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In the last 4 years, Israel has demolished over 4,100 houses in the occupied territories, leaving 17,000 children without homes. This action is seen as cruelty rather than a security measure.

Interviewer and Professor discuss what is known about October 7, the broader context, and the ongoing political implications. - On October 7, the global picture is that roughly 1,200 people were killed, with about 400 combatants and about 800 civilians, according to authorities the professor cites. He notes he relies on UN Human Rights Council Commission of Inquiry, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch but cautions these bodies do not have perfect records. He maintains there is no compelling evidence that a significant portion of the deaths in Israel’s reaction to October 7 were the result of Israeli actions, and he says the deaths are overwhelmingly attributable to Hamas and other armed groups in Gaza. He states there is no evidence supporting the claim that Hamas weaponized rape on October 7. - Regarding rape allegations, the professor emphasizes that the UN mission distinguishes between rape and sexual violence; the UN Commission of Inquiry states there is no digital or photographic evidence of rape. Pamela Patton’s report looked at 5,000 photographs and 50 hours of digital evidence but concluded there was no direct digital or photographic evidence of sexual violence on October 7. He questions why, if such incidents occurred, witnesses did not produce photographic or digital proof, noting that in a conflict zone Israelis would typically photograph atrocities; he suggests eyewitness testimony often aligns with broader narratives about Israel, and argues that some eyewitness accounts come from sources that claim Israel is morally exemplary while also alleging atrocities. - The discussion then moves to the credibility of eyewitness reports. The professor argues that some eyewitness accounts “will tell you Israel is the most moral army in the world” while also suggesting Israel’s society is inbred and that Israeli soldiers form deep bonds in the army, which could influence narratives. He notes a broader pattern of people publishing favorable studies of Israel while denying atrocities. - On Hamas’s planning before October 7, the professor describes Gaza as an “inferno under the Israeli occupation,” with Gaza repeatedly described as a concentration camp by prominent figures since 2004 and 2008. He argues that by late 2023 Gaza was portrayed as facing international indifference, and he asserts that the belief that Gaza’s fate would be sealed by Saudi Arabia joining the Abraham Accords contributed to Hamas’s decision-making. He cites The Economist and UN commentary describing Gaza’s conditions well before October 7, including extreme unemployment (approximately 60% among Gaza’s young people) and a collapse of basic services. - The interviewer asks why violence occurred given various nonviolent and diplomatic avenues. The professor notes that Hamas had attempted diplomacy, including reports of seeking a two-state solution or a hudna, cooperation with human rights investigations after prior Israeli operations, and support for nonviolent movements like the Great March of Return. He claims Hamas’s efforts were ignored and emphasizes the blockade’s impact on Gaza. He argues that while Hamas was not saints, they engaged with diplomacy and international law before resorting to violence in the face of Gaza’s dire conditions. - The West Bank vs. Gaza comparison is discussed. The professor argues that the goal in Gaza differs from that in other contexts; whereas other actors may aim to subordinate, Israel’s long-term aim in Gaza is described as making Gaza unlivable and controlling the territory, with support from various Arab states. - The interviewer questions the historical legitimacy of Gaza and Palestinian statehood. The professor rejects attempts to deny Palestinian existence or redefine Gaza’s status, insisting Gaza’s people are Palestinian and Gaza is not part of the West Bank, while acknowledging the historical complexities. - On the UN Security Council resolution and the “board of peace,” the professor describes the resolution as endorsing the Trump peace plan and naming Donald Trump as head of the board of peace, with the board operating with sovereign powers in Gaza and lacking external accountability. He asserts that this effectively grants Trump control over Gaza and foresees rebuilding timelines; he argues that reconstruction would take decades under current conditions, given rubble, toxins, unexploded ordnance, and the scale of destruction. - The future of Gaza is described pessimistically: Gaza is depicted as “gone” in the sense of a prolonged, uninhabitable landscape under an administratively transitional framework that does not guarantee meaningful reconstruction. The professor contends that Arab states endorsed the resolution under pressure and that some leaders feared severe economic repercussions if they opposed it. - The discussion closes with reflections on who benefits from the resolution and the overall trajectory for Gaza, including strong skepticism about any imminent or credible path to durable peace given the political arrangements described and the perceived long-term consequences for the Palestinian people.

Gaza was previously under Israeli IDF control but was given up in 2005 for peace. However, it has now become a hub for terrorists, particularly Hamas. Despite receiving significant financial aid from the West, no new hospitals or schools have been built in the past five years. On the other hand, over the last two years, more than 30 terror tunnels have been discovered. It is worth noting that Hamas exploits children for their own purposes.

Israeli universities are accused of being complicit in oppressing Palestinians, with Palestinian activists calling for a boycott since 2004. These universities are involved in the destruction of Palestinian education and support the Israeli state's actions against Palestinians, including training intelligence soldiers and producing propaganda. Israeli universities sustain apartheid and violence against Palestinians, participating in what is described as genocide.

Israel is altering the skyline of the Gaza Strip, which remains under constant attack and bombardment. Some describe Gaza as an open-air prison. Human rights organizations have accused Israeli forces of using white phosphorus against civilians in both Gaza and Lebanon.

Israel has targeted and destroyed numerous schools, universities, bookshops, libraries, and publishing houses in Gaza. They have demolished all 12 of Gaza's universities, proudly documenting their actions. Education is crucial for Palestinian society, which has one of the lowest illiteracy rates globally and a high number of PhD graduates per capita. This investment in education is a result of losing their material base in the Nakba.

An average 16-year-old Palestinian has experienced a lifetime of violence and conflict. From birth, they have endured an Israeli blockade and deadly assaults. At age 5, they survived an 8-day assault that claimed many lives. At 7, they witnessed a 50-day Israeli onslaught resulting in numerous Palestinian casualties. As a young teenager, they saw the aftermath of Israeli attacks that lasted 11 days. Now, at 16, they are living through what is described as a genocidal war, with over 16,248 people killed, including more than 7,112 children.

Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, leaving behind homes, greenhouses, and industry. They even dug up their dead and removed all Israeli remains. However, the Palestinians immediately destroyed the greenhouses and burned synagogues. They could have turned Gaza into a prosperous place, but their hatred blinded them. The Palestinians elected a cabinet member who boasted about sacrificing her sons as suicide bombers. Hamas controls every ministry in Gaza, including health, defense, and education. The Shefa hospital is actually Hamas' command center. In short, the Palestinians in Gaza are Hamas.

- Speaker 0: Since Israel began strikes on Gaza after Hamas’ surprise attack on October 7, it has targeted residential buildings. The UN says nearly 200,000 structures have been destroyed or damaged. With so many fleeing attacks, Palestinians packed into makeshift shelters, many of them UN run schools, but they were not safe. More than 1,000 schools have been bombed, and Israel has destroyed most of Gaza's hospitals, including Al Shifa, where more than 400 Palestinians were killed in a raid in March 2024. - Speaker 1: We make the best weapons in the world, and we’ve got a lot of them. And we’ve given a lot to Israel, frankly. And I mean, Bibi would call me so many times, can you get me this weapon, that weapon, that weapon. Some of them I never heard of, baby, and I made them. But we’d get them here, wouldn’t we? And they are the best. They are the best. And you but you used them well. It also takes people that know how to use them, and you obviously used them very well. But so many that Israel became strong and powerful, which ultimately led to peace. That’s what led to peace. So as we celebrate today, let us remember how this nightmare of depravity and death all began. - Speaker 2: In 1948, when the land of Palestine was officially stolen and given to a group of rabid Zionists who murdered over 10,000 Palestinians. This crime against humanity was decided as early as 1917 with the Balfour Declaration, the British Crown, and Lord Rothschild of the Rothschild banking dynasty, otherwise known as the Bank of England, who when it’s all said and done, will have control over hundreds of billions of dollars worth of Palestinian oil and gas reserves. As Michael Roverero famously said, all wars are bankers’ wars. According to Benjamin Franklin, the primary catalyst for the American Revolution was the Bank of England’s Currency Act. After the revolution, a value based economy with no interest being paid to any central bank was created. But it didn’t last long. The first bank of the United States was chartered in 1791 and favored foreign stockholders over Americans. The charter ended in January 1811 followed by the war of eighteen twelve and the establishment of the second bank of the United States in 1816, which gave more power to the Bank of England. Andrew Jackson successfully killed the bank’s renewal and shortly after became the first US president targeted for assassination when Richard Lawrence drew pistols on him outside The US capital, but misfired. Laws were passed in the early eighteen sixties for the US government to issue its own currency in a value based economy as opposed to the debt based system imposed by central banks. According to an 1864 edition of the London Times, this would have made America the wealthiest nation of the world. The article warned that if a government creates its own money, it will be without debt. It will become prosperous without precedent in the history of the world and therefore must be destroyed. In 1865, president Lincoln was assassinated, and the economy was quickly phased back to the central bank’s debt enslavement model. In 1913, the tyrannical Federal Reserve Bank and federal income tax was born. The two world wars brought Germany under the heel of the central banking cartel. Western banking institutions financed the Bolshevik revolution. In 2000, Iraq stopped selling its oil and Federal Reserve notes. In 2003, Iraq was illegally invaded by The United States and dollar based oil sales were reinstated. In Libya, Muammar Gaddafi’s gold dinar currency was making the nation rich. In 2011, The US invaded and reverted Libya’s oil sales to dollars. The Bank for International Settlements recently proposed efforts under the guise of anti money laundering that would provide scores to tokens and digital wallets including stablecoins. Digital ID, social credit scores, and a carbon tax is what the bankers are up to now. And everything else is a distraction. Today’s war is mostly psychological, and it’s being waged upon you. Greg Reese reporting. The Reiss report is now fully funded by my Substack subscribers. Subscribe today and support my work at gregreiss.substack.com.

The speaker emphasizes the importance of seeking information from reliable sources regarding the Israeli occupation in Gaza, highlighting the destruction of universities and schools. They urge for support and solidarity with Palestine, calling for a boycott of Israeli universities involved in the destruction. The speaker stresses the need to defend the right to knowledge and history.

Hamas is using Palestinian children as human shields by storing rockets in schools and building terror tunnels under amusement parks and kids' beds. This is not new information, as it has been known for a long time that Hamas uses civilian infrastructure for their terrorist activities, which is against international law. Israel has been taking measures to evacuate Gaza residents to safety, dropping leaflets, creating evacuation routes, and providing protection. Hamas's true goal is to eradicate Israel and kill all Jews, using Gaza and its people as pawns. The current situation in Gaza is causing outrage against Israel, but the real blame should be on Hamas for dragging the entire region into bloodshed and chaos. Free Palestine from Hamas. (123 words)

Israeli textbooks dehumanize Palestinians, portraying them as primitive farmers, refugees, and terrorists. This leads to a lack of understanding and empathy among Israelis towards Palestinians. The maps in these textbooks also show occupied Palestinian territories as part of Israel, justifying illegal settlements. Israeli students are taught about the Holocaust from a young age, but the focus is on traumatization and revenge rather than empathy for the victims. This education system perpetuates the belief that Israel must do whatever it takes to defend itself, leading to violence and oppression against Palestinians. The goal is to maintain a Jewish majority in Israel by displacing and oppressing Palestinians.

In Gaza, children are being shot by snipers, with some suffering fatal injuries. Doctors have seen numerous cases of children with gunshot wounds, including to the head. The level of devastation in Gaza surpasses all other disaster zones combined, with civilians, especially children, bearing the brunt of the violence. Emotional scars are immeasurable, as children witness their families being killed. The impact on children's well-being is severe, with many left orphaned.

Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2005, leaving behind valuable resources. However, the Palestinians burned down the greenhouses and elected Hamas as their leaders in 2007. Since then, Hamas has used all resources from Israel to create rockets and attack Israel, neglecting the needs of the people in Gaza. To truly support a free Palestine, we must eliminate Hamas. This will lead to a better future for both the people in Gaza and Israel. Eradicating Hamas is the only way to achieve freedom for Palestine.

Israel wanted peace with the Arabic world since its existence. The PLO was founded in 1964 when the West Bank was in Jordan's hands and Gaza was in Egypt's, not because of occupation, but to eliminate Jews. Palestinians lost Gaza and the West Bank in 1967 because they preempted an attack against Israel. In 2000, Ehud Barak offered 97% of territories back, but it was refused. In 2005, Israel withdrew from Gaza, removing its people and even Jewish remains from cemeteries. Greenhouses exporting $50 million in flowers were left for Palestinians, but they destroyed synagogues and greenhouses. Hamas then had an election. A woman was elected to the cabinet of Hamas because she had videos of her sons dressing as suicide bombers. Hamas put Palestinians in a prison in Gaza. Gaza could have been Singapore, but instead, Hamas built tunnels instead of helping their people. Palestinians brought this on themselves.

Israel has a right to exist and defend itself, but Palestinians are often ignored. Palestinians are treated as third-class citizens and face apartheid-like conditions. The Israeli government evicts Palestinians from their land, which is then used for Israeli settlements. Palestinians have limited control over their lives, with restrictions on building permits, water supply, solar energy, medical treatment, electricity, fishing, and transportation. The US government supports Israel and considers Hamas, the governing party in Gaza, a terrorist organization. Palestinians have chosen Hamas due to their frustration with Israeli oppression. Israel and the US need to adopt new approaches towards Palestinians. The Palestinian people face apartheid, deprivation, and civil rights violations. This information is readily available, but one must actively seek it out.

In one of the deadliest days of the war, numerous casualties have occurred, including the destruction of educational infrastructure in Gaza. Over 350 schools and most universities in the north of Gaza have been intentionally destroyed, along with museums, historic and religious sites, and archival buildings. This systematic destruction aims to displace the population and make Gaza uninhabitable. The education system has been severely impacted, depriving hundreds of thousands of school children and university students of access to education. The killing of academics further exacerbates the loss of educated individuals who could contribute to rebuilding after the war. This destruction and loss of educational opportunities will hinder the future prospects and quality of life for the people of Gaza.

Gaza's death toll and civilian injuries continue to rise as airstrikes persist. In the Al Shateh refugee camp, people desperately dig through rubble to save loved ones. Over 440 children have been killed by Israeli airstrikes, according to Gaza's health ministry. Israel claims to target Hamas, but medical facilities, schools, and residential areas have been affected. Displaced individuals, including 47% children, seek refuge in UN-run schools. However, Gaza now faces a complete siege, with no access to water for drinking or hygiene. Schools have been bombed, and many innocent lives lost. The people of Gaza question why they are suffering.

The situation for Palestinians is catastrophic due to egregious actions, including collective punishment. Israel's behavior flouts international rules. Peace is impossible without acknowledging the cost to Palestinians and recognizing that Israel's identity is intertwined with the Palestinian tragedy. Israel was constructed on the ruins of Palestinian society through mass dispossession. The Oslo Accords state Israel bears no responsibility for the costs of the occupation, despite decades of military control. An Israeli journalist stated that Israel took over the country from the British, who left infrastructure that allowed them to build Israel. If they had taken Palestine the way they left Gaza, there would be no Israel. Gaza is one of the most criminal places on earth because of Israeli occupation policies, for which they bear no responsibility. Victimizing others because of past victimization is unacceptable and must have limits.

Israel is often accused of being an apartheid state and committing ethnic genocide, but this doesn't align with the reality. Around 25% of the Israeli population is Arab, with over 20% being Muslims. As an Arab Muslim myself, I can attest that we have equal rights, including access to welfare, education, and healthcare. Israel made education mandatory for all children, ensuring that even girls receive an education. Without Israel, I would likely be illiterate and impoverished. I have an electrical engineering degree and a master's from a central university. It's important to read the facts before making such claims, especially when they come from intelligent students at elite universities.

In Gaza, there is a genocide with 12,000 children killed, while 30 Israeli children were also killed. 30,000 Palestinian civilians and 72,000 people were killed or injured. Israel is also causing starvation by blocking food supplies. This is genocide, collective punishment, and ethnic cleansing, with 70% of homes destroyed and hospitals damaged.

The Palestinians live under Israeli government control, which many consider oppressive. Israel and America need to change their approach. Palestinians have been deprived of their land for over 70 years, leading to deep frustration. They face apartheid, lack basic necessities, and endure civil rights violations. This is not a secret; it's visible if you look for it.

Israel's education system teaches the dehumanization of Palestinians through textbooks that portray them as primitive farmers, refugees, and terrorists. This leads to a lack of understanding and empathy among Israelis, who rarely interact with Palestinians. Israeli textbooks also depict occupied Palestinian territories as part of Israel, fueling the colonization of Palestinian land. The education system also heavily focuses on the Holocaust, instilling a sense of trauma and revenge among Jewish Israelis. This weaponization of the Holocaust justifies the violence of the Zionist state and perpetuates the belief that another Holocaust could occur. Israeli youth then enter the military, becoming the frontline of apartheid and occupation. This indoctrination is necessary to maintain a Jewish majority in Israel and justify the displacement, imprisonment, and murder of Palestinians.

The speaker discusses the education system in Israel and its impact on the perception of Palestinians. They explain that Palestinians are heavily monitored and censored, making it impossible for them to teach hate even if they wanted to. The Palestinian Authority's curriculum is financed and supervised by various organizations, including Israel. In East Jerusalem, the curriculum is controlled by Israel, resulting in limited teaching about Palestinian history and culture. On the other hand, Israeli students learn about the Zionist project and the occupation. The speaker also highlights the presence of racist and militaristic ideologies in Israeli school books, which perpetuate fear and dehumanization of Palestinians. They argue that the education system in Israel promotes a racist society.

Israel has been accused of bombing hospitals in Gaza, with incidents reported in 2014 and 2021. In 2014, a hospital and a rehab facility were targeted, causing casualties among patients. The Israeli government has also been accused of bombing a UN shelter in 2014, resulting in the deaths of Palestinian civilians. Recent documents suggest that US funding and weaponry have been used in destructive actions. These incidents highlight the Israeli government's actions with the support of the United States and Western powers.