Israeli architect Eyal Weizman demonstrates how architecture is central to Israeli apartheid

[barryqwalsh]

Eyal Weizman: The architecture of occupation

The Israeli architect and writer examines architecture's role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict


On a journey across the settlements and roads of the West Bank and along the Separation Wall, Israeli architect Eyal Weizman demonstrates how architecture is central to the Israeli occupation of Palestine.

"Architecture and the built environment is a kind of a slow violence. The occupation is an environment that was conceived to strangulate Palestinian communities, villages and towns, to create an environment that would be unliveable for the people there," says Weizman.

The architecture of violence

 

[montelatici]

Did not need an architect to tell us what we already know.

 

[Hollie]

Did not need an architect to tell us what we already know.

Walls and fences have been used historically to fend off the barbarian hordes.

 

[montelatici]

In this case it was an invading horde of violent colonizing European Jews that built the wall and the garrison towns.

 

[Penelope]

Did not need an architect to tell us what we already know.

Walls and fences have been used historically to fend off the barbarian hordes.

To protect from invasion, Palestinians were living there first.

 

[Shusha]

Ah, "slow violence". Like a "slow genocide". Nothing more than false word games trying to convince us that something evil is happening inside the minds of the Jews.

 

[P F Tinmore]

Did not need an architect to tell us what we already know.

Walls and fences have been used historically to fend off the barbarian hordes.

 

[montelatici]

Ah, "slow violence". Like a "slow genocide". Nothing more than false word games trying to convince us that something evil is happening inside the minds of the Jews.

I think most people would conclude that there is evil in the minds of Jews with respect to the non-Jews of Palestine. The Christian Zionists that post here encourage it.

 

[Boston1]

What total bull shit

There is no apartheid, what there is are restrictions imposed due to continued Arab muslim terrorism against Israeli civilians.

Couldn't be more simple

The restrictions will remain as long as Arab Muslim violence persists. If the Arab Muslims want the restrictions lifted, they can begin the peace process anytime. Its 100% up to them.

 

[Shusha]

normal people: Genocide? What genocide? People aren't actually dying. There is no genocide.

anti-Israel people: No....its a slow genocide.

normal people: There is no evidence of a genocide .

anti-Israel people: That just proves how sneaky the Jews are. An invisible genocide. A slow genocide. They pretend that it isn't happening. But it is. Even though no one is dying. See?



anti-Israel people: See those houses that the Jews are building?

normal people: Um. Yeah.

anti-Israel people: Those are violent houses.

normal people: Um. But there is no violence.

anti-Israel people: That just proves how sneaky the Jews are. Its invisible violence. A slow violence. It hurts us because its there. So ... violence. Yeah.

 

[P F Tinmore]

normal people: Genocide? What genocide? People aren't actually dying. There is no genocide.

anti-Israel people: No....its a slow genocide.

normal people: There is no evidence of a genocide .

anti-Israel people: That just proves how sneaky the Jews are. An invisible genocide. A slow genocide. They pretend that it isn't happening. But it is. Even though no one is dying. See?



anti-Israel people: See those houses that the Jews are building?

normal people: Um. Yeah.

anti-Israel people: Those are violent houses.

normal people: Um. But there is no violence.

anti-Israel people: That just proves how sneaky the Jews are. Its invisible violence. A slow violence. It hurts us because its there. So ... violence. Yeah.

I know you won't watch this because stupidity is your goal in life. But I will post it anyway because others might want to learn something.

 

[Hollie]

In this case it was an invading horde of violent colonizing European Jews that built the wall and the garrison towns.

Your lack of knowledge relative to the historical circumstances leaves you dumbfounded and befuddled.

The implosion of the violent, conquering, invading Ottoman Turk dynasty resulted in their surrender of the area formerly under their control.

Unlike the invading / colonizing Turks and the squatting / colonizing Egyptians, Syrians and Lebanese, there was a formal process wherby the Jews reestabliahed a presence in their ancestral lands.

Post your MasterCard data as I will bill you for that history lesson.

 

[Hollie]

Oh my.