- Rula Jebreal: Rachel Maddow, the most important woman on MSNBC, the leader when it comes to politics, in six weeks of war, never mentioned the word "blockade," "occupation," "illegal settlements," never mentioned the support that Congress have for Israel, unconditional amount of money, billions of dollars. What is that ? What a disappointment ! Our media operations, national media, is a scandal when it comes to Israel.
- Narrator: Since Oslo, Israel has actually taken *more* Palestinian land for its Jewish-only settlements. In 1993, there were approximately 200,000 illegal Jewish settlers living in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Since then, that number has more than tripled with approximately 650,000 settlers now living in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
- opening title card: "It doesn't matter if justice is on your side. You only have to depict your position as just." - Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel
- Himelf: We hear over and over again that the conflict comes down to Palestinian terrorism and Israeli security, and what gets pushed out of frame entirely is the fact that for almost 50 years, Palestinians have been systematically dispossessed from their land and denied their most basic human rights.
- Narrator: In addition, since 1967, Israel has also demolished approximately 28,000 Palestinian homes.
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- Himelf: It all comes down to American public perception.
- Noam Chomsky: That's one way to change anything: Changing perception and understanding here leading to a change of policy here. As long as the Unites States supports Israel nothing is going to happen. The US government will support it as long as the US population tolerates it.
- Phyllis Bennis: Israel wants as much of the land as they can get away with, with as few Palestinians on the it as possible.
- Norman Finkelstein: When you look at the results, not at the words and the pretty phrases, what's happened over the past 20 years and was inaugurated in Oslo, was not a *peace* process. It was an *annexation* process.
- Rashid Khalidi: Now one in eleven Israeli Jews live in these illegal settlement.