Can Barak Obama pull off the Two-State Solution? And if he can’t… Jeff Halper from Stephen Sizer on Vimeo.
Dr Jeff Halper, Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) gave this moving presentation at Amnesty International’s Human Rights Action Centre, London. Kristyan Benedict hosted the event before a distinguished audience.
From a series of detailed maps, Jeff Halper gave irrefutable evidence of Israel’s apartheid strategy which is to deny any possibility of an independent Palestinian State. The Israeli ‘two state’ solution offers the Palestinians a few cantons, to use Ariel Sharon’s words, that resemble the failed Bantustans of Apartheid South Africa.
His believes peace will only be possible if Barak Obama says three things to Israel:
1. We love you
2. We will protect you
3. Now get out of Palestine – back to the 1967 borders.
Jeff Halper is an Israeli Jew, a professor of anthropology and a 2006 Nobel Peace Prize nominee. During more than thirty years as a human rights activist he has experienced arrest and imprisonment and is currently out on bail.
Since 1967, over 24,000 Palestinian homes have been demolished in the Occupied Territories in violation of international law. Jeff Halper is credited with pioneering the use of nonviolent direct action and civil disobedience to resist the Israeli policy of demolishing Palestinian homes and mobilizing international support to rebuild these houses.
Jeff Halper’s books include, An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting dispossession, redeeming Israel (Pluto Press, London, 2008) and Obstacles to Peace (ICAHD, 2009). In them he argues for the end of the Occupation and a just and sustainable solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict based on a respect for international law and universal human rights.
See the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and ICAHD-UK
See Amnesty International and Amnesty UK
