This week Jeff Halper of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions is in the States, and a lot of people are going to see him, so it seemed a good time to get up this video I made last July of Halper in the Old City, showing me the "Judaization" of East Jerusalem.
This is an important video because you can see how Israel strangled any possibility of two states by creating Jewish colonies all through the heart of Palestinian Jerusalem in an effort to engulf the Old City-- a project that continues by the minute.
Halper and I stand on the rooftop of the Austrian Hospice, a quarter mile from the Al Aqsa Mosque, and look east and south, mostly. The video is 9 and a half minutes long. Here are some of the highlights:
--The first minute or so we look east at the Mount of Olives at a Jewish settlement. You can't really make it out, but you can see the minaret on the horizon, and the Jewish building is right next to it. more
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