Program Title: Jeff Halper: Israel and Palestine
Description: This recording is from a lecture presentation Jeff Halper gave in Leacock Theatre at McGill University, in Montreal, Quebec. The date of the recording was January 14th.

The lecture is as recorded and can be edited for story or full broadcast. The length of all 3 parts is a little over an hour.

American-Israeli Jeff Halper is a Nobel Peace Prize nominee and prominent peace activist. He is the founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)and has written several books and articles on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

AUDIO TRANSCRIPT:

[05:00] History of the Framing of Israel’s Nationalism
[07:58] Israel as a “clash of civilizations� East vs. West
[11:10] The Idea of Exclusivity, “There’s no such thing as a Palestinian.�
[11:43] The use of the word “Arabs� How Israel defines them as a people
[13:27] Interruption: Question from the audience…
[14:39] “This is exactly the issue: Who does a country belong to?�
[16:30] Palestinians live in Israel by sufferance not by right
[19:00] “A million bullets!!... Disproportionate response to the rockets�
[19:45] “The only way to stop rocket fire is a peaceful process…�
[20:00] “Gaza is Barren… It’s a massacre.�
[23:15] The underlying Israeli contradiction that leads to “genocidal war [33:00] “Conservatively between five and ten thousand homes destroyed…�
[34:20] Annapolis Process: Israel’s Apartheid Scheme
[36:00] Towards an Apartheid state: The Bantustan
[43:00] US approval on Settlements in West Bank
[44:00] Israel/US arming Fatah and Abbas, collab regimes (Egypt)
[45:00] Hamas: 15% of Palestinians actually believe the ideology
[46:17] Hamas is the only resistance
[47:20] Israel’s regional and global reasons for the War in Gaza
[51:19] Why does Israel get the support it gets? Global Pacification System
[51:50] The Occupied Territories as an open air Laboratory for product testing…
[53:20] Israel is developing a system of control that can be exported
[53:35] The concept or idea of “warehousing�
[55:45] The first entire People, classified as “Surplus Humanity�
[58:45] The link to Canada: “What Israel develops in Nabullus gets into the MTL Police force….�
[1:01:50] The Road from Gaza to your door is a very short road.
[1:04:20] Beginning of Question and Answer Period and First Question

Host(s): n/a
Featured Speakers/Guests: Jeff Halper

Credits: Recorded by: CKUT 90.3 FM

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