What You Need To Know About Israel's "Colonies"
by Anna Baltzer
Global Research, January 16, 2009
Anna Baltzer, a young Jewish American, went to the West Bank to discover the realities of daily life for Palestinians under the occupation. What she found would change her outlook on the conflict forever. She wrote this book to give voice to the stories of the people who welcomed her with open arms as their lives crumbled around the
More..m. For five months, Baltzer lived and worked with farmers, Palestinian and Israeli activists, and the families of political prisoners, traveling with them across endless checkpoints and roadblocks to reach hospitals, universities, and olive groves.
Baltzer witnessed firsthand the environmental devastation brought on by expanding settlements and outposts and the destruction wrought by Israels Security Fence, which separates many families from each other, their communities, their land, and basic human services. What emerges from Baltzers journal is not a sensationalist tale of suicide bombers and conspiracies, but a compelling and inspiring description of the trials of daily life under the occupation. Anna Baltzer is a Jewish American graduate of Columbia University, Fulbright scholar, and two-time volunteer with the International Womens Peace Service in the West Bank, where she documented human rights abuses and supported the nonviolent resistance movement to the occupation.
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Excellent post. This is part of a larger talk - a must see for any American who has a brain and wants to know where their money is going.
Posted Jan-16-2009 by "iron_metals" (R)
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Posted Jan-16-2009 by "jjjjjay" (R)
great vid thank you
Posted Jan-16-2009 by "MrGreen77" (R)
Hey dumb *****, the arabs will rape you and cut your head off, go live with them - we could care less about you.
Posted Jan-16-2009 by "TestesTestes123" (R)
Tell that to the Israeli candyman, how nice the palestinians are, the ones he worked with...they themselves lured him to a trap and killed him, for being a Jew.
Idiots like this "jewish-american" are a disgrace to Israelis.
Posted Jan-16-2009 by "TestesTestes123" (R)
great vid thank you
Posted Jan-16-2009 by "lighter911" (R)
and you LL meatheads wonder why the 'evil' hamas 'lobs rockets'
I dont care what fake god you believe in, if this happened to you, you would 'lob' handfuls of shit if that was all you had to 'lob'.
Posted Jan-16-2009 by "Big_Beezy" (B)
Idiots like this "jewish-american" are a disgrace to Israelis.
u are a disgrace 2 humanaty u zionist pig wast of a sperm
Posted Jan-16-2009 by "rooster0077" (R)
pretty and nice girl. are you sure you're really jewish? it is exactly as you describe, except the USA subsidies all of this and underwrites the loans for this development.
Posted Jan-16-2009 by "arthurburns" (R)
Nice. The settlers created their own kind of isolated ghetto. Kind of stupid if you ask me. Just makes them easy targets to pick out for targeting by even the most inaccurate rockets aimed by Hamas. Kind of like the shtettles of europe where whole villages were massacered because they knew that all inside were jews. Isolating yourself from your enemy just makes you a bigger target.
Posted Jan-16-2009 by "polskie-ogorki" (R)
how cute. catch a hamas rocket.
Posted Jan-16-2009 by "Marc_" (R)
Guaranteed this chick has a scraggly beard and is wearing a poncho and a bandana.
Posted Jan-16-2009 by "knockemdown" (R)
Idiots like this "jewish-american" are a disgrace to Israelis.
u are a disgrace 2 humanaty u zionist pig wast of a sperm
And you advocate raping 10 year old girls, you fu@king child molester.
Posted Jan-16-2009 by "TestesTestes123" (R)
I'd rather be called a zionist than proclaim the faith of a child molester goat fu@ker. LOL
Arabs = dirty scum, they are pure filth. Anyone who teaches kids to blow themselves up and that marrying a 10 year old girl is legal, is a fu@king sociopath.
Arabs provide NO advancement to the civilized world, they only bring destruction. At least Israelis turned that desert land into a city and made it a free society.
All you american fuc@kers who support the arabs should all be sent to live with them under Sharia law you're all a disgrace to the civilized world and to intelligent people.
Posted Jan-16-2009 by "TestesTestes123" (R)
Idiots like this "jewish-american" are a disgrace to Israelis.
u are a disgrace 2 humanaty u zionist pig wast of a sperm
I bet you fantasize of that dirty arab's finger up your ass don't you
Posted Jan-16-2009 by "TestesTestes123" (R)