Remarks of Journalist Jonathan Cook of Nazareth, one of the many Palestinians living within the "official" borders of Israel. 20% of the population of Israel-proper is Palestinian. Cook's 2009 remarks are eerily predictive of the Arabic struggle for survival today.
Cook points out that Palestine is fast disappearing and fulfilling the objectives of Israel's founding fathers. Over many decades, Israel has developed and refined policies to disperse, imprison and impoverish the Palestinian people, in a relentless effort to destroy them as a nation. It has industrialized Palestinian despair through ever more sophisticated systems of curfews, checkpoints, walls, permits and land grabs. Cook analyzes how Israel has transformed the West Bank and Gaza into laboratories for testing the infrastructure of confinement, creating a lucrative "defense" industry by pioneering the technologies needed for urban warfare, crowd control and collective punishment.
From archive of broadcast by WZBC, Newton, MA, part of Truth and Justice Radio (truthandjusticeradio.org)
Cook's remarks posted here on 1-20-2013 are what we intended to re-air for This Week In Palestine's 6-9-2013 episode. To our regret, on the latter date the recording got badly corrupted and wound up presenting only a small fraction of the original content. So the playlist for it links to the archive.org posting from 1-20-2013.
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