also VIDEO of Forum on House Demolitions: http://politube.org/show/3305
FIVE WEEKS AGO, PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT MAHMOUD ABBAS CAME TO THE UNITED NATIONS AND FORMALLY REQUESTED THAT PALESTINE BE RECOGNIZED AS A MEMBER STATE DESPITE A UNITED STATESS THREAT OF A VETO. IN HIS SPEECH, HE BLAMED ISRAEL FOR CAUSING THE FAILURE OF THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS BY CONDUCTING A POLICY OF SETTLEMENTS AND THE "COLONIAL MILITARY OCCUPATION OF THE LAND OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE" WITH "THE BRUTALITY OF AGGRESSION AND RACIAL DISCRIMINATION". THIS PAST THURSDAY, THE BERGEN COUNTY GREEN PARTY INVITED DR. JEFF HALPER, A LECTURER IN ANTHROPOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA AND THE FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR OF THE ISRAELI COMMITTEE AGAINST HOUSE DEMOLITIONS, TO SHARE HIS EXPERIENCE AND VIEWS ON THE SUBJECT. WBAI FRED NGUYEN ATTENDED THE EVENT IN TEANECK, NEW JERSEY, AND HE FILED THIS REPORT:
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