with regard to uncertainty about what was happening at the time of the incident.
House Appropriations Committee April-May 1968 Navy communications "foulup" and no conclusion regarding Israeli actions. Much of report remains classified.
House Armed Services Committee May 10, 1971 Critical of Navy communications, no conclusion regarding Israeli actions.
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence 1979 Responding to critical book by Liberty crewman James Ennes, Senate investigation found no merit to his claim attack was intentional.
National Security Agency 1981 Liberty was mistaken for an Egyptian ship as a result of miscalculations and egregious errors.
House Armed Services Committee June 1991 Responding to request from Liberty Veterans Association, Subcommitte on Investigations launched probe that concluded there was no evidence to support allegations made by the Association and no reason for further investigation.
Conclusion. There might have been negligence on both sides but
no deliberate attack. It was during a war.
Anyone with half a brain would realize that a deliberate attack by Israel
makes no sense except to a lunatic
There is a tsunamni of lies emanating from Islamofascists and their agents.
I don't know if the so called objectivWeaterner is one of their agants or merely a ranting lunatic.
All facts above can be verified on the web by anyone who is legitimately searching for the truth
They're way over on the subjective side
When Putin was elected as President of Russia in 2000, Russia was bankrupt. The nation owed $16.6 billion to the Illuminati Ashkenazi Khazar Zionist Rothschild-run International Monetary Fund while its foreign debt to the Illuminati Ashkenazi Khazar Zionist Rothschild-controlled Paris & London Club Of Creditors was over 36 billion dollars.
But Putin took advantage of the current boom in world oil prices by redirecting a portion of the profits of Russia’s largest oil producer Gazprom so as to pay off the country’s debt. The continual surge in oil prices greatly accelerated Russia’s capacity to restore financial sovereignty. By 2006 Putin had paid off Russia’s debt to the Illuminati Ashkenazi Khazar Zionist Rothschilds. Russia’s financial dependence on the Illuminati Ashkenazi Khazar Zionist financiers was now over.
Rothchild's agent Mikhail Khordorkovsky, a Illuminati Ashkenazi Khazar Zionist, gained his fortune along with many other Illuminati Ashkenazi Khazar Zionist oligarchs, by exploiting the Yeltsin era’s privatizations. With the backing of Jacob Rothschild, Khordorkovsky started the bank Menatep Banking Group just prior to the fall of Soviet Union in 1990. The Menatep Banking Group was associated with the Rothschild-Soros Carlyle Group.
In 1995, Khordorkovsky bought Yukos Oil for $350 million. He became one of the world’s richest men with a personal worth of at least $1 billion. In October of 2003 Khordorkovsky was arrested for embezzlement.
As most wealthy Illuminati Ashkenazi Khazar Zionists who use their financial power to subvert their host nation, Khordorkovsky set himself up as a critic of Putin’s efforts to unite Russia politically and culturally. Khordorkovsky spent millions of dollars to overthrow Putin by funding “democratic reforming parties” by which Illuminati Ashkenazi Khazar Zionists take control of their host nation.
In February of 2004, right after Khordorkovsky’s arrest, Khordorkovsky’s Menatep Bank was revealed to be operating out of the Isle of Man, a UK offshore tax haven. At this time, Menatep offered Yukos shares to Putin in exchange for Khordorkovsky’s freedom. But Putin did not need to wheel & deal with the Jewish financiers. Putin simply nationalized Yukos Oil shortly after the Menatep offer.
The British press reported that Khordorkovsky’s shares in Yukos Oil were passed to Illuminati Ashkenazi Khazar Zionist Jacob Rothschild just prior to Khordorkovsky’s arrest.
But Menatep denied that Jacob Rothschild had any power in the Group. Their statement declared that Jacob Rothschild had close links with Menatep only through the Open Russia Foundation whose trustee membership included Henry Kissinger. But Menatep failed to mention that the Open Russia Foundation was founded by Yukos Oil.
There is no man feared more by Illuminati Ashkenazi Khazar Zionists than Russian President Vladimir Putin.And while the Illuminati Ashkenazi Khazar Zionist West and its lackeys at the Saudi-led Gulf Cooperation Council would have us believe that armed jihadists in Syria who are murdering innocent native civilians are “lovers of democracy,” Putin remains unshaken in his defense of International law.
Now, with three Russian warships recently docked in Syria’s port of Tartus, Putin’s actions speak louder than his words. And Talmudic Illuminati Ashkenazi Khazar Zionist, Senator Joseph Lieberman, who is the first senator to call for a No Fly Zone over Syria and for arming the Syrian opposition—which in reality is made up of Islamic fundamentalists and foreign mercenaries—has gotten Putin’s message.
Liberman said “We’re not going to stand by and allow this Assad to slaughter his people like his father did. He’s going to run the risk of having the world community come in and impose a No Fly Zone. And in doing so, we’re being consistent with our American values.”
Liberman's “American values” have already underpinned the massacre of scores of Libyan civilians and the decimation of a once orderly and contented Libyan civilian infrastructure. And now Liberman wants to do the same in Syria as well.
Because Bashar al-Assad has intensified Syria’s policy of resisting Illuminati Ashkenazi Khazar Zionist imperialism ever since taking over the reins from his father, Hafez al-Assad, in 2000, International Illuminati Ashkenazi Khazar Zionists and their shill, the USA, pursuing its habitual violent program of regime change this time in Syria in order to install a pro-Illuminati Ashkenazi Khazar Zionist dictatorship in Damascus. Since then, Assad has grown the economy at a healthy rate of 5% a year. Since then, Syria is debt free and will not allow any Rothschild Illuminati Ashkenazi Khazar banks. And you’ll be hard pressed to find any McDonald’s or Pizza Huts in Syria…it’s forbidden territory for internationalist Illuminati Ashkenazi Khazar Zionist-funded corporations.
And since then, due to Assad’s independent, self-directed, economic development – a program shared by all US regime change targets – the Illuminati Ashkenazi Khazar Zionist globalist bankers and their corporate pawns are being thwarted from privatizing and politically Zionizing the industries and government of the sovereign nation of Syria.
The Illuminati Ashkenazi Khazar Zionist influenced US State Department put forward this very same Illuminati Ashkenazi Khazar Zionist banker’s agenda when it stated that “Syria refuses to join an increasingly interconnected global economy.”
The Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, of course a Illuminati Ashkenazi Khazar Zionist, Jeffrey Feltman, highlighted Jewish Finance Capital’s plan for “democracy” in Syria — (READ: The “humanitarian” BOMBING of Syrian civilians) — in his recent testimony before the Zionist-led Senate Committee on Foreign Relations said “Bashar al-Assad is destroying Syria and destabilizing the region. An orderly democratic transition that removes Assad from power and restores stability is clearly in the United States’ interests. It will support our goals of promoting democracy and human rights.”
It’s the same old LIE: The Illuminati Ashkenazi Khazar Zionist West is framing the conflict in Syria as one between the “lovers of democracy” led by the Free Syrian Army and a murderous tyrant…so very, very far from the facts on the ground as Russia and the Syrian government have been contesting all along.
This has been verified by the Observer Mission recently sent to Syria by the Arab League which stated in paragraph 75 of its suppressed Report “There have been incidents that include the bombing of buildings, trains carrying fuel, vehicles carrying diesel oil and explosions targeting the police, members of the media and fuel pipelines. Some of those attacks have been carried out by the Free Syrian Army and some by other armed opposition groups,”.
While the Illuminati Ashkenazi Khazar Zionist Master Plan for a Greater Israel extending from Tel Aviv to Tehran – from the Nile to the Euphrates – by fragmenting Israel’s bordering nations into competing militias and warlords, Vladimir Putin remains firm and uncompromising.
You can hear it all the way from Moscow to Tel Aviv:
A clear and resounding “Nyet” flaming forth from Vladimir Putin, the world’s foremost and only defender against Zionism’s warmongering, world-destroying, ugly designs!
Why does this site seem to produce one sided completly distorted documentaries about how Israel allegedly oppresses the so called Palestinian
people, the only nationality whose basis of existence is the extermination
of another people and who have gained acceptability though terror and
murder with the help of oil money, Islamic propaganda, and Leftist antisemites who pretend to be human rights adovcates.
This propsaganda garbage is so full of distortions it's impossible
to rebut without at least thirty pages.
what bothers me the most is why this site doesn't present documentaries
about the Israeli victims of palestinian terror? If there is one I missed here
I'd like to know about it. If not then why is this site so biasly selective?
ONE NATION, EQUAL RIGHTS UNDER THE LAW, FUTURE
I am well read about this situation and have visited both sides and through my experiences I can firmly say that this documentary portrays an accurate and realistic picture of the situation. Instead of being fanatics why don't some people here go visit Palestinian and see when rich bitches are busy shopping in Tel-Aviv driving BMWs, there are Palestinian girls who have been wearing the same piece of clothing for the past 5 years. Thanks you for making such a real documentary and I hope that the Israeli's correct their ways.
Uninformed people that watch this beware: This is largely one-sided propaganda where causes and effects are often reversed: typical is the minimal mention of Arab countries' aggression and Palestinian terrorism that uses civilians as its shield and support, see how superficially the causes of war of '48 and '67 are presented and how you are left with the impression that all those security measures are pure sadism and that people are randomly shot and oppressed out of context.....
my message to my the Palestinian people, lets forget about the past, life goes on, who cares if they took our land, we will build beautiful buildings and plenty of resources our land is bigger than them, they will stop shooting high powered weapons, if the Israelites knows that we are doing good in our community, look at them they made subdivisions, what about us we keep fighting for nothing,let them be, we can make a happy life if our palestinian government build a school instead of teaching us to throw stones...
ive long resisted any comment here, due to how high emotion seems to run on this topic, on BOTH sides of the fence... militarily, both sides commit "atrocities" in an unapologetic manner, allowing all to finger-point at "them" as the "monster"....the palestinian position and motivations are reasonably clear "liberte, fraternite...",etc, the impetus for most rebellion... it's the initial motivation of israel, the "rhyme and reason" that started the slow, inescapable trip to this crossroads the situation currently occupies, that so many debate and speculate about.. i think one must look at the history of nations founded by, for lack of a better term, "freed slaves", haiti, and liberia as prime examples... one finds as a common thread in such nations that the "plantation system" is retained (in the case of haiti) or instituted (liberia), as it is the industry and governance the leaders are most familiar with.... let us then overlay such a mindset on the irgun, the stern gang, and the various other military, paramilitary, and civilian leaders of the "zionist revolution" that gave birth to israel, who went on to pretty much dominate the israeli political scene until this day... these are for the most part, survivors of various pogroms, purges, death camps, forced resettlements, and a myriad of other discriminations at the hands of others, or they represented the remains of the resistance to those draconian injustices... the vast majority had only experienced "governance of discrimination", so it would seem logical to expect at least some aspects of such governance in the nation that emerges from the union of these populations... the political response of neighbor states, huge influx of "military aid",and long term lack of genuine mediation has offered no incentive to change this "political mindset", and has in fact offered a huge disincentive... i think one must look toward the "irish troubles" to see the ONLY potential solution to this problem... the political dynamic must be changed by both camps... bullying will never offer peace, no matter which camp has the larger cudgel to pound on their "enemy"... both sides must recognize the others rights, both must make concessions, and, most importantly, the world MUST allow for the "political evolution" process on BOTH sides, without interference, as ALL involved parties can NEVER be satisfied by any solution, and there will will be opposition on both sides to any real compromise... until all in power "bury the hatchet", and take a "restart from zero" approach (we're all here, we all need to exist, so let's work it out), there can be no progress...
I wish some of you could stop the childish comments and attacks from both sides, really. You are all entitled to agree or disagree with your points of views. I for one happen to agree that this documentary is a very accurate portrayal of how life exists under occupation, and I am well read on the topic. Excellent, but sad documentary which really highlights how extremism forms. I prey for the Palestinian people that they can eventually enjoy the freedom of an occupation-free, soverign nation. I just don't think it will happen in the near future, hope I'm wrong.
You are an idiot. Plain and simple. You don't care about the Palestinians, you just hate Jews. I've noticed a lot of your ilk posting comments here. As a German and a Jew, let me say, "F**** Dich"
Hmmm...."I don't hate Jews"..."I always thought that what Hitler did wasn't good..now I really doubt." Really? So the government of Israel and SOME Jews who support them commit atrocities, and you now wonder if it wasn't okay that Hitler tried to wipe out an entire race. Well by your logic, if it was okay for Hitler to do what he did, it ought to be okay for Israel to do what it is doing to the Palestinians. Listen people, Israel is a country run by a government. That government does not speak for every single citizen, and Israel certainly does not speak for every single Jew. A LOT of Jews here in America think that what is happening is abhorent. Hell, a lot of Jews in Israel don't like it. As I posted earlier, comparing all Jews to one another here is like saying that all Americans support the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. Also that all Christians want to see Islam wiped out, and that all Muslims want a holy war against 'infidels'. Some of you people here really do just hate Jews. Hate is hate, shame on you
everybody who is not living in these hell-holes of Palestine, darfur, seira leon.... and god knows how many..... should thank god for each and every day of their life that they do not have to witness even a fraction of what people from these places has to go through day in day out..... and what shocks me after reading the reviews of my fellows from different parts of the world is... that instead of talking about the very basic right of these millions of people which is right to live... forget about... other rights.... and how it is voilated... we are still arguing about... propaganda, conspiracy theories... blah blah blah.... common guyz.... and i'm not being sentimental about it.... everytime we waste our time discussing these non essential issues ... there are lives in iminent danger..... and may peril any moment....