CNN’s God’s Warriors part I, Gods Jewish Warriors

I had great hopes for this 6 hour documentary because Christianne Amanpour was doing it. I also had great reservations since this was still CNN. This was still US media, especially US television.

One easy prediction to make was that any exposure of the truth about Israel and it’s US supporters would result in campaigns and a total assault on the program, CNN and Christiane Amanpour. And so it has begun, led by CAMERA, the Zionist lobby’s media arm.

Both proved accurate. Amanpour did an amazing job on many levels. The US audience was allowed to see things generally underreported in the US.
We saw connections between US politicians and illegal Israeli settlements.
We saw US politicians using campaign contributions to send to Israel to support illegal settlements.
We saw Christian zionists in all their glory.
We saw Jewish terrorists.
We saw the power of the Israel lobby, especially AIPAC but including the Christian Zionists, in Washington.
We saw what happens to politicians who place justice or US interests before AIPAC or Israeli interests.
We saw lots more.

But

We saw it all within the context of “response”. We saw it all in the context of “revenge”. The narrative that Israelis, Jews, settlers, terrorists, are all responding to the threat posed by Palestinians in particular and Arabs in general was pervasive.

Although we saw one Palestinian home spared from demolition, we did not see or hear about the thousands of others which are not.

Finally we saw nothing of the daily terror inflicted on Palestinians by the Israeli army every day.

All in all it was fantastic. See for yourself if you missed it. The other two parts will follow.

CNN’s Ben Wedeman presents the conflict between Palestinian cave dwellers and Israeli settlers as a typical case of old traditions giving way to modern development. The reality is that the Israeli settlements are illegal and are built and expanded in order to steal Palestinian land and displace Palestinians.

Also missing from Ben Wedeman’s report is the abject violence used by the Jewish settlers against Palestinians in this area.

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I spent time in Tuwane, a cave dwelling village south of Hebron, in 2003. I was there in conjunction with the Israeli organization Taayush. Our purpose was to protect the Palestinians from the settlers who were building an “outpost”. Jewish Settlers would show up over shabat to terrorize the people of Tuwani for the purpose of driving them out. Israeli border police often provided protection for settlers who were stoning Palestinian children on their way to school or beating Palestinian adults. Our prescence reduced the risk for Palestinians but by no means eliminated it.

The risk is catalogued by David Bloom writing for World War 4 Report:

On Sept. 29, masked men, clothed all in black, came down from the direction of the Jewish settlement colony Maon Farm, and attacked Kim Lamberty, 44, and Chris Brown, 36, both US citizens working with Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT). At the time of the attack, they were escorting Palestinian children to school on a path where the students often face stone-throwing and other attacks from the militant settlers of Maon. The five assailants were armed with chains and baseball bats. Brown sustained a facial laceration and a collapsed lung. The men bashed him with chains and kicked him with their boots. They threw Lamberty to the ground, breaking her knee and arm. The victims were on the ground 30 minutes before they were evacuated to the Soroka Medical Center in Beer Sheva, Israel. The children ran away during the assault.

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For many years the Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza have been subjected to vile harassment by settlers who are protected by Israel soldiers. Nowhere is the issue more visible than in Hebron/Khalil. Several years ago a few former Israeli army soldiers created the organization Breaking the Silence as a way of exposing the reality of what they are faced with and how the occupation has corrupted them and their behavior.

Their first exhibition was called “Breaking the Silence- Fighters Tell about Hebron”.

And the settlers are often more abusive and vicious than the soldiers. The abuse captured in the current footage would probably not make the exhibition. It is comparatively mild. The resulting investigtion ordered by Peretz is likely more of a PR move than a serious concern. Still, it is unusual to see on US television.

From CNN International

Mr Wederman just cannot call a settlement a settlement. He refers to it as a “Jewish enclave” amidst thousands of Palestinians. It is a little awkward then when he refers to the Jewish residents of this “enclave” as settlers. This is because all Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, which includes East Jerusalem, are illegal.

ABC News Now: Worldview see the video here