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@umyaznemo - Rania
"But why do they hate us so much"? https://t.co/UHrZ0ih6Hf
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Every house in the West Bank has a number, and soldiers would use maps to locate specific houses. After verifying the house had the best parameters and geographical area, they ensured the people in the house were innocent before entering a Palestinian home in the middle of the night.
The piercing eyes of young Palestinians motivated the speaker to break his silence. He recalls entering a physician's house in Nablus in the middle of the night, confining him, his wife, and his daughter to a room, requiring them to ask permission to use the bathroom, kitchen, or phone. The physician explained to him what it means to be a Palestinian. The speaker thought he was a good moral soldier helping entrench the occupation.
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Speaker 0: Every house in the West Bank actually has a number. Each and every house has a number. So we would open up the maps and look at the specific house that looked into the right place that we had to enter, city center or a road. And after we would verify that the house has the best parameters, windows and geographical area, we made sure the people in the house were innocent. So we would enter a house of an innocent Palestinian home in the middle of the night.
But I I would say that what motivated me eventually to break my silence was the piercing eyes of young Palestinians when I was barging into their house in the middle of the night. I could always justify it to myself that those eyes, the anger, their fear, was what eventually helped me overcome that. A house of a physician in Nablus, for example, that I entered in the middle of the night, taking him, his wife, and his daughter and and pushing them in a room. If they wanted to use their bathroom or their kitchen or use their phone, they need permission from me. That specific house in Nablus stayed with me for a while because that physician himself was kind enough and generous enough to sit down and explain to me what it means to be a Palestinian.
And I thought that I was a good moral soldier, that I was actually helping entrench the occupation in that sense.
@umyaznemo - Rania
1zr@e1 assassinated the last living orthopedic surgeon in G@z@! Beyond cruel! RIP Dr. Saeed Joda. https://t.co/rtLeRnfrja
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The last orthopedic specialist in Northern Gaza was killed today in a drone attack by the IDF. He worked at Al Adwa and Kamal Adwan Hospitals and was targeted while traveling between them. Tragically, his 24-year-old son had died just a week earlier while rescuing people from rubble after an attack on Jabaliya refugee camp. Currently, Northern Gaza has no orthopedic surgeons or specialists, which is devastating for a region experiencing continuous bombardment for over a year. The targeting of the last surgeon capable of treating such injuries severely harms the population.
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Speaker 0: The last living orthopedic specialist in Northern Gaza was shot and killed today in a deliberate drone attack by the IDF. He was the last orthopedic specialist and surgeon in Northern Gaza, working at both Al Adwa and Kamal Adwan Hospitals. Being the last surgeon left, he often traveled between the two hospitals on the same route and was targeted while on route in between both both facilities. This is especially tragic because his 24 year old son was killed just last week while trying to pull people from under the rubble after Jabaliya refugee camp was targeted once again. As it stands today, northern Gaza has 0 orthopedic surgeons and 0 orthopedic specialists.
I don't know how to explain how detrimental that is to an area that is seeing nonstop bombardment and has for over a year. And the deliberate targeting of the last surgeon in northern Gaza who can treat these kinds of cases is one of the most evil and heinous things that they could do to harm this population even further.
@umyaznemo - Rania
"Seizes" is just another word for "steals", which 1zrael does best! https://t.co/kPgKMWqC1R
@umyaznemo - Rania
Are you really that stupid to believe this is self-defense? https://t.co/GC28DPDtZB
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What if a grain of rice represented one death in Gaza? This is 1,200 grains, the number used to justify recent actions. The current Palestinian death toll is about 42,000 grains of rice, but this is likely an undercount. A report from The Lancet estimates the true toll, including those missing or likely to die from starvation and untreated injuries, at 186,000. However, a University of Edinburgh report projects the death toll could reach 335,000 by September 2024. This stark figure challenges the narrative that these deaths are a form of self-defense or a proportional response.
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Speaker 0: What would it look like if a single grain of rice represented one death in Gaza? Okay. So to start off, this is about 1200 grains of rice. This is what they've used to justify everything that's happened in the last year. Now let's look at this compared to the Palestinian death toll, which right now is about 42,000.
This is about 42,000 grains of rice. But we should note too that this 42,000 is also a massive undercount. The death toll has basically been stuck at about 40,000 ish for months now, even though the massacres and the bombs had not stopped. A highly respected medical journal called The Lancet Journal released a report where they estimated the true death toll, including those that are missing, buried under the rubble, are gonna die from starvation or treatable injuries and diseases. If you add up all those things, this is what it looks like.
A 186,000 Palestinians. But But we should also know that this 186,000 is also an out of date number. There is a report released by the University of Edinburgh where they took the Lancet model, and they estimated what the debt toll would be in September of 2024. Based on the University of Edinburgh's estimate, the debt toll is as high as 335,000. This is what 335,000 looks like.
They want us to believe that this 335,000 is self defense. They want us to think that this is a proportional response.
@umyaznemo - Rania
This is the real 1sr@el. https://t.co/TeuVQr5rbe
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The ongoing situation in Gaza is revealing a different side of Israel, one characterized by violence and systemic oppression. This Israel is accused of deliberately starving Palestinians and committing atrocities against civilians, including children. Reports highlight the use of AI to target families and the mocking behavior of soldiers towards victims. Medical facilities have been severely damaged, and healthcare workers face targeted attacks. Journalists are being killed, and humanitarian efforts are obstructed. Citizens of Israel are depicted as indifferent to the suffering in Gaza, engaging in activities that celebrate the destruction. This portrayal challenges the narrative of Israel as a democratic state and calls for a reevaluation of support for its actions, emphasizing the need for a shift towards human values for peace in the region.
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Speaker 0: The real Israel. One of the very few good things coming out of the relentless nightmare happening in Gaza is that at long last, the Western world is getting a clear look at Israel, the real Israel, not the Israel they teach you about in school, not the only democracy in the Middle East where Jews were given safe haven after their victimization at the hands of the Nazis and managed to create a thriving society despite existing in a sea of savage enemies bent on their destruction. Not that Israel. The real one. Arguably, the most racist society on earth whose existence has depended on nonstop violence, theft, tyranny, and abuse since its very inception.
The real Israel, whose government is deliberately and methodically starving Palestinians, civilians to death by the tens of 1,000 just for being the wrong ethnicity. The real Israel, whose snipers routinely murder Palestinian children by shooting them in the head. The real Israel, whose military is so sadistic that it created an AI system to specifically target suspected Hamas fighters when they are at home with their families and called the AI, where's daddy, because it would be killing fathers when they are at home with their children. The real Israel, whose soldiers cannot stop posting footage of themselves mockingly dressed in the undergarments of dead and displaced Palestinian women and playing with the toys of dead and displaced Palestinian children. The real Israel, where Palestinian doctors are raped and tortured to death, the real Israel, where the majority of men do not believe acquaintance rape or spousal rape are real crimes, and where the majority do not believe the soldiers accused of raping and torturing a Palestinian prisoner to the point of severe injury should face criminal charges, The real Israel, who routinely bombs buildings full of civilians and then uses sniper drones to pick off the survivors, including children.
The real Israel whose drones have been heard playing the sounds of crying babies and screaming women in order to lure out civilians so they can be killed. The real Israel who has damaged or destroyed 94% of the health care facilities in Gaza with hundreds of targeted attacks, the real Israel whose military forces target medical staff so methodically that doctors and nurses in Gaza reportedly change out of their uniforms when they leave the hospital in order to avoid assassination. The real Israel who hates truth so much that it has been killing historic numbers of journalists in Gaza while preventing foreign journalists from entering the enclave. The real Israel who has been knowingly attacking the locations of humanitarian aid workers. The real Israel whose citizens are so warped and twisted that they attend boat tours to cheerfully witness the devastation in the Gaza Strip, the real Israel whose citizens set up blockades to prevent aid trucks from getting to starving civilians in Gaza while they enjoy barbecues and set up bouncy castles and cotton candy machines for their children.
The real Israel, whose citizens will travel to another country and tear down Palestinian flags and sing about how there are no children left in Gaza and then cry victim when people fight back. The real Israel, whose TikTok influencers started a viral trend mocking the suffering of civilians in Gaza. This is the real Israel in all its glory, and it is good that it is being seen. The sooner everyone stops supporting this freakish, murderous society and begins insisting that normal human values win out over the demented forces which keep it going, the sooner there can be peace in the region and the better off our entire species will be.
@umyaznemo - Rania
The 4- year old Palestini@n prisoner on his way to attend his hearing. He's 4 years old!!! https://t.co/ztkBqmk9Zj
@umyaznemo - Rania
The most violent country in the world since 1950 of the United States! https://t.co/BajvFnuhVp
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The United States is characterized as a semi-democratic, white-dominated, hierarchical, and racist society, rooted in privilege since its formation in 1787. It has a history of slavery and the genocide of Native Americans, which continues to influence its structure today. The U.S. can maintain a democratic facade domestically while engaging in ruthless imperialism abroad. Since 1950, it has been the most violent country in the world.
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Speaker 0: Jeffrey, stop now. Let's let's Jeffrey, I'm I'm Jeffrey. I'm your moderator, and it's enough. Okay.
Speaker 1: I thought the United States, it is a semi democratic white dominated, hierarchical, racist society that aims to preserve privilege by the elites. That's how it was formed in 1787. It was a slave owning, genocidal country killing Native Americans for a white culture. But amazingly, it still looks that way. You can be democratic at home and ruthlessly imperial abroad.
The most violent country in the world since 1950 has been the United States. Let's
Speaker 0: by power and Jeffrey, stop. Wait a minute. Let's let's Jeffrey, I'm I'm I'm Jeffrey. I'm your moderator, and it's enough.
Speaker 1: Okay. I'm done.
@umyaznemo - Rania
And apparently these words were so powerful that the UK government had to arrest him for them! https://t.co/p3CrKb6Oqc
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To effectively oppose Israel's actions, we must recognize that it has colonized not only Palestine but also the minds of Western governments and societies. Without the support of the U.S. and other nations, Israel's actions would cease. This colonial mindset extends to Judaism itself, where many Jews support these actions, inadvertently fueling antisemitism. We must challenge this colonialism in three key areas: first, by holding our governments accountable for supporting genocide; second, by advocating for free speech in universities, where criticism of Zionism is often silenced; and third, by reforming the media, which perpetuates support for Israel's actions.
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Speaker 0: There to know how to stop your enemy, you have to understand how it works. Israel is not just colonizing Palestine. If it was just colonizing Palestine, it would be much easier to stop them. They have colonized every government in the west. They have colonized the minds of western governments, politicians, governments everywhere who support them.
Without that support, without the US arming and paying for this genocide, it would overnight. So we have to fight colonialism everywhere because Israel has colonized the American mind, the British mind, the European mind. More importantly, they've colonized the Jewish people everywhere. They have colonized Judaism, the tradition, the belief, the religion, the the experience of Jews for 2000 years was colonized by Zionism. And these Jews are supporting in great numbers, not just here, but everywhere in the west.
They are supporting the genocide. Shame on them. They are not real Jews. We are here because we know the history of Judaism, and they are actually, making, sure that, people will Jewish people will suffer from antisemitism everywhere. Yeah.
They are helping antisemitism every day with their genocide and with their and with their crimes. Yes. So I want to say, to end, there are 3 other types of colonialism that we have to fight. They have colonized the western governments, and we need to bring an end to that. We, the people in the west, must stand up against our own governments.
Yeah. No one which supported genocide should sit in government anyway. They should sit in jail. Now the other area, which I am very worried about because I'm an academic, they have colonized all the universities in the West, and we are not able to speak there. Even academics are not allowed to speak in universities if you are speaking against Zionism.
We must decolonize the higher education system and the whole education system. And last but not least, I think we must we must decolonize the, whole system of the media, which is supporting, which is aiding, which is abetting. And abetting Israel and its genocide everywhere.
@umyaznemo - Rania
The 1sr@eli diapers forces bombing residences in Kfarkela , Southern Lebanon. Remember their faces. https://t.co/JZV6bVvEMm
@umyaznemo - Rania
When the harsh brutal truth is somehow deemed "antisemitic"! https://t.co/tD3DlrAvGq
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Almost a third of lawmakers in Benjamin Netanyahu's party, including 10 MPs, will participate in an ultranationalist march organized by a settlement movement calling for the settlement of Gaza. The conference is titled "Preparing to Resettle Gaza," with the goal of moving Israeli people into territory forcibly vacated by Palestinians.
Israel's social equality minister is slated to attend the rally, which will encourage Israelis to take the land and homes of forcibly relocated, ethnically cleansed, or murdered Palestinian civilians. A third of the governing party will march in support of moving settlers into Gaza. The march will occur amidst the death of tens of thousands of people, the bombing of hospitals, attacks on schools, and people being set on fire. The governing party plans to spend the weekend calling for the cleansed territory to be occupied illegally by Israelis.
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Speaker 0: Almost a third of lawmakers in Benjamin Netanyahu's party, including 10 of his party's MPs, are to participate in an event organized by a settlement movement, which is calling for it's an ultranationalist march calling for the settlement of Gaza. The conference is titled preparing to resettle Gaza, and the goal is moving Israeli people into territory vacated forcibly by Palestinians. But that is a rally set to be attended by the social equality minister in Israel. Let me say that again. The social equality minister is slated to attend a rally that will encourage Israelis to steal the land and the homes of forcibly relocated, or if you prefer, ethnically cleansed or quite possibly murdered Palestinian civilians.
So I don't know how many times we can sit here and ask how does it end? Because they keep telling us. How will it end? What's that you say? A third of the governing part, a third of the lawmakers in Benjamin Netanyahu's government are gonna be marching this weekend in support of moving settlers into Gaza, into the into the bombed out remains of what was once, I mean, a a a pretty unpleasant and a hideously over a populated area, but at least one way you didn't run the certain risk of being killed if you stayed put.
They're gonna move in there. Tens of thousands of people are dead. Hospitals are being bombed. Schools are being attacked. People are being set on fire.
And the governing party, a third of the governing party is planning on spending this weekend calling for the cleansed territory to be occupied illegally by Israelis. And you think that there's something anti Semitic about describing the truth, the facts.
@umyaznemo - Rania
So shitsrael is trying to convince the world that this hospital in Lebanon is Ali Baba's cave in order to blow it up like it did with all of G@z@'s hospitals! https://t.co/XKImB0A8eT
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Doctors at Alsahal Hospital opened the medical waste storage, the morgue, and surgical supplies to prove there was nothing hidden. Hospital staff allowed reporters to move freely and opened every area and cupboard. They are adamant that there is no hidden bunker containing $1,000,000 of cash or gold, as the Israelis have claimed. According to hospital staff, Alsahal Hospital is just a hospital where patients were being treated until they were evacuated from the emergency area for their safety and the safety of the staff.
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Speaker 0: Well, we're on level minus 2 in the Alsahal Hospital. The area just behind me is where medical waste is stored. Even that was opened up for us to have a look. The morgue was opened up. All of the drawers were opened to show us there was nothing inside.
Doctors have been opening piles of surgical scrubs, boxes of equipment, very, very keen to show us everything there is to see and to prove that there is nothing here. Well, I'm just coming now from the basement on minus 2 up to minus 1. We've been brought around the hospital by doctors. We've also been allowed to move around on our own. Doors have been opened for us in every area, cupboards.
We've been allowed to see what there is to see. Now the hospital staff are adamant that there is no hidden bunker here containing 1,000,000 of dollars of cash or gold as the Israelis have claimed. They say this is just a hospital where patients were being treated last night and where they had to be evacuated from the emergency area at great speed because doctors were worried for the lives of the patients and also worried for the staff.
@umyaznemo - Rania
That's what happens when a lawless group of illegal thugs rule the government! And they seem to echo the general sentiments of most 1sr@elis. Ethnic cleansing, massacres, and land theft. https://t.co/azH0F91rqe
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Following the October 7th attacks, settlers in Israel held a two-day event near Gaza, planning Jewish outposts in the territory. Organizers spoke of "cleaning out the infection" of Palestinians, suggesting mass deportations to other countries, similar to those in Ukraine and Russia. When asked if the idea of mass deportations offended his sense of Jewishness, one organizer said no, because "when the evil is so bad, you have to do something with it to make peace with evil."
Settler families, including children, set up for the night overlooking Gaza, committed to resettling their "promised land." Daniela Weiss, considered the grandmother of the settler movement and a friend of ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gavir, attended the event. One speaker stated that the rise of the right is "not a moment...it's the beginning of an era." Minister Miri Regev wants all Gazans to leave the strip but when asked about those who don't want to leave, she declined to answer. Ben Gavir, now minister for security, also declined to answer questions about plans for Gazans who don't want to leave.
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Speaker 0: I wanted to preface what you're about to see by saying that the views you will hear don't, represent the majority of people who live in Israel. Although, that said, there is some reliable polling that suggests that between 25 40% of the population here supports some form of settlement inside Gaza. The awful trauma of October 7th attacks have pushed those figure figures towards the upper end. Also, want to preface it by saying that while we were at this event, a group of protesters showed up outside. They were friends and family of hostages still being kept inside Gaza, and they were scathing about politicians on the right who they perceive are weaponizing the events of October 7th for political reasons.
Blowing bubbles as Gaza burns. This weekend, over 100 people died in the north of the strip. And as that was happening, not far away in southern Israel, settlers held a 2 day event.
Speaker 1: This whole area is is 1 big terror cell. It has infection.
Speaker 2: You have to take out the infection.
Speaker 0: They set out their plans for Jewish outposts inside what will be left of Gaza if they get in. Celebrated the festival of Sukkot as the smell of homes on fire wafted in from the west. We spoke to one of the organizers. What you're about to hear is hate speech. We decided to broadcast it because as you'll see, these people have some very powerful friends in the Israeli government.
Speaker 1: That is when you have to when you have a, a cut in your body, and that cut, it has an infection.
Speaker 2: You have to take out the infection.
Speaker 1: When you take out the infection, then it'll be clean again.
Speaker 0: In terms of cleaning out this infection as you call it, what do you what would you like to see happen to the over a 1000000 Palestinians that live there?
Speaker 1: I think there are many nations, including Ireland and England, who would welcome them to come and live in their own
Speaker 0: mass deportations to other countries.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Just like happens in Ukraine, in Russia, and any other place in the world, you have a war. Does that idea not offend
Speaker 0: You have residues. Idea of mass deportations and cleansing the wound, not not offend your sense of Jewishness given your people's history?
Speaker 1: No. No. Because when the evil is so bad, you have to have to do something with it to
Speaker 0: to to
Speaker 1: make peace with evil.
Speaker 0: That sound that has very dark historical resonance, that sentence you've just said in terms of of Jewish people.
Speaker 1: The dark the dark I know was what what happened a year ago here in the roots. That was very dark.
Speaker 0: That evening at the main event, settler families set up their sukkahs overlooking the strip. There's been an exponential rise both in the number of settlements and in violence directed by them against Palestinians in the West Bank since the October 7th attacks. These people see the war in Gaza as the ultimate supplanting of Palestinians there. We meet and their children bedding down for the night. They're so committed to the idea of resettling that part of their promised land.
They bring the children to live in Gaza today. I understand your beliefs and I understand your ideology, but you're not honestly telling me that you would bring your 7 children into a war zone today to live.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 0: Daniela Weiss holds court that evening. She's seen as the grandmother of the modern day settler movement, and now she's something else as well. Friends with Israel's new far right settler power elite, Bezalel Smotrich, the finance minister, and Itamar Ben Gavir, minister of national Security, who we'll meet later. They're the settlers champions no longer manning outposts driving ministerial cars. Do you feel like this is your political moment?
Speaker 3: It's not a moment. It's the beginning of an era. It's the beginning of a period. It's a big change. The left is losing its
Speaker 4: rule,
Speaker 3: and the the right came to power, and this is and to stay.
Speaker 0: The main event the following day, a showcase of political muscle. When Danielle LaVoy says this is a new era, this is what she means. Settlers are no longer a fringe group of militant zealots that are irrelevant. They are sharing the stage with government ministers and MPs. This is what real power looks like.
Meg O'Lan is minister for social equality. She is from Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party. She wants all Gazans to leave the strip. But what of those who don't want to leave? If it ever gets to that point, what's the government's plan?
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, I'm not talking about plans right now.
Speaker 0: So you don't have a plan
Speaker 4: for that. Just to be
Speaker 0: clear, you're bombing Gaza No. But you do not have a plan to get to move to people who don't want to leave.
Speaker 4: I said one question, but no problem. We're doing and we will do everything that we need in order to protect the lives of our people, women that were slaughtered.
Speaker 0: No. I get that. Sorry. You said one question. This is still the same question.
What I need to ask you is talking. Do you have a plan? Do you have a plan
Speaker 4: We have
Speaker 1: a plan. To move
Speaker 0: the Gazans who do not want to leave. Everything. And I'm still here.
Speaker 4: Plan. That just like in your democracy, these people have the right to speak their mind. They have the freedom of speech. And those people that the bomb bombs that you just heard are the monsters that are trying to kill us for the last year. That was out there actually.
That was slaughtered. There was tons thousands of bombs. And while we're talking, there are rockets at the south and the north of of of our country.
Speaker 0: But you have a plan.
Speaker 4: Should deal with the fact
Speaker 0: that we have
Speaker 1: have free ride to go.
Speaker 4: Protect us But
Speaker 0: you won't tell
Speaker 4: us what
Speaker 0: the plan is. Possible. Other politicians, the warm up acts for Bendavir. Convicted of terror related activities as a young man, now minister for security, the British government reportedly considered sanctions against him. I'm saying British television, are you worried about British sanctions?
Are you worried about certain sanctions? I
Speaker 1: don't know, man. Can I quickly ask you also?
Speaker 0: For the Gazans who don't want to leave,
Speaker 1: that's your plan for them. For the Gazans
Speaker 0: who don't want to leave, what
Speaker 1: is your plan for them? No. No. No. I'm not.
Excuse me.
Speaker 0: Sir? We left them to the dancing, to the drum and the base of religious fervor and power. The music echoed across the field, probably didn't reach northern Gaza, drowned out there by the sounds of something else entirely.
@umyaznemo - Rania
But we all know that the US is committing the gen0cide! https://t.co/a2YiZQqc7a
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The United States has been the primary arms supplier to Israel for the war on Gaza. Washington has allocated over $21 billion in military aid for American-made weapons. In the past year, over 500 military cargo planes and 170 ships have supplied Israel with 75,000 artillery shells, 14,900-kilogram bombs, 6,500 226-kilogram bombs, 3,000 Hellfire missiles, 1,000 bunker buster bombs, and 2,600 airdrop small diameter bombs.
Comparatively, 15,000 tons of explosives were dropped on Hiroshima, 21,000 tons on Nagasaki, 2,700+ tons on Dresden, 16,000 tons on Hamburg, and 1,510 tons in the firebombing of Tokyo, totaling 56,210 tons. Israel has dropped 85,000 tons of high explosives on Gaza, a densely populated area.
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Speaker 0: United States has been by far the chief supplier of arms to Israel for its war on Gaza. Their numbers are simply staggering. Washington has allocated over $21,000,000,000 worth of military aid to be spent only on American made weapons. In the past year, more than 500 military cargo planes and a 170 ships have supplied Israel with 75,000 artillery shells, 14,900 kilogram bombs, 6,500,226 kilogram bombs, 3,000 Hellfire missiles, 1,000 bunker buster bombs, and 2,600 airdrop small diameter bombs. To give you an idea of the scale of destruction wrought on the Gaza Strip in the last year, let's compare some of the numbers with the events of the Second World War.
15,000 tons worth of explosives were dropped on Hiroshima, 21,000 tons on Nagasaki, the bombing of Dresden, 2,700, plus the destruction of Hamburg at 16,000 tons, and the firebombing of Tokyo in 1945 required 1,510 tons of explosives. All of which adds up to a total of 56,210 tons. Still, nowhere near the staggering 85,000 tons of high explosives Israel has dropped on Gaza, one of the most densely populated areas on Earth and with nowhere to go for its people.
@umyaznemo - Rania
All evidence shows that only 1sr@el uses P@lestinians as human shields. And yet MSM refuses to say that! https://t.co/j0uBMsjFiH
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The speakers claim there is massive evidence of Israeli soldiers using Palestinians as human shields, not only in Gaza but also in the West Bank. They state that Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and UN reports from previous conflicts testify to this. They add that in the current conflict, it is clearly happening again.
The speakers interviewed six people who coincidentally revealed they had been used as human shields. According to Maher Hussaini from EuroMed Human Rights Monitor, when Palestinians are first detained, they tend to be held within the strip for a few days and are invariably used as human shields during that period.
The speakers assert that Western media is criminally complicit in ignoring this and that the claim of Hamas using civilians as human shields is constantly used as justification, despite a lack of evidence. They say there is nothing in the behavior of the Israelis to suggest that the presence of a civilian would lead to them holding their fire.
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Speaker 0: We saw Israeli army, soldiers using Palestinians as a human shields. Not only in Gaza, but also in the western. You
Speaker 1: know, this really, you know, makes me extremely angry. When you when you whenever Israeli politicians or western politicians are confronted with their appalling death toll, what they every time, what they will say is, ah, but Hamas
Speaker 0: Hamas using them as human shields.
Speaker 1: Hamas uses the population. There's no evidence whatsoever about that. It's extraordinary. I mean, you you you really don't have to do, you know, complicated research to to find this out. The idea that the Hamas are sort of forcing the civilian population to stand in front of them is absurd.
Yes. They and the civilian population share the same very small bit of territory, but there's not there's not a lot that they can do about that. And also, Maha Husseini from EuroMed Human Rights Monitor in our film makes an incredibly important point. There is absolutely nothing in the behavior of the Israelis for the last year to make you think that the presence of a civilian would lead to them holding their fire. They you know, there there there is clearly no regard whatsoever for civilian life.
So what would be the point of using civilian just? And it drives me absolutely and, yeah, it's an area where I think the Western media is criminally complicit, because that is the justification all the time. And and, you know, you can I can get an 18 year old undergraduate to research this? And in 10 minutes, they'd have debunked it. You know, why the BBC isn't able to fact check this.
And it just goes completely unquestioned. You know, the Israeli ambassador will sit there and say this, and they'll all just sit there nodding. You know? And as you say, on the other hand, what there is a massive evidence of is the Israelis using Palestinian civilians as human jewels. And, you know, interesting thing.
You know, again, you know, you just research that. You read Human Rights Watch amnesty, you know, UN reports from previous conflicts. And they all testified for this. And in the West Bank, you get the same thing. In this current conflict, it's clearly happening again.
And quite an interesting thing, we spoke to 6 people Mhmm. Who'd been used as human shields. In each case, we didn't speak to them because we'd been told they were used as a human shield. We were speaking to them about something else. And purely, coincidentally, they'd been used as a human shield.
Speaker 0: That is that's how many other Palestinians were It's it's
Speaker 1: clearly systematic Yeah. As Maher Hussaini says Yeah. Which they they've done a study of this. It it it seems to be the case absolutely that, when Palestinians are first detained, they tend to be held within the strip for sort of 2, 3, 4 days. And in that period, they are invariably used.
Speaker 0: And there are multiple evidence of Palestinians being used as as a human shields. We have seen the footage. We have seen the testimony from the people in Gaza, and yet we haven't seen any of the mainstream media talking about it.
Speaker 1: I know. It's it's extraordinary.
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@umyaznemo - Rania
Gaza is the real world embodiment of hell on earth for its million children, and it's getting worse day by day! https://t.co/CwrqWSQn8o
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Settler crimes exposed. https://t.co/wBJw101Qfz
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Settlers are receiving military training to terrorize Palestinians in the surrounding area. Filmmakers were restricted from filming a structure being built down the hill by the settlers, but they filmed it from a distance. The structure is reportedly "for security and for the attack" on the Palestinian village of Sarif. Israeli settlers allegedly go to the village at night to insult and harass Palestinians to make sure they leave their land.
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Speaker 0: What is happening down the hill that they don't want us to film? We were able to get visual evidence with the help of a hidden camera, and this is what they don't want us to film. Settlers receiving military training to tear as the Palestinians in the surrounding area. To access this place, we had to accept some rules. 1 of them, not to film the structure that is being built down the hill by the settlers.
However, we were able to film it from a distance. The question is, what are they building? And so we give it a try. So, this is for security. Yes?
Or or what is this? This is for security and for the attack. It's the. The village he refers to is Sarif, a Palestinian village. And this is what he talks about.
Israeli settlers go down to the village at night to insult and harass Palestinians to make sure they will leave their land.
@umyaznemo - Rania
A leaked video of Palestinian hostages in 1sr@eli prisons. I'm pretty sure that these are human rights violations. https://t.co/TDtInP8OWo
@umyaznemo - Rania
Shitsrael was established by terrorists, is made up of terrorists, and thrives on terrorism. It is that simple! https://t.co/yJNOYS6Vhn
@umyaznemo - Rania
What happened on September 18th, when the news buried the news! https://t.co/lIa4mimPJh
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I express strong condemnation of a group I believe is responsible for numerous atrocities, including genocide, trafficking, and cultural appropriation. I highlight their actions as comparable to the worst historical events, emphasizing the severity of their impact on humanity.
@umyaznemo - Rania
!sr@e! is a gen0ciding, holocausting, pedophilic, r@pist, sex-trafficking, organ-stealing, land-stealing, resource-stealing, culture-stealing, food-stealing, fashion-stealing, music-stealing, overall appropriating, blood-diamonding, cobalt mining, child-kidnapping, child-labouring, child-murdering, pregnant mother and fetus-killing, world war instigating, terr0rist, apartheid, ethno-state, that outshines the mother fcking n@z1$ !
@umyaznemo - Rania
The vilest sub humans ever! https://t.co/e5s1xxEYX9
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Beitar Jerusalem, an Israeli Premier League football team, is considered by some to be racist. The team has never signed an Arab player, and their fans' slogan is "forever pure." A favorite chant is "death to Arabs," sung at games and Netanyahu rallies.
In 2013, fans reacted with outrage, including arson attacks, when the club signed two non-Arab Muslim players from Russia. One of the players, Zaur Sadayev, was booed and fans walked out when he scored. In 2004, Ndala Ibrahim, a Muslim player from Nigeria, resigned after five games due to racist abuse. In 2019, fans protested the signing of Ali Mohammed, a Christian player from Niger, because his name was Mohammed. The La Familia Fan Association stated they had no problem with him being Christian, but demanded his name be changed. The team regularly plays in Europa League and has high-profile supporters, including powerful politicians.
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Speaker 0: Is this the most racist team in world sports? This is Beta Jerusalem, a football team in the Israeli Premier League. And among their supporters is prime minister Netanyahu and the current minister of national security, Ben David, probably the most far right figure in government. And they're the only team in the league to have never signed an Arab plane. In fact, they're celebrated by their fans whose famous slogan is forever pure.
And one of their favorite chants is death to Arabs, which they sing everywhere they go, including and their Netanyahu rallies. And things got really bad in 2013 when the club side 2 non Arab Muslim players from Russia, and fans were outraged and even carried out arsenal attacks on their own team's officers' hybrid. And then when the 2 Muslim players made their debut, they're booed the whole time. And 1 and the 2, Zal Sadieh, scored a goal with this match. And in reactions, fans led a massive walkout.
Back in 2004, another Muslim player signed for the club have faced a similar reaction. Ndala Ibrahim, a Muslim player from Nigeria, resigned from the club after just 5 games citing the constant racist abuse from his own fans. And perhaps even more absurd was the case of Ali Mohammed, a Christian player from Niger, the side for Beitai 2019. The fans protested this despite the fact that he was neither Arab nor Muslim. And an official statement from the La Familia Fan Association said
Speaker 1: After countless inquiries and checks regarding the identity of the player Ali, we hereby announce we have no problem whatsoever with this player since he is a devout Christian, but we do have a problem with his name. We will make sure that his name is changed so that the name Mohammed is not heard at Beitar's tennis stadium.
Speaker 0: Remember, this isn't some amateur team. It's one of the largest clubs in Israel who regularly play in Europa League and other international tournaments, and his most high profile supporters include the country's most powerful politicians.
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1sr@el's message is very clear: we don't care about anyone, especially those helping the P@lestinians. https://t.co/2NtaBnVPUy
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An Israeli military incident occurred yesterday involving a UN convoy carrying 12 staff members to support a polio vaccination campaign in Northern Gaza. The convoy's movements were coordinated with Israeli forces. Soldiers pointed weapons at UN personnel, and Israeli forces encircled the UN vehicles and fired shots. IDF tanks and a bulldozer then rammed the UN vehicles from the front and back, compacting the convoy with staff inside. A bulldozer dropped debris on the first vehicle, and Israeli soldiers threatened staff, preventing them from exiting. Senior UN officials engaged with Israeli authorities to de-escalate the situation. Two staff members were interrogated and released. After 7 and a half hours, the convoy returned to base, unable to complete its mission, but all personnel returned.
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Speaker 0: Yesterday's, incident involving a UN convoy stopped by Israeli forces is the latest example of the unacceptable dangers and impediment that humanitarian personnel in Gaza are experiencing. The convoy was carrying 12 staff members on their way to support the polio vaccination campaign in Northern Gaza. Its movements were fully coordinated with Israeli forces and all details provided ahead of time. The situation escalated very quickly with soldiers pointing their weapons directly towards our personnel in the convoy. The UN vehicles were encircled by Israeli forces and shots were fired.
The convoys were was then approached by IDF tanks and a bulldozer, which proceeded to ram the UN vehicles from the front and from the back, compacting the convoy with the UN staff inside. 1 bulldozer dropped debris on the first vehicle while Israeli soldiers threatened staff making it impossible for them to safely exit the vehicles. The convoy remained at gunpoint as senior UN officials engaged with Israeli authorities in an effort to deescalate the situation. The 2 staff members were interrogated by Israeli forces and then released back to us. After 7 and a half hours at the checkpoint, the convoy returned to base after being unable to complete its humanitarian mission, but all personnel came back.
@umyaznemo - Rania
1sr@eli terrorism forces r@p€d P@1estini@n children! https://t.co/fvJasjJCdV
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Nowhere in Gaza is safe. Protection teams are working with children released from Israeli military detention. These children report sexual violence, including rape. They report being denied food, beaten, and attacked by dogs. They report seeing their parents stripped and beaten in front of them. These children are struggling to cope with the profound trauma and mental and physical harm.
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Speaker 0: Let me be clear today, mister president. Nowhere in Gaza is safe. Our protection teams are working with children released from the Israeli military detention system. These children report sexual violence including rape. They report being denied food, beaten and attacked by dogs.
They report seeing their parents stripped and beaten in front of them. These children are struggling to cope with the profound trauma and mental and physical harm that this has caused.
@umyaznemo - Rania
Can anyone make sense of this savagery, because I sure can't! https://t.co/7BKxne4Thq
@umyaznemo - Rania
I want to say that I'm shocked, that it's just one random Is.raeli terrorism forces ITF statement, but this is the general consensus in 1sr@el. This ioen call for http://gen0ci.de is the norm for 1sr@elis!
@QudsNen - Quds News Network
"Do not return home until you have burned all of Gaza. Leave not even a baby there!!!! I take upon myself any sin you commit there. Feel free to slaughter them alive if possible, please!" Israeli reservist Moshe Yifrah has been openly calling for the annihilation of Palestinians through his posts on X for months. Yifrah is currently an active soldier serving in Gaza.
@umyaznemo - Rania
Rahmeh is a 5 year old from Gaza and is being starved by 1srael https://t.co/zs8ZSqTy0x
@umyaznemo - Rania
I.srael butchered Pal.estinians as they were praying! Fcking genocidal maniacs! https://t.co/2TxBI92L2T
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Watching them makes my skin crawl ! https://t.co/oBsNLiKnih
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I was in the army, tough Israeli. 6 soldiers testified to indiscriminate violence in Palestine. They shot without distinction, targeted all males 16-50, and killed those who looked at them. Palestinians were killed fleeing a school, treated homes as souvenir shops, and destroyed property. Soldiers were bored, drew on walls, stole money, and burned down houses after use. Despite objections, commanders ordered destruction.
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Speaker 0: But listen, I've been in the army. I'm Israeli. I'm tough. 6 Israeli soldiers gave disturbing testimonies that proved what the world already knew. Indiscriminate shooting, burning homes, leaving bodies in the streets for animals to eat.
Total and utter disregard to international law and human decency. 1 soldier recounts the indiscriminate nature of the violence, saying that they shop without distinguishing between civilians and combatants. It was total anarchy and because there was no clear enemy, everyone was a target. Another soldier said that every male, aged 16 to 50, was automatically suspected of terrorism. They were told to shoot anyone within this age range who came near them.
If a man is standing at a window, he's shot. The army always needed to feel safe. So if a Palestinian were to look at them, they were shocked. And according to the soldiers, the Palestinians learned this, and they stopped looking their way. Another soldier said that once, they told Palestinians to leave a school they were sheltered in, but asked them not to go to the right when they leave because that's where the soldiers were.
Suddenly, shots were fired, and people panicked, and some went to the right while running away. Some of whom were children, and the soldiers killed them, and a pile of bodies was left. There was not one. Upon entering a Palestinian house, a soldier said they would treat it as a souvenir shop. Many would collect prayer beads and would destroy things in the house, not because they wanted to destroy things, but just out of complete indifference to Palestinians and their properties.
One soldier said, in the end, you would die of boredom. Waiting there for days, you would draw real things on the walls, play with clothes. They used everything they had. Mattresses, food, and 1, when he found money, he just took it. They were also told to cleanse areas, destroy houses, and burn them down after they were done using them as a military site.
1 of the soldiers said that there was no reason to burn down the houses, and it would only mean that 2 additional residents would now be left homeless. However, his commander told him that this is what should be done.
@umyaznemo - Rania
You can try to grow a million pine trees, but you'll never been indigenous to the land of olive trees! https://t.co/Ls9AjfhwqH
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In October 1948, Israeli leaders were compared to Nazis for their actions in wiping out Palestinian existence. They renamed destroyed villages with Hebrew names and planted forests over them, but the imported pine trees struggled in the Middle East climate. As a second-generation European settler, the speaker notes the trees' struggle and the return of Palestinian presence on the land.
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Speaker 0: Even some of the leaders of the Jewish community themselves wrote in their diaries that what the Israelis did in October 1948 was not very different different from what the Nazis did in the 2nd World War. The Israelis, already in August 1948 began a operation in order to wipe out any residue and remnant of the Palestinian existence in Palestine. They built Jewish colonies and settlements over the destroyed Palestinian villages, quite often giving them a Hebrew name that resembled the Arab name of the village. Thus, Safaria became Sippori, Lubya became Lavi, and so on. On other villages, the Israeli planted forests, Israelis imported 10, 000 pine trees from Europe to cover the Palestinian villages.
I can tell you as the second generation of, European settler that we don't do well in the climate of the Middle East, and the same happened to the pine trees of Israel. Many of them became very ill, and where they died, the old orchards and all the trees came back to claim, their presence on the land that used to be Palestine.
@umyaznemo - Rania
Further proof that Israel never, ever wanted peace! https://t.co/Y9fEha6i1q
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Israel disengaged from Gaza to freeze the peace process, preventing a Palestinian state discussion. The plan allows Israel to avoid political pressure and legitimize no negotiations with Palestinians.
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Speaker 0: Why did they disengage from Gaza?
Speaker 1: Mhmm.
Speaker 0: Yeah. They pulled out 8, 000 people from Gaza because it wasn't worth the protection of that settlement to give an experiment in good faith and goodwill to see if a power and steady state could be created?
Speaker 1: Okay. Let me let me read you a quote.
Speaker 0: Go ahead.
Speaker 1: Okay. This is, this is Doug Weisglass who was the senior adviser to Sharon and his government when they pulled out of Gaza. Here's why they did it. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
Quote, the significance of the disengagement plan is the freezing of the peace process. And when you freeze that process, you prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state, and you prevent a discussion on the refugees, the borders, Jerusalem, Effectively, the whole package called the Palestinian state, with all that it entails, has been removed indefinitely from our agenda, And all of this with authority and permission, all with a presidential blessing and the ratification of both houses of Congress. Of course, he's speaking about our government, not the Israeli government.
Speaker 0: Mhmm.
Speaker 1: I continue with the quote. The disengagement is actually formaldehyde. It supplies the amount of formaldehyde that is necessary so that there will not be a political process with the Palestinians. The disengagement plan makes it possible for Israel to part conveniently in an interim situation that distances us as far as possible from political pressure. It legitimizes our contention that there is no negotiating with the Palestinians.
@umyaznemo - Rania
Because nothing Zionists say is true, that's why they have to pay billions of dollars, silence million of people, so nobody questions their narrative. https://t.co/V0avJQPjzy
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If your version of history is true, why the need for censorship, intimidation, and labeling dissent as anti-Semitic? Why spend billions to control narratives, manipulate media, and silence opposing views? Why fear public debate if your history is accurate?
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Speaker 0: If your version of history is true, then why do you need to make sure nobody questions it? Why do you need to spend 1, 000, 000, 000 of dollars to make sure that foreign governments are telling your version of history? Why do you need to set up entire institutes to make sure that your version of history is written into the curriculum of school children in foreign countries? If your version of history is true, why do you feel the need to threaten, harass, and intimidate activists, journalists, and historians who deviate from your official narrative? Why do you need to push for laws that criminalize alternative interpretations of your history?
Why is it that any deviation from your official narrative has to be labeled anti Semitic and immediately dismissed? Why do you so desperately need to enlist the help of western media to make sure that your version of history is the only 1 that gets told. If your version of history is true, then why do you need to slander anyone who questions it? Why must you go to such extraordinary lengths and trouble to codify your propaganda into guidebooks, textbooks, history books, and geography books. Why do you need to manipulate public opinion, suppress scholarly inquiry, and instill the fear of social and professional disaster into the minds of anyone who deviates from your narrative.
If your version of history is true, then why are you so afraid of its ability to withstand public debate and scrutiny. If your version of history is true, then why do you need to hide from it?
@umyaznemo - Rania
'When You're Accustomed to Privilege, Equality Feels Like Oppression' And that's why most Israelis excel in the dehumanisation of Palestinians. https://t.co/aK8RFegIW2
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Israeli soldiers in Gaza have been posting videos mocking and abusing Palestinians on social media, with little backlash in Israeli society. The mainstream dehumanization of Palestinians is a long-standing issue, exacerbated by social media. Despite some opposition, Israeli society's radicalization and support for extreme actions against Palestinians are deeply ingrained. The media often downplays Israeli government's extremism. Images from Gaza have not sparked significant anti-war protests in Israel, as many Israelis view Palestinians as an inconvenience. Change in Israel may require external pressure, as internal opposition is limited.
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Speaker 0: In recent months, multiple images and videos have been posted on social media by Israeli soldiers in Gaza in which they mock Palestinians or show off how they abuse them, often met with positive reactions from a large number of Israeli social media users. Middle East, I spoke to Anthony Lowenstein, an Australian German independent investigative journalist, author, and filmmaker who recently wrote an article about this phenomenon titled Israelis are celebrating mass slaughter in Gaza.
Speaker 1: The dehumanization of Palestinians within Israel started, of course, long before October 7, and really there's been a case for years before social media of Israelis celebrating when Palestinians are killed. Now when I say, I don't mean every single Israeli, of course. But what I mean is that it's incredibly mainstream, disturbingly so, to dehumanize Palestinians, to not regard them as equal. And you know that because I spent time now, lived there for a long time. And also because they barely feature in the media.
I mean, Palestinian voices, Palestinian ideas, Palestinians are rarely ever heard. Fast forward to October 7 and the last 9 months or so, and what you've seen is this this explosion, this unfortunate confluence of both the massive explosion of social media, TikTok, Instagram, etcetera in the last years, and the idea that Israelis feel complete impunity to behave and act as they have for years, not often in front of cameras or of mobile phones, but now they can. So what I've been seeing for months, really, is everything from Palestinians who have been tortured, Palestinians who have been tied up, obviously, who have been abused. Sometimes there's physical evidence of that abuse. I've seen a lot of Israeli soldiers mocking Palestinian starving.
I've seen a lot of Israeli soldiers obviously parading around with women's lingerie. I mean the list goes on and on and on. And how's that viewed in Israeli society? First, it's barely commented on. I mean, in the west, or at least some parts of the west, this is scandalous.
In Israel, there's no scandal. There is no scandal. There obviously are some who oppose what's going on. Of course, there are within Israel, but in general, tragically, as I've been saying for a long time, Israeli society has been radicalized for years, long before October 7, where you have a situation where it's incredibly mainstream to not view Palestinians as equal, and this this is western obsession since October 7th, but before Netanyahu. Netanyahu is a prime minister, of course, he's responsible, and I think he's a an awful criminal who obviously is ultimately responsible for what's happening in Gaza, and what what failed on October 7th to allow this Hamas attack to happen, for sure.
But it's a delusion to believe that if he falls as prime minister, the likely replacements Naftali Bennett, Yair Lapid, others, Benny Gantz, On all these key issues, they're remarkably similar on Gaza, on the occupation, on settlements. And this is because this is mainstream. And Netanyahu gave an interview a few months ago on, I think it was American TV, where he sort of said, I'm speaking for the majority of Israelis. And although he's not personally hugely popular anymore, what he said actually is sadly true, that many Israelis do have those views about Palestinians. And that's the tragic situation that Israel finds itself in, and it's getting worse and worse by the week.
Speaker 0: In the press, particularly in the West, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government are often labeled as fringe or extremist. But Anthony Lowenstein argues that Netanyahu says things that many in Israeli society believe and feel, even those that don't personally We asked him why he thinks the media describes Netanyahu's government in this way. I think many in the west, and when I say the west, I mean
Speaker 1: many in the western press and politicians, they regard Israel as a separate case. If we're talking about Russia, it's incredibly uncontroversial to say Putin is a thug, Putin is a war criminal, the invasion of Ukraine is wrong, all of which I agree with. It's undeniably true. And yet when it comes to Israel, well, it's more complicated. Who can say Netanyahu was elected by the people, which is undeniably true.
He was. Putin really was not. I think the difference is that Israel is the ultimate exception. I mean, I've said for a long time that much of the Western press has provided cover for Israeli actions and crimes for years, long, long, long before October 7. This is in the US particularly, but also in the UK and elsewhere, where there's either an acceptance of Israeli behavior in much of the Western elites.
The occupation either doesn't exist or it's not really much of a problem or we can overlook it. I mean, the EU is Israel's largest trading partner. That's been the case forever. Israel sells weapons to the EU, vice versa. None of that, by the way, is lucky to stop because of the last 9 months, because of the genocide, because of the mass slaughter of Palestinians.
There are some European states that undeniably are upset, mostly 3, Belgium, Ireland, and Spain. Although, what they're calling for a Palestinian state, although it's nice on paper, it doesn't really mean anything. I don't even know what it actually means. The Palestinian authority as the potential leader of that imaginary state is a deeply corrupt unrepresentative group, so no 1 quite knows what those 3 states mean. It's better than not talking about Palestine.
I think it seems more like lip service to me. But I think in many ways, Israel has been granted this impunity both legally and morally for years because I think for a lot of people in the West, Jewish and non Jewish, and I say this to someone Jewish myself. I think there is a willingness to overlook or claim the settlers are fringe in Israel. Netanyahu is partnered with extremists. Now that is true.
Netanyahu's government is particularly extreme compared to previous governments. However, the settlements have been going for over half a century. In fact, often over the last 30 years, settlements increased under labor governments there, the supposed left wing government in Israel. And I think what that radicalization I spoke about before of Israeli society does not mean that every single Israeli supports the settlers, they don't. But the settler movement, which is a sizable minority moving towards majority, has successfully infiltrated the state.
Every level, military, governmental, bureaucracy, the police, and that what that means is that when a very extreme government comes in, I've mentioned Yahoo in the last year and a half, the systems are in place for profound abuse. In other words, what you see in the West Bank, this increasing collusion between settlers and soldiers, which has been going on for years. I saw that myself when I first visited Palestine in 2005. I've been going there for many years since, and I lived there for a long time from 2016 to 2020. I saw it with my own eyes.
I mean, the settlers and soldiers of the Palestinians, they make no difference. They're both as bad as each other. And I think finally now for the first time since October 7, because of the last 9 months of mass slaughter, finally there is an awareness in some circles, though far from enough, that this is Israel. This is not some fringe minority that's suddenly off the leash, that's suddenly committing genocide. Netanyahu itself is representing a size or proportion of the population, and let's be clear to finish on this point.
Public opinion polls for months have shown massive support for the war. In fact, often at times the polls have said that Israelis think there should be more force in Gaza, and that's only because Gazans don't exist. Their voices are not heard, their suffering is not seen, and when you saw these images of settlers literally trying to stop food getting into Gaza. Now, again, in the west, that's easy to frame as extreme behavior by a small minority. It is a sizable minority, if not a increasing majority in Israel that believes that Palestinians should starve to death.
And to sort of hear that, I think for a lot of people is shocking. And let me just finish on this 1 point. I think there is still this deep discomfort in the west to actually believe that Jews would be doing this to others Because of Jewish history, because of the suffering the Jews have experienced, including my family, most of whom were killed in the holocaust in world war 2 by the Nazis, there is this still, I would say, willful blindness to accept the fact that there are Jews, Israelis, and many in the Jewish diaspora who support this, who are openly and determined to oppress Palestinians, to kill Palestinians. It's so easy to sort of say there's Muslim extremists, there's ISIS, and yes Muslim extremism is a is a reality, I'm not denying that. But how often do we talk about Jewish extremism?
Jewish extremism runs the state. The Israeli state is an extremist government for years. I think many in the West blindly refused to see that reality, although it is changing.
Speaker 0: Since television became mainstream, images and footage of atrocities carried out by soldiers in major wars often made their way back home starting with the Vietnam War and would fuel the anti war movements and protests that were instrumental in ending many wars. We asked if the images coming from Gaza have similarly unsettled some Israelis and whether they have sparked anti war protests.
Speaker 1: And there's certainly growing number of is of Israelis who oppose the war, but not because of what they're seeing on TikTok or Instagram. I mean, as I said, that is because there is a growing sense in Israel that the war is seemingly unwinnable, and many hostages are Israeli hostages are likely dead. I mean, we don't know how many are alive. The latest figures we have maybe 50, which is tiny compared to how many obviously were taken on October 7. Look, I think there is this pathological belief within Israeli society, which begins at a young age.
From kindergarten, from school, from university, from the media. And I have Israeli Jewish friends of mine who do not subscribe to these views who talk about this. I mean, Gideon Levy is a very famous Israeli journalist. He's a friend of mine and real inspiration. He, of course, does not subscribe to that view, and he regularly says for years, he's been writing about the occupation for 30 years.
But since October 7, explains that for Israeli Jews, not all, but a sizable majority. Palestinians don't exist. They're an inconvenience. I mean, I'm seeing on Israeli television literally daily this idea on mainstream TV, commentators talking about we should, as Israelis, bomb them all. We should wipe all of Gaza out.
Now obviously, there are extremists in the US, in Turkey, in Europe, in my country, Australia. Of course, in every country there is. But this is not a fringe view. This is a mainstream view. And it's why Israeli friends of mine and obviously Palestinians have said for years, and that feeling has only strengthened since October 7, The change that needs to happen in Israel will not happen from within.
In other words, there are obviously Israeli Jews who oppose what's going on, they protest. I'm not talking about the main protest we've seen the last year and a half. Most of those people do not oppose the occupation, to be clear. They oppose an element of the government trying to push through a quite radical reform, so called reform to the Supreme Court. They're the high court.
But there is a sense that without outside pressure, sanctions, boycotts, divestments, like what happened with South African apartheid to end that regime in 1994, this will not change. There is not the constituency within Israel to change that, and there's no indication since October 7, because many, many Israelis and frankly many Jews in the diaspora feel and again, it's complicated picture. Many young Jews in the diaspora now thankfully are increasingly speaking out, being critical, calling for a ceasefire, calling for sanctions, boycotts, talking about anti Zionism, things that many of us have discussed for years, and I say welcome. Welcome, people. Come into the team.
But the fact is that many many Jews in Israel and the Jewish diaspora have doubled down into that hard line patriotism and hatred of Arabs and Palestinians, which is why without outside outside pressure, this situation, I fear, will not change.
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That's just insane! The US is going after ICC officials and their immediate families! Absolutely insane! https://t.co/tUT29c4YnV
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Speaker 0 questions why Speaker 1 voted for a bill targeting ICC officials' family members. Speaker 1 defends the vote as a message, not intended to harm the prosecutor's sons. Speaker 0 criticizes the bill as mafia-like, but Speaker 1 denies this, emphasizing the legislative process. Speaker 0 presses on the impact of sanctions on the prosecutor's children, while Speaker 1 maintains the bill's intent was not malicious. The discussion highlights differing views on the bill's implications and the role of Congress in sending messages through legislation.
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Speaker 0: So this bill you voted for, most Democrats, you know, didn't vote for this bill. It's so broad. Even if we were to agree with you that they're outside their purview and they would say they're not, it didn't just go after ICC officials, but also, quote, the immediate family members of ICC officials. That is mob like behavior, is it not to go after family members?
Speaker 1: And that's and by the way, 90 per 95% of what we vote on in congress has elements that we find distasteful. But that's our of course, man. That's our job. And you stand by. We have a choice.
We have I stand by that vote.
Speaker 0: Of course. So you stand hold hold on. You stand by putting sanctions on ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan's 2 adult sons. What did they do wrong?
Speaker 1: Mehdi, what what I stand by is a vote first of all, we have votes in congress that that we know that we know will not end up going anywhere. We have votes that we know will probably be signed into law. They have very different consequences.
Speaker 0: So you voted for this one because you don't think you'll be signed into law? Well, first
Speaker 1: I I voted for this as a message because I do think it's a principle.
Speaker 0: A message. Hold on. A message to ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan's 2 sons. What did they do wrong?
Speaker 1: Now you know that's not what my intent was. And by the way, if
Speaker 0: you look at everything with respect, congressman. It doesn't matter what your intent is.
Speaker 1: Then look.
Speaker 0: It matters what you voted for. You voted for a very mafiosy bill,
Speaker 1: which says mafiosy bill. No.
Speaker 0: You don't think going after the children of a prosecutor Trump's light bait?
Speaker 1: Betsy, they're not going after the show. What does it mean
Speaker 0: to put sanctions on the children of the prosecutor?
Speaker 1: My my point is but that's not a mafioso bill. By the way, if that is
Speaker 0: Picking on the family members of someone?
Speaker 1: That's the kind of
Speaker 0: thing Donald Trump does to congress but not Dean Phillips.
Speaker 1: You're an educated man. You know how the congress works. You know how bills operate. Just because I know
Speaker 0: how it works doesn't mean I
Speaker 1: agree with I was I was I was I was I was I was I was
@umyaznemo - Rania
Just because Zionists have no humanity doesn't mean that the rest of the world doesn't! https://t.co/ukJ8bu1Y07
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In Gaza, a memorial with many pairs of shoes represents children killed in the past 8 months. Organizers urge action, like writing to politicians and demanding better news coverage, to stop the violence. People worldwide must speak up to end the genocide in Palestine.
Translation: In Gaza, a memorial with many pairs of shoes represents children killed in the past 8 months. Organizers urge action, like writing to politicians and demanding better news coverage, to stop the violence. People worldwide must speak up to end the genocide in Palestine.
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Speaker 0: That have been killed in Gaza in the past 8 months. And as you can see, there are so many shoes and every pair of shoes represents the children of Gaza. And it's very sad because we keep on, organizing these protests And we've been to multiple cities. And every time that we do it, you see more and more shoes, and more and more names need to be read out by all of our volunteers and all of the people in the Netherlands that want to help.
Speaker 1: We don't just commemorate them, but we are calling on the people to act, to stop, and do whatever they can that's in their power to do. People can write letters there to the politicians. They can call out the media and tell them, I want to have better, news. So we are just trying to give people the tools to take action because often people feel that they can't really do something about what's happening in Palestine. A genocide all over the world need to take their responsibility to call on their governments to make this end.
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The inhumanity if isr@el https://t.co/cGGw6ipfzW
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Israeli occupation soldier shared photos of Gaza detainees in inhumane conditions, held in iron cages in secret prisons. Around 2,500 prisoners face torture, amputations, and medical negligence. The Sidiman camp in Nakab desert is a disease-ridden concentration camp. Israeli medical source describes it as a tragic black hole.
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Speaker 0: New photos published by an Israeli occupation soldier show dozens of detainees from Gaza in inhumane conditions. They are placed in large numbers inside iron cages, scenes documenting the inhumanity that around 25 100 prisoners are living through about whom nothing is known. International organizations are prevented from visiting them in secret prisons. They are bound and blindfolded at all times and forbidden to move. They are lying on their backs with their faces up and wearing diapers.
Some of them have had their limbs amputated due to injuries resulting from the constant shackling of their hands. About 20 of them, including a doctor, were martyred under torture, according to the occupation statement. While data indicates that dozens were martyred under torture and medical negligence, The occupation army turned military facilities into concentration camps for Palestinians from Gaza. The most notorious of which is the Sidiman camp in the Nakab desert. It is considered an incubator for diseases, and the health situation there is tragic, according to an Israeli medical source who added in his description, the prison is another world, a black hole.
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A French, Jewish lady who lived happily in Gaza for a few years tells it as it is. Can't get whiter than that! https://t.co/MbEc3b833e
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J'ai vécu deux ans avec un non-juif sans problèmes. Gaza subit un génocide, mais j'ai aimé vivre là-bas et j'ai défendu les paysans et les pêcheurs contre la pression israélienne. Les dirigeants israéliens veulent éradiquer les Palestiniens, mais il faut que le monde réagisse.
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I lived for two years with a non-Jew without any problems. Gaza is undergoing a genocide, but I loved living there and defended the farmers and fishermen against Israeli pressure. Israeli leaders want to eradicate the Palestinians, but the world needs to take action.
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Speaker 0: J'ai vécu pendant deux ans on va dire avec mon non juif, avec mes cheveux à l'air, je n'ai jamais eu jamais jamais eu le moindre problème même pas une phrase méchante jamais. C'est une société très tolérante qui est en train de mourir. Il faut bien comprendre que ce qui est en train de se passer, c'est un génocide contre la population de Gaza. J'ai passé beaucoup de temps à Gaza probablement si je somme tout deux années. La société à Gaza était extrêmement ouverte avec un grand éventail de positions politiques avec c'était une société totalement normale mise sous blocus voilà un bout d'humanité comme on l'imagine mis en cage C'est une situation invraisemblable.
J'ai beaucoup aimé vivre à Gaza, j'y ai noué des amitiés très fortes. On a essayé de défendre en particulier deux catégories de populations, les paysans et les pêcheurs. Pourquoi les paysans et les pêcheurs Parce que la la pression israélienne, elle est elle a essentiellement été avec l'idée on veut faire des palestiniens des assistés. On veut détruire le lien social, on veut détruire leur société. Comme l'armée israélienne tirait sur les paysans au travail, on avait décidé de s'identifier avec des gilets et de se mettre en face de la barrière de séparation les mains en l'air en disant on fait bouclier laisser les paysans travailler.
C'était j'avais déjà plus de soixante ans. C'est spécial d'être devant devant un tireur qui te met en joue. Les dirigeants israéliens parlent des palestiniens comme étant des animaux, ils disent qu'il faut les éradiquer jusqu'au dernier. Enfin voilà on a passé un pas dans l'impudence et dans l'idée que c'est normal de devoir de vouloir effacer une population de la surface de la terre, c'est vraiment quelque chose de nouveau. Il faut que les peuples du monde bougent.
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So, remind me again, how exactly has #Israel won any wars in #Gaza so far? I guess it hasn't! https://t.co/jwmFjDLvRK
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Israel rejected a ceasefire deal with Hamas despite CIA Director Bill Burns' involvement. Hamas remains confident in their ability to withstand Israeli attacks in Rafah. Hamas has gained recruits and explosives from unexploded Israeli bombs. Challenges to Hamas' control in Gaza have been thwarted, including a failed attempt by PA Secret Service to infiltrate Gaza. Hamas believes Israel's destruction in Gaza will backfire internationally. The upcoming battle in Rafah will be bloody, with potential massacres and high human costs. Netanyahu faces a dilemma on how to claim victory in the face of potential defeat.
Translation: Israel rejected a ceasefire deal with Hamas despite CIA Director Bill Burns' involvement. Hamas remains confident in their ability to withstand Israeli attacks in Rafah. Hamas has gained recruits and explosives from unexploded Israeli bombs. Challenges to Hamas' control in Gaza have been thwarted, including a failed attempt by PA Secret Service to infiltrate Gaza. Hamas believes Israel's destruction in Gaza will backfire internationally. The upcoming battle in Rafah will be bloody, with potential massacres and high human costs. Netanyahu faces a dilemma on how to claim victory in the face of potential defeat.
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Speaker 0: After Israel's rejection of the ceasefire deal Hamas signed up to, questions remain about the role CIA director Bill Burns played in all this. Burns was present at both Cairo and Doha where the ceasefire deal was being hammered out. One of my sources told me, it's not as if Burns was in Cairo to gamble at the casinos or to swim at the beach at Doha. An Egyptian official and a Western diplomat interviewed by Associated Press claimed Burns approved the first version of the document and encouraged Hamas to sign it with the full knowledge of the Israeli side. There were 2 small changes after that but they were not seen as deal breakers.
So how is it the moment Israel rejected the deal, America said it was just a counter proposal from Hamas? We know there are splits in Israel's war cabinet, but this scenario raises the possibility of splits within the US administration too or, at the very least, a weakness. Either way, Hamas don't regard this as their problem. They are confident they can survive anything Israel will now throw at them at Rafa and confident in their ability to deny the 2 main war aims to get the hostages back and to decapitate Hamas. But why are they so confident?
We're repeatedly being told that the Israeli army has smashed the bulk of Hamas' forces and that only 4 battalions remain intact in Rafa. I put this to a source who knows Hamas's military situation well. He laughs at the idea that Hamas had his back to the wall in Rafah. He pointed out that everywhere Israeli forces retreat, Hamas fighters very soon emerge. He also said that one reason for the latest Israeli offer to withdraw from the Netzarim corridor, the road built from east to west to cut all movement between north and south, was because of the vulnerability of their forces guarding the road from attack.
He said Hamas had got as many recruits as he could wish for once all factions in Gaza realized that this was an existential war against all Palestinians, and it has as much high explosive as it needs. This is delivered by Israel itself in the quantity of unexploded bombs and missiles. So much tonnage, in fact, that the UN experts calculate it would take 14 years to demine all the unexploded ordnance. There were 2 challenges to Hamas' hold over Gaza. The first came in January when Israel tried to strike a deal with individual tribal leaders to run their areas without approval or oversight from Gaza City.
This was clearly rejected in It was It was devised by Jordan, Egypt and the Saudis and enacted by Majed Faraj, the ever pliant head of PA's intelligence apparatus. Dozens of PA Secret Service Operators infiltrated into Gaza disguised as security for the convoys from the Egyptian border. Some of this group got as far north as the Al Shefa hospital in Gaza City and allegedly provided intelligence to the Israeli forces, which led to the second storming of that hospital. Most of the groups stayed in Rafa, where they tried to set up headquarters in the building of the Palestinian Red Crescent. The plot was uncovered when famished residents rushed the trucks and the PA men drew their weapons.
Hamas arrested all of them and got their officers to confess. 7 months of continuous bombardment leaves Hamas confident it can weather the storm it is about to face in Rafa. Destruction on a scale meted out to large parts of Gaza City and Khan Yunus is a 2 edged sword, they think. It has exposed Israel before 2 of the world's top international courts and in international opinion in an unprecedented way. Biden and Netanyahu are feeling the heat, not them.
There is no avoiding the fact that the forthcoming battle for Rafa will be one of the most bloody of the wars, with a series of massacres, which responsibility will lie in international law with Israel. The human price will be high, not least amongst the proportion of refugees who are living in houses and can't move from tents. But after he has occupied Rafa, Netanyahu will have an even bigger headache than he has now, how to declare victory when he's staring defeat in the face.
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Yet another Israeli massacre of more than 25 Palestinians who were trying to get for the displaced. https://t.co/7lYWQnSv6C
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The world has had enough of #Israel https://t.co/KPOZ7RnTKH
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Israel, we are tired of your brutality, massacres, war, apartheid policies, settlements, checkpoints, refugee camps, and harm to children. Enough is enough.
Translation: Israel, we are tired of your brutality, massacres, war, apartheid policies, settlements, checkpoints, refugee camps, and harm to children. Enough is enough.
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Speaker 0: Israel, we've had enough enough of your brutality, enough of your massacres, enough of your war, enough of your apartheid police, enough of your settlements, enough of your checkpoint, enough of your refugee camp, enough of your relentless family of children. Enough is enough.