Saturday, September 16, 2017

Occupation of the American Mind (Part 1)

Conscious; Roger Water (Pink Floyd) and MIT Prof. Jut Shally (occupationmovie.com); Sheldon S., Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Hey, Netanyahu, leave those Palestinian kids alone. We don't need no thoughts controlled!


Israel is trying to defend the indefensible
What do I think of Bibi? We work for the CIA.
Defending the Indefensible: Israel's ongoing genocide -- as defined by international standards -- and illegal military occupation of Palestine and repeated invasions of the Gaza Strip and West Bank have triggered a fierce backlash against Netanyahu's government and its policies virtually everywhere in the world except the United States. That exception is by design.

Genocide: intentional action to destroy [erase, or remove] a people (usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group) in whole or in part. The hybrid word "genocide" is a combination of the Greek word génos ("race, people") and the Latin suffix -cide, "act of killing" (Stanton, Gregory H., What is genocide?, Genocide Watch.). The United Nations Genocide Convention, which was established in 1948, defines genocide as "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group." The term genocide was coined by Raphael Lemkin in his 1944 book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe; it has been applied to the Holocaust and many other mass killings including the genocide of indigenous peoples in the Americas... More

Jewish rock stars in US
The Occupation of the American Mind takes an eye-opening look at this critical exception. It zeroes in on pro-Israel public relations efforts in the U.S.

Narrated by Pink Floyd's Roger Waters and featuring leading observers of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and U.S. media culture, this film explores HOW the Israeli and U.S. governments, with the help of the pro-Israel lobby (AIPAC, J Street, etc.) have joined forces, often with very different motives, to manufacture American media coverage of the conflict in Israel's favor.

Jews heeding God's command to sacrifice
From the U.S.-based public relations campaigns that emerged in the 1980s to today, the film provides a sweeping analysis of Israel's decades-long battle for the hearts, minds, and tax dollars of the American people (Christian fundamentalists in particular) in the face of widening international condemnation of its right-wing policies.

Jewish terrorist who threatened synagogues
This documentary is narrated by Roger Waters and features Amira Hass, M.J. Rosenberg, Stephen M. Walt, Noam Chomsky, Rula Jebreal, Henry Siegman, Rashid Khalidi, Rami Khouri, Yousef Munayyer, Norman Finkelstein, Max Blumenthal, Phyllis Bennis, Norman Solomon, Mark Crispin Miller, Peter Hart, and MIT Prof. Sut Jhally, who helped make the film.

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