A Tour of the West Bank

A tour for students from the Tel Aviv University in the West Bank in May 2009. The tour was given by Machsom Watch.

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[Tali999]

That's a very accurate assessment, Ham. The more I go into the history of the natives, the more I understand Israel was constructed on the American model.

[hamshow]

The settlements in Israel seems to parallel the settlement of the American west.

In the US Once proud Indian tribes were forced onto small reservations where they were dependent on the government for their subsistence. Meanwhile white settlers carved up the land for themselves.

Under the banner of manifest destiny the Indians lost everything.

I can see that happening to the Palestinians.

[Tomislavv2]

@Tali999

So why the fuck you dont leave Israel and go wherever you want?99% of Israelis wont cry for you

[Fluffypear]

@EdwardRommel $135 million from Truman in surplus aid (including tanks, planes, etc.). Congressional votes in favor of aid to Israel in 1951. From 1959 to 1985, the US provides loans and military surplus to Israel. Israel begins to fully purchase arms from the US in 1962. The 1973 Yom Kippur War sees more grants still.

Fun fact of the day for you: Israel has received more direct aid from the United States since World War II than any other country. Period.

[Fluffypear]

@EdwardRommel For you, as with many people, I have one word and one number: Hagana, 1947

[Fluffypear]

@EdwardRommel Wikipedia? Good god, the world is going to hell! Don't even start with Wikipedia. I have hundreds of academic journal articles, books and lecture notes written by Israeli and Palestinian scholars that will shame that Wikipedia article straight back to the lying, misinformed layman's cesspool that it belongs in.

I guess you haven't read much of that Partition Plan and its "holier than thou" snot flung at the Arabs. Or the British Mandate. Or anything in that damn year.

[EdwardRommel]

@Fluffypear ...read the wikipedia article on "Israel"...Israel could not buy weapons from the USA in 1940's or 1950's...so they bought them from France and Chezchoslovakia. They got most of their financial aid in German holocaust reparations.

The US has blocked UN resolutions against Israel but don't forget that the Israelis did accept the UN Partition Plan in 1948...but the Arabs rejected it.

The Arabs have created this situation by attacking Israel 3 times in 48, 67 and 73...fools!

[Fluffypear]

@EdwardRommel Ah, Val Kilmer! An actor. No wonder your "facts" are so messy.

[Fluffypear]

@EdwardRommel The United States has "discouraged" Israel, yes. But every single time the UN puts up a resolution for intervention of illegal Israeli settlements, the United States blocks it. Every time, without fail. Also, the majority of the Israeli military & aid was provided by the US, ever since WWII. I don't know where you got your silly assumptions from, but they're abysmally wrong, Mr. so-called "Truth Seeker".

[EdwardRommel]

@hamshow

Actualy I only speak the truth...because I'm a truth seeker.

[hamshow]

@EdwardRommel You have got to be kidding...