The two-state solution did it ever mean more than an expanding colonial state, Israel ruling over a Palestinian Bantustan? with Jeff Halper Coordinator of the Israeli Committee against House Demolitions and author of War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification
Jeff Halper provides a powerful indictment of the Israeli states securocratic war in the Palestinian Occupied Territories, drawing on firsthand research to show the pernicious effects of the subliminal form of unending warfare conducted by Israel, an approach that relies on sustaining fear among the populace, fear that is stoked by suggestions that the enemy is inside the city limits, leaving no place truly safe and justifying the intensification of military action and militarization in everyday life. Halper shows, the integration of militarized systems"including databases tracking civilian activity, automated targeting systems, unmanned drones, and more"becomes seamless with everyday life. And the Occupied Territories, Halper argues, is a veritable laboratory for that approach. Halper goes on to show how this method of war is rapidly globalizing, as the major capitalist powers and corporations transform militaries, security agencies, and police forces into an effective instrument of global pacification.
Halper is a supporter of the Boycott Divestment and Sanction Movement and the academic boycott of Israel, and considers Israel to be guilty of apartheid and of a deliberate campaign to judaize the occupied Palestinian territories. He critiques the political and territorial viability of a two-state solution and raises the mainly nonviolent strategies to solve the Israeli-Palestinian within one state.
produced by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash
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