Watch the latest episode of The Chris Hedges Report with the directors and star of the new documentary, "Where Olive Trees Weep," chronicling the algebra of the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the deep trauma of those living under colonization.
Crucial info. I didn't realize that non-violent Palestinian protests are often subjected to even worse reprisals than violent ones. So it isn't just the habituated cruelty of oppressors. It's evidence that the perpetrators know the evidence doesn't support them and that the moral cause is on the side of the people they are trying to silence by every means possible. Including mass murder. But the cost of that will be to destroy their own souls and eventually Israel itself.
So happy that Chris hooked up with the makers of "Where Olive Trees Weep" - their organization is SAND - Science and Non-Duality (check out their web-site); hooked up with the work of Gabor Mate and especially the Palestinian woman featured in the film and this segment of the Chris Hedges Report. Thank you all for your work to end this decades long oppression of Palestine and its people in an effort to wake up those who see Israel as the victim and not the perpetrators of this ongoing genocide.
Of all the words that have been used over the past year (and the many before that), at the end of this interview Ashira describes perfectly what the situation is, what the hope is, and precisely what needs to be done to end the trauma. Chris knew that with those words the interview was ended. Moving and perfect. Hardened old chestnut that I am, I filled up. There is little more to be said after this. Ashira is absolutely right.
This morning DemocracyNow! highlighted “Starving Gaza”. The harrowing film is based on the work of Palestinian reporters in Gaza who are suffering the same conditions as their subjects. “They’ve been displaced, they’ve been injured, they’ve watched their own children die in front of them, and yet they somehow conjure the professionalism to pick up a camera and record and tell other people’s trauma,” says journalist Hind Hassan. “They really will be remembered in history as the titans of journalists.”
AMY GOODMAN: This is a clip from Starving Gaza that features Stacy Gilbert. She’s former senior adviser in the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, resigned after over 20 years, after disagreements with how the State Department put out the report that she worked on that concluded that Israel was not obstructing U.S. humanitarian assistance to Gaza — not her conclusion.
STACY GILBERT: It is widely known and documented in the humanitarian community and the U.S. government that Israel has been blocking humanitarian assistance since the start of the Gaza conflict. ... They have made a policy decision to support Israel unconditionally. ... The administration deliberately denies the facts on the ground, because it would trigger consequences to cut off security funding. It allows the weapons sales to continue. The weapons are the engine that fuel this war. And we are not taking responsibility for our role in it. (Note: Stacy Gilbert has resigned from the State Department. She is haunted by the report she submitted to the Department.)
Blinken told Congress, “We do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting” aid, even though the U.S. Agency for International Development and others had determined that Israel had broken the law.
An extraordinary movie. It cost blood to make this, and it's worth every drop. Don't miss it. The twenty bucks you'll donate to stream it goes to plant olive trees in Palestine.
No, None of the Traumas Endured by the Palestinians, Lebanese People and Yemen People are uniquely and unfairly subjected to because American Politicians and European politicians have their own history of Discrimination Persecution and Genocide of the European Jews and others of comparable numbers or even considerably more other people by the Europeans that culminated in the Holocaust led by the Germans and many others taking advantage to “Finish the Job” ! For that they make the People of Palestine, Lebanon,Yemen, Syria and Iran to Bear the Brunt of the Traumatic Suffering for More Than 76 Years or even longer !
It is abundantly clear or obvious that Palestine belongs to Palestinians ! If any historical claims anyone has, then all of us should go back to Ethiopia and surrounding area in Africa, as the science of Fossil analysis shows all of our mother was an Ethiopian woman named Lucy !
Of course, we all scattered and wandered around the globe and ended in the current situation occupying the current defined piece of land that we call ours including Palestinians in Palestine !
I am sure, there were others in the same land and others before the last others and it continues to an infinite series !
Wherever we ended up and settled down, had our families and cultures is where we are now !
So, what the American Politicians and European Politicians… collectively European White race invariably different kinds from ice men or the Eskimos, Viking variety to other varieties as we go south, from Cannibals to Barbarians inhabited Europe, slowly got civilized while there was a Civilization already in the tropical south, yet continually people moved and somehow the Barbarians got the Arian Language because they didn’t have any language…, still my own mother tongue predates the Arian racist language of India.
Now, it is all Beauty Contest… points based on a few attributes starting from COLOUR .. language culture etc. you can make up your own set of attributes !
So, some people are in position to dominate and make some rules, and expect others to follow !
Think deeply how everyone have everywhere in a group ? But in the modern world, colonized by one the many colonizers… we see a multicultural multi religious and people with various other attributes as well live together, I would say fairly happily and friendly as good neighbors, but those who were dumped in Palestine after the end of WWII, know as the left over Jews, and now include another group known as Zionists … or together Semitics and coined themselves another word antisemitic for convenience to divide all the people into two categories as Semites and antisemites !
It is all for convenience to suit their Predicaments !
Sensible people say, they should have done all these clever tricks in Europe including the Nuclear Bomb to Challenge the antisemitic people in Europe and if they couldn’t behave better drop a few Nuclear Bombs and finished them first before they baked the semantics first !
I wish these anti-antisemitics will return to the Beautiful Europe and Stake their Place, instead of causing unnecessary, unexpected, arbitrary claims and Trauma to the People Who Rightfully in Palestine before the Rascals were dump in Palestine shores by a Monkey named Balfive !
He grew older so FIVE is successor to FOUR !
I am very SAD and VERY UNHAPPY about the way Biden Kamala and Blinkman handling the situation by DELEGATING ALL THE DECISIONS AND ACTIONS TO THE ANTI-ANTISEMITIC THUGS !
After the fall of the Ottoman Empire Balfour handed the land of Palestine over to the Zionists who saw it as a land without a people, which it wasn't. Fairly large swaths of it were highly developed, shipping, railroads, trade. I think before WWII some half a million Jews entered the country. Prior to that some 90% or more of the population were Arabs who were there for many, many hundreds of years. There was a small Christian population which constituted a larger population then those of the Jews. In 1947 the UN divided the land of Palestine giving a bigger percentage to the Jews, and also the most fertile part of it. So this really didn't begin because of Hitler and the Holocaust. The NAKBA in 1948 where over 700 thousand Arabs were displaced and some 70 or 80 thousand killed tells you the state of affairs between the Arab and Jewish populations before the land was divided. It was the colonial mindset and the prejudicial attitudes of Europe and the US that led us to where we are now, and that most definitely includes the Jews who were given the land of the Palestinian people.
This is a tremendous movie 🎥 Open your hearts and humanity for Palestine 🇵🇸 A Must See 🙏🏻
Where or how did you get to see it?
I watched it when it first came out … last June I think … whereolivetreesweep.com and you can watch the film with a donation 🙏🏻
Thank you.
You’re very welcome
Crucial info. I didn't realize that non-violent Palestinian protests are often subjected to even worse reprisals than violent ones. So it isn't just the habituated cruelty of oppressors. It's evidence that the perpetrators know the evidence doesn't support them and that the moral cause is on the side of the people they are trying to silence by every means possible. Including mass murder. But the cost of that will be to destroy their own souls and eventually Israel itself.
chasing bibi off a cliff
& endangering Jews
Planet-wide. Bad.
Very bad.
So happy that Chris hooked up with the makers of "Where Olive Trees Weep" - their organization is SAND - Science and Non-Duality (check out their web-site); hooked up with the work of Gabor Mate and especially the Palestinian woman featured in the film and this segment of the Chris Hedges Report. Thank you all for your work to end this decades long oppression of Palestine and its people in an effort to wake up those who see Israel as the victim and not the perpetrators of this ongoing genocide.
Thank you for making this available on Rumble so I don't have to use youtube.
so Shared
thank you Chris!
.
I do not envy
the stuff you've
been thru but it's
brought forth a Most
Amazing Voice ~ Voices!
.
❤ kudos ❤
! 🙏🏻 !
Thanks, Chris.
Of all the words that have been used over the past year (and the many before that), at the end of this interview Ashira describes perfectly what the situation is, what the hope is, and precisely what needs to be done to end the trauma. Chris knew that with those words the interview was ended. Moving and perfect. Hardened old chestnut that I am, I filled up. There is little more to be said after this. Ashira is absolutely right.
“Starving Gaza”: Al Jazeera Film Shows U.S. Keeps Arming Israel as It Uses Hunger as a Weapon of War
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/10/3/starving_gaza_documentary
This morning DemocracyNow! highlighted “Starving Gaza”. The harrowing film is based on the work of Palestinian reporters in Gaza who are suffering the same conditions as their subjects. “They’ve been displaced, they’ve been injured, they’ve watched their own children die in front of them, and yet they somehow conjure the professionalism to pick up a camera and record and tell other people’s trauma,” says journalist Hind Hassan. “They really will be remembered in history as the titans of journalists.”
AMY GOODMAN: This is a clip from Starving Gaza that features Stacy Gilbert. She’s former senior adviser in the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, resigned after over 20 years, after disagreements with how the State Department put out the report that she worked on that concluded that Israel was not obstructing U.S. humanitarian assistance to Gaza — not her conclusion.
STACY GILBERT: It is widely known and documented in the humanitarian community and the U.S. government that Israel has been blocking humanitarian assistance since the start of the Gaza conflict. ... They have made a policy decision to support Israel unconditionally. ... The administration deliberately denies the facts on the ground, because it would trigger consequences to cut off security funding. It allows the weapons sales to continue. The weapons are the engine that fuel this war. And we are not taking responsibility for our role in it. (Note: Stacy Gilbert has resigned from the State Department. She is haunted by the report she submitted to the Department.)
Starving Gaza VIDEO 25:00
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/fault-lines/2024/9/29/starving-gaza
Ahmed Nasser is one of a handful of doctors in north Gaza treating scores of children for malnutrition.
Israel Deliberately Blocked Humanitarian Aid to Gaza, Two Government Bodies Concluded. Antony Blinken Rejected Them.
https://www.propublica.org/article/gaza-palestine-israel-blocked-humanitarian-aid-blinken
Blinken told Congress, “We do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting” aid, even though the U.S. Agency for International Development and others had determined that Israel had broken the law.
An extraordinary movie. It cost blood to make this, and it's worth every drop. Don't miss it. The twenty bucks you'll donate to stream it goes to plant olive trees in Palestine.
Great show & brilliant movie.
No, None of the Traumas Endured by the Palestinians, Lebanese People and Yemen People are uniquely and unfairly subjected to because American Politicians and European politicians have their own history of Discrimination Persecution and Genocide of the European Jews and others of comparable numbers or even considerably more other people by the Europeans that culminated in the Holocaust led by the Germans and many others taking advantage to “Finish the Job” ! For that they make the People of Palestine, Lebanon,Yemen, Syria and Iran to Bear the Brunt of the Traumatic Suffering for More Than 76 Years or even longer !
It is abundantly clear or obvious that Palestine belongs to Palestinians ! If any historical claims anyone has, then all of us should go back to Ethiopia and surrounding area in Africa, as the science of Fossil analysis shows all of our mother was an Ethiopian woman named Lucy !
Of course, we all scattered and wandered around the globe and ended in the current situation occupying the current defined piece of land that we call ours including Palestinians in Palestine !
I am sure, there were others in the same land and others before the last others and it continues to an infinite series !
Wherever we ended up and settled down, had our families and cultures is where we are now !
So, what the American Politicians and European Politicians… collectively European White race invariably different kinds from ice men or the Eskimos, Viking variety to other varieties as we go south, from Cannibals to Barbarians inhabited Europe, slowly got civilized while there was a Civilization already in the tropical south, yet continually people moved and somehow the Barbarians got the Arian Language because they didn’t have any language…, still my own mother tongue predates the Arian racist language of India.
Now, it is all Beauty Contest… points based on a few attributes starting from COLOUR .. language culture etc. you can make up your own set of attributes !
So, some people are in position to dominate and make some rules, and expect others to follow !
Think deeply how everyone have everywhere in a group ? But in the modern world, colonized by one the many colonizers… we see a multicultural multi religious and people with various other attributes as well live together, I would say fairly happily and friendly as good neighbors, but those who were dumped in Palestine after the end of WWII, know as the left over Jews, and now include another group known as Zionists … or together Semitics and coined themselves another word antisemitic for convenience to divide all the people into two categories as Semites and antisemites !
It is all for convenience to suit their Predicaments !
Sensible people say, they should have done all these clever tricks in Europe including the Nuclear Bomb to Challenge the antisemitic people in Europe and if they couldn’t behave better drop a few Nuclear Bombs and finished them first before they baked the semantics first !
I wish these anti-antisemitics will return to the Beautiful Europe and Stake their Place, instead of causing unnecessary, unexpected, arbitrary claims and Trauma to the People Who Rightfully in Palestine before the Rascals were dump in Palestine shores by a Monkey named Balfive !
He grew older so FIVE is successor to FOUR !
I am very SAD and VERY UNHAPPY about the way Biden Kamala and Blinkman handling the situation by DELEGATING ALL THE DECISIONS AND ACTIONS TO THE ANTI-ANTISEMITIC THUGS !
After the fall of the Ottoman Empire Balfour handed the land of Palestine over to the Zionists who saw it as a land without a people, which it wasn't. Fairly large swaths of it were highly developed, shipping, railroads, trade. I think before WWII some half a million Jews entered the country. Prior to that some 90% or more of the population were Arabs who were there for many, many hundreds of years. There was a small Christian population which constituted a larger population then those of the Jews. In 1947 the UN divided the land of Palestine giving a bigger percentage to the Jews, and also the most fertile part of it. So this really didn't begin because of Hitler and the Holocaust. The NAKBA in 1948 where over 700 thousand Arabs were displaced and some 70 or 80 thousand killed tells you the state of affairs between the Arab and Jewish populations before the land was divided. It was the colonial mindset and the prejudicial attitudes of Europe and the US that led us to where we are now, and that most definitely includes the Jews who were given the land of the Palestinian people.
you know
there's an “un-
occupied” Office
Tower I'd like to colonize
.
if only I were sixty feet taller
Wikepedia.
Population of Palestine, 1922–1945
Year Muslims Christians Jews Total
1922 589,177 73,024 83,790 757,182
1931 759,717 91,398 174,610 1,035,821
1945 1,061,270 135,550 553,600 1,764,520
Hi Fran, thanks, I have a different source, It is “Canadians For Justice and Peace in the Middle East”
But the numbers are very close to your numbers from Wikipedia
I am cautious about Wikipedia ….it all depends but fortunately they are very close,
I was thinking of percentages , Jews 30.39 in 1931, Muslims 73.52 Christians 8.6
In my source the difference ~ 1000 that means different compilation….but close enough !
Fran, please spread the following Video,
https://youtu.be/kPE6vbKix6A?si=V001X3oGN-gFja-X
Spread this long compilation by Al Jazeera Journalists, of what has been happening in Gaza over almost a year !
Odd, I was going to post a link to that very video that I just finished watching. and I intend to post it, as well as send it to people I know.
Aljazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/3/what-did-al-jazeeras-investigation-into-israeli-war-crimes-in-gaza-reveal
It was extremely difficult to watch.