Did the "Two Sate Solution" Ever Mean More Than Israel Ruling Over a Palestinian Bantustan? -28:02
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 sub-liminal 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 & justifying 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. 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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