to denial characterize zionism tonight we cut through the nile and expose israel's violence americans have seen too little the bloody aftermath to israel defending itself my guest dr buildings to emerge from position volunteered gaza several times what reaction did you have from witnessing all that gore in two thousand and six i worked in the field doing shrapnel rounds in the aftermath of a massacre and in two and yes i've seen many many people whose lives are of who were not killed but whose lives will be permanently affected as a result of the carnage that they received from the israeli occupation forces of your colleagues that they want these pictures exposed american public that's exactly right in both two thousand and six and two thousand and nine i was given footage of direct war trauma victims and told to show this to the american people why do you think they really want gory pictures because they don't want these people to have died in vain they want the message that gaza is suffering a man slowly to be shown to the western world so perhaps someday we can put a stop to this car and do you think that a glimpse at the gore is going to help americans get it i think i love america definitely needs to get it we live in a strange country we have fictitious violence on our movies and television programs on a daily basis to get us used to the idea that violence is ok but i think if americans were able to see the true consequences of military violence they wouldn't stand for it and these endless wars in palestine iraq afghanistan could be put to an end and so so much of this violence is children we're going to be showing slides of children just mangled that's true well over half the population in gaza right now is under the age of eighteen and so the lion's share of the victims wind up being children do you think these pictures are put for to put expose the lie that israel trumpets all the time and it's just defending itself israel always plays itself as the victim we always hear that israel has the right to defend itself we did to defend itself we never hear that the palestinians have any rights whatsoever to defend themself to equal rights to justice none of that and so what i'm going to try to show you tonight is that the palestinian are humans in flesh and blood just like you and me and they have a right to equal rights and justice so what about the israelis haven't they been victims of violence sure they've been victims of violence but if you look at the last four years the death ratio by that i mean dead palestinians to dead israelis is one hundred to one did you say a hundred to one hundred to one and so and the only way that you can consider the israelis as the victim in all of this is to assume that israeli lives are one hundred times more valuable than palestinian lives and again we're going to get into these graphics video shots of gore did you notice hardened attitudes sure although the palestinians kno that they are the underdog here and so they are willing to negotiate a peace settlement with israel however it has to be based on equal rights and justice and not based on a privileged class and a slave class that's been the problem with negotiations to this point because it hasn't been on based on the principle of equal rights for all the people who live in the holy land so that palestinians are slaves and slave through violence there and slave there were locked up in concentration camps at this point now here i believe this is a slide which you actually or holding up your hands yeah that's me in the green surgical scrub the second person to the right  i went to gaza in august two thousand and eight as part of the first voyage of the free gaza movement at this point we were escorting a woman that had spinal cord tumor who had been delayed from exit in gaza for specially medical care and we took her to the border to confront the occupation forces and they threatened to shoot us and you know you've got the warning here we will share and we see that they do sometimes indiscriminately sure this is a victim from two thousand six that suffered shrapnel room wounds when a bomb goes off it explodes into thousands of little fragments and this is the type of injury pattern that it presents and sometimes in this case it affected multiple facial injuries this gentleman's face swelled up to the point where he could not keep his airway open and they had to do a tracheotomy and breathe through his throat in order to keep him alive or he would have died of obstruction this man has multiple burn injuries multiple facial injuries including chest and abdominal injuries this is after he's had surgery he has a chest to this man's a dead as was killed by a gunshot wound to the head by israeli snipers like pasta looks itself is all about israel is the fourth largest military power in the world and the palestinians don't even have an army this is a child that was killed by a gunshot wound to the head and there are more slides that's what we've just seen our conventional well better weapons right what we're going to show now is some of the unconventional weapons that have been developed by israeli and in northern gaza patients were brought to hospital in jabalya refugee camp and the doctors were noting injury patterns that they'd never seen before such as people like this who's your hand has been totally incinerated just terrible damage of the flesh and this is from a modern weapon that is being developed in gaza using the palestinians sure let me explain that weapon more it's called denson or medical experimental metal explosives and hits the body sometimes you can have relatively minor extra wounds but then patients die weeks to days later of internal injuries because the tungsten alloy in his vapor form goes right through the flesh and infiltrates the internal organs if a patient survives the acute injury from a dime weapon often they die later of muscle and bone cancer because tungsten is a cancer causing agent and this was developed through boeing and other american corporations and is being used on an experimental basis on people in gaza now if that isn't bad enough most people have heard that white phosphorus going to non conventional banned i believe it's an illegal weapon when white phosphorus has been around since world war two american troops call it whiskey pete it's been used in iraq as well it is according to international law right now it's not supposed to be used in densely populated areas the gaza strip is the most densely populated area on the planet with four thousand six hundred people per square kilometer and as you can see in the picture being shown this is israeli forces dropping white phosphorus on the united nations school in the gaza strip on a school on a school and this is the kind of injuries you see it causes that when that when the white phosphorus hits the flesh it continues to burn if you pour water on it the burn accelerates and so people are left with very deep and catastrophic burns in this patient you can see first second third and fourth degree burns third degree burns or all the way through the skin fourth degree burns or down through the skin and into the muscle and bone and this was very lethal and it left people with permanent disability among the survivors and again if that isn't bad six we were in beit hanoun gaza there were three or four apache attack helicopters three to four or three to four thousand feet above us of course apache attack helicopters are made by boeing corporation and i was totally terrorized if they wanted to kill us they could but there were a million and a half other targets underneath them and so the odds were such that i survived but after the attack we went to come on one hospital in there were five casualties two were in the operating room two were dead on arrival and this man was hit in the chest with artillery shells fired by the apache attack helicopter we resuscitated him with i v fluids into baited him the operating room at this hospital were all full with other casualties we had to transfer him to another hospital and he died in route he was he wasn't even twenty years old you know we always hear about excess tensional threat to israel but we hear endlessly about the missiles being fired from gaza into israel but we don't hear that those missiles have only killed about twenty israelis in the last ten years so this is really a red herring it's being used to justify the attacks that you see many times an equal amount of palestinians have died in a matter of ten minutes with the attacks israel has wrought upon apparently gaza suffered horrific wounds like this yeah let me explain this one  this isn't a drone attack victim the drones are unmanned aerial vehicles that fire from three to four thousand feet in the air and it's often controlled by army officer in tel aviv who is looking at a video screen such that this is a video game but on the ground it's not a video game it's totally horrific and if arsenal never walk and it's in an environment where there really isn't much infrastructure that's right in this patient is the ones that make it to the hospital of course if it's a dead hit the patients blow to the person's blow to smithereens and they don't they don't make it to the hospital if they make it to the hospital this is the injury pattern because those drones shoot from real high altitude so if they if it's not a clean hit they tend to hit right below the knees and that's what's characteristic of drone attack victims that make it to the hospital still alive but he'll need a double amputation at the very least casualties are so lopsided there's a big ethical moral certainly legal question israel in the united states seem to have a strange set of ethics that seem to imply that it's morally ok to blow people away from three and four thousand feet oh here's a sky here's an example of what happens w israel defends itself i don't think you can call this little girl a terrorist but she serves as surely not an accidental threat no and but she surely a victim of state sponsored terrorism can they do anything from  threatens israel very little because gaza doesn't even have an air force or an army they have some homemade missiles that are very inaccurate that every now and then kill an israeli but in response is can totally devastated a whole community for days to weeks on end as they have and here's a girl i think you told me the story about her unfortunately this girl will be paralyzed from the neck down the rest of her life and in gaza there just isn't the infrastructure to really support well there is infrastructure there are a lot of caring competent physicians and other paraprofessionals but the problem is due to the siege of the gaza strip medical supplies pharmaceuticals agents for dialysis machines who are unable to practice their skill due to lack of resources well it just does not look to me as if the girls on the stretcher that we just saw aren't any or any kind of threat to israel and that israel is using an iron fist and indiscriminate fist it's taking too much toll on civilians children's and gaza it has to stop because we always hear these talked i've spoken with mordechai vanunu on several occasions and he's in jail again for having the nerve to talk openly with people from around the world but i know there's only there's only a militia that's trying to hold on to what little they can and guys are right on again eighty percent of the people who live in gaza come from villages that were in present day israel them and their descendants and so they're simply trying to hold on to what little they have left at this point and we call on the terrorists for having the nerve to practice any armed resistance i think if if this happened to us in america we wouldn't stand for it for one second but it's not happening to us it's happening to someone else that's why the doctors in gaza wanted these pictures shown that's why we need to cut through the denial about what's really happening so the arab fist that israel uses and it's an ending defending itself even though it's the fourth largest army with modern weapons by the way they don't have tanks they don't have x sixteen's they don't have nuclear weapons and there are some of this is a paper tiger the israeli propaganda machine is trying to scare us into thinking that the palestinian armed resistance is is is a viable force when it's just a ragtag militia and it's resulting in tragedies like this quadriplegic girls and many other that are maimed and killed whose lives are destroyed and we hear about the deaths but sometimes we don't hear about the victims who are still alive this picture i took in november two thousand and six and three of these children are now orphans because their parents were killed by an assault on an apartment complex while people slept in their beds at five thirty in the morning their apartment complex was hit with ten or fifteen israeli missiles and we always hear that israel should have a right to exist we never hear that palestinians should have a right to exist too we always hear that in order to talk to hamas they need to renounce violence and recognize israel's right to exist we never hear that we shouldn't give another dime to israel in tow they were announced violence and recognize palestine as a right to exist so there is a lot of hypocrisy and double standards inherent in the current debate and dialogue that occurs in america we heard about helen thomas she told it like it is said get out of gaza get out get out of the settlements is what she said get out of palestine i believe is what she said and of course helen thomas was born in kentucky a daughter of lebanese immigrant parents and she has a distinguished forty fifty plus year career with the white house press corps and she is among the few who questioned the bush administration about the wisdom of the iraq war she was among the few that questioned what's going on in afghanistan she is among the very few that raises the question of the question of palestine and for that israeli propagandists have done their utmost to try to paint her as an anti semite which says she's simply standing up for the rights of other semitic people who live in the courageous few in congress that can speak the truth the others are fearful of what might happen if they question israel why would american congressman be fearful of speaking the truth about god because israel has a very strong net work sympathizers in the united states who control our press who control congress and one of the organizations is called a pac there's a book by  called the israel lobby and its effect on foreign policy and i would encourage you all to look at that book meir shimer and walt minnick it explains how this organization it's essentially has corrupted american  foreign policy as it pertains to the middle east is early zionist violence deniers they're certainly in a state of state of denial as far as the fibs physical havoc that they've created for the palestinian people and i would argue that america has a codependent relationship with the state of israel let me elaborate in the field of chemical dependency when somebody has an alcohol problem it affects friends and family around them got it li booze away from the jews yeah let's substitute armaments for alcohol in this example and so israel is always lobbying our congress to give them more and more weaponry and in fact a few years ago the bush administration authorize ten or thirty billion dollars in military aid over the next ten years it's three billion by your statistics there but i've heard it three billion per year or thirty billion and it may even be higher when you figure in all the other government non government organization it doesn't even provide material support to israel it doesn't include the lost trade relationships the value that we can put on the oh sure it isn't indefinitely devastating to the american economy and it's why we've been forced to fight wars in iraq and afghanistan that have nothing really to do with terrorism but have to do with trying to control those countries resources and we face much more animosity than we would normally if it wasn't for our unconditional support of the state of israel for example if my friend has an alcohol problem and he's throwing up blood in his eyeballs are turning yellow he in the can't get out of his chair anymore he asked me to go down the street and buy him some jack daniels and what i really need to do is confront him but instead because he's been through the holocaust i do to flee go down the street and get him or jack daniels and i really help him him know i need to confront him i need to say enough and so by giving israel money and one conditional aid without any consequences so they're just going to have a bender after rabindra we have a codependent relationship it's damaging the united states of america it's damaging israel and it's leading the world to endless war that could lead to the end of the world you know i have a moral compass and i think a lot of people watching have a moral compass and they don't want to be part of this violence that we had to show had to show to wake up people wake them up in the way that showing a car accident will make people put on their seat belt hoping that the violence that is israel defending its off really can be you know we can cut through the denial and look at what it really is it's it's just violence but it's absolutely right cut through the denial and the so called war on terror that is based on racism and double standards and start talking our way out of this what about a pack you talked about them is the big an enabler an enabler of the addiction that is israel has enabler of american shame enabler of what i think is looking a lot like the trail of this country or they'd just another lobby or they had another lobby in the way or that the crips and bloods are just another boys club yeah well they're there they're the most powerful international lobby that advocates on behalf of a foreign client in the united states the people bringing humanitarian aid t we can certainly see that in the example of the attack in international waters on an arm flotilla of boats and to to to clarify the denial could you imagine if iran attacked a turkish ship in international waters seventy five miles off the coast of iran what would happen i would wager that we would have aircraft carriers off the iranian coast and we'd be launching air strikes but when israel does the same thing  it's spinmeisters here in america show only israeli footage we only hear from the israeli ambassador and mark rigg of the chief propaganda minister for the israeli authority the people on board these ships and some of them are my close friends were abducted in the middle of the night their cameras their laptops their cellular phones were all confiscated and they were  kept incommunicado for several days while israeli try is really propagandists try to spin and limit the coverage to the israeli viewpoint so what with all of this control that over foreign policy for the middle east over money to israel over weapons to israel over continuation of this horrific violent saga that that is the middle east with all the fabrication of the truth do you think that maybe there's been a little bit of could it ton this country that it's has it been completed but it's underway well ariel sharon in two thousand and one openly said stated that the israeli controls the american defense that's again the spin that we get again israel has a right defend itself but that implies that the palestinian people do not have a right to defend themselves israel has a right to exist but that implies that the palestinian people do not have a right to exist so we have framed and framed and framed the american population with these these catchphrases for the cheerful where you protest this because you might be shot with a canister the way it will if i can pronounce your name correctly him you know sure it's the twenty one year old gaza protesting israel's policies and had a canister remove an eye socket just recently she was protesting the attack on the gaza flotilla when a tear gas canister fired by an israeli soldier listing against what israel is doing and he finally made it back to the united states over a year after his injuries he was struck in the face with a tear canister tear gas canister that the damage his brain and he will be impaired for the rest of his life paralyzed on one side unable to speak and his mental cognition severely impaired there's also rachel corrie the american activist from olympia washington who was deliberately run over by an israeli bulldozer of course these are and then there's hurndall but again these are these are western activists for every western activist that i mention there's ten to one hundred times more palestinians who have meet met similar fates somehow we have to  israel we have to take away the money and the weaponry and bring them back into the community of civilization now i want to thank you dr bill danes for coming on and being a humanitarian voice that may help us the fact