resistance to the occupation has been both nonviolent and violent some of the violent resistance has been aimed at israeli soldiers and civilians in the occupied territories and some has been spilling over into israel proper israeli baby without a head a woman with a chair leg sticking out of the chest my reporting for example i'm pretty brutal about suicide and i say that i use the word but i also make a point of saying why when you have a population that is being occupied when the their fundamental human rights are being systematically denied when they're not allowed to move from city to from city to city or from place to place without a huge amount of harassment when they're being subjected to torture where people are essentially in desperate conditions it's not a surprise that they're going to be very very very angry they feel so helpless in the face of a powerful israeli army that some palestinians think the only answer and i condemn this but some palestinians think the only response to a powerful army is a guerilla tactics going into israel and setting bombs off in cities and there's increasing support for this among palestinians because of the growing frustration of not getting anywhere the non american coverage b b c for example the suicide bombings are generally put in the context of the occupation that they are a response to conditions which are very to humanize them to palestinians just ordinary people ariel sharon has made good on his irrational be huge military events and this may be the only result more palestinian attacks not less a suicide bombing in this supermarket today just torture rol is trying to stop but all the tanks in the world are no substitute for a political settlement today's bomber was not prepared to wait here a brief glimpse of her face not a hardened fighter but a girl of sixteen but there is absolutely no understanding on the part of the american media and hence on the part of the american population that's educated by the media about what creates this circumstance occupies people strike at israel against that occupation they use means that i think are wrong means namely the terror and then israel imposes punishment on the entire palestinian people which then generates suicide bombers the israelis are now stationed in force all over the west bank their iron grip designed to prevent suicide bombers getting through and it's true that you know israelis do feel insecure and they have they have very good legitimate reasons for feeling insecure but overwhelmingly reporters will see the source of the insecurity they feel as palestinian hatred is a word that you see all the time that this conflict isn't motivated by a struggle over power or land or territory but simply by palestinian hatred a palestinian man emerged from a taxi on a busy shopping street in downtown jerusalem with a machine gun in his hands and in his eyes if the occupation is invisible as it's been rendered by the united states government looks at this and how that's echoed in the media in many cases then then the reason for the frustration seems nonsensical and therefore there are just inherently upset people that are violent people and so on it's either in their genes or in their culture neither the best intention of the saudis or the power of the israelis could stop another young zealot willing to die so he could kill jews on passover it's done in such a way so as to justify israeli occupation israeli soldiers say their actions are justified they use suicide bombers he said we use tanks yes israelis are being shot at and killed and so yes israel does have real defense needs at the same time defense it israel in particular has become this month's right and once people hear the word defense they stop thinking and so all too often anything can be called defense and then justify it is really bulldozers and tanks moved into the refugee camp at two when the morning two hours later fifty simply responding to a palestinian question israel strikes back against terror israel retaliates israel responds palestinians attack israel retaliates a day of palestinian attacks and israeli retaliation israel resumed its retaliation violence could escalate over the coming days as israel retaliates calling palestinian actions attacks and israeli actions retaliation of meaningful retaliation suggests a defensive stance in response to violence initiated by someone else it places the responsibility for the violence on the party provoking the retaliation in other words palestinian violence like suicide bombing is seen as aggression and thus as the cause of the origin of the conflict that's what has caused this crisis to come upon us not the absence of a political way forward but terrorism and as frost form since the september eleventh attacks on the u s israel's p r strategy has been to frame all palestinian actions violent or not as terrorism to the extent that they can do that they repackaged illegal military occupation as part of america's war on terrorism this is israel's war on terrorism if sixteen's hit a palestinian police station in the gaza strip this morning the case the israelis are trying to make this is no different than what the u s is doing in afghanistan prime minister ariel sharon declared on national television tonight that he was determined to root out what he called the terrorist infrastructure in the palestinian territories all do all the old people israeli prime minister sharon said his nation has taken many steps to cooperate in the search for peace but the only thing it's had in return is terrorism terrorism and more terrorism israel has made americans empathize with its position by linking itself in motional to americans nine eleven experience making a connection where there really isn't what it's been breathtaking how american journalists have allowed themselves to be manipulated in this way the new york delegation toured suicide bombing sites in israel today mayor rudolph giuliani said the people of jerusalem and new york city stand shoulder to shoulder against terrorism in nearly three years since the outbreak of the intifada over five hundred israeli civilians have been killed most inside israel by palestinian suicide bombers on the palestinian side over two thousand civilians have been killed most in the occupied territories by israeli soldiers yet while many innocent people have died on both sides not all are considered newsworthy in the american media there have been periods where almost no israelis have been killed and large numbers of palestinians have been killed those periods have been referred to routinely by the american press as periods of relative calm what that means is it's relatively calm if only arabs dying in august two thousand and two news outlets were reporting a period of relative quiet relative quiet has held in the west bank town of bethlehem what the reports fail to mention was that during the same time period thirty nine palestinian civilians were killed media on television of course but even in a sophisticated media like the new york times israelis whether they're israeli citizens or settlers or soldiers are presented in a very humane human a way in which americans can identify with them twenty three israeli soldiers were killed in the fighting one of them was mark and rena robinson's twenty one year old son matan yeah his name means god's gift song and the actual have you know hundreds and thousands of palestinians killed and you never get to know their name you never get to see if you know that you never were not exposed to the grief of the family you in the west bank a car explosion killed three palestinians six palestinians were killed and forty five wounded by is really troops in various incidents there is no attention paid to the palestinian victims when an israeli mi hits a building and kills collaterally a number of palestinians it's as if it's as if that's the price they have that has to be paid you have sixty several palestinian security buildings people who were being killed in the west bank town of ramallah and israeli tank destroyed a pickup truck belonging to abu quick he wasn't in it his wife and three of his children were they were all killed and so were two other children nearby with f sixteen warplanes killing eleven people so this nomination of the harder and the exclusion of the human dimension has become part of the ongoing policy about twenty palestinians were killed today as  at the british press the ways in which the palestinian victims are dismissed and downplayed in the american media the ways in which their deaths are justified in american coverage becomes even more glaring are really clear example of this is the b b c story on six palestinian kids says in the israeli government and security services have admitted they were probably the victims of an israeli booby trapped victims who died side by side two sets of brothers and a cousin all members of one devastated palestinian there i stood there yesterday this is an area where children pass to go to school this is an area where people cultivate i have stood there and i have seen us now is it appropriate that a roadside bomb should be killing a fifteen year old cold while the army denies it if you look at the american coverage from the same day you'd struggle to think of it as even the same report practically blames the victims for their deaths in gaza palestinian for president bush to take on a more active role nearly everyone agrees the u s must act or attempt to the premise of that view is the idea that's stated over and over again that the u s is merely trying to bring about a peace trying to bring the two sides together has no preconceptions about what you know whose side is right whose side is wrong you know which i need to make more compromises and which doesn't and i think that's a fundamentally accurate view of how u s diplomacy has worked over the past several years the united states has presented itself as a neutral broker between these two parties but if you look at its actions rather than its words that it has favored israel almost one hundred percent of the time the u s has vetoed resolutions many times that would have put a stop to israel's actions in the territory in new york a push by the palestinians and their supporters to win a u n security council resolution calling for an end to did not and was vetoed by the united states israel has rejected u n involvement in the conflict backed by its closest ally the united states the u s blocked diplomatic moves from the arab states from europe from the p l o anything because it just refused to accept this kind of diplomatic settlement well there's a name for that in the united states called the peace process what it actually is is the process by which the united states prevented peace the united states has struggled for decades with widely varying success and failure to help ease this mideast conflict the united states is the neutral broker between israel and the palestinians is a cruel joke on both palestinians and their world at large the united states has exercised its veto many many times in the security council but perhaps worse than that is that it provides billions of dollars of aid to israel a lot of military aid and a lot of it in the most lethal possible form american aid to israel totals over six billion dollars per year israel receives three billion dollars in direct aid two thirds of which is military aid intended for the purchase of american made weapons in addition israel receives three billion dollars in indirect aid at least half of which is used for military ventures such as subsidizing israel's domestic armaments industry not included in this figure are other forms of military aid such as weapons given to israel free of charge including fighter planes and attack helicopters total us aid to israel since nine hundred forty nine has amounted to over one hundred 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 sixteen fighter planes outside the united states pipeline of violence is very much stamped made in usa i mean the united states has been broken english peace process for how long and what is the situation look like the united states at least the bush administration a strategists have recognized that the e u and possibly russia are potential competitors and so being able to keep control of trade and investment and they wil industry in a region that is very close to russia very close to europe this is a way for the united states to maintain its have gemini there's a framework of state policy it's been in place for about thirty years  supporting israel as a kind of base for projection of u s power in the region that support intensified under clinton and intensified even more in the bush administration with the rise to power of the neoconservatives  now when in effect you have people so close to israel get inside the u s ministration i think israel is in the white house this was the sixth meeting between mr bush and prime minister sharon every time he comes i learn a lot the president has never there is no difference any longer between u s policy in the middle east and is ready policy all of us here tonight are brought together by deep commitment to israel's security prosperity and freedom and to the strongest possible relationship between israel and the united states the u s wants to make sure that israel can control the system situation by violence as it does of course and it will be in the diplomatic cover given the military mean television or newspapers confronted to challenge this issue in your country in the united states to find critical views on american diplomacy you really have to go beyond the american the mainstream media you can find very critical views in the british press you can even find critical views in the israeli press but you know whereas there will be some criticisms at the margins of details of how america conducts its diplomacy in the middle east you don't find  a real alternative viewpoint in the mainstream media it is the last taboo subjects in america you can talk about lesbians blacks gays anything you want but not america's relationship or not any serious examination of america's relationship with israel or what israel is doing or be it almost always with american weapons to see the press conferences congolese are rice george bush don rumsfeld it's all on first name and with that i'm happy to take your here it's unconditional support for israel the american government has become one of the biggest obstacles to achieving peace consequently the struggle for peace and justice in the middle east will have to be waged here in the united states because the united states has primary responsibility for this there's nothing either any semitic her being a self hating jew and condemning u s policies which atrocities that have been blocking a peaceful settlement of lebanese the world pretty close to worsen over all times nuclear war these are things that we ought to be concerned about i mean what israel does that for them the worry about  what we do is for us to worry about americans need to wake up and find out what's happening in their name throughout the world they have a responsibility if they pretend to live in a democratic society which is being eroded i n terms of how democratic it is to find out what your government supporting what it's doing overseas in your name with your tax dollars i mean people here do not want to send helicopters to attack  terrorism not as brutal military occupation which is evoking resistance if u s policy shifts the coverage will shift the question doesn't serve security and if the american public is by making peace with our neighbors the only way that we will have safe israel is by making a just peace with the palestinians 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 st