Video Infoblog: Israeli historian Ilan Pappé: it's not occupation - it's colonisation

13 Feb 2019 #WestBank #Israel #Gaza

Israeli historian Ilan Pappé says Israel's presence in Palestinian territories is not occupation - it's colonisation. #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #Settlements

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I think that language is very important

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the way you you frame a situation can

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affect your chances of changing it and I

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think we in the West not only in the

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West we have been framing the situation

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in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and

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inside Israel with the wrong dictionary

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with the wrong words for example

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occupation always means a temporary

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situation and there is an international

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law which adapts itself to situations of

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occupation but and and you think that

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the solution for occupation is the end

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of occupation the military goes back to

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the other country but this is not the

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situation in neither in West West Bank

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nor in Israel or the Gaza Strip

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this is colonization I suggest although

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it sounds like an anachronistic term in

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the 21st century I think we should

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understand that Israel is colonizing

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Palestine started colonizing it in the

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late 19th century and still colonizing

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it today