I sympathise with Chris Hedges’ strong indictment of the American genocide in Palestine. I think this report by Chris Hedges should be viewed in the light of the film, No other land. Both the director Basel and Chris Hedges are operating under the false assumption that the United States could be, could exercise, could participate in a peace process, when, all along, the US aim is to build Empire in West Asia using Israel as its forward Scout.
No other land is a film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective, which shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank’s Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers. Basel Adra thought that if it were possible to change the opinion of the American people in their support of Israel, then the Palestinians could achieve freedom.
The genocide of the Palestinian people and the bombing of the Lebanese people is not driven by Israel. It is an American genocide. To stop the genocide we must defeat the United States of America.
Sure, the Israelis are evil, but evil exists in the United States because it’s Empire depends upon colonizing Wars, in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Palestine. EIGHTY (80) million Americans voted for Trump. They deserve TRUMP.
Over a number of years, Basel made films about his Village and the occupation by Israeli soldiers and settlers, colonisers. This was doomed to failure from the outset because the American Empire depends upon Israeli apartheid and now genocide of his people.
When people protest against the genocide in Australia and police attacked them often knocking them down this is repression but as described in the film when the villages attempt to protest against the occupation the Israeli soldiers not them down and then they shoot them. This is what Israeli democracy looks like.