Chris Hedges Discusses Israeli Occupation With Israeli Journalist Amira Hass (Video)
The Haaretz correspondent for the occupied territories and author of "Drinking the Sea at Gaza" has angered Israeli and Palestinian leadership with her uncompromising honesty.Chris Hedges goes inside Israel and the occupied territories with Amira Hass in this week’s episode of “On Contact.”
Hass is the Haaretz correspondent for the occupied territories and author of “Drinking the Sea at Gaza.”
—Posted by Eric Ortiz
Rooted in Truth.Independent by Design.
Your support helps ensure that rigorous reporting, thoughtful analysis, and investigative journalism remain accessible to everyone.
Support independent journalism.
Related Stories
Amira Hass writes in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz of incidents in which Israeli soldiers have reportedly killed unarmed Palestinians and possibly placed knives near them "after the fact."
The silence of the European Union, including especially Germany, whose Chancellor Angela Merkel declared support for Israel's right "to defend itself," constitutes a collaboration with Israel's "journey of destruction and death, waged against the Palestinian people in Gaza," journalist Amira Hass writes in Haaretz, Israel's oldest daily newspaper.
The death toll in the Gaza Strip passed 815 as new strikes by Israel's Netanyahu government killed more civilians and prompted the largest West Bank protests seen in decades, "Democracy Now!" reports.
Amira Hass, the groundbreaking reporter who has lived in the Palestinian territories for most of the last two decades, defended the rights of Palestinians to throw stones at occupying Israeli forces.
Daniel McGowan, an Earth Liberation Front activist, was imprisoned last week for writing a HuffPo post; Fox News claims that Rutgers University firing its abusive basketball coach is evidence of cultural decline; and no, Bitcoin is apparently not the future of currency. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Amira Hass writes in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz of incidents in which Israeli soldiers have reportedly killed unarmed Palestinians and possibly placed knives near them "after the fact."
The silence of the European Union, including especially Germany, whose Chancellor Angela Merkel declared support for Israel's right "to defend itself," constitutes a collaboration with Israel's "journey of destruction and death, waged against the Palestinian people in Gaza," journalist Amira Hass writes in Haaretz, Israel's oldest daily newspaper.
The death toll in the Gaza Strip passed 815 as new strikes by Israel's Netanyahu government killed more civilians and prompted the largest West Bank protests seen in decades, "Democracy Now!" reports.
Amira Hass, the groundbreaking reporter who has lived in the Palestinian territories for most of the last two decades, defended the rights of Palestinians to throw stones at occupying Israeli forces.
Daniel McGowan, an Earth Liberation Front activist, was imprisoned last week for writing a HuffPo post; Fox News claims that Rutgers University firing its abusive basketball coach is evidence of cultural decline; and no, Bitcoin is apparently not the future of currency. These discoveries and more after the jump.