Abby Martin Explains the Israeli Occupation and Gaza's Open-Air Prison

• 54:35Israeli occupation is subtle colonialism: a state founded on top of another people, taking their land and ethnically cleansing them daily.
• 54:50West Bank military occupation makes Palestinian life horrible with checkpoints and blockades comparable to the height of US occupation in Iraq.
• 55:28Extremist settlers colonizing the land are state-sanctioned, protected by the Israeli government, armed, and financed by the US government.
• 55:45Settlers taking Palestinian homes are directly funded by US NGOs and the Israeli government to squat in those properties.
• 56:02Gaza is a dumping ground for refugees ethnically cleansed during Israel's foundation, with people sent there as punishment and unable to leave without permits.
• 56:31Gaza lacks basic human mobility, medical attention, clean water, and electricity—97 percent of the water is unpotable and the main source of disease.
• 57:11Fuel and construction materials are blocked from Gaza, making it continuous torture and punishment for 2 million people, half of them children.
• 57:53Israeli officials openly say there will be no Palestinian state; they plan to annex the entire territory while US politicians pretend to support a two-state solution.
• 58:29Israel's justification for conquest is that Jews worldwide with Jewish heritage have an ordained biblical right to colonize the land and take citizenship.
• 59:46Israeli political opposition ranges from the right wing to the fascist right wing; even Netanyahu's electoral opposition like Benny Gantz is an unabashed war criminal.
• 1:01:05Tim asks why the US so steadfastly supports everything Israel does despite the troubling nature of the occupation and ethnic cleansing.

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