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Clip: 50th Anniversary of Berlin Wall

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Aug 14, 2011

Clip: 50th Anniversary of Berlin Wall

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00:00:00 HERE IF IT HAD HAPPENED.
00:00:02 I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT TO HAVE THE WARTIME ALLIANCE.
00:00:07 HOST: ANGELA STENT IS WITH US HERE IN WASHINGTON.
00:00:11 ALLEN IS JOINING US FROM WASHINGTON.
00:00:17 CALLER: IT IS INTERESTING TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT THE HISTORY OF THE BERLIN WALL.
00:00:21 WE HAVE A WALL THAT EXISTS AND CONTINUES TO BE BUILT TODAY.
00:00:24 IT IS FUNDED IN PART BY THE UNITED STATES.
00:00:29 THAT WALL IS IN OCCUPIED PALESTINE.
00:00:32 THE PURPOSE OF THAT WALL IS NOT TO KEEP PEOPLE TRAPPED INSIDE THE COUNTRY BUT TO DRIVE THEM UP SIDE OF THEIR COUNTRY.
00:00:40 THE ISRAELIS WILL SAY IT IS TO PREVENT TERRORISM.
00:00:44 IF THAT WAS THE CASE, THEY WOULD HAVE BUILT ON THEIR BORDER TO PREVENT PEOPLE FROM COMING INTO THEIR COUNTRY.
00:00:53 INSTEAD, THEY CONTINUE TO BUILD IT ON PALESTINIAN LAND.
00:00:57 THERE IS TREMENDOUS SUFFERING.
00:01:00 THERE ARE TOWNS IN PALESTINE THAT ARE COMPLETELY ENCIRCLED.
00:01:05 PEOPLE HAVE WON ACCESS GATE WITH A SOLDIER STANDING THERE.
00:01:09 THAT IS THEIR ONLY MEANS OF GETTING INTO AND OUT OF THEIR TOWN TO GO TO SCHOOL AND WORK AND SO ON.
00:01:19 HOST: IS THERE A PARALLEL?
00:01:22 GUEST: I DO NOT THINK SO.
00:01:26 HOST: IN ONE OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS FROM "TIME" MAGAZINE, YOU CAN SEE A TEENAGER HOLDING A YOUNGER CHILD OUTSIDE OF THE WALL.
00:01:38 THE WALL LITERALLY CAME UP OVERNIGHT 50 YEARS AGO TODAY.
00:01:45 JOHN JOINS US FROM NEW YORK CITY.
00:01:50 CALLER: IT IS AN INTERESTING DISCUSSION.
00:01:55 MY REGIONAL POINT WAS HOW SUCCESSFUL THE INTEGRATION OF EAST GERMANY HAS BEEN.
00:02:06 I WAS SHOCKED BY THE PREVIOUS TWO COLLARS AND THE PARALLELS
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