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what amazing news I started getting weird cryptic  texts from activists in the United States and um  

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I didn’t believe it I so I sort of tried to  roll over and go and then I thought hang on a  

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minute about look into and suddenly there at Wars  over everywhere he’s on his way to stanstead or  

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somewhere or other got in a plane boom gone and  then he’s got to stop at some American islands  

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where they’re going to sign a document saying  that he’s taken to plea cop to plea as we say  

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in the business then he’ll be in Australia with  Stella and the boys it’s quite moving if you think  

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about it I went and saw him in prison so I met  the boys last September and I’ve seen seen Stella  

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and been in contact with a lot of them and a lot  of the team and they’ve all worked so crazy hard  

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on his behalf but all the people who’ve worked for  Julian over these years that he’s been wrongly Inc  

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erated a man who’s committed no crime well one  Mana B bail infringement and that’s it nothing  

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else all this Espionage whatever is a load of  bollocks obviously but the fact that he’s out  

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and that he’s going to see the sunshine and  hear Bird’s song and and that they can look  

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after him a bit because he’s not well um is very  moving so more strength you know what I’d like to  

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see me old Mara I’d like to see you back at work  at Wikileaks we need more somebody has to pick  

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up the culs and keep up the amazing brilliant work  that you did um and obviously the retribution that  

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has been Meed out for you to you for telling the  truth to us poor Sinners has been extraordinary  

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and disgusting and Despicable beyond all measure  and uh if our politicians the suxs and starers and  

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of this world and Biden and the rest of them take  some stick for this so they should because it’s  

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been disgusting but you we must not be silenced so  any journalist obviously who any bid who decides  

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to be a journalist now going into mainstream  journalism you have to refuse to keep your mouth  

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shut you must not do what they tell you to do even  if they offer you a job at the gry ad or the New  

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York Times or some Mainstream other mainstream rag  do not do it do your job of telling the rest of us  

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the truth about what is going on in the world like  Julian Assan has done please I think cuz we admire  

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him so much much and he’s done so much for us good  on you Julian good on you mate thank you thank you  

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for the huge sacrifice you made for the rest  of us Double Down News so important mainstream  

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media through Julian Assange to the Wolves we  need doubled Down News to help keep us informed

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America’s Dark Day

Scott Ritter

Jun 25, 2024

Julian Assange

By allowing the US government to compel Julian Assange to plead guilty to a crime he did not commit, America has condemned itself to be a land where telling the truth is a crime.

“The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government’s power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.”

Justice Hugo Black, The New York Times versus The United States, 1971

Julian Assange is soon scheduled to appear before a US Court on the island of Saipan, where he is expected to plead guilty to a single violation of the Espionage Act, namely conspiring to obtain and disclose national defense information.

Assange is guilty of no crime. It is the United States government which operates in violation of the law and, by suppressing Julian Assange’s duty as a publisher to expose deception on part of the government about war crimes committed by American servicemembers in Iraq and other lies and deceptions perpetrated by the State Department and Department of Defense, in gross disregard for the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.

By subjecting Julian Assange to five years of imprisonment under horrific conditions in a British maximum-security prison, where he was held under solitary confinement 23 hours a day, the US government broke the spirit and will of a man whose cause had come to personify the fundamental issue of free speech.

The UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights, Juan E. Mendez, has declared that “[s]olitary confinement, [as a punishment] cannot be justified for any reason, precisely because it imposes severe mental pain and suffering beyond any reasonable retribution for criminal behavior and thus constitutes an act defined [as]…torture.”

Every American, whether they operate as a journalist or simply a citizen who believes in the fundamental right of free speech and a free press, must understand the significance of what Assange’s plea deal means—it is a frontal assault on free speech, effectively overturning the landmark Supreme Court decision in The New York Times versus The United States that spawned Hugo Black’s words in defense of this basic American freedom.

Let there be no doubt: Julian Assange is free, but free speech and the notion of a free press is dead in America today, killed by our collective passivity in the face of the brutalization of Julian Assange by the US government for the “crime” of exposing their crimes for all the world to see.

The truth no longer sets us free.

Rather, shining light on the inconvenient truth has become a crimeAmerica is a far worse place today than it was before our government compelled this plea agreement from Julian Assange.

This is a dark day in the history of our country.

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Scott will discuss the Julian Assange situation and answer audience questions on Ep. 171 of Ask the Inspector.

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[Applause]

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thank you anas uh thank you the Cordova

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Foundation uh Middle East Monitor Halal

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Center special thanks to my dear friends

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Rada and N for sharing uh the podium and

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Dr dud Abdullah and one world for

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enabling me to publish this book I’m

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particularly moved by having the friends

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here with me on the panel I think I met

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rather in 1981 for the first time you

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can calculate the years we don’t want to

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calculate the years we met at the house

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of parliament of all places by an event

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I don’t know if you remember rather

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organized by The

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Spectator uh with the PLO representative

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at the time uh I rather was aware of

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something I wasn’t aw when we met when I

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told her because she liked much of what

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I said already 1981 and I said to her

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you see not all the zionists are bad and

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R said to me you might not be a Zionist

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but you don’t know it and it took some

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time before I realized myself that

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actually the views I express could not

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have been defined as Zionist ideas but

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it took time for me to liberate myself

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from that

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ideology and uh as already mentioned uh

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I uh rather I appeared again uh in the

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book uh and at a time in the UK when it

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was very difficult to speak for

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Palestine to stand for

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Palestine uh and it took a lot of

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courage and a lot of effort and

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commitment to insist that Palestine

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should be represented in the public

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domain in the media in politics and uh

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we are standing on wide shoulders today

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due to the immense and incredible work

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by activists like Dr Rak Cari GRE V also

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great pleasure to see my dear friend N I

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was trying to remember when I met you

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first but it’s also in the very distant

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uh past although n and I were born not

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far away from each other geographically

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I think we only met outside of

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Palestine uh and uh what I do remember

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is that that n and I participated in a

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very naive effort by our dear friend

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Edward the late Edward S he was

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sometimes naive he brought Israeli and

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Palestinian historians to Paris in 1999

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we won’t mention the names of the

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Israeli historians 97 97 in ’97 Paris in

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Paris and he uh thought that there was a

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common ground to to agree about the

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version of History if you remember no

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and he was deeply deeply disappointed

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that there was no common ground and this

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is important for him it was important

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because at that time together with

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Daniel burb may he live long uh they

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thought that they found a recipe for

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coexistence that was not very relevant

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to the reality on the ground and Dr dud

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I think you you invited me many years

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ago for a conference in London and it

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was for me the first experience of being

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introduced to the world of the Muslim

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Community in Britain and its very

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special

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commitment uh and devotion to the

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Palestine question it opened for me and

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new world of uh alliances

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friendships uh and winning the

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confidence of the community is something

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I really cherish and appreciate and uh

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without the help of this community it

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would have been very difficult for me to

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withstand the kind of pressures that all

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of us uh are witnessing when we speak

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freely and truthfully for uh Palestine

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so thank you all for being here and I

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really appreciate it I uh wanted to

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write this book because of a conundrum

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that really interested me and intrigued

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me over the years how come a state that

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is declared to be a high-tech state with

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the strongest army in the Middle East

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with the full support of the United

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States and the West still tries to

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advocate for its legitimacy so many

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years after why is this lack of

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certainty by the state itself and

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whoever represents it that maybe its

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legitimacy is questioned on the one hand

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on the other hand why the Palestinian

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case and cause which is very simple in

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many ways and very easy to understand as

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a basic moral

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issue still does not succeed to become a

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legit imate cause in so many places

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where decision are made where policies

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are

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pursued and uh I thought that this kind

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of conundrum needs uh not a soundbite

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answer which usually we we need to give

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under the pressure of media and so on

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but maybe I need to go back in history

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and very uh slowly

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reconstruct the history of lobbying for

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Zionism to try and understand why today

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we are where we are and this is why I

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apologize for the length of the book I

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know that many people don’t like to read

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books at all and many people don’t like

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to read long books uh there’s sometimes

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people who prefer just to look at the

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screen of the

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smartphone uh it’s not an SMS book um

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but I do hope that uh the the patient

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will pay because you need to really go

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step by step from the begin beginning to

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understand the longivity of the lobby

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its

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Effectiveness but maybe hopefully also

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realize its deficiencies and weaknesses

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so that we have a hopeful vision for the

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future and not just lament all the time

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what true is true the total imbalance of

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power on the ground in the region in in

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the global system that explains why we

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are where we are uh uh today another

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reasons for the ra rather length uh

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length of the book is the fact that I

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wanted to bring long

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citations uh from British and American

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politicians in particular both those who

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supported Zionism but also those who

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opposed Zionism it’s amazing to read

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statements by both sides of the uh

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argument from 1900 or 1905 which are

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really prophetic are really prophetic in

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the sense of understanding what the uh

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support for a Jewish state in Palestine

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would do to the Palestinians and to the

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area as a

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whole understanding what kind of

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complication it would create for the

7:20

Jewish communities wherever they are so

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you have these people with you know

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ability which is incredible at a given

7:30

moment in history to see beyond the

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moment to see into the future and it

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gives you a sense and I think anas that

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connects well to what you was saying

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that we are still in that historical P

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chapter it’s not we don’t have a closure

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for that uh chapter and I could call

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this chapter the Western idea that the

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problem of the Jews in the West can only

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be solved by colonizing Palestine at the

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expense of the Palestinians and how

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would we continue to defend this

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horrible idea and uh uh give uh immunity

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to its practices and policies against

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the Palestinians wherever they

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are and although I was familiar myself

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with with many chapters uh in the

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history both of Palestine and of

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Zionism uh I was still uh uh surprised

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to be reminded of certain uh stages in

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the progress of the lobbying for Zionism

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which really ring through today and

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relevant today for instance the fact

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that Zionism began as an Evangelical

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Christian project before it became a

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Jewish one that the whole idea that the

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return of the Jews to Palestine is is

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part of a Divine scheme that will

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precipitate the second coming of the

9:04

Messiah the resurrection of the dead and

9:07

maybe the beginning of 1,000 years of

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Jesus’s rule on on earth now it was not

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every Evangelical stream in thinking

9:17

that thought that way but it was an an

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important part of Evangelical

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Christianity beginning in Britain and

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transformed into the United States by

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people at who first you could call them

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theologians rather than politicians but

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very soon some of them became

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politicians of importance and they

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especially in Britain they provided a

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certain theological justification for a

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new Imperial thinking not just about

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Palestine but of the whole Eastern

9:50

Mediterranean the mashrek because the

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British uh uh basic view on the Eastern

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Mediterranean throughout the 19th

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century was that although the Ottoman

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Empire that ruled that area was in

10:05

Decline it was better to keep it intact

10:08

because a disintegration of the Empire

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would create a a a struggle for spoils

10:15

among the European powers and could lead

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to something which would be called later

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on a World War which in fact is what

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what happened but the pressure of those

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Evangelical Christians who to together

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with British imperialists who thought

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that it’s time to seed from the Ottoman

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Empire the Eastern

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Mediterranean brought together first of

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all a non-jewish support for the idea of

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what they would call The Return of the

10:46

Jews to Palestine and the replacement of

10:50

the Palestinian with a Jewish Kingdom or

10:54

state or Republic depends of who we are

10:57

talking about now it means that already

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throughout the 19th century people were

11:03

discussing the fate of Palestine and the

11:06

Palestinians without the Palestinians

11:08

being aware that are becoming a regional

11:11

project or even a global project of

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colonization and I was surprised to see

11:18

how much this kind of thinking

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influenced the early Jewish uh

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supporters of Zionism because I always

11:24

thought that this was were kind of too

11:27

discrete projects that had nothing to do

11:30

with it but then I I read a diary by one

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of the most important early Zionist

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elazar Ben Yuda who reinvented the

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Hebrew language he was very much

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influenced by Evangelical

11:44

Christianity and changed his mind about

11:46

Zionism in the sense that he said yes we

11:50

might we should redefine Judaism not as

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a religion but as a nationalism but I

11:56

think they are right it should happen in

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Palestine and and not anywhere else so

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there was an impact of that kind of

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thinking the Imperial thinking the

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theological thinking coming from

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Christianity on the very nent very small

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number of Jewish intellectuals who

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thought that the best solution for

12:17

anti-Semitism in Central and Eastern

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Europe was to uh create or establish a

12:23

Jewish State uh in in Palestine so

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that’s the beginning which as you can

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probably understand today is not just an

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intellectual uh or an interesting

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forgotten chapter of the past it’s still

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a very relevant Alliance that is still

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working today by the way not only in the

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United States where we are all familiar

12:47

with the term Christian Zionist as a

12:49

Lobby that supports Israel you go to

12:51

Sweden you go to Denmark you go to

12:54

Norway Christian Zionism is a life in

12:57

Europe and in the united k om as well as

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as an idea that uh uh supports Israel

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unconditionally in the name of the same

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theology that began the whole Zionist

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project to my surprise when I was in

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Malaysia I met leaders of the Christian

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Community in Malaysia and they also are

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very much under the influence of

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Christian zionists uh uh in in that

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respect so this is an alliance of the

13:26

past which is still steadfast

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uh uh uh today the second uh uh again

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note in the book that reminded me of

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things that I forgotten and I thought

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are very relevant for today is the

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insistence of every leading finger

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figure sorry in the anglo-jewish

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community and also in some of the

13:52

western uh Jewish communities people

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with uh status with position

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some of them ministers in in cabinet

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some of them important business figures

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in their society I was surprised to re

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reminded that they made sure that

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everybody would understand that they

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themselves would never go to Palestine

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that they felt safe in Britain that they

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saw no reason whatsoever to create a

14:24

Jewish State because they had a problem

14:26

as an anglo-jewish community

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and farers and more cynically and more

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sinisterly they said if there won’t be a

14:36

Jewish state in Palestine the poor Jews

14:39

that are subjected to anti-Semitism in

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Central and Eastern Europe would come to

14:44

Britain God

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forbid and they would are poor we would

14:50

have to take care of them after 1905 the

14:53

sense was that these pows are also Bic

14:57

so they would steer problem for Britain

14:59

as a whole and the Jewish community at

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it uh and uh and therefore it’s quite

15:06

incredible to go back to the material

15:08

itself and to see it word by word

15:11

written in explaining to British policy

15:15

makers German policy makers so on this

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is good for Europe because we don’t want

15:20

the poor East European Jews to come to

15:24

the west or to the United States when I

15:27

started talking looking for the origins

15:30

of uh uh the pro Zionist Lobby in in the

15:34

United States so uh this is important

15:37

because again it sounds like a distant

15:39

chapter in the past but it’s very much

15:42

irrelevant issue today isn’t it I mean

15:45

the whole uh uh connection between uh

15:49

the anglo-jewish community and uh Israel

15:52

and this whole uh walking on egg shelves

15:56

when we start we we begin to talk

15:59

earnestly and honestly and actually on

16:03

Against Racism not because we are racist

16:06

that you cannot be an ambassador and

16:08

ambassadress for Israel and at the same

16:11

time claim that all you care is for the

16:14

interest of the Anglo Jewish community

16:16

and anybody who W who points out to to

16:19

this kind of connection is immediately

16:21

branded as an anti-site or in my case as

16:24

a self-hating Jew this is something that

16:28

we should not be afraid to talk about

16:31

because this is very very important I

16:33

won’t mention name but if you are

16:35

familiar with what goes on in the labor

16:38

party now a full lobbyist for Israel is

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going to be one of the most powerful

16:44

member of the labor party uh I don’t

16:48

want to get into names it’s not

16:50

important the name is not important what

16:52

is important that for 100 years people

16:55

who were part of the organization of the

16:58

lobbying for Zionism later for Israel

17:01

also played a very important role in

17:04

British politics and so no contradiction

17:07

in representing the interests of a

17:09

foreign country and a and a foreign

17:12

State and a state that commits crimes

17:14

against humanity and war crimes and at

17:17

the same time serving ASI civil servants

17:21

or politicians of of Britain everybody

17:24

says well when you’re going into this

17:26

you are going into the territory of

17:29

conspiracies and that leads us to the

17:31

old accusations of anti-Semitism against

17:34

the Jews no this is why we write books

17:36

like this this is why we insist that

17:39

this is a scholarly work pedantic work

17:43

that is not falling into any conspiracy

17:46

theories is just examining the evidence

17:49

in history to show that this is a

17:52

connection that is problematic not just

17:54

for the Palestinians but also for the

17:57

Jews in Britain and they I think we have

17:59

now a younger generation at least of

18:02

American Jews who fully comprehend and

18:05

understand this problem and fully uh uh

18:09

acknowledge that this has not served

18:11

well the American Jewish Community to be

18:14

uh uh the ambassadors and ambassadors

18:17

for Israel and they just jettisoned

18:20

their connection to Zionism and many of

18:22

them feel that in order to show where

18:25

they are today they also want to take

18:27

full part in the solidarity movement

18:30

with the Palestinians so not just saying

18:33

Judaism is not Zionism our Judaism put

18:36

us in the Forefront in the struggle for

18:39

Liberation and freedom uh uh in in

18:44

Palestine a third point that I wanted

18:47

and I I follow your your clock very

18:49

carefully here so keep it

18:53

alive it helps me um I used to think

18:58

that Socialism or social democracy and

19:02

labor movement in Britain would go

19:05

together with universal values that I

19:09

cherish human rights civil rights

19:13

workers

19:14

rights and it’s only when I went into

19:17

the history of the labor

19:21

party before the creation of the state

19:23

of Israel and especially in the early

19:26

years of statehood when the the labor

19:29

friends of Israel were established in

19:31

the early

19:33

1950s that they realized how important

19:37

was this today I think we’ll call it

19:40

gaslighting you know this Social

19:43

Democratic gaslighting what do I mean by

19:45

this you have really the the pillars of

19:49

British socialism really the pillars of

19:52

British socialism who for instance would

19:55

definitely condemn aparte in South

19:58

Africa

20:00

fully supporting Israel to the extent

20:04

that any attempt to show as rather and

20:08

her friends would uh uh any sympathy

20:13

empathy a wish to repes with the

20:15

Palestinians the wish to represent the

20:17

Palestinian cause would immediately be

20:19

destroyed by these

20:22

particular leaders of socialism in

20:25

Britain it’s it gives you some kind of a

20:29

more profound and deeper understanding

20:31

for the Jeremy Corbin or the attack on

20:34

Jeremy Corbin it’s not a new phenomenon

20:37

there are Roots there of of social

20:40

Democrats by the way not only in Britain

20:42

in Europe as a whole providing a shield

20:45

of immunity to Zionism in the name of

20:48

Social Democratic principles this is far

20:51

worse than the new than the right-wing

20:54

support for Israel the right the fascist

20:56

right-wing support that Israel enjoys to

20:58

today and maybe enjoyed a bit in the

21:00

past is easy to challenge is easy to

21:04

deal with because you immediately say

21:06

you see who the Allies are of this state

21:09

who the allies of this ideology but when

21:11

the ideology that uh is being mentioned

21:15

and quoted to explain why Israel is

21:18

supported is one that you can identify

21:21

with as a human

21:23

being H then it becomes a bit more

21:25

complicated and it was very difficult I

21:28

think for anybody challenging the the

21:31

support for Zionism and support for

21:33

Israel when it came from either liberal

21:36

or Social Democrat uh circles and and I

21:40

wasn’t aware of this how deep it went

21:43

into the labor party even before the

21:46

creation of the conservative friends of

21:48

Israel who are now the most import

21:50

important Lobby for Israel in Britain

21:52

but how important the labor friends of

21:54

Israel not to mention the specific

21:57

outfits

21:59

that joined the TU the trade Union

22:02

Council the trade unions in Britain were

22:06

uh giving affiliation to pre-state

22:09

Zionist organization whose role was

22:12

before 1948 to advocate for Zionism but

22:16

the is Israel did not dismantle them

22:18

because it turned it into part of the

22:21

lobbying for Zionism in for Israel in

22:24

Britain so you had pure Zionist

22:27

organization

22:29

having full affiliation and membership

22:32

in the TU while any attempt to even

22:34

create a at the beginning a solidarity

22:37

circle with the Palestinians in the

22:39

trade unions was rejected as political

22:43

and unacceptable un unbelievable if you

22:45

go back to it and this is a time when

22:48

people already visited Palestine and

22:50

Israel it was at the time when people

22:52

began to understand what was going on of

22:54

course it became a bit more difficult

22:56

when it was easier to visit and easier

22:58

to get information what was going on but

23:01

even then it was not yet over for the

23:04

labor party to show unconditional

23:07

support for oppression apartheid

23:10

colonization ethnic lensing and nowaday

23:13

to not to speak openly and bravely about

23:15

the genocide in Palestine shame on them

23:18

and shame on this leadership that

23:20

doesn’t even have one word to say

23:29

but it has an historical uh roote uh uh

23:33

for this and I think it’s very important

23:36

finally I think that uh I want also to

23:40

be optimistic because it’s very clear

23:42

that what I was talking about up up to

23:44

now is a huge powerful Alliance first

23:48

included Britain then the United States

23:50

then multinational

23:52

corporation the Palestinians really I

23:54

mean were

23:55

facing an alliance so powerful

23:59

economically politically

24:01

strategically and it’s all focused on

24:04

the idea of this project of displacement

24:06

and replacement displacing the

24:08

Palestinian and replacing them it’s it’s

24:11

it’s almost incredible that they are

24:13

still there fighting showing resilience

24:16

and resistance this is also what my book

24:19

taught me once and more once more that

24:21

how how unbelievable is the fact that

24:24

Palestine and the Palestinians are still

24:26

there it’s not taken for granted

24:29

but what brings me hope and for me hope

24:32

I want to explain that nobody

24:35

misunderstand what I mean for me hope

24:37

for me is the end of Israel and the

24:39

creation of a free Palestine from The

24:41

River To The

24:41

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24:51

Sea what brings me hope is the fact that

24:55

uh the powerful Lobby and the Alliance

24:59

were very effective when it comes to

25:01

politics from

25:02

above they from the very early on they

25:05

understand that all they have to do is

25:06

follow politicians at the early stages

25:09

of their career making sure that they

25:11

are allies in the later stage in their

25:14

career using money influence uh uh

25:17

intimidation if needed in order to get

25:20

whether the American or the British

25:23

political system to abide by their

25:27

demands how ever they find it very

25:30

difficult and always found it very

25:31

difficult to deal with the Civil Society

25:34

they know don’t know how to deal with

25:36

alternative media today they have no

25:38

idea how to deal with it they don’t know

25:40

how to deal with civil society with

25:43

communal action with boycott initiatives

25:47

with divestment initiatives all their

25:50

methodology all the Weaponry that the

25:53

all the Armory that they have is useless

25:56

it seems against people that should

25:58

gives us hope and the hope is that

26:02

probably this is not the only issue uh

26:06

in which the politicians of this

26:08

particular era are not representing us

26:10

well I don’t remember as an

26:13

historian at an age like this when

26:16

politics and I’m generalizing of course

26:18

that politicians were of such a low

26:21

caliber intellectually morally

26:26

corrupt shallow reductionist people who

26:29

have very little to offer their society

26:32

apart from their own careers it doesn’t

26:34

matter which party it’s really uh a a a

26:38

the age of of the the the the the the

26:41

lack of any status for the politicians

26:45

so their ideas of how to deal with

26:48

global warming how to deal with poverty

26:51

how to deal with issues that really

26:53

trouble people are not very interesting

26:56

and are not very successful and are not

26:58

very effective because they don’t care

27:00

about these issues they care about their

27:02

own careers it’s not surprising that

27:05

also their ideas about Palestine are

27:08

irrelevant and are harmful and negative

27:11

so we should hope that when people

27:13

struggle against this Lobby they’re also

27:16

struggling against Lobby other lobbies

27:19

that make their life miserable and un

27:22

and disable them to solve problems of

27:25

poverty ecological danger in injustices

27:29

in society beyond the question of

27:31

Palestine I think this explains why so

27:34

many people are galvanized behind the

27:36

Palestine question as symbolizing

27:38

struggle against injustices anywhere

27:40

else in the world as well and Palestine

27:43

is an indication that there is a

27:47

different kind of politics that we would

27:50

wish for ourselves for our next

27:52

Generations and that’s why so many hopes

27:55

are pinned on the Palestinian Liberation

27:57

movement sometimes probably un

28:00

unreasonably actually that Palestine

28:02

would be the you know the Paragon state

28:05

that all the other failed decolonized

28:07

world uh was unable to to fulfill but it

28:10

explains because this isn’t a demand for

28:13

a different kind of politicians and a

28:17

different kind of the idea what is

28:18

universal justice this is the Big

28:20

Challenge the icj and the IC are having

28:23

it’s not it’s not a coincidence that for

28:27

the first time they at least provided a

28:29

stage for what people think about

28:31

Palestine and not governments if you

28:33

think about it and they did it

28:35

intentionally I talked with them some of

28:37

them they did it intentionally they

28:39

wanted to show that trib International

28:42

tribunals are also listening to people

28:44

not just to the politics of power

28:46

hopefully this is just the beginning of

28:49

a process that would lead for a better

28:52

world first of all for the Palestinians

28:54

and then for all of us thank you

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0:00

Israel’s Army has officially admitted it

0:03

has lost the war that’s what the latest

0:05

admission from the official Israeli

0:07

military spokes person amounts to now

0:09

remember the big official military

0:12

objectives set by Israel from the very

0:14

start firstly secure the release of

0:16

hostages by military means well Israel

0:19

has killed far more Israeli hostages by

0:21

military means than it’s rescued by

0:23

military means with the vast majority of

0:25

those who were freed were so because of

0:28

prisoner exchanges and a ceasefire now

0:32

the other official military aim was the

0:35

military defeat of Hamas now 8 and a

0:37

half months later yes they’ve

0:39

slaughtered tens of thousands of people

0:41

yes many of them children yes they’ve

0:43

wiped most of Gaza from the face of the

0:45

Earth yes they’ve severely maimed and

0:47

injured countless numbers yes they’ve

0:50

imposed Mass starvation on the

0:52

Palestinian people alongside the

0:54

deprivation of the essentials of Life

0:55

yes they preached incarcerated and

0:58

tortured so many yes they violently

1:00

crushed the medical system yes we could

1:03

go

1:04

on but they’ve done all of that but they

1:07

haven’t defeated Hamas not even close

1:11

and they’re never going to militarily

1:12

defeat Hamas now if you don’t believe me

1:16

listen and said to Brigadier General

1:18

Daniel hagari spokesperson for the

1:20

so-called Israel Defense Forces as he

1:22

told channel 43 news one of Israel’s

1:25

main news stations the following the

1:28

idea of destroying Hamas is simply

1:29

throwing sand in the eyes of the public

1:31

Hamas is an idea Hamas is a political

1:34

party it is rooted in the hearts of

1:37

people whoever thinks we can eliminate

1:40

Hamas is mistaken Hamas is the Muslim

1:42

Brotherhood it’s been around for many

1:45

many years well no

1:49

Einstein du this is something those of

1:53

us who oppos this genocidal ons have

1:54

been saying from the very start Hamas

1:57

emerged as a product of Palestinian

1:58

suffering of Palestinian Misery the

1:59

product of languishing under a

2:01

relentlessly brutal occupation of an

2:03

Israeli state which violently prevents

2:05

Palestinian national self-determination

2:06

now except that’s not what Daniel hagari

2:09

was saying but the point is the absolute

2:11

key point is this is not some military

2:14

force which you just pick off and that’s

2:16

the end of that one it is rooted in

2:18

Palestinian Society it an idea which is

2:23

where I’m think we would dis disagree

2:25

and it’s not to support Hamas in any

2:27

shape or form is that it is a product

2:30

of Palestinian

2:32

suffering and if you wish that to change

2:36

then you have to abolish Palestinian

2:37

suffering now as I’ve previously

2:39

reported us intelligence officials have

2:42

privately been briefing that as well as

2:43

the Israeli State killing fewer Hamas

2:45

militants and claimed hamas’s ranks are

2:47

replenished by new militants because of

2:50

one of the many consequences of engaging

2:51

in Mass Slaughter is that many of the

2:53

loved ones the survivors of those

2:55

butched who’ve got nothing to lose most

2:57

of them didn’t even have homes to go

2:59

back to become determined to fight those

3:01

who have drowned their people in so much

3:02

blood for the rest of their lives in

3:04

many cases now hagari also says that it

3:07

will be impossible to return all the

3:09

Israeli hostages being held in Gaza

3:11

through military operations saying we

3:13

have to reach a scenario where the

3:14

hostages are returned another manner

3:15

again it’s just offensive isn’t it it’s

3:17

just deeply deeply offensive all of the

3:20

things that we’ve said from day one

3:22

being just repeated back by those who

3:25

have prosecuted a genocidal War which

3:28

has achieved none of its aims and has

3:31

succeeded in slaughtering huge numbers

3:33

of people and isolating Israel across

3:37

the world and making it

3:39

a fig a a a state which Western public

3:43

opinion has decisively turned against

3:45

which matters for Israel because who’s

3:47

it getting its weapons and diplomatic

3:49

support for now the last such operation

3:52

last such hostage operation um he was

3:55

referring to there slaughtered perhaps

3:56

up to 300 Palestinians many of them

3:58

children as well as Ming many others and

4:01

meant the odds of a deal to release

4:02

other hostages has massively gone down

4:04

meaning other hostages are more likely

4:06

to end up killed indeed potentially

4:08

killed Again by Israel’s military

4:10

Onslaught what needs to happen instead

4:11

is a permanent ceasefire and a prisoner

4:13

exchange not least those Palestinian

4:15

hostages and let’s call them that who

4:16

are being held by Israel including

4:18

children indeed we’ just had reports for

4:20

example about Dr IAD rany the director

4:23

of Kamal adan’s Hospital maternity

4:25

Department he was killed it transpires

4:28

in November last year after he was

4:29

abducted by Israeli troops and there are

4:31

now demands to investigate the alleged

4:35

torture that he suffered in fact being

4:37

tortured to death that’s the second

4:39

Palestinian doct known to have been

4:40

killed in Israeli custody well before we

4:42

continue though don’t give this man

4:44

Daniel hagari any credit he has been a

4:46

propagandist for one of the great

4:47

horrors of our age and he should go to

4:49

prison along with the rest of Israel’s

4:52

establishment he goes on to say what

4:55

could be done is to develop something

4:56

else to replace Hamas something that

4:58

will make the population realiz Iz that

5:00

something else is Distributing the food

5:02

someone else is taking care of Public

5:03

Services to really weaken Hamas this is

5:05

the way so what is really zoning in on

5:08

here is a split in Israeli establishment

5:09

because Netanyahu is refusing a postwar

5:13

plan largely because he fears that when

5:14

the war ends he will be toppled from

5:16

power and could end up going to prison

5:18

either in Israel or abroad but this is

5:20

let’s just put it kindly desperately

5:21

naive stuff because he suggesting the

5:23

occupies impose a new Administration

5:25

either directly by the Israeli state or

5:28

a collaborating administ ation and that

5:30

will offer an alternative to Hamas and

5:32

therefore hamas’s basis will disappear

5:35

well it just shows his education has

5:36

only gone so far that will that would be

5:39

seen such an Administration for what it

5:41

is a continued occupation by the Israeli

5:43

State and a continued war on Palestinian

5:45

national self-determination it too will

5:47

end up being fought by the Palestinian

5:48

people in Gaza whether through Hamas or

5:51

through other factions factions that

5:53

exist or new factions it’s just beyond

5:55

delusional to suggest otherwise and it

5:57

again we were right all along about all

5:59

of this

6:00

so I think maybe Daniel hagari should

6:03

listen to the people who are right from

6:04

day one so then Israel’s prime minister

6:06

Netanyahu whose arrest for war crimes

6:10

and crimes against humanity is being

6:11

sought by the international Criminal

6:13

Court’s Chief prosecutor Ruff the spokes

6:15

person here declaring the political and

6:17

security cabinet headed by prime

6:19

minister nanahu defined as one of the

6:21

goals of the war the destruction of

6:22

hamas’s military and governmental

6:24

capabilities so netanyahu’s real clear

6:27

position there as a war of annihilation

6:28

that you simply have to keep on waging

6:29

warrant on the impossible military defe

6:31

of Hamas which in practice means you

6:33

just ethnically cleanse or murder every

6:34

last Palestinian which is why we have a

6:37

genocide now let’s just listen to this

6:39

absolutely extraordinary attack by

6:41

Netanyahu on President Joe Biden’s us

6:45

Administration when secretary Lincoln

6:47

was recently here in Israel we had a

6:49

candid conversation I said I deeply

6:52

appreciated the support the US has given

6:54

Israel from the beginning of the war but

6:56

I also said something else I said it’s

6:59

inconceivable that in the past few

7:01

months the Administration has been

7:04

withholding weapons and ammunitions to

7:06

Israel Israel America’s closest Ally

7:09

fighting for its life fighting against

7:10

Iran and our other common enemies

7:13

secretary blinkin assured me that the

7:16

administration is working day and night

7:17

to remove these bottle legs I certainly

7:20

hope that’s the case it should be the

7:22

case during World War II Churchill told

7:25

the United States give us the tools

7:26

we’ll do the job and I say give us the

7:29

tools and will finish the job a lot

7:33

faster firstly can I say this guy really

7:35

does come across like Kevin Spacey’s

7:37

character in House of Cards like such a

7:39

transparently malevolent character do

7:42

you know what I mean it’s just not not

7:43

that subtle I mean just look how he

7:45

bites the hand that feeds him the lack

7:46

of gratitude the US has poured weapons

7:48

into Israel to facilitate its Mass

7:50

Slaughter and destruction of Gaza and

7:53

the mass huge war crimes and crimes

7:56

against humanity involved it’s offered

7:58

vast sums of Aid diplomatic take

7:59

political support and in fact Biden

8:02

frankly has suffered terrible political

8:04

damage as a consequence and may well

8:06

lose a presidency because of it all and

8:08

then Netanyahu Comes Out Swinging like

8:09

this and then the BET bid Administration

8:12

announces that it had canceled a high

8:14

level meeting with Israel adding the

8:15

decision but this is privately briefing

8:17

because they’re not going to say it

8:18

publicly are they no instead they just

8:20

do these little whisperings off off

8:21

stage nods and Winks it disillusion

8:24

voters this decision makes it clear that

8:26

there are such consequences for pulling

8:28

such stunts oh oh a council meeting

8:31

Goodness Me Goodness Me So Israel can

8:33

commit countless war crimes and crimes

8:35

against humanity in Plains I and frankly

8:37

as I think most of us would agree a

8:39

genocide but then if Biden gets

8:41

embarrassed by a video then they declare

8:44

the US privately wimps there are

8:46

consequences for pulling such stunts

8:48

which is again to emphasize council

8:50

meeting I bet Netanyahu is trembling in

8:52

his boots and then the US press

8:54

secretary Karen jeanpierre says we

8:57

generally do not know what he’s talking

8:59

about about uh we just don’t a couple of

9:01

things that I do want to add and you’re

9:03

right there was one particular uh

9:06

shipment of Munitions that was paused

9:08

and you’ve heard us talk about that many

9:10

times we continue we continue to have

9:12

these constructive discussions with is

9:14

Israelis for the release of that

9:17

particular uh um uh shipment that I just

9:21

mentioned and don’t have any updates on

9:23

that uh there are no other pauses none

9:26

no other pauses or holds in place uh so

9:29

as secretary blinkin said today he held

9:31

uh he took some questions from some of

9:33

your colleagues and and took and um and

9:37

talk book to the Press obviously

9:38

everything else is moving in due process

9:41

so spons is actually no no we have been

9:43

arming them to the no seriously we’ve be

9:45

giving loads of weapons as they

9:46

prosecute their genocide of Rampage well

9:48

I hope lawyers are noting all of this

9:49

down the fact is Israel has committed

9:51

some of the worst atrocities of the 21st

9:54

century every day for weeks for months

9:56

in full public View and with a direct

9:58

complicity and involv of the United

10:00

States of America’s Administration and

10:02

its European allies including the

10:04

British government it has failed

10:06

catastrophically failed in it stated War

10:08

aims and we said all this from the start

10:10

everything we said was right we don’t

10:12

say that out of any triumphalism what

10:14

Vindication did we get just Mass death

10:16

the point is that those who made

10:17

themselves willing accomplishes to this

10:19

great crime of our age have to be held

10:21

accountable they can’t be allowed to get

10:23

away with it either the Israeli state or

10:24

those who aided and ab bettered them

10:27

that’s the point the this was a crime a

10:31

great a grave grave crime which wasn’t

10:34

just on the Israeli State and isn’t just

10:36

on the Israeli State it’s on everybody

10:38

who made it possible (…)

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