Arundhati Roy on the Palestinian / Israeli Conflict

Segment from the film "We.." where Arundhati Roy speaks about the Israeli / Palestinian conflict in the middle east. Historic references, who funds it, and more.

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[generalsmuts90]

I think it's horrible that people think they have a right to a place because a completely made-up "God" said they should have it, and that we (the UK) pandered to that belief.

& ronmichaeli, if you think that Israel wants to "give" the Palestinians land - you have a screw loose. They have been slowly encroaching more and more of the gaza strip and west bank for years. It seems like they want to purge the land of the people by making it the hardest possible place for them to live.

[newyorkin1980]

free Palestine!!!!!!!!!!

[ewingsco]

Israel is expanding.

Palestinian House Demolitions + Israeli Settlement Construction = Israeli Border Expansion

This is the root cause of the problem.

End of story.

[sugerhill1992]

@generalsmuts90

tell me you self riches mother fucker you englishman and your arrogence you were and are the worst contry that killed and destroyed native people all over history. isreal is a countery also a countrey for the arab population who supprot isreal.you should have seen your sow called palstiane it looked like shit. its the jews population the build this countrey from the ashes of the muslaim palstinian era to the much much better isreal that is considerd as a economic milatery power

[xplosivelilly]

correction...jews were and not the most oppressed people during history. other people have been thru as or much worse than the jews...yet we hear nothing about it in our everyday lives...we're meant to forget the injustice and torture that went on in the past, but yet we are always remind about the holocaust...why is that? the first concentraion camp was in nabibia by german colonizers, 30 million indians were starved to death by the british, aboriginals were almost wiped out in ausie.

[ronmichaeli]

@inder19852000 You idiot probably hate any Israeli goverment, not only the current one, which also works to get peace, unlike the Palestinians who reject the idea.

Find me one Palestinian leader who is not afraid to speak about peace to his people without hate in his eyes. Just like Mandela, Gandhi or even Netanyahu. The problem is that they are afraid to face themselves. If they will stop terrorism, Israel won't have to stop it instead.

Israel is a great peaceful country. Too bad you hate it.

[inder19852000]

The world then called Mandela also as ´Terrorist´.Were they also dumb?I hate current Israeli government to the core,although it is India´s strategic partner.

[ronmichaeli]

@inder19852000 Only dumb people judge someone by the amount of money he has. So what if Israel is stronger?

How can you even compare great men like Gandhi and Mandela, a true peace makers, to an evil terrorists like Hamas??!!

Does Bin-Laden is also considered to you as one of those great historic figures?!

If the Palestinians had their own Gandhi, we could have peace a long time ago.

By the way, No one really knows if Israel even has Nukes, and if it does it is for deterrenc only.

[inder19852000]

If Gandhi were to be born in Palestine,Israel would have burned him to ashes by this time.How can you compare a nuclear-armed Israel(USA as backbone) with Hamas?The West used to call Nelson Mandela as terrorist too

[ronmichaeli]

@badfoods You don't have to feel sorry for me, someone who really understand the whole picture. Israel has more self criticism than any country I know and we don't have a problem when others criticize us, as long as it fair and true.

I feel sorry for you, for not understanding in what kind of world we live in.

All you do, even if you would say otherwise, is justifying Islamic terrorism and deny the right of self defense. Maybe if you'll feel our pain, you'll open your eyes. But you don't care.

[ronmichaeli]

@badfoods I know about the horrible situation in Gaza. It's weird but even the Gazans know they had better lives when Israel was there. Hamas ruined there lives and instead of spending money on good things, they spend it on terror. They are brainwashing their kids to hate Israel, not because we fight them when we need to defend ourselves, but because all they want is to destroy Israel.

Only dumb people like you think that suicide bomber is a "freedom fighter".