- Noam Chomsky: When Israelis in the occupied territories now claim that they have to defend themselves, they are defending themselves in the sense that any military occupier has to defend itself against the population they are crushing... You can't defend yourself when you're militarily occupying someone else's land. That's not defense. Call it what you like, it's not defense.
- narratress: Total US aid to Israel since 1949 has amounted to over 100 billion Dollars, making Israel - a country the size of New Jersey - the fourth most powerful military in the world, in possession of the largest fleet of F-16 fighter planes outside the United States.
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- title card: In 1967, following a war between Israel and the countries of Syria, Jordan and Egypt, Israel militarily occupied the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem.
- title card: That year, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 242 calling on Israel to withdraw from the Occupied Territories.
- title card: Israel has yet to comply.
- title card: Today, 3 million Palestinians live under illegal military occupation.
- title card: Today, the lives of both Israelis and Palestinians are plagued by daily violence and insecurity.
- narratress: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict dominates American news coverage of international issues. Given that news coverage is America's main source of information on the conflict, it becomes important to examine the stories the news media are teling us and to ask the question, "Does the news coverage reflect reality on the ground?"
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- Neve Gordon: Their struggle in many ways is a just struggle. What are they struggling? They're struggling for a state. We in Israel have a state, the American people have a state, why shouldn't the Palestinian people have a state?