url: https://youtu.be/KKNEVOqVy04?t=1193

  • One-State Solution with Jeff Halper & Update From Bethlehem w/ Yumna Patel

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    you know israel is uh israel uh
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    you know look israel stuck it’s it’s
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    stuck and it isn’t stuck in the sense
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    uh it’s stuck in that there is no
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    political
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    solution i mean what yumna and the
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    palestinians talk about liberation
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    is obviously unacceptable to zionism
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    and to and to israel israel has the
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    opposite
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    point of view and that is of course that
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    because zionism we have to understand
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    this is really important for everything
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    to understand what’s happening
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    yesterday um is that zionism was a
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    settler colonial movement
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    you know this isn’t the conflict when
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    you talk about we always talk about the
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    israeli palestinian conflict
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    with the israeli every it’s not a
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    conflict conflict has two sides
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    and they’re roughly symmetrical when
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    they fight with each other and the way
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    you get out of a conflict is you
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    compromise
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    and negotiate and you find some kind of
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    of a peace
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    but settler colonialism like zionism is
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    uh is unilateral there are there are no
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    natives there are no palestinians they
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    have no rights
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    israel until today has never recognized
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    the existence of the palestinian people
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    let alone their national rights
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    and the whole point of zionism the whole
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    point of the last 125 years
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    has been to judaize palestine
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    in other words to transform an arab
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    country into a jewish country
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    transform palestine into the land of
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    israel and that’s
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    that’s that goes all the way through so
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    there is no political process
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    there’s no uh you know when people are
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    saying okay now what
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    you know with the ceasefire can we now
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    renew negotiations what about the true
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    state idea where does biden come in
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    all that you know israel is has no
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    interest in any of that
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    so what is what’s israel’s plan israel’s
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    plan
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    is a low-intensity conflict
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    low-intensity warfare in other words the
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    idea being
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    already sorry one second can you i think
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    you’re touching the la
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    your laptop or something i just want to
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    make the sound as good as possible
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    okay keep going you’re jewish so you
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    move your hands it’s not your fault okay
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    just one more sentence simply the idea
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    that we can manage the palestinians
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    that they’re manageable you know the
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    conflict can be at a low
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    at a very low level that really doesn’t
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    affect israelis
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    personal security uh and once in a while
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    there’ll be a flare-up
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    like in gaza okay but but that that’s
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    tolerable i mean israel lost
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    the palestinians lost 260 people
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    something like that
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    the israeli side lost 10 which is
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    completely acceptable
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    if you want to put it in that in that
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    sense for israelis
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    and so they have no motivation to get
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    into political negotiations there’s no
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    international pressure for political
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    negotiations
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    and it can’t get into political
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    negotiations because it wants the entire
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    country it has nothing to negotiate
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    and that’s the situation that we all
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    have to begin to deal with i think
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    and so what is okay uh you know anything
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    you want to add on that by the way
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    sorry no i mean i’ve just been nodding
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    my head the whole time because i
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    i mean first of all it’s interesting to
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    me to see um
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    you know the perspectives from someone
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    inside israel but yeah
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    everything that that jeff has said is
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    completely
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    completely true and is something that
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    people need to to keep in mind when
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    when framing what’s happening and when
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    when approaching the the situation
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    here yeah um yeah i mean
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    it’s it’s interesting that what you said
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    jeff where it’s like
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    and let me i’m sorry i cut you off right
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    as you were rounding up your fin you’re
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    like your final point so you want can
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    you say that again since i cut it off to
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    try to get the sound better were you
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    basically saying
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    um they want to manage them can you just
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    say that again
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    yeah that israel israel’s strategy is
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    to manage the palestinians in other
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    words to keep
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    the conflict if you want to say a
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    conflict
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    under the radar the deal i think between
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    israel and europe and the west and
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    the international community is that
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    as long as israel keeps the lid on as
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    long as it doesn’t disrupt the region
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    as long as it doesn’t lead to wars all
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    the time as long as it keeps things more
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    or less manageable
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    it’s fine in other words biden or the
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    europeans or
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    nobody wants to expend the political
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    capital
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    they would have to expend in order to
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    really force israel
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    back and i mean the whole idea of a
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    two-state solution is ridiculous
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    right it’s always been ridiculous
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    nobody’s gonna
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    expend that capital you see and israel
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    knows it and israel knows there’ll be no
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    sanctions it can violate human rights
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    and international law with impunity
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    because it knows there’s no sanctions
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    because the only
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    instrument of sanctions that the
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    international community has is a
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    security council
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    and the united states isn’t going to
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    allow that we saw that the united states
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    vetoed three
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    security council resolutions trying to
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    end this uh
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    thing this last week so israel’s in a
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    kind of a safe zone
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    it can do anything it wants to to the
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    palestinians basically
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    and continuous its process as long as
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    again it keeps it manageable it isn’t to
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    doesn’t appear too oppressive
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    that’s where it crossed the line last
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    week that it didn’t mean to cross
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    i don’t think israel anticipated the
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    hamas attack
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    so that was that was a miscalculation it
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    crossed that line but usually
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    it stops before that line so it keeps
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    everything kind of simmering
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    at an acceptable level so the
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    international community doesn’t feel
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    that it has to
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    intervene right and so the acceptable
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    level is your more kind of mundane
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    violence that is standard
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    um in other words just so people know
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    and i’m i’m i’m sure that people
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    watching this stream know but it’s not
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    jeff isn’t saying like there isn’t
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    violence and it’s
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    everything is like you know tutti frutti
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    or whatever uh
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    everything is cool until these things
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    happen it’s like there’s constant
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    consistent
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    violence and then it just becomes
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    newsworthy
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    international newsworthy violence of
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    course it’s always
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    should be international newsworthy
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    violence but it’s you know chomsky talks
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    about it yes but
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    worthy but as long as israel keeps it
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    within the framework of
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    terrorism right in other words israel
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    has criminalized palestinian resistance
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    you know so that it’s no law it’s not a
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    resistance it’s not a liberation
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    movement
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    right as luna calls it which it is it’s
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    not a liberation movement
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    it’s a uh you know because what settler
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    colonialism does
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    people i i just wrote a book by the way
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    if i want to yes which i am israel
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    liberating palestine
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    where i really get it because settler
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    colonialism is a very powerful analysis
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    that’s in the academic community but it
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    hasn’t quite yet gotten
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    out to the wider public because it
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    sounds very academic right it is
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    epidemic
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    yeah basically what settler colonialism
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    says
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    is that um uh is that
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    uh you know again it’s it’s a zero sum
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    it’s a zero zero-sum sort of a sort of a
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    thing so that
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    um the uh
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    you know it’s not a conflict and that’s
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    where really going back to what i was
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    talking about before
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    if you understand the settler colonial
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    idea you’ll understand
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    that that it’s its goal is not only to
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    judaize
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    and and make this country jewish
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    but that be perceived as jewish you see
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    so when you’re sitting in new york
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    or london or wherever you are and you
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    think of israel
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    when you think of this part of the world
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    you think of israel and israel is jewish
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    and now we’re just in the eurovision
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    phone
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    eurovision song contest you see so
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    israel
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    is i mean israel is in the eurovision
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    song contest not palestine
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    oh yeah right see so that you begin to
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    normalize things
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    and then when you have palestinian
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    resistance there’s no context
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    because there’s no there’s no politic
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    you’ve de-politicized you see
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    so palestinian resistance comes out as
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    violence
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    see hamas throwing rocks israel has a
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    right to defend itself
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    that makes sense if you have no
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    political context
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    if israel’s a normal country of israel’s
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    nebraska
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    we’re all hanging around in omaha having
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    a cup of coffee and all of a sudden
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    people from kansas start throwing
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    rockets at us
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    you’re right that’s you know it’s crazy
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    it’s it’s just
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    violence out of nowhere but if you have
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    this political perspective that yuma
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    certainly is trying in and palestinians
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    are trying and i’m trying to introduce
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    that goes back to the idea of celebr why
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    center colonialism because
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    that tells you the logic of what’s
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    happening
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    unless you get the logic you can’t
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    understand each particular event
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    try to explain every event by itself
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    doesn’t make any sense to people
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    that’s that’s always been our problem
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    we’ve never given people a really good
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    coherent framework
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    on which they can begin to approach this
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    whole issue
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    and begin to understand the palestinian
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    logical resistance
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    but israel has done that very well you
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    see husba
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    which is propaganda is very good and
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    they prevent
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    present a very compelling you know
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    case that makes sense yeah
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    um and have your opinion
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    have your um i want to ask both of you
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    has your have your perspectives on this
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    changed
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    like recently um i know you’ve been
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    there jeff
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    since the for decades um
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    by the way jeff’s training is as an
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    anthropologist and i remember you saying
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    jeff when i first
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    when i interviewed you years and years
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    ago you wanted to go work somewhere as
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    an anthropologist but you didn’t want to
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    go
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    you kind of felt like israel as
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    problematic as it
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    was it was different you know it’s funny
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    i i should let you put explain it but
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    the way i
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    remember thinking of it when you told me
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    to me you were like i don’t want to go
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    to kenya
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    um and be like a white jewish guy in
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    kenya
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    um but if i israel i can be a jewish
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    white jewish guy in israel
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    and like you were at least potentially
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    infiltrating
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    that’s how i viewed it you probably what
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    i call myself in my book
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    is a settler who refuses okay yeah
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    and that’s that’s there’s a certain
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    status in there
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    it’s a political place a space that i
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    can begin to work out of with my
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    palestinian
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    colleagues that’s not a space i would
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    have had in kenya i would have been yeah
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    a settler for you know
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    with no context whatsoever right
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    um and and yoona you obviously are have
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    different identification and role but um
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    what did what made you want to go to
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    report in this region and has your view
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    changed
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    since being there yeah and i’d first
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    just like to comment on
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    what jeff just said and i think it’s a
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    huge issue at least with what i’ve been
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    seeing in
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    the discourse specifically maybe
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    surrounding certain israeli
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    like members of the israeli left or
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    people who consider themselves to be
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    you know liberal zionists even is that
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    people in those circles cannot come to
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    terms with zionism as a subtle or
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    colonial ideology and cannot come to the
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    terms
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    with themselves being settlers and
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    come to the terms with the fact that
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    they have also
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    um contributed in some way or they have
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    benefited from the system of oppression
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    that has
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    dispossessed and continued to dispossess
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    palestinians so
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    i just think it’s um really great that
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    you know jeff is you know taking that
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    position and acknowledging that and i
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    think that’s something that
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    if at least within um those certain
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    you know progressive or liberal circles
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    that that’s what needs to happen if we
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    want to move the needle forward but
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    anyways in in
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    response to what you were asking about
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    me i mean i was always interested in
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    palestine
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    since i was young i grew up in a muslim
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    household so it was interesting
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    sort of my journey to palestine i think
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    was a little different i always always
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    learned about palestine in jerusalem and
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    al-aqsa specifically just from a
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    religious perspective because
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    obviously it’s very important to muslims
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    it’s the third holiest site in islam
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    i have lots of palestinian friends
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    growing up so i knew what palestine
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    palestine was i knew that i cared about
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    it i knew
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    that what was that there were great
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    injustices that were happening in
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    palestine
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    but i only truly um sort of came to
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    terms with
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    first of all that i should care i
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    shouldn’t care about this
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    as a religious issue i should care about
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    this you know as a human rights issue
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    and as a political issue
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    um when i took my first trip to
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    palestine when i was in college and then
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    you know continued to come back here
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    subsequently after that
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    um and i think that
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    just speaks to kind of the current
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    moment that we’ve been seeing um
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    sort of with the censorship of of people
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    um who are speaking up about palestine
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    on social media
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    um censorship within the industry within
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    you know the journalism industry of
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    anyone who um
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    takes a stance on palestine is
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    is is suppressed to some degree in
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    another you you know you risk you
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    losing your job um and i think it’s
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    my journey to palestine is what also
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    journeyed um influenced my journey
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    in in journalism and into journalism and
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    um we were always taught you know in in
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    journalism school and
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    sort of within the industry of you know
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    you can never take a stance you can
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    never state your opinion you can never
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    sort of take a moral stance on an issue
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    because somehow
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    that um negatively affects
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    you know might negatively affect your
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    journalism but i think that
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    um in issues like this it’s you know
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    actually the opposite
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    um you know taking a stance on palestine
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    actually
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    um you know supporting you know
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    palestinian human rights and and the
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    palestinian freedom for liberation
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    um makes you can can make you a better
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    journalist and
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    and help you um look at everything you
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    know all different subjects not just
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    palestine with with a more critical lens
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    a more critical lens than one that we’re
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    taught to look at things with
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    did you guys see i don’t know if you saw
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    this but there was a something going
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    kind of viral
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    uh i’m looking for the actual tweet but
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    there is a
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    um uh cnn correspondent jerusalem
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    i guess cnn jerusalem based
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    correspondent um
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    posted hadas gold did you see this hold
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    on let me
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    um let me just share this uh
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    she share she tweeted this out um
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    her baby cousin going to the army yeah
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    so uh and i tweeted
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    the this should be your chiron but still
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    hear her here she is hadas gold
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    sienna’s jerusalem correspondent send me
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    tacos okay i don’t know how
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    they would last um depend it probably
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    wouldn’t even get through the uh
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    you know you couldn’t even send them
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    from gaza definitely could not send them
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    from gaza okay
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    so if you’re not in gaza send her tacos
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    um
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    and then she had tweeted my baby cousin
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    entered the israeli army today
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    and it has um a
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    it looks kind of like an elf i don’t
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    know how to describe it but uh it’s i
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    guess her baby cousin
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    in a in her all green outfit looking
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    kind of like a disney character
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    um and so there’s some pushback for that
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    for i mean kind of obvious reasons but
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    and then there was some push back to the
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    pushback because people were saying it
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    was
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    anti-semitic to uh and pushing the dual
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    loyalty
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    uh trope which i did see someone and
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    talk about in the chat so let’s let’s
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    not do the dual loyalty thing by the way
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    guys we can get to that in a second
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    um but the problem here is and it but
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    because
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    it does become complicated because like
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    service is compulsory right or you can
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    be refused that can go to jail which
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    like much praise to people do that but
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    the issue here is that like
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    kids did there you go so oh we’re gonna
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    have to we’re gonna have
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    but i don’t think you put it on a cake
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    right you didn’t give
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    or if you put them on cakes but like it
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    is it’s it’s i mean
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    the issue here is that she celebrated it
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    i think personally
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    um i’m actually not exactly sure how to
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    talk about it because as
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    adam johnson from the show pointed out
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    on twitter you know
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    his standard is like if people are you
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    kind of have to
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    look at people then from the u.s when
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    they have relatives
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    who are serving anyway that’s
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    that’s another kind of side issue but i
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    thought it was interesting but
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    um yeah you know yeah i think the
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    interesting thing also because we saw
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    with
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    you know ap violet firing
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    emily wilder right for her
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    involvement in sjp when or you know
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    tweeting about
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    things relating to palestine et cetera
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    when she was in college it’s like
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    um so many and we saw you know with
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    cnn’s firing of mark lamont hill and
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    reyes aslan and all these other people
    37:07
    who have spoken
    37:08
    up about palestine well it’s like
    37:09
    objectivity
    37:11
    or is is only an issue
    37:14
    um when it when it comes to palestine or
    37:16
    conflicts of interest
    37:18
    seem to only be an issue when it comes
    37:20
    to people speaking about palestine human
    37:21
    rights it’s not a conflict of interest
    37:23
    that cnn’s jerusalem correspondent is
    37:26
    celebrating the fact that
    37:27
    she has family members in the idf it’s
    37:29
    not a conflict of interest for the new
    37:30
    york times that all of their bureau
    37:32
    chiefs
    37:33
    live in a house of palestinians who were
    37:36
    live in the a stolen house of
    37:38
    palestinians who were kicked out during
    37:39
    the neckbah
    37:40
    right that’s not a conflict of interest
    37:42
    and that you know several
    37:44
    new york bureau chiefs or you know
    37:45
    correspondents in the region have
    37:47
    children in the israeli army like those
    37:49
    aren’t conflicts of interest but it’s
    37:50
    suddenly a conflict of interest when
    37:52
    someone
    37:53
    um has the audacity to speak up
    37:56
    for the basic human rights of
    37:59
    palestinians
    38:00
    and obviously we know that this double
    38:01
    standard exists everybody who’s been
    38:03
    talking about palestine anyone who’s
    38:05
    been somewhat involved in you know
    38:08
    the palestinian cause knows that knows
    38:11
    this as a fact
    38:12
    this has been a reality for so many
    38:14
    years but it’s just
    38:16
    it continued i mean i guess i
    38:19
    just because of how ridiculous it is i
    38:21
    guess they just dumbfounded every single
    38:22
    time
    38:23
    by the way to something yumna was
    38:26
    talking about before
    38:28
    on the israeli news uh
    38:31
    spokespeople for the israeli government
    38:33
    were very proud of the fact that yes
    38:36
    they turned to twitter and facebook
    38:39
    and instagram and other social media
    38:42
    to get pro or what they called it
    38:45
    anti-israeli propaganda
    38:47
    removed right so you know this isn’t
    38:50
    just something i mean yuma you
    38:52
    are sort of the victim of it and you
    38:54
    really didn’t know it was hap but in
    38:55
    fact i mean the israeli government says
    38:57
    this
    38:57
    yes we actually turned to these
    39:00
    companies
    39:01
    and they said twitter removed 89
    39:04
    of the content that israel asked them to
    39:07
    remove that had to do with palestine
    39:09
    89 and instagram 80 some percent
    39:14
    so that that’s it isn’t that there’s
    39:16
    algorithms out there
    39:18
    or there’s some whatever yeah what’s
    39:20
    happening is the israeli government is
    39:22
    in contact with
    39:24
    uh these companies that you know the two
    39:26
    people that are on the facebook
    39:29
    committee that decides on uh on what
    39:32
    should be up on facebook or not our
    39:33
    israelis
    39:34
    so that you know there’s a rare very
    39:37
    conscious
    39:38
    political tie between the israeli
    39:41
    government
    39:42
    and these companies okay
    39:46
    um i also wanted to ask you guys about
    39:49
    um
    39:51
    uh well jeff this is actually i can i
    39:53
    can ask just so you have a question i
    39:54
    would like
    39:55
    actually i’d like to ask both of you i i
    39:57
    you may find this silly
    39:58
    but the other day i made fun of deborah
    40:00
    messing um
    40:02
    because she posted some very stupid
    40:04
    tweets
    40:05
    but i actually think it would be a good
    40:07
    idea and
    40:08
    max blumenthal and i kind of had a
    40:10
    really and leslie lee had a lot of fun
    40:13
    uh like debunking some of her talk of
    40:16
    the talking points that she was
    40:17
    obviously spreading
    40:18
    but we didn’t but there’s actually i
    40:19
    think really serious things to get into
    40:22
    um really serious your talking points
    40:24
    that we should
    40:25
    get into um yeah
    40:29
    you guys would be willing to do that um
    40:33
    one second sorry where is this it’s by
    40:36
    this
    40:36
    stand what does it stand together some
    40:39
    organization that’s like
    40:40
    stand with us stand with us probably
    40:43
    that’s a very
    40:44
    yeah they’re very right-wing yeah
    40:46
    supported by the jewish establishment
    40:48
    right yeah so they’re really i mean
    40:50
    they’re really good at this stuff right
    40:52
    like god i hate
    40:53
    i hate that there’s stuff that makes me
    40:55
    sound like an anti-semite
    40:57
    but they are they’re good they’re this
    40:58
    has nothing to do with being jewish or
    41:00
    anything
    41:00
    this has to in fact you know you know
    41:02
    the person who really like woke me up to
    41:04
    the fact that jews are not responsible
    41:05
    for
    41:06
    israel which doesn’t mean we shouldn’t
    41:07
    be saying not in our name and stuff
    41:09
    because they obviously tried to
    41:10
    weaponize us but was ali abu nima he was
    41:13
    like jews are not
    41:14
    is israelis like right so um
    41:18
    yes so one second i’m just trying to
    41:20
    find while you’re looking at this client
    41:21
    another point of course yes uh because
    41:24
    we’re gonna
    41:25
    talk a little bit about the one state
    41:26
    idea and that is you know
    41:29
    and this is where i we have to go beyond
    41:31
    talking about liberation
    41:32
    liberation is important i mean the the
    41:35
    title of my book is liberating palestine
    41:38
    it is liberal but the question is what
    41:39
    do we mean by liberation right
    41:41
    and the palestinians have to define
    41:45
    in the end what the struggle is what
    41:47
    liberation means
    41:49
    and we have to follow the palestinians i
    41:51
    mean we
    41:52
    critical israelis and of course the
    41:54
    international community that can be
    41:56
    mobilized by them
    41:57
    and until today there isn’t a strong
    42:01
    coherent
    42:02
    voice about where are we going there’s
    42:04
    no leadership coming from the
    42:06
    palestinians
    42:06
    and that’s a problem so i’m involved
    42:10
    with a palestinian-led initiative that’s
    42:12
    just beginning to get off the ground
    42:15
    it’s called the one democratic state
    42:17
    campaign
    42:18
    and i tried to have a palestinian
    42:20
    counterpart on the show i just want
    42:22
    people to know
    42:22
    but he’s sick yeah right
    42:26
    i’m leveling uh centering come on i mean
    42:30
    that won’t be a problem they’ll be happy
    42:31
    they’re happy to come on but you can see
    42:34
    under my
    42:34
    name it’s a onestatecampaign.org is our
    42:37
    website
    42:38
    and one of the things we’ve done over
    42:39
    the last couple of years palestinians
    42:41
    and israelis together
    42:43
    is to really formulate a very detailed
    42:46
    and i think a very solid
    42:48
    10-point political program now whether
    42:51
    this is the political program or not
    42:53
    that’s i mean i’m not trying to say that
    42:55
    this is the solution
    42:56
    but what i’m trying to say is that this
    42:58
    has to be done this work has to be done
    43:01
    there has to be political work led by
    43:03
    palestinians
    43:04
    to define what is our political program
    43:07
    because without a political program
    43:09
    without an end game
    43:10
    right everybody’s left hanging we can’t
    43:14
    represent palestinians
    43:16
    now i can’t tell them one state two
    43:18
    states ten states do this do that it’s
    43:20
    not my role and certainly not your role
    43:22
    katie
    43:23
    in new york we can support the
    43:24
    palestinians but they have to be the
    43:27
    ones to lead
    43:28
    and this is an attempt to try to begin
    43:31
    to begin that process
    43:32
    so beyond resistance i mean you know
    43:36
    it’s a mixed bag because you one of the
    43:38
    famous slogans coming out of palestine
    43:40
    you see it on the wall
    43:41
    all over is is to exist is to resist
    43:45
    which is a nice idea but you then you
    43:47
    begin to say wait a minute is that it
    43:50
    yeah what about what’s beyond resistance
    43:52
    what are we resisting
    43:53
    for what are we bds’ing for
    43:57
    we have a whole bds campaign that isn’t
    43:59
    that political
    44:00
    the three elements of bds are not a
    44:02
    political program
    44:04
    so everybody’s you know not buying
    44:06
    hewlett-packard
    44:08
    but what are we bds’ing for what’s the
    44:10
    end game
    44:11
    in this fight against apartheid in south
    44:13
    africa there was
    44:15
    always an endgame there was one person
    44:17
    one vote
    44:18
    everybody knew that that was what we
    44:20
    were fighting for and the clerk would
    44:22
    come to mandela with all kinds of ideas
    44:24
    power sharing and three seats of
    44:27
    government and this and that
    44:28
    and mandela would always say no this is
    44:31
    our and everybody knew that this is what
    44:33
    we were doing
    44:33
    we don’t have that with palestine we
    44:36
    know the two-state solution is gone
    44:38
    but we don’t have a replacement and so i
    44:41
    think this
    44:41
    is one of the things that we’re trying
    44:43
    to do is work with palestinians
    44:45
    because unless there’s a palestinian
    44:47
    buy-in right to a political program and
    44:49
    i think
    44:50
    one democratic state over all of
    44:52
    historic palestine
    44:54
    with the uh with the return of refugees
    44:58
    of course
    44:59
    is the only it’s the only way out
    45:00
    because the only way
    45:03
    you end settler colonialism is through
    45:05
    decolonization
    45:07
    so in a sense israel has almost defined
    45:10
    for the palestinians
    45:12
    what the nature of the struggle is it’s
    45:14
    not conflict resolution it’s not
    45:15
    negotiations
    45:17
    it’s not two states we know that we know
    45:19
    what it isn’t
    45:20
    what it is is an anti-colonial movement
    45:25
    right so what is that so now the
    45:27
    palestinians have to say what does that
    45:29
    mean
    45:30
    what are our interests what do we need
    45:33
    how do we decolonize zionism
    45:35
    and how do we liberate palestine and
    45:38
    those are the questions and not
    45:40
    enough palestinians are asking those
    45:42
    questions today in my view at least
    45:44
    i’d be interested to hear what yuma has
    45:46
    to say about that
    45:47
    without putting you on the spot yeah no
    45:51
    that’s fine i mean these are
    45:52
    conversations that i see
    45:53
    happening in the streets with friends
    45:55
    with palestinians that i talk to just in
    45:57
    everyday life i think
    45:59
    um i think that it’s definitely
    46:03
    i think that it’s definitely a mixed bag
    46:05
    i think that um
    46:07
    they’re definitely i don’t think in what
    46:09
    i’ve seen of course
    46:10
    i can’t speak on behalf of palestinians
    46:12
    but in terms of what i’ve witnessed in
    46:13
    my reporting and speaking to people
    46:15
    that there is isn’t one singular
    46:18
    consensus
    46:19
    sort of on um one state solution
    46:22
    two-state solution etc
    46:24
    um but just if we’re talking about the
    46:27
    discourse surrounding the
    46:29
    one state solution just in the past
    46:31
    whatever five years that i’ve been here
    46:34
    i’ve seen actual changes from friends
    46:37
    from colleagues people who once
    46:39
    you know would nev didn’t support that
    46:41
    idea or were once you know sort of still
    46:42
    supporting the two-state solution or
    46:44
    something similar to that
    46:45
    have now sort of come moved forward to
    46:48
    say actually you know i don’t really
    46:50
    think that there’s any other viable
    46:52
    sort of solution other than the
    46:53
    one-state solution i still think that
    46:56
    again from what i’ve seen um it’s not
    46:58
    something that’s it’s not a conversation
    46:59
    that’s being had
    47:01
    in like in the palestinian mainstream in
    47:03
    the palestinian states i think it’s a
    47:05
    conversation that’s been
    47:07
    had a lot in palestinian academic
    47:09
    circles um
    47:11
    and you know liberal progressive your
    47:13
    progressive palestinian circles online
    47:15
    etc
    47:16
    but um something that a lot of people
    47:18
    don’t really realize is that oftentimes
    47:20
    the
    47:21
    the discourse that we see amongst you
    47:23
    know palestinian scholars and academics
    47:25
    online is very different than
    47:27
    the discourse that’s happening in the
    47:28
    streets and the camps and the cities and
    47:29
    the towns et cetera
    47:31
    so i think that it’s um
    47:34
    it’s it’s a concept that’s being
    47:36
    discussed more and more
    47:37
    since i’ve been here but yeah i think
    47:40
    it’s safe to say that
    47:41
    it still hasn’t really um completely you
    47:44
    know permeated
    47:45
    the mainstream and i think i i
    47:47
    understand where
    47:49
    where jeff is coming from i understand
    47:52
    that sort of need and it’s something
    47:53
    that palestinians talk about all the
    47:55
    time it’s like okay once we achieve
    47:56
    liberation then what it’s something it
    47:58
    was literally having this conversation
    48:01
    with people the other day um with some
    48:03
    with a group of friends and you know
    48:05
    mostly young palestinians
    48:07
    and they were they were talking about
    48:08
    the fact that you know okay well what
    48:10
    happens next if we do manage to achieve
    48:12
    liberation if we do manage to
    48:14
    sort of keep this momentum with these
    48:16
    uprisings and this movement going
    48:17
    forward what happens next we saw what
    48:19
    happened
    48:20
    in egypt we saw what happened in tunisia
    48:22
    we saw what happened essentially in the
    48:23
    arab spring with all the surrounding
    48:25
    countries and
    48:26
    um you know that didn’t necessarily have
    48:29
    maybe like one unified plan in place
    48:33
    um which which made way for you know the
    48:35
    current situation that we see
    48:37
    in in the region so those conversations
    48:40
    are being had
    48:41
    um i don’t think that i don’t think it’s
    48:44
    um at a lack for lack of trying i guess
    48:47
    at least amongst palestinians
    48:48
    specifically young palestinians
    48:50
    and i think more and more um as time
    48:53
    goes on as we see
    48:54
    international solidarity continue to
    48:57
    grow as we see
    48:58
    um movements and and sort of these
    49:01
    uprisings you could say that we’ve seen
    49:02
    in the past two weeks as they they
    49:04
    continue to happen
    49:05
    um these conversations will continue to
    49:07
    grow but so long as
    49:09
    i i get just from what i’ve i’ve seen i
    49:11
    get why
    49:13
    it’s hard you know to move past the
    49:16
    ex existence’s resistance for example or
    49:19
    the
    49:19
    the resistance phase of things because
    49:22
    that is so
    49:23
    very much the reality that palestinians
    49:25
    are entrenched in
    49:26
    i’m not saying that people are incapable
    49:29
    of you know thinking about the future
    49:31
    they very much are and those
    49:32
    conversations are very much being had
    49:34
    but um i think it’s completely
    49:36
    understandable to see
    49:38
    why um maybe our people are focused on
    49:40
    the here and now they’re focused on
    49:41
    the bds of now they’re focused on the
    49:44
    liberation of now because
    49:45
    they’re um ex you know
    49:49
    the attempt to totally
    49:53
    you know that the ongoing ethnic
    49:55
    cleansing of
    49:56
    of them as a people is very imminent and
    49:58
    it’s a constant threat
    50:00
    so yeah it’s hard to like work on a
    50:02
    charter
    50:03
    when you’re trying to avoid like rubble
    50:06
    and being bombed and like being like
    50:09
    shot well
    50:10
    you know being killed like while you’re
    50:11
    in your car you know i get that
    50:13
    as well right yeah and
    50:16
    anything else that you want to share
    50:18
    with us yuma about um
    50:20
    just things that i think i asked you
    50:21
    this last time like what you wanted to
    50:23
    make sure people
    50:24
    knew and you very helpfully provided the
    50:26
    context of like how we got here
    50:29
    um just anything else you wanted to let
    50:31
    people know about what it’s like living
    50:33
    there um do peop by the way i have a
    50:35
    question do people think that you’re
    50:37
    palestinian when they interact with you
    50:40
    uh
    50:40
    um i think that i don’t know are you
    50:42
    asking about if palestinians think i’m
    50:44
    palestinian or like non-palestinians
    50:46
    i mean both i think sometimes
    50:49
    palestinians
    50:50
    just because um i guess uh
    50:53
    because i speak arabic i think to a
    50:56
    relatively
    50:57
    um like well degree i think i speak
    51:00
    arabic quite well so sometimes people
    51:02
    might think that i have some sort of
    51:04
    arab background which i don’t and um so
    51:06
    i think people might think that oh maybe
    51:08
    your dad’s palestinian your mom’s spouse
    51:09
    needs something like that that’s
    51:10
    obviously it’s not the case
    51:12
    and then also for non-palestinians um
    51:15
    i think people just people might just
    51:18
    assume like oh well there’s
    51:20
    brown yeah exactly like especially for
    51:22
    white people they’re like oh well
    51:23
    there’s this brown person
    51:24
    like in palestine so she’s probably
    51:26
    palestinian right yeah
    51:28
    so yeah but your accent is like when
    51:30
    they hear your accent it’s like oh
    51:32
    you’re
    51:32
    you didn’t grow up grow you didn’t grow
    51:34
    up in palestine yeah i think sometimes
    51:36
    people might
    51:37
    think i’ve i’ve gotten here because
    51:39
    there’s so many palestinians right that
    51:40
    have dual citizenship right palestinian
    51:42
    americans and so people
    51:44
    might think i’m sort of fall into that
    51:46
    category
    51:47
    um yeah yeah
    51:51
    um but yeah so i’m just always
    51:53
    interested like in how people are
    51:55
    perceived where they are
    51:56
    um like uh do people ever think you’re
    51:59
    palestinian then they find that you’re
    52:01
    not like do palestinians think that
    52:02
    you’re palestinian then they find that
    52:03
    you’re not
    52:04
    dude like jews think you’re palestinian
    52:06
    then they find that you’re not
    52:07
    any interesting like stories coming from
    52:10
    there
    52:11
    i mean i think that i think i’ve had
    52:13
    both
    52:14
    right um i think also just like
    52:18
    um appearance and obviously like race
    52:21
    and
    52:21
    skin color play a role in and everything
    52:24
    um
    52:25
    but yeah so when i when i speak arabic
    52:27
    um people kind of assume that maybe i
    52:29
    have some sort of you know palestinian
    52:31
    or arab maybe not necessarily
    52:33
    palestinians or maybe any sort of arab
    52:35
    influence
    52:36
    i don’t uh my parents are indian by way
    52:39
    of south africa so
    52:40
    that’s yeah yeah you’re like that’s my
    52:42
    connection it’s the whole apartheid
    52:44
    thing
    52:44
    yeah i mean that’s if you wanted a
    52:46
    connection to palestine it’s the fact
    52:48
    that my parents grew up in apartheid
    52:49
    south africa and they were very active
    52:51
    in in you know in their youth in
    52:54
    in the resistance movement in in south
    52:56
    africa so
    52:57
    i guess that’s the the strongest
    52:59
    connection right yeah what
    53:01
    what do they what do they think of this
    53:03
    your parents if i mask
    53:05
    it’s it’s interest obviously i mean
    53:08
    they have their whole personal approach
    53:11
    obviously
    53:12
    because their daughter is living here as
    53:15
    a political
    53:16
    human rights situation they’ve always
    53:19
    it’s never been a question growing up
    53:21
    like i said it’s literally never been a
    53:23
    question
    53:23
    of that you know we should support
    53:25
    palestinian human rights
    53:27
    and what’s happening uh the oppression
    53:30
    of palestinians what’s happening in
    53:31
    palestine is wrong
    53:33
    um and from the time we were young they
    53:35
    always compared it you know i said
    53:36
    i grew up sort of learning about it from
    53:38
    a religious perspective but because my
    53:40
    parents have that background um they
    53:42
    were very much
    53:43
    sort of vocal about that also in our
    53:45
    household and and why it was important
    53:47
    to um to draw those parallels between
    53:50
    the apartheid you know that they lived
    53:51
    under and what was happening in
    53:52
    palestine so i grew up in a family that
    53:54
    was
    53:54
    um you know uh very vocal
    53:58
    about that but then also on a personal
    54:00
    level i think it’s it’s hard for them
    54:01
    because they knew
    54:02
    what it was like to live under you know
    54:04
    oppressive apartheid regimes and
    54:07
    um what it meant to to move in those
    54:10
    those spaces obviously i’m not
    54:12
    palestinian and so there’s so much
    54:13
    privilege that comes with being
    54:15
    an american like a foreign journalist
    54:16
    but yeah on a personal level i think
    54:18
    they worry sometimes but they get it
    54:20
    they get why i’m here
    54:22
    um and anytime they question you know
    54:24
    why
    54:25
    you know oh maybe why do you like why do
    54:27
    you still want to stay there why do you
    54:29
    want to be there
    54:30
    um i always just tell them well you know
    54:32
    i grew up
    54:33
    with two parents who i literally grew up
    54:36
    hearing stories about
    54:37
    them resisting the apartheid regime in
    54:39
    south africa
    54:40
    and that’s those are the stories that i
    54:42
    i grew up hearing and those are
    54:44
    the the role models that i had so i
    54:46
    think
    54:48
    that the apple doesn’t fall far from the
    54:50
    tree
    54:52
    yeah um and yeah anything else i mean i
    54:54
    know that you you’ve been really
    54:55
    generous with your time
    54:57
    um and and just anything else you want
    54:59
    to make sure people know about like i
    55:00
    appreciated what you were saying about
    55:02
    how you know the academic
    55:03
    online consensus doesn’t necessarily
    55:06
    represent the you know not non-academic
    55:09
    consensus
    55:10
    um anything else that you want make sure
    55:13
    people know about that you experience
    55:14
    while you’re there yeah i mean
    55:17
    obviously i can take this it’s not just
    55:20
    this is
    55:20
    just a shameless plug for mondoys but
    55:22
    genuinely it’s
    55:24
    um it’s good obviously to to diversify
    55:27
    um you know your your sources for for
    55:29
    news and for happening for
    55:31
    for learning about what’s happening on
    55:33
    the ground in palestine and there are
    55:35
    an array of different voices coming out
    55:37
    of palestine and it’s great to seek
    55:39
    those out on places like mondo ice um
    55:41
    places like electronic intifada middle
    55:43
    east i imu all these different
    55:46
    organizations that are doing um really
    55:48
    great work and telling all different
    55:50
    kinds of palestinian stories
    55:51
    um that might that you might not
    55:54
    necessarily
    55:55
    be getting online and i guess what i
    55:56
    would would finish with
    55:58
    is that um i think we’re definitely
    56:01
    we’ve seen
    56:02
    we’re living in a moment now we’ve
    56:03
    definitely seen this huge moment that’s
    56:05
    happened over the past couple weeks and
    56:07
    i would encourage people
    56:08
    um no matter you know the different
    56:10
    smear campaigns that we’re already
    56:12
    seeing to come out and
    56:13
    the the different threats and um
    56:17
    and restrictions and um censorship that
    56:19
    we’re seeing i would still encourage
    56:21
    people to to continue to speak out and
    56:23
    to continue to push the narrative and
    56:25
    and shift uh the narrative as as we move
    56:27
    forward and
    56:29
    and to continue to to amplify
    56:31
    palestinian voices
    56:32
    as you know as we continue to to move
    56:35
    forward
    56:36
    yes and i’m having a bunch more of those
    56:37
    on by the way
    56:39
    so uh bringing back some old uh
    56:42
    standards ali abu nima’s coming back on
    56:44
    um
    56:45
    and i’m also uh having bringing on
    56:47
    people who i have not had on before
    56:50
    so i’ll be doing more earlier streams
    56:51
    like this so yes
    56:53
    definitely i didn’t mean to ask you to
    56:56
    like you know on behalf of palestinians
    56:58
    no yeah not one but yeah yeah you’re
    57:00
    just saying that you’re just suggest
    57:01
    giving encouraging people to do that
    57:03
    which i i personally like
    57:04
    even as someone who’s lived here for so
    57:06
    long i’ve lived in this community for so
    57:08
    long i’ve
    57:08
    i’ve been reporting on palestine for so
    57:10
    long and i i still
    57:12
    um the best thing that i continue to do
    57:15
    for myself is
    57:16
    to to continue to educate myself and
    57:18
    continue to learn
    57:19
    um and and follow the lead of the people
    57:22
    around me so
    57:24
    yeah okay and yeah and and keep us
    57:27
    uh in the loop you should come up uh oh
    57:30
    i do want to get miko palette do you
    57:32
    guys know him
    57:33
    he’s like the son of some israeli like
    57:36
    butcher
    57:36
    not butcher really i mean i’m being a
    57:38
    little he’s the son of some israeli
    57:40
    general or something
    57:41
    and he’s like super critical anyway yeah
    57:44
    we’ll do that
    57:45
    his father the general was also critical
    57:47
    he was a communist
    57:48
    oh wow let’s get him both on is he not
    57:51
    alive anyway
    57:51
    was more critical than the sun you know
    57:54
    what forget it i don’t want this
    57:55
    the sun i want the father is the father
    57:56
    alive i’ve died a number of years ago
    57:58
    all right i’ll take the sun
    57:59
    i’ll take the sun only because the
    58:01
    father’s not alive only because the
    58:02
    communist
    58:03
    more hardcore critic not a lot around
    58:05
    you’re lucky mikko
    58:07
    no uh or michael um and uh oh yuma’s
    58:10
    last appearance on the katie helper show
    58:11
    blew my mind what what what
    58:13
    about it by the way see i’m really
    58:15
    taking down the fourth wall
    58:17
    was it the way she just totally took um
    58:20
    attack the
    58:21
    you went after some talking points you
    58:22
    definitely did a great job you did the
    58:24
    israel cares about civilians and hamas
    58:26
    doesn’t
    58:28
    talking point you also said something
    58:29
    really interesting about the
    58:31
    problematic nature of the civilians
    58:33
    discourse and then noor erica came on i
    58:35
    don’t know if you saw it after but it
    58:36
    was like a really amazing
    58:38
    segue because jeff um yuma was talking
    58:40
    about
    58:41
    the you know how it’s like they have to
    58:44
    be
    58:44
    children you know we have to talk and
    58:46
    understandably we’re gonna we people
    58:48
    will mention when they’re children who
    58:49
    are killed
    58:50
    but it’s almost like the discourse has
    58:51
    become
    58:53
    but for the children and the elderly um
    58:56
    it’s not it’s not really that sad what’s
    58:59
    happening to palestinians because there
    59:00
    is this you know
    59:02
    implicit kind of um implicit
    59:05
    uh representation or assumption that
    59:07
    palestinians are kind of like by default
    59:10
    like terrorists and so you have to find
    59:12
    the the not you know the non-men
    59:16
    victims of it and then right after you
    59:19
    noor erakat came on i
    59:20
    i offered my related condolences but
    59:23
    we’d never spoken before
    59:24
    about her her cousin who was a young
    59:26
    palestinian man who had been killed
    59:28
    and then she went on to talk about
    59:30
    because you had mentioned that family
    59:32
    15 um who were her friends
    59:35
    family members at that point people
    59:37
    thought that 15 had been killed it’s
    59:39
    actually been
    59:40
    now we know 22 22. okay so even one up
    59:44
    from 21.
    59:45
    um and so yeah those were that was
    59:49
    i i think that people really don’t get
    59:52
    like if if we
    59:53
    if people saw photos of like families
    59:56
    and i don’t want to do
    59:57
    i’m not like pitting um israelis and
    60:00
    palestinians against each other or jews
    60:02
    and arabs
    60:04
    and muslims uh i know that these are not
    60:06
    interchangeable but anyway
    60:08
    the point is like if those were israeli
    60:11
    jewish people
    60:12
    and the whole family had been wiped out
    60:15
    like 21 members of a family have been
    60:17
    wiped out it would have been
    60:18
    like non-stop headline news
    60:22
    and yeah yeah
    60:26
    and i mean it would have been like the
    60:28
    you know the retaliation would have been
    60:33
    like unprecedented but that didn’t
    60:35
    really happen so
    60:37
    i think nora said it perfectly said
    60:39
    palestinians have to be the perfect
    60:41
    victims
    60:42
    you know palestinians are expected to
    60:44
    lay down and die that’s
    60:45
    what she said you know what i’ve
    60:47
    experienced so much in
    60:49
    in my reporting as well even when just
    60:50
    reporting on palestinian children that
    60:52
    are killed for example in the west bank
    60:54
    like literal children 16 14
    60:56
    15 years old um the second
    61:00
    that the army claims that they were
    61:03
    throwing stones or that they were
    61:05
    participating in a protest
    61:07
    as if it’s i mean in the army’s eyes and
    61:09
    israel says it’s justification
    61:11
    for their killing right but also somehow
    61:14
    in the media and in
    61:18
    just public discourse around palestine
    61:20
    it’s like yeah palestinians really are
    61:22
    expected to be perfect victims they’re
    61:23
    literally expected to
    61:24
    to lay down and die if if a 16 year old
    61:27
    was
    61:28
    was shot and killed throwing stones
    61:30
    people are trained to ask well why was
    61:32
    he throwing stones
    61:34
    not why was a child throwing stones seen
    61:38
    as so much of a threat that they had to
    61:39
    be killed
    61:40
    you know yeah
    61:44
    yeah it’s like yeah i mean i’ve seen
    61:45
    that it’s disgusting people like well
    61:47
    yeah it’s complicated though because he
    61:48
    was throwing stones like really
    61:51
    and again it’s like even if they there
    61:54
    was were not settler colonialism clearly
    61:56
    like
    61:58
    throwing stones is not um a death you
    62:01
    know punishable by
    62:02
    capital punishment but like the fact
    62:04
    that it’s in
    62:06
    the context that it’s in like the
    62:08
    context is never really described
    62:10
    so it just seems like out of the blue um
    62:13
    you know this is why we can’t have nice
    62:14
    things yeah
    62:16
    as opposed to yeah so i mean i’m always
    62:19
    surprised i’m not saying this to be like
    62:21
    to
    62:21
    to you know whatever the non-right-wing
    62:24
    version of the term virtue signaling is
    62:26
    but like i’m always
    62:27
    amazed that there isn’t more violence
    62:31
    like from the people who are
    62:36
    resisting
    62:40
    yeah but that’s yeah um all right well
    62:43
    thank you
    62:44
    jeff and i are going to talk more about
    62:45
    the one state thing you’re of course
    62:46
    welcome
    62:47
    but i know it’s late there and um we’ll
    62:50
    probably bore you with our help or on
    62:51
    helper stories i’m just kidding
    62:52
    but um yeah thanks for having me yeah
    62:55
    it’s great talking to you it’s great
    62:56
    talking to you yes yes
    62:57
    you’re our west bank you’re our west
    62:58
    bank well you are non-palestinian west
    63:01
    bank stringer so we’re going to have it
    63:02
    in best banks during our time i hope so
    63:05
    yeah okay
    63:06
    thank you guys thanks bye bye nice to
    63:08
    meet you
    63:10
    all right so let’s see oh great having
    63:13
    discussions give me hope by the way
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    63:23
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    63:25
    people know that we’re talking about
    63:26
    these things because they’re pretty
    63:27
    important
    63:28
    and jeff can i ask you some more
    63:30
    questions of course
    63:31
    all right so i did i wanted to ask you
    63:34
    and i think it’s a it’s an interesting
    63:36
    and uncomfortable thing to talk about
    63:37
    right because it’s like
    63:39
    we want to take the lead from
    63:41
    palestinians
    63:43
    i just want to be honest about something
    63:45
    i keep hearing
    63:47
    that i used to just like dismiss and i
    63:49
    kind of still do but i realize it’s not
    63:50
    effective if we want to actually like
    63:53
    reach people so there and it’s funny i
    63:56
    said this to norman finkelstein
    63:58
    who’s become like a weekly feature of
    63:59
    the show and i should have you guys on
    64:01
    too and also you and
    64:02
    noora but i said something to him about
    64:04
    how people are like oh well if you know
    64:06
    if
    64:07
    if it becomes a one state then hamas is
    64:09
    going to be in power
    64:10
    and they will like throw the gays and
    64:13
    women from the rooftops which i think is
    64:15
    a bit hyperbolic obviously
    64:17
    um but people do really think that or
    64:19
    they think something along those lines
    64:21
    and then you know there
    64:23
    some people really think that genuinely
    64:24
    some people um are cynically saying that
    64:27
    knowing it’s not really going to happen
    64:28
    but
    64:29
    when i brought this up to finkelstein he
    64:30
    was like well you know
    64:32
    it would i’m not going to my norm
    64:33
    impersonation it would be
    64:36
    he basically said that he that it’s not
    64:39
    it’s not the south africa situation
    64:40
    right it isn’t this one person one vote
    64:43
    framing as of yet but i don’t even know
    64:46
    like
    64:46
    shouldn’t we just step back and i want
    64:49
    to both step back and let palestinians
    64:51
    take the lead and i also don’t know what
    64:52
    to say when people freak out about it
    64:54
    because i kind of casually was like well
    64:56
    if they have to leave
    64:57
    the jews have to leave is that something
    65:00
    that has to be accepted
    65:01
    like either implicitly or explicitly
    65:04
    before if we’re going to be honest about
    65:06
    the potential um one state
    65:10
    well you know we we simplify uh
    65:14
    palestinians a lot i mean that’s what
    65:16
    humanity was always talking about as
    65:17
    well
    65:18
    and nora you know first of all hamas is
    65:21
    a
    65:22
    is a is a political party isn’t the
    65:24
    terrorist organization like biden and
    65:26
    the us
    65:27
    claims it is so you know and uh and it’s
    65:30
    very complex they have
    65:32
    uh like every political party they have
    65:34
    they have a military wing they have a
    65:35
    political wing there
    65:36
    there’s this agreement all right one
    65:38
    second i just want to par i just want to
    65:39
    clarify i wasn’t adopting the framing of
    65:41
    hamas being this okay i just want people
    65:44
    to know that i was
    65:44
    quoting people yeah but you know there
    65:47
    was back in i think 2006
    65:50
    all the you know where are the
    65:51
    palestinian leaders today a lot of
    65:53
    most of them are either dead or they’re
    65:55
    in prison
    65:57
    and we have to keep that in mind as well
    65:59
    um
    66:00
    so in about 2006
    66:03
    palestinians in prison from all the
    66:06
    different factions
    66:07
    from the left and the right from the uh
    66:10
    the pflp all the way across the hamas
    66:13
    and the islamic jihad
    66:15
    all got together in prison the leaders
    66:18
    and came up with what’s called the
    66:20
    prisoner’s document that you can look up
    66:22
    online
    66:23
    and hamas signed on to it and it’s a
    66:26
    two-state idea it’s a very moderate
    66:28
    document saying that if israel really
    66:31
    agrees to withdraw
    66:33
    from the west bank east jerusalem and
    66:35
    gaza the 22
    66:37
    we will recognize we might not recognize
    66:39
    israel hamas didn’t go so far to say
    66:41
    they’ll recognize israel because they
    66:43
    don’t want to legitimize colonialism
    66:46
    i mean there’s a logic to that as well
    66:48
    but they’re willing to
    66:49
    to live at peace with israel sign an
    66:51
    agreement with israel
    66:52
    um and uh so basically hamas has and
    66:56
    they’ve repeated that many times over
    66:58
    the years that hamas basically accepted
    67:00
    the two-state idea
    67:01
    it’s israel and the international
    67:03
    communities pushed them
    67:04
    uh you know to in a sense to where they
    67:07
    are but another important thing to
    67:08
    remember is that the palestinians were
    67:10
    always the most secular
    67:12
    of all the arab populations the very
    67:15
    you know why you have to say well what
    67:17
    is hamas why hamas
    67:19
    i mean hamas came out because
    67:22
    you know the fatah who was the
    67:25
    revolutionary leadership
    67:26
    mainly under arafat gave into israel
    67:31
    in 1980 you know fatah and the plo
    67:34
    began as an anti-colonial organization
    67:37
    in the in the middle 60s
    67:39
    in 1988 they gave up the anti-colonial
    67:42
    struggle
    67:43
    accepted the two-state idea recognized
    67:45
    the state of israel
    67:47
    and then got into this whole ridiculous
    67:48
    austral peace process
    67:50
    so hamas has remained all these years
    67:54
    the
    67:54
    only effective in in jihad as well
    67:57
    islamic jihad
    67:58
    the only effective palestinian
    68:00
    organizations that still have an
    68:02
    anti-colonial idea that we have to
    68:04
    decolonize palestine
    68:06
    not that we have to throw all the jews
    68:08
    into the sea that isn’t
    68:09
    what they say right but that we have to
    68:12
    have
    68:12
    uh you know equal rights and i mean and
    68:15
    it’s true it’s not a secular idea that’s
    68:17
    that’s the problem i’m
    68:18
    also i don’t i’m not crazy about it he’s
    68:20
    allowed fundamentalism i mean don’t i’m
    68:22
    not a hamas supporter
    68:24
    in any way because i don’t think any
    68:26
    religious fundamentalism is the way to
    68:27
    go
    68:28
    but in a sense that’s you know that’s
    68:31
    the um
    68:32
    the default position that israel has
    68:34
    left the palestinians with because
    68:36
    israel will not deal with the pa with
    68:38
    the palestinian authority it won’t deal
    68:40
    with the boss it won’t deal with the plo
    68:41
    it won’t deal with the secular
    68:43
    right it only deal with
    68:46
    hamas hamas is the only political party
    68:49
    that israel
    68:50
    israel is the one that’s empowered hamas
    68:52
    right israel in a sense created hamas
    68:54
    as a counterweight to the to the plo
    68:58
    and and today if hamas is really the
    69:00
    leader
    69:01
    it’s not that the palestinians also
    69:03
    become religious
    69:04
    or they’re all into al-aqsa as a
    69:07
    religious
    69:08
    kind of thing al-aqsa is a much bigger
    69:10
    symbol than simply religion
    69:12
    um but but that but that
    69:15
    israel has left the field open only for
    69:18
    hamas
    69:19
    and and islamic jihad and so it’s
    69:22
    there’s a distortion so i think
    69:23
    in a situation where there’s where where
    69:26
    a decolonization process takes place and
    69:29
    we begin to really think about the
    69:30
    future and we start to talk to each
    69:32
    other
    69:33
    and move towards decolonization other
    69:36
    forces i mean hamas will be a
    69:38
    voice but other forces will come into
    69:41
    the fore as well and and so
    69:42
    we can’t make hamas these spokes
    69:46
    sure person of the palestinian people
    69:49
    right but also can’t we i guess this is
    69:51
    the thing that i don’t know exactly
    69:54
    it’s not really up to us when i say us i
    69:57
    mean you guys there right i mean it’s
    69:59
    like unfortunately
    70:00
    or for better for worse it’s like we
    70:02
    can’t really
    70:03
    we have to just wait kind of wait and
    70:05
    see what happens because
    70:08
    well you know there’s two ways you can
    70:10
    go yeah you know that that’s
    70:12
    in south africa uh you know eunuch could
    70:15
    party tell us better than me but
    70:17
    in south africa the whites did not
    70:20
    participate obviously in the dismantling
    70:22
    of apartheid
    70:24
    that was a black struggle the ancient
    70:26
    struggle yeah
    70:27
    there were some whites that helped yeah
    70:29
    but it was amazing i didn’t know that
    70:30
    there was such a high up jewish white
    70:31
    guy in the ncaa
    70:32
    and there was a it was a fairly high
    70:34
    jewish you know of
    70:36
    nelson mandela the five white members of
    70:39
    nelson mandela’s first government they
    70:40
    were all jews of course
    70:43
    but that aside um
    70:46
    um you know
    70:50
    it was only when the international
    70:53
    community and
    70:54
    internal opposition forced to collect
    70:56
    made the collapse of apartheid
    70:58
    forced a transition that then the whites
    71:01
    began to get involved
    71:02
    right and they did play a certain role
    71:06
    especially in keeping the economy white
    71:08
    in a sense
    71:09
    here that the same thing is true is
    71:11
    going to happen the israeli public the
    71:12
    israeli jewish public is not going to be
    71:14
    an active partner they’re never going to
    71:15
    agree
    71:16
    to liberation of palestine or
    71:19
    decolonization or anything
    71:21
    so we have to kind of work around them
    71:23
    in a sense
    71:24
    the question is when do they come into
    71:26
    the picture
    71:27
    once the israeli apartheid system
    71:30
    collapses
    71:32
    will israeli jews come in at that point
    71:35
    like they did in south africa
    71:36
    like the whites of south africa and help
    71:39
    rebuild the new country
    71:41
    or is that rebuilding gonna have to be
    71:44
    done by palestinians and the israelis
    71:46
    are going to be
    71:46
    sullen and sit in the corner and just
    71:48
    get whatever they get
    71:50
    you know at what point i don’t know the
    71:51
    answer to that
    71:53
    but the point is that the the very the
    71:56
    the
    71:56
    the thrust of liberation the first
    71:59
    the initial you know uh impetus towards
    72:03
    liberation the vision of liberation the
    72:05
    plan of liberation maybe even the
    72:06
    constitution
    72:08
    that would develop is gonna have to be
    72:10
    done by palestinians
    72:11
    now that’s where somebody like like i
    72:14
    could you know me can help
    72:15
    because being an israeli but being a
    72:18
    critical
    72:19
    anti-colonial israeli there aren’t a lot
    72:21
    of us but there weren’t that many whites
    72:23
    in south africa that work in the agency
    72:25
    as well
    72:25
    what we can do is we can act as kind of
    72:27
    a bridge because i know where the
    72:29
    israeli mind is
    72:30
    i know where most my neighbors are you
    72:33
    see so i can be
    72:35
    in this process talking with
    72:37
    palestinians as we’re beginning to
    72:39
    to form a vision of what the future
    72:42
    would be like
    72:43
    in a way i can represent my israeli
    72:46
    brethren or fellow countrymen whatever
    72:49
    you want to call them
    72:51
    in a way that they that they wouldn’t
    72:52
    want to be represented they don’t agree
    72:54
    to be represented but
    72:56
    in a sense that ensures that
    72:59
    that whatever liberation concept there
    73:02
    has to it has to be inclusive
    73:04
    yeah you know we’re not in algeria yeah
    73:07
    the israelis are not leaving right so
    73:10
    the
    73:10
    and the palestinians know that and they
    73:12
    have to bite that bullet
    73:14
    and come up with a liberation plan that
    73:16
    gives them their liberation
    73:18
    and their sovereignty and access to the
    73:20
    entire country and everything else
    73:22
    but also with mechanisms of living with
    73:24
    israelis
    73:26
    in in with equal rights and
    73:29
    uh that’s you know not going to be easy
    73:33
    but
    73:34
    but it has to be a palestinian-led
    73:36
    process
    73:37
    and it’s not going to be algeria just
    73:39
    because of the numbers
    73:40
    um by virtue of the i mean for starters
    73:43
    yeah like in south africa as well you
    73:45
    know it was the same thing i mean there
    73:47
    are some
    73:47
    i have the united states as a settler
    73:49
    colonial country
    73:51
    said like communism wins in a way
    73:54
    yeah the sudden state becomes so strong
    73:57
    and so established
    73:59
    that the indigenous people just don’t
    74:00
    they can’t overthrow it
    74:02
    now the indigenous work the the the the
    74:05
    french colonists in algeria
    74:07
    even though they were in algeria for 150
    74:09
    years and they felt algerian worst
    74:12
    very small minority right in south
    74:15
    africa they were a fairly small minority
    74:17
    but they were so powerful
    74:19
    economically and militarily and so on
    74:21
    that they they couldn’t be thrown out
    74:23
    yeah and i think that and certainly in
    74:26
    the u.s the native americans
    74:28
    would probably love to throw out you
    74:30
    guys that’s right
    74:31
    that’s not gonna happen so sometimes the
    74:34
    indigenous people have to bite that
    74:35
    bullet and say okay now
    74:37
    how can we carve out a maximum
    74:40
    sovereignty and lands and
    74:42
    a cultural space and so on
    74:45
    within a settler colonial yeah
    74:47
    environment that we can’t that we can’t
    74:49
    prevent
    74:50
    it’s the orthodox jews that are i mean
    74:52
    they’re
    74:53
    making it so that but for them like
    74:57
    there would have to be some kind of
    75:00
    like reckoning with palestinians as
    75:03
    people
    75:04
    that just like i know that this is a
    75:05
    problematic discourse and people think
    75:07
    it sounds eugenicist but obviously just
    75:09
    looking at numbers which
    75:10
    this is i mean i’m not like cheapening
    75:13
    people to numbers but obviously that
    75:15
    makes a
    75:15
    huge difference you have like all these
    75:17
    people populating
    75:19
    like making aliyah you know the settlers
    75:22
    and it’s just like
    75:24
    right then what is true is that it won’t
    75:27
    be there won’t be a jewish state i mean
    75:29
    that’s something we have to know the
    75:30
    palestinians have the same problem
    75:32
    it’s not going to be a palestinian state
    75:34
    either so both peoples have that hump to
    75:36
    go over
    75:37
    but you know the palestinians will have
    75:39
    a majority there already
    75:41
    is a majority of palestinians in this
    75:42
    country before any refugees return
    75:45
    right and of course any just solution
    75:48
    has to allow the return of refugees
    75:50
    yeah there will be a large fairly large
    75:53
    palestinian majority in the country
    75:55
    but at the same time you know it
    75:59
    see what we’re predict what we’re
    76:01
    presenting as a one-state idea
    76:03
    isn’t a threat everybody sees as a
    76:05
    threat
    76:07
    we see it as a challenge as really
    76:09
    something very positive
    76:10
    jews and and palestinians arabs
    76:13
    christians muslims have lived together
    76:15
    for centuries
    76:16
    no primordial this whole idea that some
    76:19
    primordial
    76:20
    hatred isn’t true and in fact we already
    76:23
    lived together you know 20 percent
    76:25
    21 of israelis our palestinian
    76:29
    are are are you know palestinians
    76:33
    so you know and and what’s interesting
    76:35
    is
    76:36
    their frustration is you see it today is
    76:38
    that they want to go
    76:39
    into israeli society and it’s the jews
    76:41
    that are keeping them out
    76:43
    you know they want to integrate
    76:45
    governmental wise
    76:47
    negotiate get into society and they’re
    76:49
    being kept out so
    76:51
    it isn’t that they’re holding themselves
    76:53
    aloof we’re the ones that are keeping
    76:54
    them aloof right
    76:55
    even in the west bank you know without
    76:57
    minimizing at all the violence and
    77:00
    oppression of
    77:00
    occupation even on those conditions
    77:05
    israelis and palestinians get along
    77:07
    pretty well
    77:08
    you know i mean there’s no equality
    77:11
    and and everything else but they’re also
    77:13
    we’re not in each other’s throats all
    77:15
    the time so the idea that we can live
    77:17
    together
    77:19
    uh you know has been proven i think over
    77:21
    the last 70 years
    77:23
    what we have to do though is to show
    77:24
    that that potential for living together
    77:26
    can be translated
    77:28
    into living together as equals and not
    77:30
    as uh
    77:32
    as meron benvenisti once said is the
    77:35
    relations of israelis to palestinians is
    77:37
    a horse to a rider you know the israelis
    77:40
    are the are the rider and the
    77:42
    palestinians are the horse and there’s a
    77:43
    relationship we have a relationship but
    77:45
    it’s not
    77:46
    the relationship that you really want
    77:48
    yeah
    77:50
    i mean understatement yeah um but so i
    77:53
    wanted to
    77:54
    if you don’t mind i i actually think
    77:56
    that this is a useful um
    77:58
    educational um teachable moment where we
    78:01
    have this
    78:02
    i won’t i won’t say anything critical
    78:04
    for we again max blumenthal and leslie
    78:06
    lee on another show that i did we went
    78:08
    through
    78:08
    these talking points but we didn’t
    78:11
    actually i think it’s actually important
    78:12
    to maybe like go through them
    78:13
    somewhat seriously even though they’re
    78:15
    so unserious but
    78:17
    so this is this is this somehow this guy
    78:20
    named
    78:20
    ken or hen made it um and he’s
    78:24
    uh what is his name i’ll um pen you know
    78:27
    him oh that’s your
    78:28
    name right yeah here i’ll um but it’s um
    78:32
    can you can you guys see it and
    78:36
    ken mazzig is his name and he does he is
    78:40
    an israeli writer son of
    78:42
    amazig and iraqi jewish refugees mizrahi
    78:45
    queer
    78:46
    opinions in newsweek la times nbc news
    78:48
    and more and he does a lot of like um
    78:52
    you know jews in america and need your
    78:54
    support are jews indigenous people
    78:56
    experts in archaeology say yes um
    78:59
    you know a lot of he’s really trying to
    79:01
    like wokify i see
    79:03
    colonialism right so here’s here’s
    79:05
    something that he made
    79:07
    and it’s like a weird exchange between i
    79:09
    guess it’s a non-jewish person and a
    79:11
    jewish person
    79:12
    um so okay i read online i’m gonna read
    79:16
    this out loud so we can just respond to
    79:17
    them
    79:18
    i read online that israelis are
    79:19
    ethnically cleansing palestinians and
    79:21
    then the response is
    79:22
    stop taking everything you read online
    79:24
    for face value i think an israeli wrote
    79:26
    this by the way because their little
    79:27
    like
    79:28
    prepositions are are wrong it’s not at
    79:30
    face value stop taking everything you
    79:32
    read online for face value
    79:34
    palestinians face major many challenges
    79:36
    and inequalities but are not being
    79:38
    ethnically cleansed
    79:39
    however jews have been ethnically
    79:41
    cleansed from the rest of the middle
    79:42
    east
    79:43
    so and you were i mean that’s the op
    79:46
    the opposite of the truth of course
    79:48
    right i mean of course the palestinians
    79:50
    have been ethnically cleansed i mean the
    79:51
    read elon poppy’s book right exactly
    79:53
    yeah palestine which he’s a
    79:56
    professional historian who very
    79:57
    carefully documents i mean that that’s
    80:00
    not even
    80:01
    even right-wing israelis admit
    80:03
    ethnically i know they’re so much more
    80:05
    honest than the
    80:06
    than america yeah i know and also like i
    80:08
    always bring this up but it’s so funny
    80:09
    that benny morris who like turned
    80:11
    right-wing
    80:11
    is still like yeah it was ethnic
    80:13
    cleansing uh yeah
    80:15
    it should have been ethical could have
    80:16
    been more there should have been more
    80:18
    yeah right that’s it that’s right so
    80:20
    that he admits it yeah so guys this is
    80:21
    not a good time that’s already
    80:23
    that’s ridiculous it has to be ethnic
    80:25
    cleansing because
    80:27
    you know when zionism began there were
    80:29
    other people there
    80:30
    some of was it was arab it was
    80:32
    palestinian
    80:34
    so what do you how do you set up a
    80:35
    jewish country in an arab country
    80:38
    they were jews they were caring land an
    80:40
    ethnically population
    80:42
    i mean ben gurion and jabotinsky
    80:45
    were absolutely crystal clear on this
    80:47
    you don’t have to guess i mean
    80:50
    there’s volumes of works by zionists
    80:53
    that
    80:54
    actually spell out exactly what they
    80:56
    were doing and some of them even used
    80:57
    words like ethnic lensing yeah well
    80:59
    that’s what benny morris was saying he
    81:00
    was like look
    81:01
    this the right wing benny moore so i’ve
    81:03
    met just so people know benny morris was
    81:04
    one of these new historians
    81:06
    he you know criticized israel then of
    81:09
    course was like
    81:10
    you know bannon but he was one of the
    81:11
    few who stayed in the country right yeah
    81:14
    so that’s why he went right but most of
    81:16
    them were right-wing
    81:17
    yeah so he became very right-wing but
    81:19
    again he in his book 1948
    81:21
    he like meticulously documented that
    81:23
    there was ethnic cleansing
    81:24
    and then he was kind of asked about it
    81:26
    he’s like yeah it’s uh you know
    81:29
    he wrote the book of the refugee problem
    81:32
    and he said that it was that or genocide
    81:34
    which is
    81:35
    something you hear all the time and i
    81:36
    think stops people in their tracks
    81:38
    because they don’t want to sound like
    81:39
    they’re genocide supporters or like
    81:40
    they’re downplaying the holocaust that’s
    81:42
    another thing we can get to but
    81:43
    but just for this slideshow carousel
    81:46
    it’s just a lie there was ethnic
    81:48
    cleansing and there is a cleansing
    81:50
    otherwise you’re a country jewish
    81:52
    country without anticleansing
    81:54
    they all left that’s something it’s
    81:55
    structurally necessary
    81:57
    the other side though is not right jews
    81:59
    were not ethnic cleansed from middle
    82:01
    eastern countries
    82:02
    matter of fact you still have a jewish
    82:04
    population morocco and iran and
    82:07
    big population of turkey you know jews
    82:10
    left a lot of them left but a lot of the
    82:13
    christians left as well
    82:14
    you know this is at a time when the
    82:15
    colonials were leaving there’s a rise in
    82:17
    nationalism
    82:19
    um you know some jews were involved with
    82:21
    arab nationalism as well
    82:24
    but for the for the most part it’s true
    82:26
    that when the uh
    82:27
    when when nationalism arose especially
    82:30
    when zionism arose too because that
    82:32
    that alienated many jews from uh
    82:36
    from their arab neighbors um
    82:39
    um you know many jews had to leave
    82:42
    because of all the the up
    82:43
    but they weren’t thrown out as a matter
    82:45
    of fact [ __ ] hillel
    82:48
    who was the speaker of the israeli
    82:49
    knesset and and the
    82:51
    police minister for many years wrote a
    82:54
    book he was sent
    82:55
    as well known he and other agents were
    82:58
    sent into iraq
    83:00
    in 1949 in the early 1950s
    83:03
    in order to bomb synagogues and markets
    83:07
    to scare jews to leave because the jews
    83:09
    didn’t want to leave iraq
    83:10
    and the iraqis didn’t want to throw them
    83:12
    out and it was the same with kurdistan
    83:15
    and they had to create this kind of uh
    83:17
    of a fear among jews that they’re being
    83:19
    attacked
    83:20
    you know to create the stampede out so
    83:23
    it it simply isn’t true that the jews
    83:25
    were able to be cleansed
    83:26
    right you know there were there were
    83:27
    movements back you know and jews left
    83:30
    which is true but
    83:32
    not because of an ethnic cleansing
    83:33
    campaign they were ethnically cleansed
    83:35
    by zionists
    83:36
    in the case you just say it well in some
    83:38
    ways yes i mean in some ways zionism is
    83:41
    responsible for for the biggest cultural
    83:44
    holocaust
    83:45
    think of jews that lived all over the
    83:47
    world for thousands of years the
    83:50
    cultures imagine the iraqi culture
    83:52
    the north african culture the yemenite
    83:54
    culture the russian culture the
    83:57
    you know the cultures of india you know
    83:59
    cultures of jews all over the world
    84:01
    and in a sense to to create conditions
    84:04
    in which
    84:05
    jews feel they have to leave or get
    84:07
    pressured to leave
    84:08
    or want them or you know or you create
    84:11
    this idea that you can only be really
    84:13
    jewish if you’re in this this country
    84:15
    here
    84:16
    and and of course zionism had this idea
    84:19
    of negating the exile
    84:21
    they called jews jewish these wonderful
    84:24
    rich jewish cultures including american
    84:26
    jewish culture
    84:27
    they called them ephemeral they call you
    84:29
    know they they weren’t real
    84:31
    they were they were just temporary
    84:34
    you’re really
    84:34
    jewish when you’re in israel which is
    84:36
    which is nonsense of course
    84:38
    but not only nonsense it’s really
    84:41
    this is an anti-jewish country from the
    84:43
    point of view of what jews judaism is
    84:45
    really about that’s another story yeah
    84:47
    yeah but the point is that that the
    84:49
    destruction of jewish cultures
    84:51
    these historic ancient jewish all over
    84:54
    the world was the
    84:55
    was the product of zionism not of
    84:58
    anything else
    84:58
    zionism destroyed a rich jewish world
    85:02
    only now i think in the states and other
    85:05
    places are jews abroad beginning to wean
    85:07
    themselves away from zionism
    85:10
    say zionism cannot define us and are
    85:13
    beginning to go back and try to reclaim
    85:15
    some of their jewish
    85:17
    and legitimize validate their own jewish
    85:20
    cultures that aren’t defined by israel
    85:22
    but israel did that it was very
    85:25
    very imperialistic towards the jews
    85:27
    because it wants to be the jewish
    85:30
    power that you were sent from the only
    85:31
    jewish voice
    85:33
    and jews are resisting that i think yeah
    85:36
    have you ever spoken to ellie valley i
    85:38
    should have both of you on the show at
    85:39
    the same
    85:40
    time he wrote that book to israel boy
    85:42
    versus diaspora man
    85:44
    no other way around diaspora boy versus
    85:45
    israel man it’s really good
    85:47
    okay so we got we got that one out of
    85:49
    the way okay next
    85:50
    isn’t the israeli palestinian conflict
    85:52
    just a middle eastern argument over land
    85:54
    between muslims and jews
    85:55
    yes but not the first jewish people have
    85:57
    lived in jerusalem for thousands of
    85:59
    years and they’ve lived in the middle
    86:00
    east for ages being oppressed
    86:02
    raped and murdered by the arab empire
    86:04
    like palestinian christians
    86:07
    that’s ridiculous first of all jews
    86:09
    lived a very very secure life
    86:11
    in the arab world uh i know what they
    86:14
    mean by arab empire
    86:16
    i know yeah what is that the ottoman
    86:17
    empire i mean i don’t know what that
    86:18
    means
    86:19
    arab empire is a stupid term yeah the
    86:22
    jews lived very on the contrary that was
    86:24
    you know if you compare them to europe
    86:26
    you know the chief rabbi of the jews it
    86:29
    was sat in istanbul
    86:30
    in the in the sultan’s court you had a
    86:33
    chief rabbi here in in jerusalem
    86:36
    jews had a very formal they were
    86:40
    they had a formal status in the muslim
    86:42
    world um
    86:43
    they lived a very secure life uh
    86:46
    actually in the
    86:47
    in the muslim world so that you know
    86:49
    that part is ridiculous but the point is
    86:51
    yes jews did live here thousands of
    86:53
    years and they can
    86:55
    that’s true you know they’re trying to
    86:59
    the same look at the same quote that
    87:00
    same bubble they’re saying the liver for
    87:03
    thousands of years
    87:04
    trying to give the idea the jews are
    87:05
    sort of like natives and they’re really
    87:06
    here
    87:07
    but they were always persecuted it’s not
    87:09
    true they lived here
    87:11
    they weren’t persecuted i mean here and
    87:13
    there they were they were they were
    87:15
    instances of course like in every
    87:16
    history but but they were but
    87:18
    they lived here and uh and the cha
    87:22
    what zionism did you see zionism came in
    87:26
    and ruined it because zionism came in
    87:28
    and said not that
    87:30
    you know we’re jews we see
    87:33
    the land of israel as our homeland we
    87:35
    want to come home we want to revive our
    87:37
    national culture our national language
    87:40
    but we recognize that there’s also a
    87:42
    palestinian people here
    87:44
    there are people here obviously 90
    87:47
    some percent of the population wasn’t
    87:48
    jewish we acknowledged that
    87:50
    now we want to come as immigrants like
    87:53
    our forefathers did for thousands of
    87:55
    years
    87:56
    live with you and we can develop our
    87:59
    national
    88:00
    cultures together there’s not that was
    88:02
    that was the idea of cultural zionism
    88:04
    eliezer ben yehuda henrietta zold who
    88:07
    started hadassah
    88:09
    judah magnus who started the hebrew
    88:10
    university martin buber these are all
    88:13
    prominent
    88:14
    jewish figures that that believe that
    88:17
    yes we’re a national group that should
    88:19
    be here in the land of israel
    88:20
    we want to speak hebrew and heaven but
    88:22
    we can do that together with
    88:23
    palestinians we don’t need a state
    88:26
    we don’t want to ghettoize ourselves
    88:27
    again in a innocent they were against
    88:29
    them
    88:30
    so the designers and the broad and the
    88:32
    idea that this country belongs to us
    88:34
    exclusively
    88:36
    it’s ours we’re going to ethically
    88:38
    cleanse it get out you arabs
    88:40
    you don’t belong here and that was that
    88:43
    i mean the jews that lived here for
    88:45
    thousands of years
    88:46
    they were appalled by the zionists
    88:49
    uh by the zionist attitude you know the
    88:52
    jews
    88:53
    i wrote a book about the old yeshua of
    88:55
    in jerusalem in the 19th century
    88:57
    they were appalled by the zionists this
    88:59
    is a fart of jews who were born
    89:02
    because they felt that they were the
    89:03
    they were the jews were part of the
    89:05
    indigenous
    89:06
    palestinian population so uh you know
    89:09
    and they felt that they were being
    89:10
    alienated from the people they’ve lived
    89:12
    with for thousands of years so that
    89:13
    whole quote that you gave
    89:16
    again everything is reversed you know
    89:18
    jews lived very well in the muslim world
    89:20
    and and they did live together with
    89:23
    palestinians until zionism came
    89:25
    and created that alienation and that in
    89:28
    that conflict basically
    89:30
    which doesn’t mean there weren’t
    89:31
    obviously because then people are like
    89:32
    how dare you there was this
    89:33
    my family was obviously there were there
    89:35
    were episodes but there are episodes
    89:37
    like there were
    89:38
    but it’s not this existential
    89:40
    incompatibility that people like to
    89:41
    claim and again it doesn’t make sense
    89:43
    because if jews were there for so long
    89:45
    and there was persecution how did they
    89:47
    like they got
    89:48
    almost wiped out obviously in europe but
    89:51
    you know
    89:52
    this is the only major persecutions
    89:54
    really
    89:55
    i mean here and there it depends you
    89:57
    know if you come if you talk about the
    89:58
    crusader times or you know right
    90:00
    now the the only the more difficult
    90:03
    it’s true was iran and yemen when you
    90:06
    had a shiite to muslim country
    90:08
    it was harder on the jews that’s true
    90:10
    but it is
    90:11
    also harder on the christians right we
    90:13
    also have to understand that jews and
    90:15
    christians
    90:16
    were very much involved with trade and
    90:18
    they had relations abroad and when the
    90:21
    cult
    90:21
    when the european colonization began
    90:24
    when europe france and britain and
    90:26
    european countries began to come and
    90:28
    take over the middle east
    90:31
    jews and christians tended to work with
    90:34
    the europeans because they were the more
    90:36
    educated
    90:37
    they did more trade you know and so in
    90:40
    some ways
    90:41
    uh that alienated them a little bit from
    90:45
    from the muslim population that is
    90:47
    usually
    90:48
    wasn’t so involved with the europeans
    90:51
    and
    90:51
    uh and then when you know the colonists
    90:54
    left
    90:54
    the liberation movements began sometimes
    90:57
    it’s true that that created tensions as
    90:59
    well
    91:00
    but uh but for the most part you know
    91:02
    again it’s
    91:03
    it is true a little bit in the shiite
    91:05
    countries
    91:06
    uh jews have more of a problem but
    91:08
    overall the jews live the very secure
    91:10
    life of the middle east
    91:12
    all right so that’s number we got two
    91:14
    out of two what a shame and what a
    91:16
    surprise they’re not being
    91:17
    uh they’re either incorrect by the way i
    91:19
    tweet it out so that in case deborah
    91:21
    messing or
    91:22
    hen want to join the chat i mean i’m i’m
    91:26
    assuming you’re open to debating them
    91:27
    okay let’s see what’s next so
    91:29
    those are the two of carousel slides and
    91:31
    then we got
    91:33
    um let’s go back to the share
    91:37
    screen um
    91:42
    okay so next slide yeah
    91:45
    um oh wait whoops who are they sending
    91:48
    these slides to
    91:48
    they’re i mean i’m obviously there are
    91:50
    people who are sending these things out
    91:52
    to some like well-known people
    91:53
    and holla you know so deborah messing
    91:55
    has never been the
    91:56
    sharpest knife in the drawer but she’s
    91:58
    just uh she’s you know this is part of
    92:00
    her i should actually let me back up
    92:01
    i don’t know who she is oh sorry she’s
    92:03
    from will and grace she’s part of the
    92:04
    resistance she’s a blue check liberal
    92:06
    like major you know like a blue check
    92:10
    like on twitter she’s a blue check she’s
    92:13
    oh sorry she was on the show
    92:14
    will and grace which was a f which was a
    92:17
    sitcom about
    92:18
    a gay man and a straight woman who lived
    92:21
    together
    92:21
    she’s uh actor mama the distinctive
    92:24
    podcast
    92:31
    oh you can also have her do a cameo for
    92:32
    you oh my god we should write a cameo
    92:34
    script for her
    92:35
    wishing someone happy birthday for like
    92:38
    wishing the knock but happy anniversary
    92:40
    or something that would be great let’s
    92:41
    we’ll put our heads together for that
    92:42
    later but here’s the context of it
    92:44
    please take three minutes and read
    92:46
    through this carousel there is so much
    92:47
    disinformation about israel being spread
    92:49
    and it is getting people hurt there are
    92:51
    videos from all over the world including
    92:52
    the us of crowds of pro-palestinian
    92:54
    protesters attacking beating kicking
    92:56
    using pipes as weapons against jews it’s
    92:58
    horrifying attacks against jews has
    93:00
    increased 483 percent in the last 10
    93:03
    days
    93:03
    86 attacks hamas is a terrorist
    93:05
    organization whose sole purpose is to
    93:07
    kill every jew and destroy israel
    93:09
    most people living in israel want peace
    93:11
    i know i mean there’s so much
    93:12
    that’s not true at all i pray for a
    93:15
    two-state solution
    93:16
    i pray for the killing to stop but this
    93:18
    is impossible as long as hamas is
    93:20
    allowed to continue its campaign to
    93:21
    destroy israel
    93:22
    hamas must be defeated for the safety of
    93:24
    everyone in the region for the safety of
    93:26
    jews everywhere
    93:27
    also so what is that’s basically saying
    93:29
    i stand with the
    93:30
    with the um uh bombing civilian
    93:33
    neighborhoods right like i don’t i don’t
    93:35
    know
    93:36
    we’re also reducing everything to hamas
    93:38
    oh of course i mean
    93:39
    you have to remember that you know we’re
    93:41
    talking about 125 year
    93:43
    colonial venture of zionism hamas is
    93:46
    maybe 25 30 years old
    93:48
    so before that 1948 is because of hamas
    93:52
    right i mean i mean to be fair it’s not
    93:54
    like if we said this to her she’d have
    93:56
    any idea what you were talking about but
    93:57
    yes
    93:57
    just so people know but i mean just her
    93:59
    i’m just saying like what this whole
    94:01
    thing about like they must be stopped or
    94:02
    like
    94:03
    like stop like it’s not like people
    94:06
    in the united states are walking around
    94:08
    it’s not like
    94:09
    politicians whenever people talk about
    94:11
    hamas i’m like okay great let me know
    94:13
    when the u.s government starts funding
    94:15
    them training them and bragging about
    94:17
    their special relationship with them
    94:18
    like who are you what what like who are
    94:21
    you speaking truth to power to when you
    94:23
    say
    94:23
    hamas is bad or what but the weird thing
    94:26
    is like they must be stopped
    94:27
    it’s not weird actually they’re just
    94:28
    basically they’re pushing
    94:30
    they’re just justifying and standing
    94:32
    behind ethnic cleansing
    94:34
    or we don’t have to call ethnic
    94:35
    cleansing it’s just what like civilian
    94:37
    just massacring civilians that’s what
    94:39
    they’re doing they’re trying to sanitize
    94:41
    and make what’s really sailor
    94:43
    colonialism which again deborah messing
    94:45
    doesn’t know what that is
    94:46
    but like they’re trying to make bombing
    94:48
    buildings
    94:49
    look like an existent responding to an
    94:51
    existential threat
    94:53
    and they know that people on the left
    94:55
    are people are shifting
    94:56
    and so they’re putting their i mean you
    94:59
    have to be pretty desperate to
    95:00
    to put your hopes into pr from from
    95:03
    debra messing but
    95:04
    um but you know israel is
    95:06
    instrumentalizing
    95:08
    israel instrumentalizes the palestinians
    95:11
    you know that’s the problem because you
    95:13
    know
    95:14
    you know we talked about it before i
    95:16
    mean israel wouldn’t would never deal
    95:18
    with the palestinian authority it would
    95:19
    never deal with the
    95:20
    with 90 90 some percent of the
    95:23
    palestinians they would never deal with
    95:24
    their issues with the liberation with
    95:26
    ethnic cleansing with the
    95:27
    with land issues with with all that
    95:29
    stuff so what they did is they pushed
    95:31
    and pushed and pushed
    95:33
    hamas and resistance you know they left
    95:36
    palestinians in a corner with nothing to
    95:38
    do except
    95:38
    resist in a religious kind of a way
    95:40
    almost so
    95:42
    they made hamas into the into the
    95:44
    palestinians
    95:46
    and that’s the incidental because then
    95:48
    you’ve then you take the most extreme
    95:50
    islamic fundamentalism and and push it
    95:53
    into a corner
    95:54
    and make its military wing dominant and
    95:57
    then you
    95:58
    characterize the palestinians as them
    96:01
    you see that’s where israel has
    96:02
    instrumentalized the palestinians it’s
    96:05
    created in our minds
    96:07
    what art how it wants us to imagine
    96:10
    palestinians which is hamas
    96:12
    and then they gave a word to it hamas
    96:14
    and that’s what’s happened
    96:16
    yeah palestinians have been reduced to
    96:18
    hamas right
    96:19
    yeah i mean again it’s so funny and
    96:21
    israelis will admit to all of this even
    96:23
    right-wing israelis they’re like yeah we
    96:25
    founded this nation through terrorism
    96:27
    yeah hamas we created hamas um but
    96:30
    uh so so but whatever messing i mean
    96:33
    again as i tweeted i almost feel bad
    96:35
    talking to her like she’s an adult but
    96:36
    um so please read the carousel get
    96:38
    informed share widely disinformation is
    96:40
    gas on the fire of anti-semitism and it
    96:42
    is everyone’s responsibility not to
    96:44
    amplify this information on social media
    96:45
    it hurts
    96:46
    if you’re an ally please act like an
    96:47
    ally we need you so again there this is
    96:49
    a very conscious thing they’re aware
    96:51
    they’re trying to make it look like
    96:52
    people who side with
    96:54
    palestinians in this are are
    96:56
    perpetuating anti-semitism and they’re
    96:58
    trying to actually speak to people
    97:00
    who in good faith are going to be afraid
    97:02
    of that and it’s
    97:04
    it’s so disgusting because just like the
    97:06
    you know
    97:07
    ben gurion these people are weaponizing
    97:09
    anti-semitism
    97:11
    and they care way more about zionism
    97:12
    than they care about anti-semitism
    97:14
    which is why you have netanyahu being
    97:16
    buddy buddy with
    97:17
    um you know orban and uh
    97:21
    in hungary and the polish guy even when
    97:23
    they like
    97:24
    basically say that like the holocaust
    97:27
    that poland did not they tried to pass a
    97:29
    law saying poland did not
    97:31
    it was not responsible for the holocaust
    97:33
    at all that’s right
    97:34
    no israel i think it puts the jews in in
    97:36
    real jeopardy
    97:37
    they are the they are next they’re
    97:39
    they’re an existential
    97:40
    anti-semitic director because you know
    97:43
    jews
    97:44
    had always been the met the odd man out
    97:47
    you know they didn’t fit in anybody’s
    97:48
    country they didn’t fit
    97:49
    within laws the legal system religious
    97:51
    systems
    97:52
    you know and so they were always always
    97:55
    the ones that
    97:56
    got persecuted basically um what
    97:59
    happened was you know part of the
    98:00
    process was after world war
    98:02
    ii and the holocaust and so on you had a
    98:04
    process of
    98:05
    the whole world of human rights starts
    98:07
    to open up and people don’t know this
    98:10
    jews don’t know this but the hero the
    98:12
    thomas jefferson of the world of human
    98:14
    rights
    98:16
    was you know who wrote the universal
    98:19
    declaration of human rights
    98:21
    no no rene kasin
    98:24
    renekasen c-a-s-s-i-n-s was a french
    98:29
    jurist a jewish french jurist
    98:32
    and he was the he was the thomas
    98:35
    jefferson of the world of human rights
    98:37
    he was one of the framers of the
    98:39
    universal declaration of human rights
    98:41
    of the geneva conventions he worked very
    98:43
    closely with eleanor roosevelt to get
    98:46
    all these things through
    98:47
    with the jewish community ironically he
    98:50
    was the american jewish community that’s
    98:51
    so rapidly pro-israel today
    98:54
    that was in favor of human rights and
    98:56
    and the geneva conventions and the
    98:57
    universal declaration of human rights
    98:59
    that governments didn’t want to accept
    99:01
    the jews were on the right side of
    99:02
    history
    99:03
    on those days and renee kassen
    99:07
    you know would always he won the nobel
    99:09
    peace prize in 1968
    99:11
    and he’s buried those that know the
    99:13
    paris
    99:14
    the pantheon which is the french temple
    99:18
    of of the heroes of the french republic
    99:20
    victor hugo is buried in the pantheon
    99:23
    rousseau is buried there some of the
    99:25
    great french figures
    99:27
    renek hassan is there as well wow and
    99:29
    naked
    99:30
    used to say that you know human rights
    99:33
    brings jews under the umbrella
    99:36
    now you know anti-semitism is a form of
    99:40
    racism
    99:41
    and human rights deals with all forms of
    99:45
    racism including anti-semitism
    99:47
    so what happened was that when
    99:51
    when israel was created of course uh it
    99:54
    was
    99:54
    in the interests of of the of zionism
    99:57
    which
    99:57
    dealt with you know with the illegal
    99:59
    things ethnic cleansing and
    100:01
    colonialism at a time when colonialism
    100:03
    was starting to phase out
    100:06
    had to work against international law
    100:09
    uh and then you had the occupation so
    100:12
    now you have the fourth geneva
    100:13
    convention that protects
    100:14
    palestinians living under occupation
    100:17
    israel’s
    100:18
    violated every single item of the fourth
    100:20
    gene of the convention
    100:22
    uh so you know and why do they do it
    100:25
    because we’re an exception
    100:27
    yeah we had the holocaust it doesn’t
    100:29
    apply to us
    100:30
    we’re special so renek ascend used to
    100:33
    say to the jews
    100:35
    are you sure you want to be special
    100:37
    again wow are you sure you want to step
    100:39
    out from under the umbrella with
    100:41
    everybody else
    100:42
    all the protections of human rights
    100:44
    international law
    100:45
    and now you want to be the exceptions
    100:47
    you know that that’s a double-edged
    100:49
    sword
    100:50
    and so in order to protect
    100:54
    jew you know israeli uh
    100:57
    policies like occupation and ethnic
    100:59
    cleansing that are against international
    101:01
    law
    101:02
    israel is forcing the jewish community
    101:04
    to step outside of human rights
    101:06
    to to violate or not ex not not to
    101:10
    not to advocate for human rights because
    101:13
    human rights and
    101:14
    israel are are at odds with each other
    101:16
    you see
    101:17
    and that’s where israel is losing the
    101:19
    jewish community
    101:21
    because american jews in particular i
    101:23
    think i think are defined by social
    101:25
    justice and human rights
    101:27
    so you had ron dermer dermer who’s the
    101:30
    who was the us the israeli ambassador to
    101:33
    the us
    101:34
    during the trump time for netanyahu he
    101:37
    said
    101:37
    last week israel has to forget american
    101:40
    jews we’ve lost them
    101:43
    all we have left are evangelicals right
    101:45
    yeah
    101:47
    and so i think jews to the degree that
    101:49
    jews see human rights
    101:51
    as important for them as well as for the
    101:53
    rest of humanity
    101:55
    have to stand against israel and that’s
    101:58
    that’s you see israel’s dilemma is that
    102:01
    you’ve got to
    102:02
    link up now this you know jews that
    102:05
    always see themselves as liberals
    102:07
    at least if not radicals right all of a
    102:09
    sudden have to link up with evangelicals
    102:12
    in order to support a country that that
    102:14
    violates human law
    102:15
    international law with uh with impunity
    102:18
    right i don’t think
    102:19
    that’s that’s putting jews in a terrible
    102:21
    position
    102:22
    and then netanyahu gets up in the u.n
    102:24
    and says we’re attacking gaza
    102:27
    in the name of the jewish people right
    102:29
    not in the name of israelis
    102:31
    this is a jewish state not the israeli
    102:33
    state
    102:34
    and so he creates that that
    102:38
    that confusion he blurs the boundaries
    102:41
    between jews and israelis
    102:42
    so now you katie helper who are not
    102:45
    israeli
    102:46
    who never voted for netanyahu have been
    102:49
    co-opted by him he now represents you
    102:52
    so now when you’re out in the street you
    102:53
    go try to explain to the
    102:55
    to your fellow americans why what israel
    102:58
    is doing isn’t your fault
    103:00
    or you’re not the responsible yeah what
    103:03
    the american jewish community has to do
    103:05
    is get up and say no just what you said
    103:08
    at the beginning of the end
    103:09
    of this program not in my name yeah
    103:12
    if the american jewish tree doesn’t do
    103:14
    that they can’t be blamed
    103:15
    for people confusing israelis news and
    103:18
    attacking jews
    103:20
    because that’s the confusion that israel
    103:23
    is trying to
    103:24
    do to to push on people right which
    103:27
    and of course it’s anti-semitic right
    103:29
    because the conflating jewish identity
    103:32
    with un questioning support of israel um
    103:36
    is anti-semitic but um yeah
    103:39
    exactly right has been has been
    103:41
    weaponized yeah
    103:42
    and i mean all the stuff like
    103:44
    netanyahu’s son posting a really great
    103:46
    alt-right
    103:47
    anti-semitic meme of george soros like
    103:50
    was that a i mean
    103:51
    which literally david duke was like
    103:52
    welcome yeah
    103:55
    uh netanyahu um okay yes that’s true
    103:58
    palestinians and arabs
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    are semites yes i mean we got to
    104:01
    reinvent the wheel then i guess
    104:03
    but i mean for i’m not sure that’s like
    104:06
    our biggest priorities
    104:08
    uh is redefining that term but um
    104:11
    i i guess it does speak to it ironically
    104:13
    to you know
    104:14
    a a connection that’s often
    104:17
    overlooked okay so we got that one let’s
    104:20
    see what’s next um
    104:22
    and i did not know about renee kasan
    104:23
    that’s interesting um
    104:25
    okay so back to deb i mean that is just
    104:28
    so disgusting that the
    104:30
    hamas has to be defeated again what are
    104:32
    you what are you saying like we’re
    104:33
    funding hamas or something
    104:35
    i just don’t get it okay again it’s just
    104:39
    hamas is willing to deal with israel
    104:41
    right right
    104:42
    israel yeah you know it’s not gonna
    104:45
    surrender
    104:46
    you know have a palestinian friend that
    104:48
    said to me you know israel won’t even
    104:49
    let us surrender
    104:51
    um you know hamas says fine okay two
    104:53
    states you know right and you know what
    104:55
    the palestinians say you know what keep
    104:57
    some of the settlements keep
    104:58
    east jerusalem just i mean they’re going
    105:01
    down down you know and israel won’t even
    105:02
    let them surrender
    105:04
    you just put because israel needs to
    105:07
    beat them it needs to defeat them
    105:09
    that’s without that it just keeps going
    105:12
    on forever and if the palestinians don’t
    105:14
    agree to be defeated
    105:16
    um they’ll be demonized and attacked
    105:21
    forever um okay next so there are
    105:25
    palestinian christians what about
    105:26
    israeli-arab palestinians are these
    105:28
    palestinians are there palestinian jews
    105:30
    and then she responds before israel gave
    105:33
    over control of the west bank and gaza
    105:35
    to the palestinians
    105:37
    there were 9.5 palestinian christians in
    105:40
    the area
    105:40
    under palestinian authority and hamas
    105:42
    hamas’s oppression they shrunk to one
    105:44
    percent
    105:45
    meanwhile israel has 20 arab-israeli
    105:48
    citizens muslims and christians
    105:50
    the pa said they won’t let any jews live
    105:52
    in palestine and do not recognize any
    105:54
    jew as palestinian
    105:55
    jews from the moon okay so uh yeah
    105:58
    that’s a lie i mean sometimes you know
    106:00
    you could not distort the truth just lie
    106:03
    right
    106:03
    so they’re just that’s just not true
    106:06
    that’s that what about the part about
    106:08
    the pa
    106:09
    yeah the palestinian authority okay jews
    106:11
    from the middle east do not identify as
    106:13
    arab this is really weird
    106:15
    jews from the middle east do not
    106:16
    identify as arab or palestinian because
    106:18
    they were never accepted as such they go
    106:20
    by israel mizrahi jews
    106:23
    so no jews identify as arab
    106:26
    how do they know this have they done a
    106:28
    have they done a
    106:29
    like a poll okay well i mean that
    106:33
    there’s a whole story there too and that
    106:35
    is that you know when uh
    106:37
    i mean mizrahi is a new term yeah they
    106:39
    didn’t call themselves miracles
    106:41
    they called themselves uh what they were
    106:44
    iraq iraqi jews young knights news
    106:47
    egyptian jews
    106:48
    you know a hundred years ago there was
    106:49
    no such thing as insurance
    106:51
    a matter of fact 20 years ago there was
    106:53
    no such thing as mizrahi
    106:54
    we used to sort of say misrach which are
    106:57
    jews from the east oriental jews
    107:00
    but but they used to call themselves you
    107:03
    know
    107:03
    if you’re coming from yemen you don’t
    107:05
    call yourself arab and this is
    107:10
    and that’s what they call themselves
    107:12
    right rocky jews i mean you still have
    107:14
    you have a museum of iraqi jews and lud
    107:17
    you’ve got the museums of safari
    107:19
    you know that they call themselves by
    107:20
    the names of the communities right
    107:22
    and uh and uh it was the ashkenazi jews
    107:27
    you see that basically said to the
    107:29
    mizrahi and that’s why you had
    107:32
    the black panthers and that’s why you
    107:33
    had that reaction that you had
    107:36
    among the among mizraki jews the
    107:39
    ashkenazi said to them
    107:41
    you will we will accept you as
    107:45
    israelis we will integrate you into
    107:47
    israeli life
    107:49
    on condition that you give up your arab
    107:51
    identities
    107:53
    you can’t be arabs and israelis you
    107:55
    can’t be arab jews
    107:57
    and there was a whole process in the 50s
    108:00
    that that
    108:01
    that they’re still paying the price for
    108:03
    of deculturalization
    108:05
    you know and they they destroyed their
    108:08
    ethnic identities their their
    108:10
    all the identities they had for
    108:12
    thousands of years
    108:13
    and tried to make them into uh into you
    108:16
    know imitation ashkenazi jews
    108:18
    you know which they have to some degree
    108:21
    and uh
    108:22
    it was tremendous reaction that’s why
    108:24
    until today miss rocky jews votely
    108:26
    couped
    108:27
    they would never vote for the labor
    108:28
    party because they’re still angry at
    108:30
    what the labor party did to them in the
    108:31
    1950s you hear that
    108:33
    all the time it’s an open wound
    108:36
    among among mizrahi jews so i think the
    108:39
    fact that they
    108:40
    that they’re they were de-culturalized
    108:42
    which is true
    108:44
    i mean today they don’t see themselves
    108:45
    as arab jews
    108:47
    on the contrary a lot of them walk
    108:48
    around with big stars of david because
    108:50
    they look a little bit arab
    108:51
    right no yeah and it’s like invincible
    108:54
    you know and that’s that’s a problem you
    108:56
    know so so i think
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    108:59
    you know that’s what’s happened to them
    109:01
    is that uh is that
    109:03
    uh they went through this process and
    109:05
    now the young generation doesn’t know
    109:06
    arabic is alienated from arabs in
    109:08
    general
    109:09
    and as they became israeli they came
    109:11
    more right wing
    109:12
    and and you know this the whole idea
    109:14
    that you have to be anti-arab because
    109:16
    zionism is basically anti-arab that’s
    109:19
    trying to make the country jewish and
    109:21
    and and de-arabize the country
    109:23
    right so if you’re going to de-arabize
    109:25
    the palestinians you have to de-arabize
    109:27
    the jews as well
    109:28
    yeah israelite processes these people
    109:30
    don’t either they don’t know
    109:33
    or they don’t they can’t they aren’t
    109:35
    because they’re
    109:36
    threatened to the narrative you need a
    109:38
    clean easy narrative
    109:40
    yeah we’re the good guys they’re the bad
    109:42
    guys we were persecuted
    109:45
    now we’re uh you know accepting of
    109:47
    everyone
    109:48
    that they’re not you know black white
    109:50
    binary
    109:51
    and the minute you bring up something
    109:54
    historical or analytical
    109:56
    or critical or whatever and you break
    109:58
    that binary narrative
    110:00
    uh it’s useless for you now yeah
    110:04
    it has to be simple and and
    110:07
    uh and uh you know so in many ways
    110:10
    structurally they’re incapable of
    110:12
    dealing with complexities
    110:14
    right i mean because it would undermine
    110:15
    like you’re saying they’re very kind of
    110:17
    like uh what ethno unless
    110:20
    right yeah right it’s interesting
    110:23
    because israel has such a weird
    110:24
    relationship with the
    110:26
    miser with the ashkenazi mizrahi
    110:29
    identity because they they’re like a
    110:32
    bunch of
    110:34
    i mean they’re run the country the
    110:35
    government right is like
    110:37
    mostly ashkenazi but they they try to
    110:40
    iden you know their whole the sabras
    110:42
    right who are born there
    110:43
    they like wanna be these bronze
    110:46
    strapping men who work the earth like
    110:48
    the total rejection of ashkenazi
    110:51
    identity of being like learned and
    110:54
    people physically i don’t think anymore
    110:57
    what people don’t use the word sabra
    110:59
    much anymore oh well
    111:00
    i mean just whatever like that was yeah
    111:03
    i mean but it was found
    111:04
    israel was founded on a rule yes the new
    111:07
    jewish man
    111:08
    which was fun ironically i mean it’s the
    111:10
    worst of both worlds they like took the
    111:12
    most aggressive stuff that they kind of
    111:14
    i think attributed to the the you know
    111:17
    the jew who was in israel and not
    111:20
    alienated from the land you know
    111:22
    but then they they are like discriminate
    111:24
    against the actual people that they’re
    111:26
    trying to kind of ape
    111:27
    um okay so we did that one all right so
    111:30
    i mean
    111:31
    we can’t keep track of the lies because
    111:32
    it’d be too much but okay but i heard
    111:34
    that israel is an empire that colonized
    111:36
    arab land first of all no one says i
    111:39
    mean they talk about set of colonialism
    111:41
    and maybe how israel is like
    111:43
    part of you know it’s like the out
    111:45
    outpost for the united states it was the
    111:47
    outpost for
    111:48
    europe like for england and the us but
    111:51
    people don’t really talk about
    111:53
    imperialism with israel that’s not even
    111:54
    a thing it’s settler colonialism
    111:56
    but they’re trying to colonize it did
    111:58
    colonize an arab country
    112:00
    yes but here’s why they’re saying
    112:02
    imperialism empire instead of and
    112:04
    because this makes it confusing
    112:08
    sorry colonialism was settling
    112:09
    colonialism right
    112:11
    here’s where it is i forgot to highlight
    112:12
    this so here’s the
    112:14
    but i heard that israel is an empire
    112:16
    that colonized arab land and then the
    112:18
    the persian response empires require a
    112:20
    motherland a place where the empire
    112:21
    sends the goods they steal
    112:23
    and where they bring the culture and
    112:24
    language to oppress their colonial
    112:26
    subjects like britain and america or
    112:27
    south africa
    112:28
    and british and dutch israel is only
    112:31
    point
    112:31
    zero three of the middle east and the
    112:33
    only jewish state in the world there are
    112:34
    57 arab and muslim countries in the
    112:36
    middle east that are part of the arab
    112:38
    empire what the [ __ ] is the exactly
    112:41
    there’s an arab empire
    112:42
    israel is a nationalist entity while the
    112:45
    arab world is an
    112:46
    imperial one who are the who are the
    112:50
    arab world
    112:51
    where’s their home base that they’re
    112:52
    sending the goods to
    112:54
    they’re stealing from where and sending
    112:56
    them where
    112:57
    i mean these are such blatant lies it’s
    112:59
    kind of incredible
    113:01
    it’s stupid i mean it’s more than lies
    113:03
    it’s just it’s just words i mean it’s
    113:05
    well part of it is stupid
    113:07
    like the deborah messing people who who
    113:09
    put it out but then it’s cynical and i
    113:11
    think it is worth debunking right
    113:12
    because and it’s good in a way that we
    113:14
    get access to
    113:15
    these clearly coordinated talking points
    113:17
    israel is not an empire
    113:19
    i know i mean literally how is it but i
    113:22
    wrote another book
    113:23
    called war against the people yeah i
    113:25
    have that here in which i say
    113:26
    that israel serves the empire right
    113:29
    which is different
    113:30
    you see and that’s important because the
    113:31
    uh you know the occupied territory we
    113:34
    have to understand
    113:35
    is like a laboratory for israel’s
    113:38
    perfection of of high-tech
    113:40
    military weaponry surveillance equipment
    113:43
    technology
    113:44
    repression what happened in gaza last
    113:46
    week
    113:47
    had nothing to do with security right it
    113:50
    was a military exercise
    113:51
    in which israel tested all kinds of
    113:54
    military weaponry
    113:56
    um and if you see a you look up the
    114:00
    websites
    114:00
    of all the israeli arms manufacturers
    114:03
    they’ll all say
    114:04
    by our navigating systems they were
    114:07
    field tested in gaza
    114:09
    by our drones they were combat tested in
    114:12
    gaza
    114:13
    gaza is a is is a field laboratory for
    114:16
    israel
    114:17
    to to test including american f-35s
    114:20
    you know israel is flying f-35s and
    114:22
    bombing palestinians
    114:24
    before americans are flying the american
    114:26
    air force is flying f35
    114:28
    so that you gotta understand that the
    114:30
    occupation really serves
    114:33
    israel in terms of being this place
    114:35
    where you can do anything you want to
    114:36
    the palestinians
    114:38
    develop your weaponry for export and
    114:41
    it’s that weaponry for export that gives
    114:43
    israel the international status that it
    114:45
    does
    114:46
    both with the u.s but also you know all
    114:48
    over the world why does china support
    114:51
    israel and india support israel brazil
    114:52
    support israel
    114:54
    nigeria support israel they’re all
    114:56
    getting every country is getting
    114:58
    some kind of military security uh
    115:01
    assistance from israel or work or
    115:03
    technologies from israel
    115:04
    yeah and uh from that point of view
    115:07
    israel really serves the empire israel
    115:10
    helps the corporations
    115:12
    and the militaries and the capitalist
    115:14
    countries the global north
    115:16
    keep its hegemony over the global self
    115:18
    enforce
    115:20
    its hegemony uh and uh including the
    115:23
    global south within your country you
    115:25
    know the
    115:26
    rich over the poor you know you have
    115:29
    israel israel
    115:30
    uh the israeli police train the american
    115:32
    police
    115:33
    well no at georgia state university
    115:36
    atlanta you’ve got what’s called the
    115:38
    gilly center
    115:39
    which is an israeli center on the campus
    115:42
    of georgia state with a building
    115:44
    that’s the base for training the
    115:46
    american police
    115:48
    and plus american police come here so
    115:50
    that so that
    115:52
    enforcing capitalist hegemony
    115:55
    uh is true not just globally but it’s
    115:58
    true in every country
    115:59
    whatever the different needs of that of
    116:01
    that country and that
    116:02
    israel does serve the empire israel
    116:05
    isn’t an empire of course it’s a little
    116:07
    country
    116:08
    but it’s a very effective uh servant of
    116:11
    the input
    116:12
    yeah and it gets it’s just rewards yeah
    116:15
    um okay let’s see
    116:19
    uh all right let’s see so where okay
    116:22
    um here’s some more hasbro
    116:27
    okay um
    116:32
    you write an article about it yeah well
    116:33
    yeah i don’t so here’s the the
    116:35
    the skeptic again i don’t believe that
    116:37
    israel isn’t a colonial empire
    116:39
    i’ve read so much about it from
    116:41
    instagram again they’re like totally
    116:43
    trying to pathologize
    116:44
    the borders like they’re also projecting
    116:46
    that’s where you get your historical
    116:48
    sources guys but
    116:49
    not the rest of the world you can always
    116:51
    tell an empire by language
    116:53
    arabic is an imperial language like
    116:55
    english and french promoted through
    116:57
    settler colonialism
    116:58
    and imperial hegemony throughout the
    117:00
    middle ages since the 20th century
    117:02
    rise of pan-arabism leaders advocated
    117:04
    ethnic cleansing policies towards
    117:06
    indigenous peoples kurds berbers and
    117:08
    sudanese
    117:08
    they want to permanently reduce the
    117:10
    status and power of indigenous religious
    117:12
    groups
    117:13
    such as jews cops and maronites across
    117:15
    the region
    117:16
    this doesn’t suddenly okay here’s their
    117:18
    like they’re paying like lip service to
    117:20
    caring
    117:21
    about human rights this doesn’t suddenly
    117:23
    make every israeli policy okay or
    117:25
    minimize the death of palestinians but
    117:27
    knowing history helps us move
    117:28
    closer to peace that’s right right
    117:32
    you should all you should know frank
    117:33
    luntz do you know frank luntz yeah
    117:35
    franklin’s the um
    117:36
    the the pollster right he’s a republican
    117:39
    pollster yeah
    117:40
    and he’s the guy he did a whole
    117:42
    dictionary of husband
    117:45
    guy that really developed the strategy
    117:47
    of israeli husba
    117:49
    and part of his strategy he says it very
    117:51
    openly you can look it up on the uh
    117:54
    you know it’s on the internet his whole
    117:56
    thing is
    117:58
    don’t come out against to be against
    118:00
    arabs you have to come out if you’re
    118:02
    going to explain israel
    118:03
    sympathetic to arabs sympathetic to the
    118:05
    suffering of the palestinians
    118:07
    sympathetic to human rights right and
    118:10
    then within that framework
    118:13
    you do you see yeah yeah that’s very
    118:15
    well how
    118:16
    frank nunes is reflected in this kind of
    118:19
    right
    118:20
    he also i mean no no wonder um that
    118:24
    no wonder um he had you know he
    118:27
    he’s the one who found out he did those
    118:28
    studies about liberal
    118:30
    american jews checking their zionism at
    118:32
    the door instead of
    118:34
    for liberalism instead of checking their
    118:35
    liberalism at the door for zionism
    118:37
    which is a phenomenon called progressive
    118:39
    except on palestine exactly
    118:41
    yeah so people are really key to
    118:43
    understanding yeah
    118:44
    yeah yeah he also looks a lot like a
    118:46
    duck which is neither here nor there
    118:48
    but um okay um
    118:52
    let’s see okay what about the refugees i
    118:55
    heard
    118:55
    israel ethnically cleanse palestinians
    118:58
    in israel the number of palestinian
    118:59
    arabs increased since its foundation in
    119:01
    the middle
    119:02
    east the jews almost completely
    119:04
    disappeared palestinian refugees
    119:06
    unlike any other group of refugees in
    119:08
    the world is a new term
    119:10
    now describe any dis any decadent guys
    119:13
    you really need to proofread this
    119:14
    any decadent of palestinians even bella
    119:17
    and gigi
    119:18
    hadid are defined as refugees because
    119:21
    their father is a billionaire
    119:22
    palestinian
    119:23
    no that’s not why they’re defined as
    119:24
    refugees again
    119:26
    that is nonsense such a michigan awesome
    119:30
    yeah it’s so dumb
    119:31
    oh was i showing you okay but refugees
    119:33
    of course is not a new term the
    119:34
    palestinian refugees
    119:36
    are the largest from 48 of the largest
    119:39
    refugee population in the world
    119:42
    why do so many people spread these lies
    119:43
    online then because people like you
    119:46
    this is so israeli it’s such peak
    119:48
    israeli like
    119:49
    framing because people like you know
    119:51
    nothing about the conflict and resort to
    119:53
    infographics on instagram
    119:55
    including the one we are in and then
    119:57
    repeat those lies
    119:58
    don’t take my word for it research for
    120:00
    yourself find out all the facts don’t
    120:02
    support what’s popular because you want
    120:03
    to feel good about yourself
    120:04
    that’s stupid love you are better than
    120:06
    this you know better okay this is
    120:08
    turning into a very unhealthy dynamic uh
    120:13
    what the hell also you know the whole
    120:15
    line about how it’s complicated you
    120:17
    don’t get it you don’t live there we’re
    120:18
    in bomb shelters as norman finkelstein
    120:20
    says
    120:20
    would you rather live in a bomb shelter
    120:22
    for two weeks than uh an open-air prison
    120:24
    for 15 years
    120:26
    and also that’s just undermined by the
    120:28
    fact that you have
    120:29
    places you know organizations like
    120:31
    betselem people like you
    120:33
    uh who live there and are critical and
    120:35
    acknowledge all this stuff
    120:36
    so that’s just bs you know again they
    120:38
    try to guilt people
    120:40
    right but you know what israel is losing
    120:42
    it in the court of public opinion right
    120:43
    the thing we have to
    120:45
    keep in mind is that israel is not
    120:47
    winning here
    120:49
    israel is strong with governments for
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    the reasons i said because of its
    120:53
    exports military and security and
    120:55
    surveillance
    120:56
    it is not strong with peoples of the
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    world and that’s why it’s so shrill
    121:00
    that’s why it weaponizes anti-semitism
    121:03
    that’s why it it it tries to uh
    121:06
    to uh you know scare the jews into uh
    121:09
    into supporting israel and so on
    121:11
    it has no case right and i think i think
    121:15
    you know peter beinart is now writing
    121:16
    about this a lot
    121:18
    it’s clear i mean israel is losing if
    121:20
    he’s just losing american jews
    121:22
    forget it it’s really lost everybody
    121:24
    else and i tell you something else
    121:25
    israel’s starting to lose the
    121:26
    evangelicals too really why
    121:29
    evangelical groups that are beginning to
    121:31
    under
    121:32
    they’re also beginning to understand so
    121:36
    you know you can see this as has but i
    121:39
    don’t think you have to have the
    121:40
    illusion that it’s really being
    121:42
    effective
    121:42
    it’s effective among certain hillel kids
    121:46
    maybe
    121:47
    i don’t know about among who but i think
    121:50
    overall israel is really losing it and
    121:53
    this is simply a desperate
    121:55
    attempt to sort of claw its way out of
    121:57
    the corner but i think it shows more
    121:59
    desperation
    122:00
    the very fact that you have to resort to
    122:02
    hasbro and lies and this kind of stuff
    122:06
    shows the degree to which you know
    122:07
    you’re not in a very strong position
    122:11
    all right let’s see oops um we got some
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    nice
    122:15
    all right uh let’s see share okay
    122:21
    okay
    122:24
    all right back to the scholar um but i
    122:27
    also heard this conflict isn’t about
    122:29
    religion and hamas are freedom fighters
    122:31
    defending palestinians
    122:32
    girl you need to spend less time online
    122:34
    believing everything you read
    122:36
    hamas is a genocidal terrorist group
    122:38
    that launched over 1500 rockets on
    122:40
    israeli civilians last week and murdered
    122:42
    several
    122:42
    google hamas charter and see what they
    122:44
    say about jews knowing how lazy you are
    122:46
    here’s the quote
    122:47
    but as maxwell’s all pointed out like
    122:49
    they’ve updated their charter
    122:52
    yeah they’ve thrown out the charter to a
    122:53
    large degree that’s right
    122:56
    but also charters and what does the
    122:58
    charter mean charter is your
    122:59
    is you know the way you look at the
    123:01
    world and you can look at the world in
    123:02
    all kinds of ways
    123:03
    the point is what are your policies what
    123:05
    are you willing to
    123:07
    to do in the real world and hamas is
    123:09
    willing to deal with israel it is
    123:10
    nothing that does deal with israel well
    123:12
    i
    123:16
    hamas was called a terrorist group yeah
    123:18
    but i mean hamas was it was
    123:20
    was a group supported by israel i mean
    123:22
    it really is
    123:23
    israel created hamas became a terrorist
    123:26
    group when they won the
    123:27
    well they didn’t really win the
    123:28
    elections they got 40 but
    123:30
    they became the dominant party in the
    123:32
    election palestinian elections
    123:34
    that israel and the pa abbas
    123:37
    and the us didn’t like and that’s when
    123:40
    they were classified as a terrorist
    123:42
    group when they
    123:43
    when they won the elections in a
    123:46
    democratic election that even jimmy
    123:48
    carter
    123:49
    certified was was democratically one
    123:52
    they won
    123:53
    and that’s why they were called the
    123:55
    terrorist group in order to
    123:56
    nullify the election and then gaza was
    123:59
    put under a siege 15 years ago 2006.
    124:03
    so that’s the background it has nothing
    124:05
    to do with hamas policies
    124:06
    with their ideology there was a hamas
    124:08
    for a long time
    124:10
    before 2006 or at least 15 years or so
    124:14
    before that they were active israel knew
    124:16
    about them israel actually
    124:18
    gave the money and so on because they
    124:19
    want to be a counterweight to
    124:21
    fatah and the plo so that it has nothing
    124:24
    to do with that it had to do with the
    124:25
    fact that at a certain point
    124:27
    israel wanted to neutralize them and the
    124:29
    best way to neutralize the palestinian
    124:31
    group is to call them terrorists
    124:33
    and of course they had and this is this
    124:35
    is condoleezza rice
    124:37
    yeah the birthplace of a new democracy
    124:39
    and then leading right into obama
    124:41
    obama played and biden played as much of
    124:44
    a role as bush
    124:45
    or or rice did so that you can’t just
    124:48
    blame republicans for this
    124:50
    democrats have been more more uh
    124:54
    guilty of this kind of manipulation than
    124:57
    republicans actually uh let’s see
    125:01
    uh okay let’s just we’re almost done
    125:03
    with this painful thanks everyone for
    125:05
    bearing uh with me
    125:06
    with uh uh let’s see what’s with me
    125:10
    no i’m but i’m i’m subjecting i’m asking
    125:12
    you to respond to these so how do we
    125:13
    free palestine
    125:14
    well the majority of israelis support a
    125:16
    palestinian state besides israel in the
    125:18
    west bank
    125:19
    in gaza and you should support it too uh
    125:23
    who supports the palestinian state in
    125:24
    the west bank
    125:27
    you know maybe
    125:30
    maybe 20 of israelis
    125:33
    on a sunny day right
    125:36
    and they and even then if you told them
    125:38
    that means giving up malayam they’d say
    125:40
    no
    125:42
    i mean it’s just ridiculous they’re just
    125:44
    saying whatever they want to say
    125:46
    there’s no relationship to anything
    125:49
    that’s why it’s hard to argue with
    125:50
    because yeah well yeah there’s no facts
    125:53
    here there’s no
    125:55
    there’s no substance yeah you say
    125:57
    anything you want to say
    125:58
    well you just i mean you’re responding
    126:00
    to it by by showing the truth so
    126:03
    extremely the only way you can respond
    126:05
    that’s the problem we have
    126:07
    see these are sound bites right anybody
    126:10
    can look at this you read it
    126:11
    in a second you’re reading it to the
    126:12
    people without without you know
    126:14
    okay and it’s simple and it’s black and
    126:17
    white and et cetera and it has a
    126:18
    clear answer and this is right and this
    126:20
    is wrong and that’s it when i’m
    126:22
    responding to it
    126:23
    and i’m responding to it as briefly as i
    126:25
    can i have to get into whole lectures
    126:28
    right each of these lies each of these
    126:30
    words arab empire for example
    126:32
    each of these things require what is a
    126:34
    mizrahi jew requires
    126:37
    explanation and you don’t have that time
    126:39
    in the media right
    126:40
    you don’t know just radio pro most
    126:42
    programs i’m on don’t give me the time
    126:44
    you’re giving me
    126:44
    right yeah so we have to put in a sound
    126:47
    bite
    126:48
    right a complicated fact-based analysis
    126:52
    versus a simplistic bunch of lies that
    126:54
    israel can just say
    126:56
    right so it isn’t really a fair fight
    126:57
    right and we have to really have
    126:59
    strategies of how do you do that
    127:01
    we call it the reframing yeah we family
    127:04
    we’ve worked very hard
    127:05
    by the way my organization is the
    127:07
    israeli committee against housing i know
    127:09
    that’s what i i mess up
    127:11
    yeah and we work very hard on reframing
    127:14
    uh the conflict from a security framing
    127:17
    that israel
    127:18
    tries to produce to more of a human
    127:20
    rights crime than the colonial framing
    127:23
    that that you know gives you a whole set
    127:25
    once you get
    127:26
    once you get the framing right and the
    127:28
    logic that’s why i said look
    127:29
    that’s why this book is so important
    127:32
    that i have to say
    127:33
    because it gives you the political logic
    127:35
    once you get the logic of it as against
    127:37
    the zionist logic
    127:39
    yeah then you can understand yourself
    127:41
    all this stuff is nonsense that they’re
    127:42
    saying
    127:43
    i forgot it’s only if you don’t have the
    127:45
    the alternative logic that you get
    127:47
    caught up in you don’t know if what
    127:49
    they’re saying is true or not because
    127:50
    you don’t have a logic of your own
    127:52
    right yeah uh okay i think i
    127:56
    did you guys send me that book yet i
    127:57
    can’t remember
    128:00
    uh okay i gotta write to your publisher
    128:02
    okay so
    128:03
    back to we’re almost done with this and
    128:05
    yeah i mean but i think it’s just worth
    128:07
    i think sometimes it’s useful to show
    128:08
    how
    128:09
    incoherent and dishonest they are so
    128:11
    then you can dismiss everything else
    128:12
    they do
    128:12
    okay extreme nationalists on both sides
    128:14
    try to claim palestinians and israelis
    128:16
    don’t deserve national rights
    128:18
    if you see someone opposing the basic
    128:20
    human rights of either side
    128:21
    are saying they don’t exist stay away
    128:24
    yeah they don’t agree with israel says
    128:26
    palestinian human rights don’t exist
    128:29
    yeah and palestine doesn’t exist and
    128:31
    they’re saying the opposite
    128:33
    right you’re saying there are two sides
    128:35
    who equally worthy of living in dignity
    128:37
    and security
    128:39
    then the woman goes this is what my
    128:40
    therapist calls a breakthrough
    128:42
    palestinians and israelis both deserve
    128:45
    safety liberation freedom and justice
    128:47
    they have an interesting way the
    128:48
    israelis of showing that that’s the
    128:50
    frank lloyd’s thing
    128:52
    yeah it’s like the two-state thing it’s
    128:54
    like what does that mean it’s just
    128:56
    yeah so i think we’re done with this
    128:58
    weird abusive uh
    129:00
    relationship display but um
    129:06
    yeah and then the last thing um i wanted
    129:09
    to just review is
    129:10
    did you see this clip of um what is her
    129:13
    name
    129:13
    hold on ruth something this yiddish
    129:17
    scholar and by the way for people it’s
    129:19
    wise
    129:20
    yeah by the way for people who don’t
    129:21
    unders like the ashkenazi thing
    129:23
    basically think of ashkenazi as like
    129:25
    all this well it sounds problematic all
    129:27
    this like
    129:28
    einstein chomsky um freud all of these
    129:32
    guys
    129:32
    are yeah they’re european so like all
    129:35
    the stereotypes or like the
    129:37
    like the things that i will say like
    129:39
    lovingly about jewish
    129:40
    stuff it’s almost always applied to to
    129:44
    ashkenazic
    129:45
    larry david but um okay
    129:48
    so let me just look at this roots what
    129:50
    is it wise not so wise
    129:52
    yeah yeah yeah this is an amazing video
    129:55
    yeah i don’t know if you saw that oh my
    129:58
    god the dirsh
    129:59
    hold on does anyone have that video of
    130:02
    her
    130:02
    like talking about how jews have to
    130:04
    defend israel it was on the internet it
    130:06
    was going a little viral
    130:08
    um hold on yeah she’s famous for that
    130:11
    you get these uh mouthpieces
    130:15
    it’s like the asparagus look at this
    130:17
    hold on
    130:21
    but they don’t have much traction i mean
    130:23
    we can take comfort in that i think
    130:25
    i need to see that the last week oh here
    130:27
    it is i found it
    130:29
    fellow diaspora jews please watch this
    130:31
    from isaac to castro okay let me show
    130:33
    this
    130:34
    again it’s just useful to see to tap
    130:36
    into their
    130:37
    their hasbro their talking points okay
    130:40
    and then
    130:41
    sorry guys trigger warning this woman is
    130:42
    pretty uh unpleasant and then also the
    130:45
    irony is well we’ll talk about this at
    130:46
    the end
    130:47
    what a sellout this person is if she
    130:48
    cares about jewish culture i mean yeah
    130:50
    sorry yiddish culture
    130:51
    okay and you will say what you want us
    130:55
    to make you look
    130:56
    good that’s not my job your job
    130:59
    is to make us look good that’s his
    131:02
    reality our job is not to make you look
    131:04
    good american jews what do you have to
    131:06
    worry about
    131:07
    your job is to make us look good and
    131:10
    here’s how you do it
    131:12
    every one of us has to serve three years
    131:14
    in the army two years in the army
    131:16
    some of us five years and then for the
    131:17
    rest of our lives
    131:19
    you have got to serve two or three years
    131:21
    in the army of words
    131:23
    you’ve got to learn to fight the
    131:25
    political battle
    131:26
    which is even more important at this
    131:28
    point than the military battle
    131:31
    we’ll fight the military battle we’re
    131:33
    not asking you necessarily to come
    131:35
    and be lone soldiers although some of
    131:37
    you can you’ve got to learn
    131:39
    how to fight back on the campuses how to
    131:41
    make the arguments
    131:43
    now they keep shifting you know it
    131:46
    the the ground keeps shifting under us
    131:48
    they keep
    131:50
    language intersectionality wasn’t even a
    131:52
    word
    131:53
    ten years ago now suddenly it’s
    131:54
    intersectionality you’ve got to stay on
    131:56
    top of it
    131:57
    and you know how we train for the army
    132:00
    we don’t train for defensive warfare
    132:03
    if the if war against israel ever had to
    132:06
    be fought on israeli soil
    132:09
    do i have to tell you it’s it’s an
    132:12
    impossibility
    132:13
    so it’s the same thing don’t let the war
    132:16
    of words
    132:17
    ever be fought about israel’s nature
    132:20
    let it be fought about why you can’t
    132:22
    accept israel
    132:23
    why you have to single out this tiny
    132:25
    people
    132:26
    try to find israel on the map it’s
    132:29
    hardly there
    132:30
    you know we used to play this game
    132:32
    where’s waldo
    132:33
    you know you know there’s where is waldo
    132:36
    on the map
    132:37
    are you going to really tell me that
    132:38
    this is the country you want to blame
    132:40
    push deal teach them how to defend
    132:44
    by attacking teach them really what one
    132:47
    says as in
    132:48
    fencing you’ve got to do that you’ve got
    132:50
    to make demands on them they’ve got to
    132:52
    serve for three years in the army of
    132:54
    words
    132:56
    no what do you mean no the army army we
    132:58
    are well i i i
    133:02
    cannot even start
    133:05
    with this
    133:08
    who is that guy that’s a guy who’s like
    133:10
    compete with this passion and compassion
    133:13
    compassion is that the guy who like
    133:14
    replaced um was replaced by this
    133:18
    avigor uh lieberman no this is sharansky
    133:21
    who’s that no i know but isn’t he the
    133:23
    guy who was like in the same party as
    133:24
    lieberman he was originally
    133:26
    yeah he’s a real sellout because you
    133:28
    know he was a prisoner of conscience and
    133:30
    right in the soviet union
    133:32
    oh yeah very close to sahara sahara was
    133:36
    the
    133:36
    the main human rights defender
    133:39
    uh you know in the soviet union yeah and
    133:42
    uh
    133:44
    and everybody including me i mean
    133:46
    american jews fought very much to get
    133:48
    sharansky released as a prisoner of zion
    133:51
    and he got released and he came to
    133:53
    israel and became a super
    133:55
    xenophobic right-wing guy who
    133:59
    who violated every every
    134:03
    concept of human rights you know again
    134:05
    he was he was the greatest example if
    134:08
    you want the example
    134:09
    that renee cassen brings up of who
    134:12
    understand human rights
    134:13
    but who want to step outside and say
    134:15
    well it doesn’t apply to us
    134:17
    because we’re special that’s strong a
    134:19
    terrible terrible guy
    134:21
    you know really he really betrayed the
    134:24
    whole
    134:24
    sakharov and the whole world of human
    134:26
    rights all the people who supported him
    134:28
    he betrayed
    134:29
    yeah you know by becoming a right-wing
    134:32
    uh
    134:32
    racist racist he owes you guys a lot of
    134:34
    time back
    134:36
    you wasted hours on him just kidding um
    134:39
    okay so yeah that’s uh and what’s so
    134:41
    interesting is that like again
    134:42
    this woman’s dedicated she’s like a
    134:44
    yiddish culture professor
    134:46
    how are you going to defend this country
    134:47
    that dropped you know that threw
    134:49
    yiddish under the bus for hebrew
    134:52
    you know it was illegal in the early
    134:54
    years of israel to speak healing
    134:56
    jesus christ it was the only country in
    134:58
    the world where jews could be arrested
    135:00
    for performing
    135:02
    that’s amazing again it’s like the
    135:04
    anti-semitism
    135:05
    is stronger than the no sorry the
    135:07
    zionism is
    135:08
    a bigger priority than stopping
    135:09
    anti-semitism that’s right someone was
    135:11
    telling me that that
    135:12
    famous because it was anti-jewish
    135:15
    right it was anti-jewish and it’s still
    135:18
    anthony it still is yeah
    135:20
    well there was something right
    135:23
    yeah and it puts jews in danger it does
    135:26
    and also
    135:27
    there’s i didn’t know this at that
    135:28
    famous boat that fdr turned around they
    135:30
    want some
    135:31
    like zionist wanted pressure attempt to
    135:33
    turn it around also yeah
    135:36
    because they didn’t because they wanted
    135:37
    people to have to go
    135:39
    uh yeah oh this is another talking point
    135:41
    that’s pretty common
    135:42
    um remember the problem could also be
    135:45
    solved by palestine egypt relations
    135:47
    so it’s like oh you know egypt is worse
    135:49
    on palestine their
    135:50
    their blockade is worse or they’ll say
    135:53
    none of the arab countries want them
    135:56
    as if that makes it’s not really
    135:57
    relevant
    135:59
    well i mean you know the problem is that
    136:01
    there’s an alienation between the
    136:02
    governments and the people in those
    136:04
    countries
    136:05
    the egyptian government does not
    136:06
    represent the egyptian people
    136:08
    there but there are a lot of dictators
    136:09
    and autocrats in the in the arab world
    136:11
    that run the arab world
    136:13
    that are in bed with israel and the
    136:15
    united states and
    136:17
    trump and everybody else and uh but that
    136:20
    doesn’t
    136:20
    uh apply to the arab peoples for whom
    136:23
    the palestinians are very important
    136:25
    yeah um all right well yeah this has
    136:28
    been great
    136:29
    people want recommendations of books
    136:31
    first of all of jeff’s books anything
    136:33
    else that you recommend
    136:35
    well there’s a there’s a number of books
    136:37
    i mean there’s a new book by nora
    136:39
    huracan i really wrote oh yeah justice
    136:41
    for some is that
    136:42
    i got to get that yeah about a erasing
    136:45
    palestinians
    136:46
    using international law to to erase
    136:49
    palestinians
    136:50
    uh my book is decolonizing israel
    136:53
    liberating palestine
    136:54
    that’s one book another book is war
    136:57
    against the people about the israeli
    136:59
    arms industry um elon poppe’s book of
    137:03
    course the ethnic cleansing of palestine
    137:06
    avi shlaim who’s another israeli
    137:08
    historian
    137:10
    s-h-l-a-i-m who has a book called the
    137:12
    iron
    137:13
    the iron wall about israel’s relations
    137:16
    to
    137:16
    the arab world over the years what’s it
    137:18
    called i mean i know how do you spell
    137:20
    his last name i know he is but how do
    137:21
    you spell it
    137:22
    s h a a s
    137:25
    h l a i m h
    137:34
    yeah and then what is it the iron the
    137:37
    iron wall
    137:38
    and he’s he’s an iraqi jew
    137:43
    oh i didn’t know that um you know so he
    137:46
    he’s writing his biography now
    137:47
    autobiography which should be
    137:48
    interesting i mean norman stillman is a
    137:52
    is another scholar that deals with
    137:54
    rocky jews if people are interested in
    137:55
    looking into that
    137:57
    um i think he’s got a book called jews
    138:00
    from arab lands
    138:02
    something like that jeff tell ya thanks
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    for turning me on to
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    at the drive-in back in 2003
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    we hung out at diwan in west jerusalem
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    one night
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    who’s the idea
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    is my son oh okay do you name him after
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    netanyahu’s son just kinda
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    um yeah yeah yeah
    138:27
    um any online pod program sign me up
    138:30
    um all right leave gordon has a
    138:34
    book on occupation how do you spell his
    138:36
    name
    138:38
    gordon g-o-r-d-o-n
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    he has several good books on occupation
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    and also on the israeli surveillance
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    industry and so on
    138:48
    i mean there’s a lot of books you know
    138:49
    we have in east jerusalem was called the
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    educational bookshop
    138:52
    oh wow just from the the floor to the
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    ceiling
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    is that where you’re in front of right
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    now is that where you are now
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    no no i’m at home in my study but uh the
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    educated bookstore is is filled with
    139:04
    books on on on palestine it’s not that
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    there’s
    139:07
    a lack of things to read and of course a
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    lot of palestinian
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    uh you know writers as well that we have
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    to
    139:15
    we always have to mention yeah nora
    139:18
    but they’re uh what about diane um
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    has she written books or she’s i mean
    139:27
    she’s wrong she has certain articles
    139:29
    yeah
    139:29
    really fascinating stuff yeah you know
    139:33
    some of the young palestinian
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    intellectuals there’s a a website called
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    al shabaka which is like a
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    think tank but it’s online new articles
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    and thoughts
    139:43
    of young palestinian intellectuals which
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    people should uh
    139:48
    you know could look at if they’re
    139:49
    interested in what
    139:51
    young intellectual palestinians are
    139:53
    thinking these days
    139:54
    what how do you spell that then
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    s-h-a-b-a-k-a
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    or not as many yeah yeah well
    140:18
    of course is you guys oh alia bonima
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    yeah he’s been on the show a bunch yeah
    140:22
    um i mean and he’s yeah he’s written two
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    books
    140:27
    right right um i’ll put his name in
    140:30
    there
    140:31
    um all right great jeff thank you so
    140:34
    much for this
    140:36
    all right thanks for having me check out
    140:37
    his website what is it
    140:39
    uh your website um my website
    140:42
    yeah oh i put it well i put one thing
    140:45
    again
    140:46
    i can i see ahd the israeli committee
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    i know not the international coalition
    140:53
    as i said
    140:54
    against housing okay icad what is it um
    140:58
    it’s really coalition against housing
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    demolition right that’s house
    141:01
    demolitions
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    oh cool i know what al is i know al is a
    141:07
    definite article yeah all right i’ll
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    i’ll take some questions i’ll i’ll stay
    141:12
    on this i really appreciate this jeff
    141:14
    okay yeah very much
    141:15
    thanks yeah definitely yeah are you
    141:17
    coming to the states anytime soon
    141:21
    when i can okay yeah how do you say who
    141:24
    knows in hebrew
    141:26
    how do you say that yeah
    141:30
    okay yeah yeah with an american accent
    141:35
    do you have an american accent yeah yeah
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    people yeah
    141:38
    but it’s funny because you say hey in
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    hebrew
    141:41
    [Music]
    141:43
    yeah yeah it’s the filler word instead
    141:45
    of uh
    141:46
    yeah who’s mandy kahan
    141:51
    anyway do you know that person i’m not
    141:54
    sure
    141:55
    all right okay oh wait last thing for
    141:58
    you
    141:58
    sorry tell us about um you got arrested
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    in the
    142:01
    in the only democracy in the uh in the
    142:04
    middle east for bds materials
    142:07
    yeah i get arrested occasionally yeah
    142:10
    yeah i was giving a tour
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    in the malayan settlement and
    142:14
    in malaya we’re looking over jerusalem
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    and i and i talk about bds
    142:20
    and um um
    142:23
    yeah then the tour was over as a group
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    from the uk
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    and they got on their bus and left and i
    142:29
    decided i’m gonna go home on the public
    142:31
    bus so i got on the public bus
    142:33
    the police came stopped the bus took me
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    off
    142:37
    and arrested me for bdsing
    142:41
    and now i have a
    142:45
    secret weapon that is i have another son
    142:47
    whose name is ishai
    142:49
    who’s the editor of the english language
    142:51
    website of haaretz
    142:53
    oh wow what’s by the way if you want a
    142:56
    great source of information
    142:58
    read it’s in english yeah okay
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    but it’s worth it i know it’s annoying
    143:03
    can you what’s your what’s that son’s
    143:05
    name
    143:07
    be shy let’s see if we can maybe from
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    one helper to another you can give me a
    143:12
    free
    143:12
    uh thingy so i gotta rest in this that
    143:15
    is carly shy
    143:17
    did you say do you know who my son is
    143:21
    so uh that guy had a lot of publicity
    143:24
    and you know they let me go
    143:25
    i mean it wasn’t there was nothing
    143:26
    illegal to it and fact they got really
    143:29
    reprimanded by the justice department
    143:31
    because
    143:32
    it’s not illegal to talk about it at bds
    143:35
    but uh but it created a whole a whole
    143:39
    in other words it’s all grist for the
    143:41
    mill yeah you’re an activist you have to
    143:43
    really understand not just
    143:45
    when you get into trouble okay you know
    143:48
    that’s part of what you what
    143:49
    that’s part of what you do but how do
    143:51
    you leverage that
    143:53
    into more publicity in the more you know
    143:56
    and uh
    143:57
    every arrest and every hassle you know
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    shouldn’t just
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    end there it should become very very
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    public
    144:04
    right and that’s part of the strategy of
    144:06
    our husband
    144:07
    right yeah exactly yeah our husband yeah
    144:10
    it’s only illegal to be dds in the us
    144:12
    it’s true as we know from abby uh martin
    144:15
    right you’re right that’s right um all
    144:17
    right thank you so much jeff all right
    144:18
    thank you bye thank you all the people
    144:21
    listening yeah thanks yeah
    144:22
    okay talk to him great yes i
    144:26
    all right uh let me i don’t know how to
    144:29
    get off i’ll do this i know let’s see
    144:31
    oh there ah wait no how do i
    144:35
    oh i’ll just unselect you okay all right
    144:38
    guys that was great right
    144:40
    um oh yeah yeah we didn’t you
    144:43
    mentioned that the new york times it’s
    144:46
    not i
    144:46
    is it is it new york times person i
    144:49
    think the whole new york times office is
    144:50
    in a place that used to be
    144:52
    um someone can correct me but that used
    144:56
    to be
    144:57
    inhabited by palestinians um
    145:00
    anyway yeah so this is my early stream
    145:03
    today
    145:04
    you know i’m still not in new york city
    145:06
    i should go back but because i’m still
    145:08
    not in new york city i just scream all
    145:09
    the time
    145:11
    um uh
    145:14
    oh that was beyond great thank you yeah
    145:16
    that was good right
    145:18
    so i’ll figure i’ll have to figure it
    145:20
    out i’ll either um you guys i gotta push
    145:22
    the patreon a little bit come on all
    145:23
    this free stuff
    145:25
    patreon.com the katie helper show again
    145:27
    that’s patreon.com
    145:28
    the katie helper show um
    145:31
    what did you say katie or two well i’m
    145:33
    not gonna read it because uh
    145:35
    it’s not nice what you saw was excellent
    145:37
    are you jewish person who said that
    145:40
    what i saw was excellent david hi your
    145:42
    rig
    145:43
    your regular david lairfield lairfeld
    145:46
    are you jewish i’m just curious
    145:48
    um because it’s very uh what they saw
    145:52
    was excellent
    145:54
    um
    145:57
    okay um why would i go back well it’s
    146:00
    safe now in new york city right
    146:03
    do know why peter beinart came out
    146:06
    supporting one state solution new york
    146:07
    times roughly a year ago
    146:08
    i don’t know is that a trick question um
    146:18
    um
    146:22
    thank you for super sticker um
    146:29
    i’m a non-jewish binary human and
    146:32
    enjoyed it
    146:33
    from an american perspective there you
    146:35
    go
    146:37
    yeah jack’s been streaming a lot i gotta
    146:38
    get him back in um
    146:41
    let’s see
    146:45
    you should give me a review eagle hawk
    146:48
    condor
    146:50
    all right let’s see anything else um
    146:54
    he changed the position came forward
    146:55
    supporting one state not as a question
    146:56
    yeah i thought that was impressive
    146:58
    um i know you weren’t trying to be mean
    147:00
    that’s funny yeah um
    147:03
    uncle disclosed location yeah i can’t
    147:04
    tell people where i am
    147:06
    i didn’t realize that until someone was
    147:08
    like don’t say that
    147:09
    um katie halper how would you recommend
    147:12
    that we can spread the truth when so
    147:13
    many people will instantly use the bs
    147:15
    and the sentences and brand
    147:16
    how do you manage to get where you are i
    147:18
    mean i think honestly you should just
    147:20
    say
    147:20
    i stand like i keep saying this which is
    147:22
    that i know it’s probably oh wait
    147:24
    your first watch got you know what you
    147:26
    need to do then down with apartheid
    147:28
    israel
    147:28
    you gotta hit and everyone needs to do
    147:30
    this hit subscribe and to
    147:32
    because you don’t want to miss these
    147:33
    streams right so you hit subscribe
    147:35
    you do subscribe and then the bell okay
    147:37
    and then you’ll
    147:38
    know about them um
    147:41
    what kd what what fact uh katie that’s
    147:44
    true chris hedges just mentions that
    147:45
    same fact too which fact
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    my my point was that like the whole
    147:50
    argument about well two things ready i
    147:53
    have a couple points one is that
    147:56
    it’s anti-semitic to equate jewish
    147:57
    identity with blind support of israel
    148:00
    and um the other point that i make is
    148:05
    you know uh um
    148:10
    the whole argument about you’re not here
    148:12
    it’s complicated it’s not really
    148:14
    complicated from a human rights internet
    148:16
    like an international human rights
    148:17
    perspective for one
    148:19
    and uh it’s also it’s like if you have
    148:23
    if you have israelis and you have
    148:26
    um hold on a second i don’t usually
    148:28
    stream at this time so i don’t usually
    148:30
    overlap with
    148:31
    george galloway okay let me let me let
    148:33
    me let me let me uh
    148:34
    focus if you have israeli organizations
    148:39
    like bet selem saying
    148:42
    that uh israel is an apartheid state
    148:47
    then that’s it that whole argument about
    148:50
    it being like you know
    148:52
    uh israelis don’t you don’t know what’s
    148:55
    like to be israelites like okay i don’t
    148:56
    know what it’s like to be israeli and
    148:58
    i’ll stand with betselem they do know
    149:00
    what’s like to be israeli because they
    149:01
    are israeli
    149:04
    what’s this uh i’m telling you hit the
    149:06
    like button and didn’t get notified just
    149:08
    happened to see the stream of my sub
    149:09
    list yeah i don’t know well usually it’s
    149:12
    um uh it’s that
    149:16
    it’s evenings on uh seven
    149:19
    it’s 7 pm on thursdays and sundays but
    149:21
    i’ve been doing extra streams
    149:22
    have miko palette on rasheed khalidi oh
    149:24
    yeah i love you katie thank you mr
    149:26
    thirteen fng katie joe sacco would be a
    149:30
    cool guest in promoting his graphic
    149:31
    novels about palestine one of chris
    149:32
    hedges might be cultural and wishing for
    149:34
    views okay joe sacco i’ll write that
    149:36
    down
    149:37
    um who who said the
    149:40
    the the thing about um
    149:43
    what is the thing about um
    149:48
    what’s the chris hedges thing can
    149:49
    someone tell me who’s the person who
    149:51
    wrote that in there that he mentions
    149:52
    this fact
    149:54
    anyone
    149:57
    anyone can anyone where is that
    150:03
    i’m not in new michelle i’m two i’m over
    150:06
    two hours from the city
    150:10
    um
    150:16
    um anyone know
    150:20
    uh all right wait it’s coming soon
    150:26
    so that’s my question that’s my
    150:27
    suggestion about how to
    150:30
    wha okay what’s the fact here who wrote
    150:32
    that mr
    150:33
    13fng can you tell me what the fact is
    150:35
    cause i’m just curious
    150:37
    um
    150:41
    alright these are hurting my ears i need
    150:43
    better headphones that don’t do this
    150:46
    all right i guess i’ll never know oh
    150:48
    wait what’s the chris hedges thing
    150:50
    i’ll never know what’s the fact
    150:53
    oh my god yeah what is the fact can
    150:55
    anyone figure it out
    151:06
    oh he says that wait no this is this
    151:08
    true does he really say jeff is my dad
    151:14
    come on
    151:19
    okay i don’t know what you guys are
    151:20
    saying oh
    151:22
    oh i think he was talking about
    151:23
    washington post bureau chief living
    151:25
    palestinian clinton’s apartment got
    151:30
    yes actually that’s true katie halper if
    151:31
    you notice the coordinate campaign to
    151:32
    change the narrative to supposed
    151:34
    anti-submitted confrontations
    151:35
    and slogans over the past couple days
    151:37
    yes in fact i’m going to have a guest on
    151:39
    to talk about that
    151:43
    yeah i agree that uh that long island
    151:45
    well okay
    151:46
    um all right cool
    151:49
    thank you guys um true overhead yeah
    151:55
    um who’s ryan dawson everyone keeps
    151:58
    asking about this person i have no idea
    152:00
    who is
    152:02
    i’m gonna have a great
    152:11
    yeah i have noticed that
    152:18
    alrighty israelis don’t know what it’s
    152:21
    like to be palestinian is the problem
    152:24
    actually yeah i meant to play this while
    152:25
    yumna was on where is it she posted
    152:28
    something good
    152:29
    i mean oh where’s humanity because i
    152:34
    i promised that i would play this and i
    152:37
    didn’t so let me do that but first
    152:39
    here i’ll show this video
    153:07
    i was on the seed yes i need to have
    153:09
    sauna seed on let’s see
    153:15
    one second guys
    153:21
    who’s duolifa
    153:25
    who’s do alipa anyone know sorry it’s
    153:27
    like embarrassing she has
    153:36
    oh yeah
    153:46
    one second
    153:50
    okay here this is uh this is painful
    153:53
    who who who made this tick tock did you
    153:57
    all right let me show you this what
    154:00
    they’re experiencing
    154:02
    all right
    154:07
    she’s albanian but what does she do
    154:18
    yeah again i i mean i literally put that
    154:20
    in my bio today that we’re not related
    154:21
    not that i
    154:22
    uh that’s there’s anything wrong wait
    154:25
    but why did what did do a lipa do did
    154:27
    she do something with um
    154:29
    oh and who call them anti-semites i’ll
    154:32
    go i’ll have to make a list of them
    154:35
    to you know redeem um
    154:38
    okay what was i looking for oh okay
    154:47
    everyone follow you know if you’re uh
    154:48
    not already
    154:53
    yeah i’ll try to have them on okay i
    154:55
    will try to have roger what’s going on
    154:57
    okay talk to two ten-year-olds about
    155:01
    what they’re experiencing
    155:02
    one israeli and one palestinian nadine
    155:05
    abdultev has become the face of gaza’s
    155:07
    children i’m only 10.
    155:09
    after going viral in this video posted
    155:11
    online
    155:12
    cbs news met nadine near her
    155:14
    neighborhood which is now in bruins
    155:16
    i want to feel safe for like one day at
    155:19
    least
    155:20
    i never feel safe in my own home what’s
    155:23
    it like
    155:24
    in your house it’s very scary
    155:27
    renault swizzle lives in southern israel
    155:30
    just a few miles away from gaza
    155:32
    she gets scared every time hamas rockets
    155:35
    are fired near her home
    155:36
    she says she knows what she experiences
    155:38
    is nothing compared to what nadine does
    155:41
    and when we asked her what she’d say to
    155:42
    her if they were to ever meet
    155:44
    i wouldn’t say laughing that just was i
    155:47
    just hugged her
    155:49
    and tell her that i know what you feel
    155:54
    i thought instead said that she didn’t
    155:56
    understand what she felt talk to two
    155:57
    ten-year-olds about what they’re
    155:58
    experiencing
    155:59
    anyway so then uh yuma writes
    156:04
    uh human rights maybe they’ll meet
    156:08
    at a military checkpoint if needing even
    156:09
    gets to leave gaza when ranana
    156:12
    turns 18 and becomes a soldier occupying
    156:13
    needings land or one in eight years
    156:15
    renault is in the air force and calls
    156:17
    nadine
    156:17
    to let her know her house is going to be
    156:18
    bombed again yeah this is uh
    156:21
    this is awful this video of um let me
    156:24
    just show this
    156:26
    uh what’s her name nadine right let’s
    156:28
    see
    156:29
    it’s this is an awful video but everyone
    156:31
    should watch this it’s
    156:37
    i keep thinking this this keyboard in
    156:40
    front of me is
    156:41
    nadine
    156:45
    okay here this is just
    157:05
    uh we don’t need the music though let’s
    157:06
    see
    157:12
    this again if she were israeli this
    157:13
    would be all over
    157:16
    the media okay on
    157:20
    oh i’m already sharing it did you guys
    157:22
    hear the audio hold on
    157:40
    i’m always sick amongst i don’t know i
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    can’t do anything
    157:45
    of this what do you expect me to do
    157:48
    fix it i’m only 10.
    157:52
    i can’t even do anything in this more i
    157:55
    just want to be a doctor
    157:56
    or anything to help my people my cat
    158:00
    i’m just pissed i don’t even know what
    158:04
    to do
    158:06
    i get scared but not really that much i
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    get
    158:10
    i do anything for my people but i don’t
    158:12
    know what to do i’m just 10.
    158:15
    understand
    158:18
    all of this when i see i will cherry cry
    158:21
    every day
    158:23
    saying to myself why do we deserve this
    158:25
    why
    158:26
    what did we do to this
    158:29
    my family said they just they just hate
    158:31
    us they just don’t like us because we
    158:33
    are muslims
    158:34
    why does muslims act for you like that
    158:40
    you see all of the kids around me
    158:41
    they’re just kids why wouldn’t you just
    158:44
    send a message to them and kill them
    158:47
    it’s not fair it’s not fair
    158:53
    yeah i mean it’s like overwhelming it’s
    158:57
    heartbreaking and also there have been
    158:59
    all these kids who were like in trauma
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    programs
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    that uh were killed
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    like all these organizations that did
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    stuff for like working with
    159:10
    kids and helping them trying to help
    159:11
    them with trauma
    159:13
    can you imagine you work like met just
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    imagine that and all these other things
    159:17
    of like people who were
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    featured in like you know they were
    159:21
    persecuted by
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    the israeli uh
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    military you know like locked up for
    159:28
    whatever reason as aliyah bonima points
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    out
    159:30
    i think israel is like the only country
    159:33
    that
    159:34
    i should look this up
    159:37
    hold on israel it’s like the only
    159:39
    country that [ __ ]
    159:41
    let me see let me see if he’s up
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    um i don’t know it’s like the only
    160:20
    country that like
    160:22
    it’s not that tries kids because
    160:25
    uh
    160:28
    because the us does that too they lock
    160:31
    up kids as adults is that what it is
    160:33
    yeah does anyone have any footage of
    160:34
    this of the continued um
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    uh harassment
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    also there’s this video of um
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    hold on what is it um
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    hold on
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    oh hold on
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    there was a fishbowl they had their
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    fishbowl uh palestine uh what is a gaza
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    [Music]
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    fish
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    anyone watching speak arabic
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    hold on these all these things really
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    need to be subtitled
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    um i mean what am i like yeah obviously
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    people have uh
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    they saved their fish all i know is they
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    saved their hold on
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    oh i found a subtitled one this is also
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    heartbreaking
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    um and this isn’t like tragedy porn it’s
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    just that
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    uh i think it’s important to show these
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    things because
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    palestinians are so dehumanized oh you
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    do okay i found a
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    um obviously uh okay
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    and it’s like i mean it is i’m not
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    romanticizing it at all but it is like
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    incredible how resilient people are and
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    i keep saying this i’ll probably get
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    arrested for saying this i’m not saying
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    this to sound tough or like
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    oh daring point but i really am
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    um surprised that there isn’t more
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    of mo i mean i don’t know how people
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    deal with this without engaging in
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    certain behavior that’s illegal
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    okay that’s not a call for anything i’m
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    just saying
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    that it’s surprise it legit surprises me
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    that’s
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    that’s what i’m saying i’m not just
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    saying that also to knock in trouble
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    it’s my real thoughts okay
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    let me make sure i have the audio on for
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    this
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    [Music]
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    cute that girl oh i didn’t know they
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    talk about resilience
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    [Music]
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    she looks a lot like my mom did his
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    little kids
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    anyway that’s kind of amazing
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    um uh someone pointed out and it’s true
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    actually someone should make this
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    a side by side does anyone notice um
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    how much um
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    oh this is nice this is so nice katie i
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    think you authentically have the most
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    progressive morally inhumane approach to
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    the issue you do this by including
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    humanitarianism thanks
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    um what was i just saying
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    no i hadn’t seen that video when i said
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    the brazilians think for real i hadn’t
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    seen it
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    so um half of gaza is kids yeah it’s
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    awful
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    i mean
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    uh okay brad just sent me something this
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    is okay yeah this is pretty amazing hold
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    on
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    i wonder if we could side by side it and
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    uh we could in a couple minutes but for
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    now i’m just gonna show it
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    hold on uh can you screen grab you
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    how do i do this
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    how do i upload this someone needs to do
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    a thing a side by side of
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    um oh i know what i’ll do i know what i
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    can do i know what i can do
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    check out the four-part exam the israel
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    lobby in america at the electronic and
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    default al jazeera fb
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    and youtube had to take it down thanks
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    to israel right i know what this is
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    i know what i can do here hold on
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    i download the thingy and then i drag it
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    into a window
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    that’s what i did hold on
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    okay i export it
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    you know what i should just do it right
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    now and preview
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    i mean this is really good but it’s fun
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    i mean this doesn’t even capture
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    their resemblance but hold on one second
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    because there are other shots of her it
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    does but
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    sorry i sound like such a complainer
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    hold on
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    all right
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    if i had more time i’d do something
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    really nice in canva or something but
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    one second
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    thanks again thank you to brad for this
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    it is actually pretty stunning the
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    resemblance you’ll see what i’m talking
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    about one second
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    i learned this really cool trick that
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    people probably know which is that you
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    can just drag
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    an image i think i’m hopeful i’m right
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    into a um
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    into a window like a chrome window and
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    it just becomes like
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    a url
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    export
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    okay excuse me
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    let me see is this how you doing okay
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    yeah
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    so this is a side by side of nadine and
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    anne frank
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    that um i think humanities or it was
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    humanities or
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    um or um
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    or chomsky video
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    um
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    this one too yeah
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    yeah humanity requested it i
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    see here he or she here no right
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    yeah i just need to wear headphones that
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    are little and fit near
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    here’s another one
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    there’s another one again thanks to brad
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    um
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    yeah so thanks to humanity
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    for that and um i don’t know what this
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    i’m not gonna respond to something about
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    uh
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    um
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    what is that yeah that’s anne frank and
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    nadine um
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    from gaza
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    um
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    so we in the western media world have to
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    speak english speaking
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    mountain
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    oh yeah does anyone have um does anyone
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    have
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    oh that’s very nice of you i hope you
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    know
    169:52
    what an essential job you were doing and
    169:54
    the difference you were making thank you
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    people watching
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    we’ll remember these facts you were
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    sharing for the rest of their lives and
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    tell others that’s very nice um
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    um tweet what out i will tweet this
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    out uh what was i gonna say oh does
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    anyone have any any
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    um
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    uh any twitter of uh i mean any image
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    sorry does anyone have any footage of
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    any links to footage any tweets
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    uh that
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    are that show a lot of stuff let me look
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    for
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    what’s today’s date it’s uh now it’s the
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    late
    170:59
    uh oh let’s see
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    okay okay this is from sunday oh you
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    don’t have to have it it’s omar
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    omar gotta have him out back on from
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    i’m eu okay so this is
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    um recent
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    this is from a very good resource
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    everyone should be following middle east
    171:29
    i and then imeu should be following too
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    all right
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    israeli settlers flanked by security
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    forces stormed the courtyards of al-aqsa
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    on sunday earlier israeli police
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    reportedly arrested at least six
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    palestinian worshipers
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    the palestinian farm ministry condemned
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    the move saying it was aimed at
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    provoking worshipers
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    yeah okay
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    [Music]
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    jesus christ
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    [Music]
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    uh
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    [Music]
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    so
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    [Music]
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    [Music]
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    [Applause]
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    uh i realize in case we do turn this
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    into audio only um
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    i’ll read out loud what it says a group
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    of israeli settlers flanked by armed
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    israeli security forces stormed the
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    courtyards of al-aqsa mosque on sunday
    173:08
    earlier israeli police reportedly
    173:10
    attacked palestinian worshippers
    173:12
    arresting six of them according to local
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    media
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    oh my god oh they were kneeling on that
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    guy’s head by the way very george floyd
    173:19
    derek chovin wow
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    worshipers under the age of 45 were also
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    reportedly
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    prevented from entering the mosque
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    amid titan security measures at the
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    gates
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    the christian islamic organization for
    173:35
    support of jerusalem said this reflects
    173:38
    quote israel’s insistent and quote i’m
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    violating the sanctity of the moscow
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    chapels
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    and its insistence on increasing tension
    173:43
    in the city
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    the palestinian foreign ministry said
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    the actions of the settlers were aimed
    173:51
    at provoking worshipers
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    and showed a disregard for efforts made
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    to establish calm
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    since 2003 israel has allowed settlers
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    into al-aqsa mosque
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    uh sorry complex
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    under the protection of israeli security
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    forces
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    overriding the authority of the islamic
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    endowment department
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    all right that’s nice pretty on brand
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    all right anyway um i think this was uh
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    let’s see
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    did joanne nayeri the jewish people
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    showed the same resilience as
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    palestinians when they were persecuted
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    by the fascist
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    um
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    uh
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    no i did not see this uh
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    kd you should watch the pro palestinian
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    pro-israeli rallies in canada where the
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    thick accented pro-israeli told the
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    pro-palestinians to go back to palestine
    174:50
    right but i thought
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    uh that country doesn’t exist
    174:55
    um cody wolf child says as american
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    uh indians we know we can’t fight back
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    with rockets like hamas but the same
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    american attitude
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    that condemns hamas military keeps our
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    eyes off why we
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    won’t let natives sue for land title
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    um anyway
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    okay well thank you guys so much for
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    um let’s see uh katie and all eddie
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    edit 77 is the number one instagram
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    okay i’ll show that stuff um
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    let’s see if i got any right now
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    oh man i want one more ah that’s too
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    much pressure anyway
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    i gotta pet it go i got an email from
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    dig i don’t even know why i did it says
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    pedeco
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    all right guys thank you so much again
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    thank you so much uh especially to
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    everyone especially
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    uh landrieu landrieu um
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    okay
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    i mean i think hamas should stop firing
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    rockets because
    180:50
    they’re just not because there aren’t
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    justified but because
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    these are grown men letting children die
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    in gaza without any chance of advancing
    180:56
    the palestinian objectives
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    i mean you could easily argue it’s not
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    why strategically i think though that
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    like that shouldn’t be
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    the focus of our discussion and uh you
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    know like
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    uh what else uh
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    seeker mel thank you so much
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    um yeah i think that’s it right
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    it is true frankelstein said
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    uh if you don’t have them nobody cares
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    there are people there actually you know
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    who said that
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    for real is betzelem
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    remember uh hagai he wrote that piece
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    where um thank you he wrote that piece
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    about that in washington post which i
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    read with um
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    with norm on normazon and in fact i made
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    a clip out of it
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    um so yeah
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    um yeah thank you save sharik
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