ICAHD News: Jeff Halper’s August Update: The Violent Culmination of Israel’s Zionism
These are the days when Israel is finishing its settler colonial project in historic Palestine. The violence is brutal and humiliating for the Palestinians as even their homes are invaded, not only in Area C but also in Areas B and A due to the Oslo Accords being thrown out.
Netanyahu’s government is racing to establish as many facts on the ground as possible because Trump has given him the greenlight to do so. There is no going back to the ’67 lines for the illusion of that two-state solution.
Jeff refers to countries that one way or another are normalising their relationship with Israel and Israel’s success in its “hasbara” as it being a liberal, peace loving, democratic country that it has sold to the West.
At 18 minutes into the recording, Jeff’s attention is on Israel’s Matrix of Control used to expropriate most of the West Bank. He unpacks the mechanisms of the civil administration (the military government of the West Bank) that has avoided sanctions and achieved it aims. The statistics are staggering.
The final part of the update begins at 37 minutes. He asks internationals to make sure that the many wonderful campaigns don’t result in being disconnected from the current reality on the ground in Palestine with the urgency of the moment and the scale of human suffering that need our focus.