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Today on Flashpoints:
John Ross reports back from Mexico and discusses the future
of that country; plus, a personal glimpse into the corruption
of morality while serving as an occupation soldier in Palestine:
an Israeli ex-Commander and co-founder of Breaking the Silence
offers us a unique vision of the accountability necessary
for justice and transformation in Palestine-Israel; and the
Knight Report;
5:01 PM PST
The Knight Report
* The death toll doubles in a NATO attack against Afghan civilians
[to at least 85]
* Iraqi troops face fierce resistance from Shia militias
* An arms inspector calls the war in Iraq a pure disaster
* Vice-president Cheney defends torture while Secretary Rumsfeld
calls for an end to criticism of the war in Iraq, but American
troops in Iraq want to get out now [and] don't really understand
why they are there
Robert Knight
5:06 PM PST
On Mexico, Election Fraud and Popular Resistance
John Ross, Flashpoints special correspondent, author, poet
5:18 PM PST
Breaking the Silence: Israeli Ex-Commander Speaks Out Against
the Occupation
Yehuda Shaul, co-founder, Breaking the Silence, www.breakingthesilence.org.il
Events this weekend: www.mecaforpeace.org/CommunityActivism.html
High spirits, low regard for non-Israelis, moral degradation,
and few controls lead to gross humanitarian abuse in occupied
territories by the occupiers.
"If you cross the lines and you become an occupier,
the question is not why do you do that? It's why not to do
that? If you're now searching the refugee camp in [an] operation,
and there's a Mondial [World Cup soccer] game, don't we desrve
to see the game? Don't we des... we deserve! Why should we
miss the game? So you look around you and look at the rooftops...
Oh that one has a satellite [dish]. So we enter the house.
The family watches the game, but bad luck - we want to watch
the game; so you lock them [behind] the door and you watch
the game and then you continue the search... Why? Because
you're evil? No - because you're a teenager who wants to watch
soccer."
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