i find part 3 of the above documentary quite interesting, here it is written...
Part 3: Hidden Occupation
One of the things you have to keep in mind when you’re looking at how media report on something like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not only understanding what’s there in the story, but more importantly what’s not there. What’s been left out and in that sense absence is as vital as presence in terms of how people make sense of the story. Context is everything.
The context that’s often missing from the current reporting is that the Palestinian uprising is a revolt against the 34 year long occupation. And if there is no occupation in the story, then the story doesn’t really make sense and the occupation is frequently missing.
A typical TV news report for example on ABC news will show dramatic pictures of these confrontations, where Palestinians are confronting Israeli troops and Israeli troops are responding. For most Americans who don’t understand the history of the conflict. This is an example of riots that are going on, where the authorities are taking measures to crack down. What is not mentioned is the fact that these confrontations are taking place on occupied territory and that the Israeli troops that are there are defending an occupation that doesn’t have any international legitimacy, it’s illegal.
The American media, there are concentrating only on the deeds on the violence and not on the reasons and not on the basic facts of occupation.
This is not presented as an army using its arsenal against young people who are largely unarmed and who are protesting because of the occupation, the siege, the total oppression of the whole nation.
The lack of context is so dramatic that only 4% of the network news reports on the occupied West Bank and Gaza strip mentioned that the West Bank and Gaza strip are occupied.
The Israeli military sends its troops into the occupied territories to defend what is considered an illegal occupation, and when the population there resists, Israel is presented as being under attack.
They don’t present it as saying Israel is the aggressor, Israel is killing people on their own land, in their own homes as an occupier. But no Israel is defending its self.
Israel’s basic posture is anything but defensive. Israel is the only country in the world right now which in contravention to UN security council resolutions, maintains tens of thousands of heavily armed troops outside its borders, in somebody else’s country for the sole purpose of taking their land away from them and in the process forcing them to live under the worst form of tyranny imaginable, it’s just a foreign military dictatorship.
The tanks, the gunships, the snipers, they are all on Palestinian land, and I don’t see why they have to protect themselves on our land, if they’re occupying our land, that context always missing. So even when Israel is busy murdering people in cold blood, it is always presented as part of the self defense mechanism of Israel.
When Israel, the occupied territory now claim that they have to defend themselves, their defending themselves in the sense that any military occupier has to defend itself against the population and aggression. You can’t defend yourselves when you’re militarily occupying somebody else’s land, that’s not defense, call it what you like but it is not defense.
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