Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition
Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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The ‘two-state solution - did it ever mean more than an expanding
colonial state, Israel ruling over a Palestinian Bantustan?
with
Jeff Halper Coordinator of the Israeli Committee against House
Demolitions and author of War Against the People: Israel, the
Palestinians and Global Pacification
Jeff Halper provides a powerful indictment of the Israeli state’s “securocratic”
war in the Palestinian Occupied Territories, drawing on firsthand research to
show the pernicious effects of the subliminal form of unending warfare that
was conducted by Israel, an approach that relies on sustaining fear among
the populace, fear that is stoked by suggestions that the enemy is inside the
city limits, leaving no place truly safe and justifying the intensification of
military action and militarization in everyday life. Halper shows, the integration
of militarized systems—including databases tracking civilian activity,
automated targeting systems, unmanned drones, and more—becomes
seamless with everyday life. And the Occupied Territories, Halper argues,
is a veritable laboratory for that approach. Halper goes on to show how this
method of war is rapidly globalizing, as the major capitalist powers and
corporations transform militaries, security agencies, and police forces into
an effective instrument of global pacification.
Halper is a supporter of the Boycott Divestment and Sanction Movement
and the academic boycott of Israel, and considers Israel to be guilty of
“apartheid” and of a deliberate campaign to “judaize” the occupied
Palestinian territories. He critiques the political and territorial viability
of a ‘two-state solution’ and raises the mainly nonviolent strategies to
solve the Israeli-Palestinian within one state.
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