Political Economy of Genocide

international | anti-war / imperialism | news report Thursday September 14, 2006 19:54 by Revolt Video revoltvideo at hushmail dot com

One Race the Human Race

Part I: The Political Economy of Genocide

Documentary (Duration 42 mins)

This short film by no means tries to give a what, when, where, who and how analysis of the conflict taking place in the Lebanon, Palestine and Israeli (Iraq). It is a collection of mostly images and video taken off various Indymedia sites around the world and merged together to give an incomplete and brief snap shot montage sequence of the consequences of state violence and apathy to the suffering of human beings for narrow selfish political reasons.

Dedicated to IMC journalists in Lebanon, Palestine and Israel.

Video Link:

https://video.indymedia.org/en/2006/09/467.shtml

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Size of file is 311megabites (Third of a Gigabyte), It was compressed as much as possible anymore would compromise video quality. (7.4 megabites per minute.)

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Transcripts of some of the narration

“All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive of things. Leaders destroy their followers, followers destroy their leaders. You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.”

“For centuries we have been conditioned by nationality, cast, class, tradition, religion, language, education, literature, art, custom, convention, propaganda of all kinds, economic pressure, our experiences- every influence you can think of – and therefore, our responses to every problem are conditioned.”

“When you call yourself an Indian or Muslim or a Christian or European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you are separating yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man or woman who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any political party or partial system: he is concerned with the understanding of mankind.”

“Words are cheap when used to describe the ongoing slaughter and destruction in Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine and at the hands of the US and the US-funded Israeli army. No matter how eloquent or expressive, words stand helpless and ring hollow when confronted with the distressing human suffering inflicted on Iraqi, Lebanese and Palestinian civilians by war machines and the utter apathy, even indifference, of world powers towards them.”

“The Israeli side has attempted to market this campaign of death and destruction in Lebanon and Palestine as "self-defense" intended to "defend peace," in the words of Shimon Peres, who in 1996 gave the orders to bomb a UNIFIL post in Qana, South Lebanon, where hundreds of civilians had sought refuge. That attack burned 106 Lebanese civilians to death, also in the name of Israeli "self-defense." Israeli officials have also allowed themselves the audacity of speaking on behalf of the Lebanese and Palestinian peoples they are assaulting. In the UN, the Israeli representative Ambassador Dan Gillerman was able to lecture the Security Council with a straight face about the right of the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples to live in peace and prosperity”

“To top off this shameless Israeli public diplomacy campaign, Ms. Tzipi Livni, the Israeli Foreign Minister, states repeatedly, without the slightest embarrassment, that her country's assault on Lebanon is meant to "help" the Lebanese government exercise its sovereignty and implement Security Council resolution 1559! Unfortunately, she has yet to be asked how the bombing of Lebanese bridges and roads, army barracks, and communications antennas is meant to help the government nor how infringing upon the sovereignty of Lebanon is meant to solidify that country's sovereignty. More importantly, this shocking remark did not invite a response that would remind the Israeli official that her country infringed upon Lebanon's sovereignty through land, air, and sea over 11,000 times in the past six years.”

”The crowning jewel of this crisis, with its twisted logic and perverse objectives, is the statement of the US Secretary of State, calling the current carnage "the birth pangs of a new Middle East." These "pangs" of a foreign-grown and forcibly implanted pregnancy are more like deafening "bangs" that shatter the homes, hopes, and future of Lebanese and Palestinian children. They are the blows Ms. Rice is allowing to continue to burn, maim and kill civilians in Lebanon and Palestine. Ms. Rice's "new" Middle East is being molded by the charred remains of children and their hopes for a dignified life in Palestine and Lebanon.”

Related Links

http://www.infoshop.org/wiki/index.php/Anarchists_Again..._Wall

http://palestinechronicle.com/story-08210672240.htm

http://palestinechronicle.com/story-08210691614.htm

http://www.indymedia.org/en/2006/08/844430.shtml

http://www.counterpunch.org/tilley08192006.html

http://www.merip.org/mer/mer240/blecher.html

http://electronicintifada.net/new.shtml

http://www.adbusters.org/home/

http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/

http://www.schnews.org.uk/

http://beirut.indymedia.org/

http://www.amnesty.org/

Music

http://www.samimoukaddem.com/

http://www.myspace.com/rest

http://www.myspace.com/loslangeros