Sheldon S., Ashley Wells, Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly
(Journeyman Pictures/Ubuntu Films) What is the "Roadmap to Apartheid"? It is a shocking revelation into the reasons behind Israel's invasion of a fully inhabited Palestine, its Western-backed military occupation, dispossession of Muslim lands ethnic cleansing,, its catastrophic and racist policies, its literal apartheid and what a Jewish professor has shown is its "incremental genocide." Who did it? England then America and the more or less independent CIA inserted its "final solution" into the Islamic Middle East, making a "Jewish state" a useful imperial tool all with "God's" backing or at least a trumped up biblical back story. If "Israel" really wanted a homeland, it already had one, but not a strategic one that serves Western powers trying to control the Middle East. More
(Journeyman Pictures/Ubuntu Films) What is the "Roadmap to Apartheid"? It is a shocking revelation into the reasons behind Israel's invasion of a fully inhabited Palestine, its Western-backed military occupation, dispossession of Muslim lands ethnic cleansing,, its catastrophic and racist policies, its literal apartheid and what a Jewish professor has shown is its "incremental genocide." Who did it? England then America and the more or less independent CIA inserted its "final solution" into the Islamic Middle East, making a "Jewish state" a useful imperial tool all with "God's" backing or at least a trumped up biblical back story. If "Israel" really wanted a homeland, it already had one, but not a strategic one that serves Western powers trying to control the Middle East. More
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| Green: annihilating Palestine's right to exist |
(Peaceful? They certainly can't be called "restive" when a population of 2,000,000 is blamed for every Israeli claim of self-defense and offense by an increasingly marginalized and demonized Hamas movement, which does amount to even 1% of the total Palestinian population).
NOTE: For the official Israeli party-line via the Knesset's [Israeli government's] direct line, refer to the White House, AP, BBC, UPI, AFP, CNN, FOX, NBC, ABC, CBS, NPR, and CIA. Thank you to our friend Sheldon for helping with the translation of this anonymous submission: |
| Hooray for colonialism! |
"Waltzing down the strip past the fence over fox holes and chunnels, It take not of the martyr's hip: Does it strut, does it offend? I pull my AK-, my way, '48, the newest thing and brandish it on my lip with the cadence of my automatic clip.
"'Nakba' says my friend as I take him down, him and all his hoodlum kids. Now words have I, none he'd understand. He's coming to that side to be re-arrested, not tried but traded for terrorist fiends.
"But if I could say to Bibi or to the Knesset entire, Give us free reign, messiah, give us free reign, would they smile? Livni winks. We're acting as she pleases. We're taking all their homes and the property seizes, she says, he says, NOBODY SAY A WORD!
"Operation Protected Edge glints from my sword, and I'll light up this whole block. You have exactly 57 seconds. Third Floor, jump! because you won't be making it to the door. How I adore the smell of falafel in the morning burning in the rubble like the faint ghosts that to Gaza go. And I, a masked soldier, lately return home."
(Journeyman Pictures) Israel/Palestine: The War on Civilian Gaza From Ground Level
(Journeyman Pictures) Israel/Palestine: The War on Civilian Gaza From Ground Level
As Israel launches its "Palestinian only bus service," this film gives an in-depth look at the country's entire apparatus of segregation. Taking its parallel from Apartheid South Africa, it's a fascinating insight.
"Apartheid is a separation of populations in which one group institutionally dominates another." Israel has always been nervous about comparisons with apartheid South Africa, with good reason. The South African system became the most hated symbol of apartheid.
(Journeyman) "Roadmap to Apartheid" (extended trailer)
Today it's emulated in the West Bank [and the Gaza Strip open-air Prison with 2 million prisoners], Palestinians restricted by 600 Israeli-military check-points, Jewish-only roads, and a massive WALL separating a section near Jerusalem dubbed "the West Bank" from the rest of the country. For Ali Abunimah there is only one path: "Let 100% of the people live on 100% of the land."
The issue demands a "one-state" solution rather than the setting up of un-viable states set up to fail, as in South Africa: "It wasn't only blacks who were freed when Apartheid ended. We were all freed."
There are many lessons to draw from the South African experience of apartheid relevant to conflicts all over the world. "Roadmap to Apartheid" explores in detail the apartheid comparison as it is used in the enduring Israeli conflict with Palestine.
As much a historical document of the rise and fall of apartheid, the film shows us why many Palestinians feel they are living in an apartheid system today and why an increasing number of people around the world see what's happening and agree with them.
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