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The posts express urgency to stop the ongoing Gaza genocide and call for invoking the genocide convention against the leadership of the Israeli regime, as well as the US and Western leaders who support it. The authors believe that the US, Western leaders, and the Israeli regime have lost moral standing and legitimacy in the eyes of the world community. They emphasize the historical judgment of genocide leaders and use hashtags to raise awareness.
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IT’S TOO LATE FOR THESE CHILDREN… STOP THE GAZA GENOCIDE NOW. INVOKE THE GENOCIDE CONVENTION AGAINST THE LEADERSHIP OF THE RACIST APARTHEID ZIONIST ISLAELI REGIME ALONG WITH THE LEADERSHIP OF THE US AND COLLECTIVER WESTERN LEADERSHIP WHO HAVE GIVEN SUPPORT FOR THE GAZA GENOCIDE TO CONTINUE. THE LEADERSHIP OF THE US, COLLECTIVE WEST AND RACIST APARTHEID ZIONIST ISRAELI STATE TERROR REGIME HAVE FOREVER LOST ALL MORAL STANDING AND LEGITIMACY IN THE EYES OF THE WORLD COMMUNITY. HISTORY HAS ALREADY JUDGED GENOCIDE LEADERS AS THE UGLY FACE OF GENOCIDE. #CeasefireNOW #GazaGenocide #EthnicCleansingOfPalestine #WarCrimesinGaza #InvokeGenocideConvention
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John Pilger's documentaries, "Palestine is Still the Issue," highlight the ongoing injustice faced by Palestinians. The films explore the displacement of Palestinians in 1948 and 1967, as well as their continued struggle for their land. Pilger interviews both Palestinians and Israelis, providing a balanced perspective. The films shed light on the curfews, controls, and checkpoints that Palestinians endure, drawing comparisons to apartheid South Africa. Despite facing backlash and death threats, the films received international recognition and awards.
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Palestine is Still the Issue by John Pilger Almost 30 years apart, John Pilger's two documentaries about Palestine carried the same title, Palestine is Still the Issue. His point was that, in the course of a generation, a great injustice remained unchanged and urgent. His 1974 film described the flight and expulsion of almost a million Palestinians, who became refugees in their own land – at the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, then as a result of the Six Day War in 1967. ‘What has changed,’ says Pilger on his return to film his 2002 documentary, ‘is that the Palestinians have fought back. Stateless and humiliated for so long, they have risen up against Israel’s huge military regime, although they themselves have no army, no tanks, no American planes and gunships or missiles… For [them], the overriding, routine of terror, day after day, has been the ruthless control of almost every aspect of their lives, as if they live in an open prison.’ The Palestinians' struggle for their land is the theme of both films. The loss of 78 per cent of land in 1948 meant that they could claim only the remaining 22 per cent, which was occupied by Israel. They fought mainly with slingshots against tanks and planes during their first uprising, the 1987 intifada, and rose again and again. The curfews, controls, roadblocks and checkpoints governing their lives bear comparison with apartheid South Africa, says Pilger, who interviews both Palestinians and Israelis, making his report infinitely more powerful than if it had given voice simply to the oppressed. Indeed, the majority of his witnesses are Israeli. The longest interview is one of the most revealing – with Dori Gold, an influential figure at the heart of Israeli power. A Palestinian talks about his sister, the first female suicide bomber, a 28-year-old ambulance volunteer who had witnessed the deaths and wounding of people. He is proud of her. An Israeli father, Rami Elhanan, remembers his 14-year-old daughter who was killed by a suicide bomb. ‘You have to recognise the despair of those who carry out such atrocities,’ he says. ‘You have to ask yourself: have you contributed in any way to this despair. The suicide bomber was a victim, the same as my girl was.’ With Israel controlling the occupied West Bank through Jewish settlements that are illegal under international law, Pilger visits one such settlement. He passes through a military checkpoint and along a road bordered by electrified barbed wire, which was built for the sole use of Jewish settlers and Israeli soldiers – a striking emblem of apartheid, he says – before discovering the surreal spectacle of what appears to be a quiet middle-class suburb, complete with houses with satellite dishes on neat, tree-lined roads. One of the most telling voices is that of a soldier, Yishai Rosen-Zvi, who has refused to serve on the occupied West Bank and describes ‘the huge bluff of the Israeli establishment’, adding, ‘[Every] criticism of its policies is called anti-Semitism, [when] criticising your country's policy is the only patriotic thing that one can do.’ His words are prophetic. An orchestrated Zionist-run campaign was mounted against Palestine is Still the Issue, mainly in the United States by groups who had not seen the film. Each email they sent had a generic theme of ‘anti-Semitism’ – an early version of social media ‘bots’. Pilger and his family received death threats. In Britain, the Independent Television Commission, then the regulator for commercial TV, conducted a three-month inquiry and concluded that Palestine is Still the Issue was ‘fair and balanced’ and had not breached the ‘due impartiality’ clause in the 1990 Broadcasting Act. It praised the film's historical accuracy, together with the ‘care and thoroughness with which it was researched’. Palestine is Still the Issue won a number of international awards. Awards: The Chris Statuette in the War & Peace division, Chris Awards, Columbus International Film & Video Festival, Ohio, 2003; Winner, War & Peace category, Vermont International Film Festival, 2003; Certificate of Merit, Chicago International Television Awards. Palestine Is Still The Issue was a Carlton Television production for ITV first broadcast on ITV1, 16 September 2002 Source: https://johnpilger.com/videos/palestine-is-still-the-issue #Vimeo https://vimeo.com/17401477
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The video discusses the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the impact it has on both Israelis and Palestinians. It highlights the destruction caused by the Israeli army, the control and humiliation Palestinians face in their daily lives, and the lack of justice and freedom they experience. The video also addresses the issue of settlements, the imbalance of power between Israel and Palestine, and the role of the international community in the conflict. It emphasizes the need for a just and independent Palestinian state and calls for an end to the occupation.
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Speaker 0: There is only one way of ending this. It's ending occupation. Because occupation has become the cancer that is eating the lives of both people.
Speaker 1: What the occupation did for us, It reduced us into animals in a way that sometimes I'm ashamed to say that I'm in Israel.
Speaker 2: This is, you know, a huge, bluff Of of of, you know, of the Israeli establishment, that every, you know, criticism of its policy is anti Semitism.
Speaker 3: Sometimes I feel pity for the Israeli mothers because they are thinking that there's The soldiers or their sons are victorious soldiers, but they should come and see what their soldiers are doing here.
Speaker 4: 25 years ago, I made a film called Palestine is Still the Issue. It was about a nation of people, the Palestinians, forced off their land and later subjected to a military occupation by Israel. An occupation condemned by the United Nations and almost every country in the world, including Britain. But Israel is backed by a very powerful friend, the United States. So in 25 years, If we're to speak of the great injustice here, nothing has changed.
What has changed is that the Palestinians have fought back, Stateless and humiliated for so long, they've risen up against Israel's huge military machine. Although they themselves have no army, No tanks, no American planes and gunships or missiles. Some have committed desperate acts of terror like suicide bombing. But for Palestinians, the overriding routine terror day after day has been the ruthless control Of almost every aspect of their lives, as if they live in an open prison, this film is about the Palestinians And a group of courageous Israelis united in the oldest human struggle to be free. Last April, troops and tanks of the Israeli army attacked army attacked Ramallah and other towns in occupied Palestine.
This was reported as an incursion to stop terrorism. In fact, it was also an attack on civilian life, on schools, offices, clinics, theaters, radio stations. This systematic vandalism is typical of one of the longest military occupations in modern times. Even the culture ministry was destroyed. The director, Liana Badri, a distinguished novelist and filmmaker, showed me the devastation shortly after it had happened.
Speaker 3: This is the administration room. We had a lot of files here.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: You can see that everything were broken. It was the best place in the ministry.
Speaker 4: I mean, what you did here was promote projects for Palestinian culture, basically. Filmmaking Projects for children.
Speaker 3: Exhibitions, book exhibitions, painters exhibitions, Well, dance, folklore, we had a lot of projects. Now we don't have anything to begin. We don't have computers, Equipment, furniture, and we have this feeling of humiliation.
Speaker 4: The smell is awful,
Speaker 5: isn't it?
Speaker 4: Because this
Speaker 3: this is awful. Yes.
Speaker 4: This is
Speaker 6: a this is a bag of
Speaker 4: shit and the shit smeared all over the photocopier.
Speaker 3: 2. 2,
Speaker 4: so they just ate and and and dedicated
Speaker 6: in the same place.
Speaker 3: And they're putting them on the photocopy, putting ship everywhere, Even on the walls. And you can see that we have toilet. 2 toilets in every floor. But they didn't use All the time they were making it on
Speaker 7: the floor or anywhere as you can see.
Speaker 4: We'd have a look in this room in here.
Speaker 6: Good grief. Look at this. These are children's
Speaker 4: drawings. Aren't they?
Speaker 3: Yes. This is a room specialized for children's work. Children's, paintings and children's sculpture and to encourage them To let them express themselves, to make competition, writing competitions, but you can see how they destroyed everything. They don't respect anything. They just want to come and destroy, And this is the systematic terrorism of the Israeli state.
Speaker 4: For the Palestinians, this cultural vandalism Means a deliberate intention to destroy them as a nation. The heart of the conflict here It's a struggle for land, for the hills and valleys of Palestine, for precious water and fertile soil. During the early 20th century, the great majority of the population of Palestine were Palestinian Arabs. In 1948, Israel was founded in the shadow of the Holocaust. For the Palestinians, this meant the loss Of 78% of their country, today, they are seeking only the remaining 22% Of their homeland.
For 35 years, that homeland has been dominated by Israel. In 1987, the Palestinians rose up in what they They call intifada. History will surely call it a war of national liberation. They fought mainly with slingshots against tanks and planes, and they were put down with this kind of brutality. Israeli soldiers deliberately breaking the bones of prisoners.
Some of the soldiers later insisted they were carrying out official Israeli policy. 2 years ago, the Palestinians rose up a second time. This was hardly surprising. During curfews, people live under a form of house arrest. Without notice, they can be locked inside their homes.
Their ordinary lives are a maze of controls, roadblocks, Checkpoints. This is how I remembered apartheid South Africa. The hidden effect is the same, Humiliation and anger and death. This Palestinian woman knows how devastating the impact of Checkpoints can be. Last October, she was about to give birth to her 2nd child, and she and her husband set out for the nearby hospital.
They were stopped at an Israeli roadblock where they pleaded to be let through. Stories like Fatima's Seldom make headlines, and yet many similar cases have been documented. Palestinians try to lead a normal life, but life is never normal. During Israeli military operations, curfews stop everything. Ambulances are denied access to the sick and wounded.
Children are stopped from going to school. The Israelis claim this is necessary for their security. If that's true, it's clearly not working. And the security of Palestinians is almost never mentioned.
Speaker 8: You feel all your life that you are illuminated. You don't control your If you don't control the air
Speaker 7: you are breathing, you don't. I don't want I would
Speaker 8: don't wanna talk about planning for anything. This is something we don't even dream about. Plan to next hour or next day what we will do. This is something we don't even dream about because our destiny is not in our hands. Is it it's in the hands of the others who decide how we would live, how we would get married, to get married to come and live with my husband in this country.
I had to take the permission of the Israelis. It's not enough that they took our land, and they are not allowing us to have our own state, but also they're concerning every detail in our life.
Speaker 4: Some Israelis have spoken out more than 500 soldiers have refused to serve in the occupied territories. We are, they've said. Like the Chinese student who stood in front of the tank in Tiananmen Square, we are the conscience of our country. Fisheye Rosensphere is one of them.
Speaker 2: I really think the real story of the occupation is there in the checkpoint. I cannot forget this kind of picture. You know, 5 in the morning, quarter to 5 in the morning, hundreds of a line of Hundreds of people waiting, you know, to pass in the in the checkpoint, and you're standing there. And you see their Eyes subdate the humiliation, the frustration, the hatred. Then you are the occupation.
You have all the power. They have no power. You can at every second take their ID, And then they are you know, they have nothing because without ID identification, you can you know, every soldier can can arrest them. You are the man that stand there, keep them without rights, without freedom.
Speaker 4: The world often sees the issue of Palestine through the tragedy and horror of suicide bombings, An expression of despair by powerless people against an oppressor armed with modern weapons. The 1st female suicide bomber struck in January 2002, Her name was Wafa Idris, the only daughter of a family of refugees who were driven out of their home near Tel Aviv. She was 28, An ambulance volunteer. What makes an ambulance volunteer a carer become a suicide bomber?
Speaker 9: The suicide bombs are presented to the Israeli public As an insane act by an insane people, with with whom there is no chance for peace. Instead of putting a wider analysis, which would say there is, a way out of the suicide bombs, When everybody con condemns them and rightly so, there is a way out of it. And the way out of it is to provide the circumstances In which, these young people would find, avenues of hope instead of avenues of despair. There is, I would say, an orchestrated campaign to silence That kind of, analysis inside Israel.
Speaker 4: Suicide attacks against civilians are clearly crimes, and they are used by extremists. But the extremists rely on the brutality of the occupation and the despair of their young volunteers. Some Extraordinary Israelis are brave enough to recognize this. Rami Elhanan is one Israeli father who knows about suicide bombing. On September 4, 1997, his daughter, Shmadda, was killed by 1.
She was 14 years old.
Speaker 1: She was a child of peace. She was full of life, very laughing girl, Very good student, dancing, everything that little girls do. It was the 1st day of school, and she was going down Beni Hooda Street, which is, some kind of a mall, to buy some books for the new year, with 2 girlfriends of hers. One of them, Sivanzaga died with her and the other, Daniela Beerman, was very very severely wounded.
Speaker 4: Rami is a graphic designer and a former soldier. His father survived Auschwitz. His grandparents, 6 aunts, and uncles perished in the holocaust.
Speaker 6: How how do you distinguish The feelings of anger that any father would have felt at losing your daughter in such circumstances.
Speaker 1: I'm not crazy. I don't forget. I don't forgive. Someone Who murders little girls? Anyone who murders little girls is a criminal and should be punished.
But if you Think from the head and not from the gas. And you look what made people do what they do. People that don't have hope. People who are desperate enough To commit suicide, you have to ask yourself, have you can contribute it in any way For this despair, for this craziness, it it hasn't come out of the blue. The boy that his mother was humiliated in the morning at the checkpoint will commit suicide in the evening.
The Suicide bomber was a victim the same as my girl was. Of that I'm sure. You have to understand where these suicidal bombers come from. Understanding is part of the way to solving the problem.
Speaker 4: Few people have been betrayed so often as the Palestinians. Before the 2nd World War, the British ran Palestine as a mandate. They had promised the Palestinians an independent state, But they also promised Palestine to the Jewish movement known as Zionism. In 1948, When the state of Israel was founded, the Arab world revolted as Palestinians were expelled from their homes or forced to flee in a blitz of fear And terror. Three quarters of a 1000000 people became refugees.
Israel's military hero, general Moshe Dayan, later admitted, Jewish places were built in the place Of Arab villages, there is not one single place in the country that did not have a former Arab population. While Palestinians were denied the right to return to their homes, anybody who could prove they were Jewish had the right to settle in Israel. In 1967, Palestinians once again fled their homes During the 6 day war when Israel occupied the remaining 22% of Palestine, describing this As an act of self defense. To the Palestinians, It seems that Israel's colonizing never stops. This looks like a medieval fortress.
The Israelis call it a Jewish settlement. In fact, it's part of a network of armed colonies That by one estimate, effectively control 42% of the occupied West Bank. Many of them dominate And intimidate Palestinian communities. They are illegal under international law and have been condemned by the United Nations.
Speaker 8: When I came to this bank and saw all these settlements, Israeli settlements on the tops of the hills, you know, surrounding all the cities. So you feel that they are over you. They are superior. Mhmm. And you are the the ant, the the insect town, you know?
And, you know, this is your land. It's nobody's this is Earth's land. This is our land. But still, they are the ones who are on the tops, and they have all the weapons. And they they control also everything in the West Bank.
Speaker 4: This is Moshe Dan. He's taking me to a Jewish settlement in the south of the country in Palestinian Gaza. I see here this is all Electrified fence along here, isn't it? Electrified barbed wire. I mean, this is a a almost a constant state of war, isn't it, really?
I mean, if you have put up something like electrified barbed wire.
Speaker 10: It is today. The barbed wire is new because Of the situation where Jews are driving home on the road and some guy Who is a pallet supposed to be a Palestinian policeman shoots the car up.
Speaker 4: The Israelis bring with them a version of apartheid. We pass this road being built for the sole use of Jewish settlers and soldiers. Until it's open, these Palestinians must wait hours for the few settlers to drive by. Isn't that strike you It's remarkable that there is a a road for only 1 ethnic group of people, a Jews only road.
Speaker 10: It wasn't always like that.
Speaker 4: But it is now.
Speaker 10: It is now. The reason because many, About, a year and a half ago, a school bus bus was blown up, an Israeli school bus, as it was traveling from Khfar by, Arab terrorists. So we decided that the best thing to do would be to create some kind of separation.
Speaker 4: There doesn't seem to be any doubt that the majority of people deeply resent the presence of this settlement.
Speaker 10: The look. I don't know what the the actual people Arabs who live here Feel and think. On a political level, they, I'm sure, would prefer not to be under Israeli rule. But in terms of raising their families and supporting their families, this is, I think, one of the best solutions
Speaker 6: for that.
Speaker 4: For 35 years, the United Nations has voted on this best solution. Almost unanimously, it has called on Israel to respect international law and get out of occupied Palestine. Inside the settlers' fortress is a surreal middle class suburb dropped into one of the most overcrowded And porous corners of the world. One of the strategic aims here It's the control of water, which is precious in the Middle East. While Palestinians Often don't have enough running water, sometimes none at all in the heat of summer, but settlers seldom run out.
And the symbol of the occupation is this wall.
Speaker 6: The thing that is striking about this settlement is that it's it's like a fortress. I mean, this is like a Berlin Wall.
Speaker 11: Like the Berlin Wall, very bad. We don't feel, comfortable. Mhmm. We lived here, and I'm here for 15 15 years without these walls, fences, and everything, we lived very normal. This, last year changed all all the rules in the area.
Yeah. Everything was changed.
Speaker 4: The justification for taking somebody else's land is biblical, that God gave them Palestine. And God, not the history of others, is their witness.
Speaker 11: I'm here because it's obvious, that's my place. It's not something it's in my hands that we can, you know, we can give it back. Not me, not any politician, or or or any anybody or par parliament or whatever, because it's it's a movement. It's something comes 3000 years ago When Moses brought us here, and we have in our mind, we have the dream of building a temple in Jerusalem. It's something a lot bigger than religion.
Speaker 4: Where where will it end, though, if there's no compromise? Doesn't that mean conflict?
Speaker 11: Where? Life is full with conflicts. I don't know what to say. I know. Maybe I'm saying something too strong.
It's one zero game. We will fight. The conflict is here. We will fight. It's one zero game.
Not to kill each other, but it's us or them.
Speaker 4: On the other side of the wall is the reality of Palestine. At yet another checkpoint, People are waiting and waiting.
Speaker 12: Let me just take You in a journey from Gaza to Chanois. This normal journey usually takes 20 minutes to reach from Gaza town to Chanois. But after this checkpoint, this journey sometimes takes people from 4 to 9 hours. People, as you see here, waiting to go from Gaza to Khayyaunis To guarantee the security of the passage of 2 or 3 settlers?
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 12: So it is a security statement.
Speaker 4: 2 or 3 settlers will drive along here. In the mean Time all this traffic has to bank up.
Speaker 12: Exactly. How
Speaker 4: long will these people be here, do you think? Just sort of guess.
Speaker 12: These people, they will stay till tomorrow morning because the road closed now. It will not be reopened until tomorrow morning, 7 o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 4: Doctor El Farah's Family used to own land near this crossing. The Israelis confiscated it and demolished a home. And this is typical of what happens Almost every day in occupied Palestine.
Speaker 12: They demolish my house and, another 26 houses the same night. I call it terrorism. Here, I call it terrorism.
Speaker 4: How long had your family lived there?
Speaker 12: Maybe back to 900 years, we were in the same place. I feel angry. I feel, differ devastated. I feel abandoned by the world,
Speaker 4: with me, to be
Speaker 12: frank with you. I think that nobody has taken care of us.
Speaker 4: This is Gaza, just a few miles down the road from the affluence of the Israeli settlement. The contrast is extraordinary. Almost a 1000000 Palestinians are trapped behind electrified barbed wire and roadblocks. Always waiting for invasion, Their defenses are pathetic mounds of sand. Fear has a permanent presence.
Speaker 8: Waiting For the invasion is worse than the invasion itself because you're waiting, you don't know when, where, And how they will hate to or come in. The 1st time they bombed in Gaza, I was still in another flat, and we had children, Many children in the in the building. And, oh, I heard all the children and their mothers Screaming and crying.
Speaker 4: The half built buildings of Gaza are a testament to the hopes raised then dashed by the talk of an independent Palestine. Without Israeli permission, most people can't leave and they can't return. They can't get to jobs. Their produce can't get to market. Most struggle to live on about a pound a day.
A poverty compounded by an Israeli policy Caulk closure.
Speaker 0: You see, for Israel to sustain this unsustainable occupation, It is transforming every city and every Palestinian town and village into a prison, basically. Surrounded by tanks, surrounded by walls, surrounded by is and it's not like they're building, border between us and Israel. It's building borders inside West Bank and Gaza. Between our citizen towns for the sake of their settlements. They are obliging us to be occupied people I'm not citizen.
Speaker 4: United States, mister prime minister, has been proud of its association of state of Israel.
Speaker 5: Rest assured that the security of Israel is a principal objective
Speaker 4: of this administration. I want everybody to know, should I be the president? Israel's gonna be our friend. I'm gonna stand by Israel. Israel's occupation of Palestine Would not be possible without the backing of America.
In the oil rich Middle East, Israel is America's deputy sheriff, Receiving 1,000,000,000 of dollars along with the latest weapons, f 16 aircraft, bombs, missiles, Apache helicopters. Today, Israel is the 4th largest military power in the world And it has nuclear weapons.
Speaker 0: We we saw an Apache helicopter circling in the sky above our heads Then shooting a missile. The rockets fell just 200 meters from our house. All our windows were shattered. I had a child in front of me, my daughter, who's 11 years old, shivering from fear. Worried, frightened to death.
And I could do nothing to protect her. And you don't know whether In the 2nd minute, you or your daughter will be dead. That feeling of impotence is undescribable, and I will never forget it.
Speaker 4: This is bomb damage in Gaza. Although America is Israel's main arms supplier, it's not widely recognized that Britain also fuels the conflict here Even though it condemns Israel for its illegal occupation, during the 1st 14 months of the Palestinian uprising, the Blair government approved 230 export licenses for weapons and military equipment to Israel. The categories these covered included Large caliber weapons, ammunition, bombs, and vital parts for military aircraft that almost certainly included American can supply combat helicopters. You may have seen these Apache gunships on the news firing missiles at densely populated areas. Tony Blair has said, and I quote him, we are doing everything we can to bring peace and stability to the Middle
Speaker 8: As much as they humiliate us And, kill us and destroy our land, destroy everything we do, For schools, our organ our organizations, the first infrastructure, everything they like to destroy, but this gives us more power To continue and resist.
Speaker 4: In the news we get, only the Palestinians are described as terrorists. And yet the Israelis have a long history of terrorism both before and since the founding of the Jewish state. At least 3 Israeli prime ministers have been involved in campaigns of terror.
Speaker 13: The tragic scene is like a serious incident during the Blitz. The hotel housed the British army headquarters and the Palestine government offices and casualties were very heavy.
Speaker 4: The commander of the terrorist group that blew up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in 1946 was Manaican Bagan. 91 people were killed. Minaikin Begin was Israeli prime minister in the seventies eighties. He once described a massacre as a splendid act of conquest. Yitzhak Shamir was prime minister until 1992.
He had been a leader of a Jewish group called the Stern Gang which carried out a string of assassinations.
Speaker 6: When those Israelis, who are now famous names, committed acts of terrorism Just before the birth of Israel, you could have said to them, nothing justifies what you've done, ripping apart all those lives. And they would say it did justify it. Well What's the difference?
Speaker 5: I think we have now as an international community Come to a new understanding. I think after September 11th, the world got a wake up call Because terrorism today is no longer the mad bomber, the anarchist who throws in a an explosive device into A crowd to make a point. Terrorism is going to move from the present situation to nonconventional terrorism, to nuclear terrorism. And before we reach that point, we have to remove this scourge from the earth. And, therefore, whether you're talking about the Struggle here between Israelis and Palestinians, the struggle in Northern Ireland, the struggle in Sri Lanka, or any of the places where terrorism has been used, We must make a global commitment of all free democracies to eliminate this threat from the world, period.
Speaker 6: Does that include state terrorism?
Speaker 5: No country has the right to deliberately target civilians As no organization has a right to deliberately target civilians.
Speaker 4: That's what Israelis have been doing for years. The present Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, has long been involved in terror. In 1983, He was found indirectly but personally responsible for a civilian massacre by Lebanese militia in 2 Palestinian refugee camps. At least 800 innocent people were murdered in cold blood, most of them Palestinians.
Speaker 6: What about Israeli terrorism now?
Speaker 5: The language of terrorism, you have to be very Careful with. Terrorism means deliberately targeting civilians in a kind of warfare. That's what the terrorism against Israeli schools, coffee shops, malls has been all about. Israel specifically targets, to the best of its ability, Palestinian Terrorist organizations.
Speaker 4: When when when an Israeli
Speaker 6: sniper shoots an old lady with a cane Trying to get into a hospital for her chemotherapy treatment in front of, a lot of the world's press, for 1, And frankly, we'd be here all day with other examples. Isn't that terrorism?
Speaker 5: I don't know the case you're speaking about, but I can be convinced of one thing. Mhmm. An Israeli who takes aim Even an Israeli sniper is taking aim at those engaged in terrorism. Unfortunately, in every kind of warfare, There are cases of civilians who are accidentally killed. Terrorism means putting the crosshairs Of the sniper's rifle on a civilian deliberately.
Speaker 4: Well, that's that's what I just described.
Speaker 5: No. I can tell you That did not happen.
Speaker 6: It did happen. And and I think that's where some people have problem with the argument that terrorism exists on On one side, your definition is absolutely correct about civilians and those suicide bombers are terrorists.
Speaker 5: If you mix Terrorism and counterterrorism. If you create some kind of moral obfuscation, you will bring about not just a problem for Israel, but you will bring up bring about a problem for the entire Western alliance because we are all facing this threat.
Speaker 4: It's hard to see the difference between what the Israelis call counterterrorism and terrorism. Whatever the target, both involve the killing of innocent people. This is what happened when prime minister Sharon sent tanks into Bethlehem Earlier this year.
Speaker 7: We had a day before, a private hospital director who was, going from the hospital in Al Khadar to Bethlehem to get supplies for his hospital. His plate number was known to the soldier. His name was known to the soldiers, and they knew that he is the director of a hospital,
Speaker 4: In 1988, the Palestine Liberation Organization led by Yasser Arafat Recognized Israel's right to exist and Israeli sovereignty over 78% of Palestine. It was an historic compromise. And in the early nineties, a breakthrough for peace seemed possible. It was in this room in a Jerusalem hotel, that the 1st direct talks between Israeli and Palestinian officials took place in 1991. These led to further meetings and an agreement in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, But set up an autonomous mini state in the territories occupied by Israel since 1967.
For Yasser Arafat and his people, it was seen as a beginning. But the reality was different. What the majority of Palestinians got Was a classic colonial fix. Arafat and his elite got the trappings and privileges of power, while the mass of the people got But one Israeli journalist called the autonomy of a prisoner of war camp. In July 2000, the two sides met in America to reach a final agreement.
But among the issues they discussed Was a profound disagreement about just how much land was on offer. Israel's prime minister at the time, Ehud Barak, Claimed he'd offered the Palestinians almost all the occupied territories back and said that Arafat had rejected this. In reality, The Israelis were expanding more and more illegal settlements on Palestinian land even during the negotiations. Add to that the special access roads with their checkpoints and the Palestinians say that all that was left Was a group of colonies with their borders patrolled by military bases.
Speaker 9: It's very important to understand that from a Palestinian point of view, they were asked to sign in the end of the day a document which did not relate even to one Of the central issues for which they had been struggling for more than 100 years, they are left eventually with an offer Of 10% of what used to be Palestine, the Israelis who dictated this offer in the summer of 2000 are not even talking about a proper state. We're talking in that area of a stateless state, I would call it, a Bantustan, with no genuine sovereignty, With no independent foreign economic or political policies, with no proper capital, and at the mercy of the Israeli security Services and the Israeli policy.
Speaker 4: Not only that, but there is now documented evidence that the Palestinians had made an Extraordinary offer to the Israelis, conceding even more of their land. But this was not news at the time. If there is no justice for the Palestinians, There will be a reckoning in the young generation. Doctor Dehlan runs a project for children in Gaza. He asked these boys to draw anything that was on their minds.
Most of these children are traumatized by the fear and violence of the occupation.
Speaker 14: The majority of our children exposed directly to the, Attack or to the bombardment by the Israeli army is traumatized. There is many many, symptoms. Children became anxious and depressed and, make, for example, sleep disorder as, nightmares or sleepwalking or something like that. Many many, children, they cannot concentrate well to study.
Speaker 4: Nearly every drawing is of violence. Nearly every family in Gaza has lost someone, either to an Israeli jail or to violence. Doctor Dolan's goal is to help the children keep the last thing that belongs to them, their sanity, and their life.
Speaker 14: There is a conflict between the Israeli soldier with the tanks And the Palestinian kids who threw stones and, they cry There is no god except Allah.
Speaker 4: What children in other parts of the world would draw as fantasy, they draw here as real life.
Speaker 14: Yes. We're in violence. This is a good thing to protect the children from the, mental disease.
Speaker 8: I don't want my child that I've been working on having for 15 years To come and when he's 10 years old, he goes to a settlement and he wants to kill his virus. And the only way the only way to stop all this suffering, Now I will say it on both sides, too, is to have a Palestinian state according to you and those on your questions.
Speaker 6: When will Israel agree to negotiate With the Palestinians, not for what they call a few Bantistans on the West Bank, but for a state that is as peaceful, As secure, above all, as independent as Israel itself.
Speaker 5: Do you want Israel to, Concede the terms of that negotiation upfront on television, or is it better to agree to the general principle And then sit with the Palestinians in a face to face negotiation once they stop violence against us.
Speaker 6: What what about this? The general principle then of a a state as independent As independent as Israel.
Speaker 5: We do not need a string of adjectives to agree to. You agree to the principle?
Speaker 6: Well, that's a fair principle, isn't it? What's what's state worth if it isn't independent.
Speaker 5: What we're speaking about is our willingness to negotiate with the Palestinians, their self government, and we are willing to create A Palestinian self governing entity, some call it a Palestinian state, which will address the real needs of the Palestinians.
Speaker 6: What right have you to create somebody else's homeland?
Speaker 5: Well, we are being asked to negotiate that. We are willing to be part of that. We're willing to make a contribution to that. We are not going to upfront go into details about its geographic configuration or its powers. That's part of the negotiation.
Speaker 9: I support sanctions, Selective sanctions on Israel because I tell my, friends here and my colleagues, I would rather have you pay An economic price, then pay the price I think you will pay in in terms of human lives. The The stronger party in the conflict, Israel, has to understand that there is a price for going on with the policies it carries.
Speaker 6: What do you say to those fellow Israelis who will inevitably come up with, the view that in the end, we're going to be pushed into the sea, this expression will be pushed in.
Speaker 1: By this mosquito, We are the most powerful power in the Middle East. We have one of the greatest and more powerful armies in the world. In this last operation, there were 4 divisions, armored divisions, against some 500, 2,000 people, it's it's a laugh. Who will push us into the sea?
Speaker 4: Until recently, Israel has enjoyed almost an immunity from criticism among Western politicians. This has been largely due to a fear of being labeled anti Semitic, a fear manipulated by the Israeli government and its foreign lobbies.
Speaker 9: I think the holocaust memory does not allow any moral criticism of anything that Israel does. Europeans in particular and the outside world in general I'm not allowed to voice criticism on Israel, unless, again, there, what Israel is doing is akin to what the Germans had done, to the Jews. And if you do criticize as well, you are immediately charged with anti Semitism.
Speaker 2: This is, you know, a huge, bluff of of of, you know, of the Israeli establishment that every, you know, criticism of its policy is anti Semitism. And criticizing Your government, your country's policy is today, I think, the only patriotic thing one can do.
Speaker 4: The Israeli government denies it, but Palestinians fear that there are plans to take all of Palestine, trapping or expelling them indefinitely.
Speaker 8: You are not against the Jews. That's why I have Jewish friends. They are against, Politically, the governments of Israel and the army of Israel who denies our rights. And I hope I hope to have peace here with the with the Israelis, but with dignity, this is very important for us. With dignity, it means with our full rights.
The Palestinians will never be destroyed. They will never disappear. We are not the way the Indians. We will not be canceled from history just like this. No.
Speaker 4: It is not surprising that the Jewish people of Israel should feel insecure. No one should ever forget that the most devastating genocide in human history happened only 2 generations ago. But a true sensitivity to that awful memory comes from the same basic humanity that recognizes the suffering of the Palestinian people, And the courage of their endurance. The truth is, that Israelis will never have peace until they recognize that Palestinians Have the same right to the same peace, and the same independence that they enjoy. Recently, that Great voice of freedom, archbishop Desmond Tutu asked this.
Have the Jewish people of Israel forgotten their collective punishment, Their home demolitions, their humiliations, so soon. Israel's own dissenting voices have not forgotten. And those who speak out in this film, honor the best traditions of Jewish humanity. If Rami, the man who lost a young daughter in a suicide attack, Can understand the root cause of the violence here. Isn't it time that others broke their silence?
The occupation of Palestine should end now. Then the solution is clear. 2 countries, Israel and Palestine, neither dominating nor menacing the other. Is that impossible? Or is history to witness the consequences of yet another silence?
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The speaker emphasizes the need to change the conversation about Palestinians, stating that they are not terrorists but part of an anti-colonialist movement. They fight for the right to return to their homeland, to end military occupation, and to have equal rights as Palestinian citizens. The speaker encourages supporting this cause and dismisses accusations of anti-Semitism. Instead, they suggest using the opportunity to educate others about Palestine rather than engaging in pointless arguments.
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Speaker 0: Need to change the conversation in this country. Palestinians are not terrorists. The Palestinian national movement is not a movement of terrorism. It's an anti colonialist movement that had not stopped fighting. And with everyone who's there, whether they are religious or secular, The reason what motivates them are the wish to return as refugees to their homeland, to stop living under military occupation, not to live under siege in Gaza, not to be second rate citizens as Palestinian citizens of the state of Israel.
There's nothing wrong in supporting this cause. And if people want to call Anyone who support this cause, anti semites, let them do this. Let them tell us That what we are doing is wrong and use the venues they give us to educate them on Palestine. Not to answer the silly, accusation
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