Song, kanta
“My Name is Gaza“
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1809903714389385382
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US President Harry Truman (1945-1953) stands next to a map showing the State of Palestine. Israel is not real.
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Ghazal was pulled from the rubble of her home that Israel bombed. Her shirt poetically says
“home is where i’m with you“.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1810993207519727862
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“I SWEAR TO BE LOYAL TO THE GOVERNMENT OF PALESTINE” SIGNED BY ISRAELIS WHEN EMIGRATING FROM EUROPE IN THE 1930s
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Don’t stop talking about Gaza
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Hasiera:
Gogoratu ondoko hau: Pascal Lottaz eta ICJ delakoa
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Israeli occupation is an affront to the international legal order – Nabi… https://youtu.be/iepJlw8WLIw?si=qqnLc2QbCgq89ZrN
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The United Nations Forum to mark 50 years of occupation was convened at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on 29-30 June 2017, under the auspices of the UN Palestinian Rights Committee. A day-long event entitled “Ending the Occupation: The Path to Independence, Justice, and Peace for Palestine” was held on 29 June.
In his presentation, Mr. Nabil Elaraby, Former Secretary-General of the League of Arab States provided a regional perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, focusing on two general overarching issues – the importance of enforcing international law and the recognition of the “reach of the Palestinian territories”. Describing the ongoing Israeli occupation as an affront to the international legal order, he noted that the narrative around this conflict has shifted over the decades from one of dialogue complemented by concrete steps aimed at implementing relevant UN resolutions, to one of talking without action.
He recalled the international community’s attempts to take concrete action to implement Security Council Resolution 242 (1947) at the 1973 Peace Conference in Geneva which was convened in accordance with Security Council Resolution 338 (1973). The current narrative is merely to negotiate without the requisite enforcement of international law. Recognizing the strategic importance of time in peace talks, negotiating without concrete steps or timelines is not constructive. He relied on the authority of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which has repeatedly made it clear that the principles of (i) non-annexation and (ii) welfare of the population are to be applied in the context of occupied territories. He noted that Israel has repeatedly violated both principles resulting in the growing sentiment that Israel is the “bastion of apartheid and discrimination.”
Mr. Elaraby concluded by recommending that the international community organize a conference dedicated to the implementation of Security Council resolutions 242 (1947) and 338 (1973) – similar to the 1973 Geneva Peace Conference – to devise concrete steps for enforcing the decisions that have already been made. It is not constructive to negotiate about new issues, including land swaps, if previously negotiated decisions cannot be implemented. Before normalization can take place between Israel and Arab States in the region the Arab Peace Initiative must also be implemented. Notwithstanding the fact that certain Arab States have economic relations with Israel, this does not mean these States accept Israeli practices or condone the ongoing occupation. Arab States’ condemnation of the Israeli occupation is evidenced, inter alia, by how these States vote on the question of Palestine at the United Nations every year.
Note: Mr. Nabil Elaraby held a range of diplomatic positions, including Judge at the International Court of Justice (from 2001 to 2006), Egyptian Foreign Minister (2011), and Secretary-General of the League of Arab States (2011-2016). As an Egyptian diplomat, he served as Egypt’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York and Geneva. He was also a member of the UN International Law Commission and headed the Egyptian delegation in the Taba negotiations.
Transkripzioa:
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uh allow me to start with what I would
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have considered as my
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conclusion 50 years of Israeli
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occupation of Palestinian territories is
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an affront to the international legal
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order and to the whole world it’s not a
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question of Israel versus
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Palestine or Palestinians it’s really a
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question now is there international law
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is there rules that
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govern St the act action of states or
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not
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if we Palestine has been occupied for 50
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years what has
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happened yet when great power a
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permanent member of the security Council
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occupied Crimea and maybe they have
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their own reasons for that I’m not for
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for it or against it but there were
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sanction against it the International
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Community decided to take action here
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you look the other way I have been
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particip I was in the security Council
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in June 16 7 I was in the security
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Council as a junior member of the
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Egyptian delegation in October 73 I was
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a member of the October of the December
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73 peace conference in Geneva I have
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seen attempts by the International
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Community to do something because Geneva
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in 73 it was in accordance with the
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provisions of uh Security Council
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resolution 338 which called for the
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implementation of 242 now the narrative
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has changed it’s not a question of
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implementation of rules of international
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law The Narrative now is let’s talk
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let’s talk and as prime minister Shamir
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said in in Madrid we can talk for 100
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years uh I believe and I have negotiated
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personally with Israel for over 15 years
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on many many subjects the question of
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the time factor is of strategic
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importance you want time and then what
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comes comes but it doesn’t matter you
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you don’t want to finish anything and if
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we continue Contin with that we’ll never
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see uh the end of this
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conflict I would like to draw your
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attention to something else what is the
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nature of the Palestinian territories
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what are the Palestinian territories
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they were another demanded and it was
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made very clear not once but twice by
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the international court of justice in
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1950 and in 2004 that there are two
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principles two principles which have to
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apply to mandatory territories first non
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annexation the first principle is non
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annexation they cannot be annexed by
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anyone this is the rule of international
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law and the second one is the welfare of
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the population now what we have seen
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recently
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as has reminded us this morning is all
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kind of violations of international
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law um as some have said and even in in
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Publications that this is Israel has
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become now the
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Bastion of apartheid and discrimination
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this has to end it’s should end for the
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benefit of the morality and the
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Democracy in Israel itself so what is
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what one wants to see
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is a
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conference similar to the 1973 Geneva
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conference which should be dedicated to
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the implementation of the resolution
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adopted by the security Council namely
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242 and 338 but to get into other
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matters and
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to
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start acting as if what is needed really
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is to talk and see how uh this piece of
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land will go there and
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this area will belong to
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another people it’s not the formula for
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Success the Israel has accepted in many
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resolutions in many commitments written
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commitments including with Egypt in cam
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David and I was present that 2 for2
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which means withdrawal will apply to the
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Palestinian territories now all kind of
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justifications have been advanced in
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many ways just to postpone
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this I personally believe that this
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question of quartet with the security
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Council decided upon was a waste of time
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and I told him that in my first meeting
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with them there is no need for for
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anything like that what is needed really
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is to say let’s carry out the
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commitments that has been made in very
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solid terms by the International
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Community to ensure that Palestinians
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and Israelis will be able to live in
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peace according to the rules of
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international law thank you
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Scared of our Own Shadow
(https://scottritter.substack.com/p/scared-of-our-own-shadow)
Sep 06, 2024
The Biden administration has unleashed a frontal assault on free speech, using allegations of Russian interference in US elections as justification to ban Russian media from operating inside the United States, and criminalizing the actions of Americans such as myself who dare provide a platform for Russian voices to heard by a broader American audience.
While I have, to date, not appeared in any of the indictments (nor do I expect to, since I have done nothing illegal), several Russian and Russian-Americans have, along with various Russian organizations. As expected, speculation in the mainstream media as well as social media runs wild regarding the scope and scale of the alleged Russian interference. This has caused me to reflect on how far off-kilter America has found itself, where a politicized judiciary clearly seeking to tip the forthcoming election away from the challenger, and to the hand-picked successor to the incumbent, is ignored while allegations made by this politicized judiciary about paid propaganda are treated at face value.
Scott will discuss this article and answer audience questions on Ep. 191 of Ask the Inspector.
(A quick reminder that all of the persons and organizations that have been indicted so far on criminal charges are Russians or Russian-Americans who reside in Russia and, as such, are outside the reach of American law enforcement and most likely not going to engage in an adversarial challenge of the charges in a US court of law, allowing the US government and its compliant minions in the mainstream media to treat the allegations as fact.)
Amidst revelations of multi-million dollar deals where influencers were paid $100,000 a week to produce video content, and on-air hosts given million dollar salaries along with other perks, my relationship with Russian state-owned media pales into insignificance, contracted as an outside contributor compensated with what now, by comparison, seems a paltry $250-280 per item published, with the total amount received amounting to less than 7% of my total annual income.
Apparently, my negotiating skills are lacking—rather than insisting that I would not consider any offer under $5 million, I was content with compensation that matched the industry “norm” of between $150-300 per item published. Earlier this year, when RT thought that my interest in contributing had waned, they offered to double the price paid per article; I declined, insisting that we adhere to the letter of our agreement.
The author in the radio studio of Komsomolskaya Pravda
The value of my interaction with Russian media, both in terms of publishing with RT and Sputnik, as well as appearing on programs of a wide range of other Russian media outlets, came from the connections made, and the resulting ability to meet and interact with Russian officials, politicians, diplomats, academics, military officers, analysts, experts, and people on the street. I view my Russian media interaction as part and parcel of my entire Russia experience—a critical aspect of the immersive activities I engaged in when traveling to Russia in 2023 and early 2024. The Russian journalists I encountered were professionals in every sense of the word, and by subjecting myself to their queries, I learned much about the Russian mindset and how it shaped Russian sensibilities and priorities.
I am struck by the intensity of the Department of Justice’s campaign—and by extension, that of the Biden administration—against Russian media. Not only is it a gross politicization of the judiciary, singling out as it does one candidate (Donald Trump) as being the recipient—unwitting or otherwise—of Kremlin efforts to tip the scale of democracy in his favor, but it builds walls between the American people and their Russian counterparts at a time when bridges are desperately needed.
Back during the Cold War, when the US and the Soviet Union were locked in an ideological contest of existential proportions, the strategy of the United States was to encourage the American people to actively learn about the Soviet Union. Then we were confident in who we were as a nation, and unafraid to pit our way of life against any other. We also trusted in the ability of the American people to discern fact from fiction, and to be able to make decisions free from foreign interference.
Encounter Magazine, a CIA-funded literary and cultural challenge to Soviet ideology
The CIA engaged in this culture war using traditional black propaganda. But it also funded and helped direct a center-left literary magazine, Encounter, which sought to win over elements of western society deemed vulnerable to Soviet propaganda by engaging the intellect, not by denying it.
The CIA also funded the work of the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, or FBIS, which, from 1967 until it was dissolved in 2005, monitored foreign mass media transmitted by radio, television, and print which was then translated and bound together in unclassified publications which were made available to government and military customers, as well as academic audiences (the material was not freely distributed to the American public due to copyright concerns.)
The FBIS was a CIA open-source intelligence activity that operated from 1967 until 2005
The point is that there was a time when people who were interested in learning fact-based information about the Soviet adversary were encouraged to do so without fear of sanction or hostile legal proceeding. I graduated from college in 1984 and was commissioned into the Marines that same year. During this time, I completed my Russian history degree, which included defending an honors thesis which required me to do a deep dig on Russian and Soviet military theory. I also authored an academic article on Soviet history which required the use of primary research materials. At no time was I hindered, either directly or indirectly, with this work, even though the Soviet Union, in 1984, was carrying out a massive intelligence-driven effort to prevent Ronald Reagan from gaining a second term. The Reagan administration was aware of this Soviet effort and took measures to monitor and counter it. But at no time did they seek to silence the Soviet voice, or deny the American people access to information about the Soviet Union and its people.
Under Ronald Reagan, America was comfortable with what it represented as a nation, warts and all.
One cannot say the same about the present day.
Not only is the Biden administration scared of its own shadow when it comes to trusting the American people to form independent political opinions about the candidates for office, they are concerned that, if allowed to do so, the American people may very well vote in favor of their political opponent(s). As such, the tactics embraced to prevent this outcome combine the age-old concept of yellow journalism to smear their opponents, and a politicized judiciary to silence voices of dissent.
The Ukrainian government views the Author as a “top Western expert” pushing Russian narratives
In the case of myself and other vocal critics of the Biden administration’s Russia policy, the US government has taken to neutering the First Amendment right of free speech by—literally—contracting out the work to foreign powers. The State Department, using taxpayer dollars allocated by Congress for this express purpose, has funded and directed the creation and work of the Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD), a Ukrainian agency which has, as its first order of business, published a so-called “blacklist” of persons, including many Americans (including myself) it describes as Russian propogandists. The CCD, again with funding and organizational support, has moved to label those on the list as “information terrorists” who should be subjected to the same sanctions as actual terrorists, up to and including the use of extrajudicial assassination to silence them.
I feature prominently in the work of the CCD, as well as other Ukrainian “lists,” such as the Miratvoretz (“peacekeepers”) hit list, which literally marks those on it for assassination. It would be curious to see the extent to which the concerns of the CCD and Ukrainian intelligence about my work were transmitted to the State Department, CIA, and FBI, and to what extent the US government acted on these concerns, up to and including whether or not the underlying information contained in the affidavits submitted for establishing probable cause to execute a search warrant on my home originated from Ukraine.
Gerald Celente
On September 28 I will be participating in a peace rally in Kingston, New York, organized by Gerald Celente. I will be joined by other concerned Americans, including Judge Andrew Napolitano, Maz Blumenthal, and Anya Parampil. We will be discussing a number of issues pertinent during this election year, including the threat of nuclear war, the conflict in Gaza, the assault on free speech, and the status of the peace movement in America today. I view this rally as the jumping off point for what I am calling “Operation DAWN,” a campaign to help inject the issue of nuclear war and the necessity for peace into the American political dialogue by encouraging American voters not to give their vote away, but rather make the candidates earn it by holding their feet to the fire on important issues such as these.
The Russian government, or any Russian proxy, is not involved in this effort whatsoever.
However, an important component of this exercise is to breathe life into the words of President John F. Kennedy who, in his commencement address to the students and faculty of American University in June 1963 declared, “No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue…we can still hail the Russian people for their many achievements—in science and space, in economic and industrial growth, in culture and in acts of courage.”
But we can only hail these achievements—and by extension gain insight into the humanity of the people who accomplished them—if we allow ourselves to be open to the concept of free interaction between people.
Today, the Justice Department and the Biden administration seeks to promote rampant Russophobia amongst the American people by keeping them ignorant of the Russian reality. This is done by silencing Russian voices and criminalizing any effort undertaken by Americans to enable these voices to be heard.
This is where things stand today.
I, for one, am very worried about how things will look tomorrow.
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Israel’s deadly and destructive operation in the West Bank | The Listeni… https://youtu.be/0YAeiIsbvZE?si=V_PVafjZtaoSZjG4
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Israel has overseen a deadly and destructive 10-day military operation in the occupied West Bank. As international law and global media have fallen short in holding the Israelis to account during 11 months of genocide in Gaza, what hopes do the Palestinians have that outcomes will be any different in the West Bank?
Lead contributors:
Dalal Iriqat – Associate Professor, Arab American University Palestine
Yara Hawari – Co-Director, Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network
Abdaljawad Omar – Lecturer, Birzeit University
Oren Ziv – Journalist, +972 Magazine and Local Call
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Even by his standards, this has been a particularly inflammatory week for Elon Musk. Tariq Nafi looks at how the billionaire has inserted himself into the political conversation, and used his substantial platform to spread hard-right talking points and falsehoods.
An interview with Daniel Levy
Public anger in Israel towards Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of the war in Gaza has brought hundreds of thousands of Israelis on to the streets. But while Israelis push for a ceasefire deal that would bring captives in Gaza home, there has been noticeably little criticism of the war crimes being committed in Gaza.
Richard Gizbert speaks with Daniel Levy, a former senior adviser to the Israeli Prime Minister’s office and negotiator, who knows Israeli politics from the inside out.
Transkripzioa:
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Israeli streets have been packed with
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protesters demanding the end of the
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Netanyahu government but Israel’s Army
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keeps going backing up the settlers
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terrorizing the West Bank and taking the
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genocidal war against Palestinians
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beyond the ruins of Gaza we get a former
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Israeli insiders view of what if
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anything the outside world is going to
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do about it plus they say that money
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talks and the world’s richest man Elon
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Musk just can’t help
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himself throughout Israel’s genocidal
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war on Gaza another horror story has
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been unfolding just 50 kilometers away
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with global attention focused on the
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Strip the military occupation of the
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West Bank has intensified with settlers
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taking more Palestinian land the Army
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destroying more homes roads and water
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systems and the mass arrest of
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Palestinians many of whom end up in
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Israeli prisons notorious for the
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inhumane conditions there this past week
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the violence spiked the Israeli military
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raided key cities such as Janine citing
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a surge in militancy and an unproven
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allegation that Iran is backing armed
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resistance groups if the past year has
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taught Palestinians anything it is that
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neither international law nor the global
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media can be counted upon to hold
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Israel’s farri government to account for
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its war on Gaza what cause do they have
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for hope that things will be any
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different in the West
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Bank while the Israeli occupation forces
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are waging a genocide against the
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Palestinians in Gaza in Paro they are
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continuing with this settler Colonial
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project in every place in the West Bank
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no matter what your religion is no
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matter what your age is no matter what
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your gender is everybody is
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targeted news audiences are not skilled
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at multitasking and news outlets tend to
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tunnel in on one story at the expense of
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others therefore Israel’s Savage assault
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on Gaza has diverted attention away from
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conflicts like the war in Ukraine the
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Civil War in Sudan and the story
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unfolding just a 30-minute drive from
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Gaza in the West Bank the destruction
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inflicted there by the Israeli military
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has been heavy but not close to the
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devastation rought on Gaza and so the
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images and Casualty figures coming out
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of the West Bank have not made the front
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pages but ever since October 7th Israel
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through its settler movement has set off
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an unprecedented level of violence there
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land theft and it’s
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escalating Israel is trying to signal to
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the world that what happened in Gaza
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will be replicated in the West Bank
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through the Tweet of e elkat the
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Minister of Foreign
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Affairs Kats is not sending a message to
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the Palestinian Community he’s sending a
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message to the International
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Community testing the waters by saying
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that they might replicate what happened
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in Gaza in the West
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Bank Israel always likes to uh build a
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boogeyman and now it’s Iran is building
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these networks of resistance and it
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forgets that it creates the conditions
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for the resistance to arise in the first
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place so over the last week we’ve seen
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one of the largest military invasions we
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have seen the Israeli Army destroy over
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70% of the roads there much of the
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electricity and and water infrastructure
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has also been destroyed it’s really
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important to understand that what we’re
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seeing in the West Bank is an expansion
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of the genocide in Gaza this is not a
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new Israeli strategy the strategy has
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always been to take as much land with as
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little Palestinians as
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possible among the many news platforms
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selling this story short are media
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outlets in
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Israel their focus has been on the
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Israeli captives held in Gaza six of
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whom were found dead last week killed by
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Hamas Fighters when they do cover the
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story in the West Bank the disregard for
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international law which Israel is
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constantly violating stands out
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Israeli news channels take their cues on
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that from the Netanyahu government in a
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press conference this past week the
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Israeli Prime Minister presented a map
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minus the borders showing the West Bank
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eradicating the fact that the land is
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illegally occupied this is what that map
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should look like in this press
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conference he completely effaced the
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West Bank uh and the Palestinian
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Presence by only including uh Israeli
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sovereignty over the land from The River
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To The Sea and this is symbolic of an
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Israeli unwillingness an official
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unwillingness to see the Palestinians as
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having rights on this land and also of
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seeing Palestinians an obstacle towards
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the erection of a pure Jewish State and
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and what this means is daily practices
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of humilation for now but in the long
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term also means that Israel is bent on
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the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians
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from Palestine this is his de facto
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annexation of the land under the
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framework of the settler Colonial
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project that he is implementing in gazda
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under a genocide and in the West Bank
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with the in intensified settlements that
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we are witnessing on daily basis this is
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not the first time let’s remember that
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last September at the UN Netanyahu held
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that map from The River To The Sea
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nobody dared to question him and what’s
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even more audacious is that the
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International Community has accepted
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this in fact the Israeli regime has
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continuously built settlements in the
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West Bank and what that shows is that
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the Israeli regime has no interest in in
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any kind of Palestinian autonomy on any
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part of the land of colonized
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Palestine that has been the Israeli
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State’s policy for decades and there’s
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been a marked acceleration of the
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settler movement under the current
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government in which two Israeli settlers
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from the extreme right bezel smotrich
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and itar Ben gavier hold key cabinet
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posts the result of which can be
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reflected online through videos like
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this one posted by a settler in the West
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Bank celebrating the theft of EV even
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more Palestinian land backed by a
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soundtrack of cheery
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[Music]
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music Orin Z is an Israeli journalist
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based in Tel Aviv since the Israeli
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authorities have banned Al jazer from
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the country we had to interview him
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online it’s a bit like the videos we’ve
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seen on Tik Tok or Instagram from Gaza
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of soldiers committing different crimes
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killing shooting shooting vandalizing
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looting and they’re uploading it with
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their faces with their username or
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they’re not shy they’re proud in the
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crimes they commit it’s a bit different
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trend from the West Bank but it’s the
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same
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[Music]
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logic they see nothing wrong in kicking
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Palestinians out taking over Palestinian
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land the difference is that after the
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war they’re much more proud and are
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bragging about those crimes
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ever since the invasion of Gaza
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Palestinian journalists have reported
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relentlessly from the ground there
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bearing witness in the absence of
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international news teams Israel has
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locked out foreign journalists unless
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they are embedded with its military and
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agree to have their work censored
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foreign reporters face no such
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restrictions in the West Bank yet
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remarkably few of them are there
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covering the story they have essentially
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left the job to Palestinians who face
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far greater risks than Outsiders do
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these reporters came under Israeli
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gunfire in Janine last week and were
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menaced by Army
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bulldozers citizen journalism can be
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dangerous as well Palestinians in the
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West Bank reflexively record and
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document what is happening on their land
8:55
despite knowing that the Israelis have
8:57
arrested more than 10,000 of them since
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October 7th somebody has
9:02
to every Palestinian is documenting but
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we also need to talk about the fear that
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those citizens um encounter if they want
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to impose so my students my colleagues
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who live in different cities would post
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videos of continued war crimes against
9:19
their homes against their children
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schools hospitals yet people don’t
9:24
really dare to share if they want to
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commute on any checkpoint any isra
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Soldier can ask for their smart devices
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and they basically go into their photos
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their videos their WhatsApp or telegram
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groups so they had invaded our privacy
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they had invaded our basic human rights
9:44
two Palestinian journalists who work for
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international media were shot at in
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kufan near janin by the Israeli Army
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despite the fact their card has a press
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sign it’s with the same logic that we’ve
9:55
seen in Gaza that all Palestinians are
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guilty in what happened on October 7 and
10:00
this include also Palestinian
10:02
journalists who are trying to do their
10:03
job but are being attacked and shot at
10:06
it seems they Army doesn’t want them to
10:08
operate doesn’t want them to report and
10:10
so we’ve really seen an escalation of
10:12
that and in particular in in the areas
10:15
of Janine and and tar we’ve seen
10:18
horrific footage of Palestinian
10:20
journalists being chased by Israeli army
10:23
jeeps and bulldozers uh unless we forget
10:26
the Palestinian city of Janine was where
10:28
veteran journalist Shireen Abu was
10:31
assassinated in 2022 um by Israeli
10:34
soldiers so these journalists are
10:36
working under
10:38
incredibly difficult conditions and
10:40
really we owe a huge amount of thanks to
10:43
these people for bringing our live
10:46
reality to a global
10:48
audience the question is how many in
10:51
that Global audience are watching and
10:54
what about International leaders
10:56
Israel’s allies from the United States
10:58
to Europe Europe to the Arab world how
11:01
far will they allow the Israelis to go
11:04
with a settler Colonial project that
11:06
since October 7th has gone into
11:09
overdrive and what will it take for the
11:11
quote International rules-based order to
11:14
apply those rules and enforce them
11:17
against a Zionist state that has turned
11:21
[Applause]
11:26
genocidal moving on now to Tech Bild
11:29
millionaire Elon Musk musk has spent the
11:31
past few months doing his right-wing
11:34
provocateur thing on his platform X
11:37
posting one inflammatory or false tweet
11:40
after another Tarak NAFA has been
11:42
tracking the output this week despite
11:45
his sometimes cartoonish Persona Elon
11:47
Musk is still the richest man in the
11:50
world and he’s using his money and
11:52
influence to push a hard right agenda in
11:55
the US and elsewhere this week musk has
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been all over X he’s been railing
12:00
against a Brazilian Supreme Court Judge
12:03
who ordered a ban on his platform in the
12:05
country over its refusal to remove
12:09
disinformation then we saw a lot of the
12:11
kind of posts he’s been putting out for
12:13
months now prot Trump right-wing often
12:16
slightly weird talking points there was
12:19
this forchan style screenshot with a
12:21
theory about how quote high testosterone
12:24
alpha males are the only people able to
12:27
think freely musk then posted this
12:30
clearly AI generated image of Kamala
12:32
Harris that he appeared to be trying to
12:35
pass off as genuine and finally there
12:37
was this retweet of a New York Post
12:39
article about migrants flooding New
12:41
York’s justice system musk asked when is
12:44
enough enough this is now a fairly
12:47
typical week for Elon Musk according to
12:49
a recent report from the center for
12:51
countering digital hate he’s posted at
12:54
least 50 false election claims on X so
12:58
far this year posts which were viewed
13:00
nearly 1.2 billion times that’s the kind
13:04
of reach he has since endorsing Donald
13:07
Trump for president musk has publicly
13:09
flirted with the idea of joining him in
13:12
office for better or worse he has made
13:14
himself a part of the election debate
13:17
but as the Brazilian courts have made
13:19
clear he’s not Untouchable speaking
13:21
about the judicial takeown of X
13:24
president Lula D Silva said Brazil
13:26
showed the world that it isn’t obliged
13:28
to put up with musk’s Far Right free all
13:32
just because he is Rich thanks darkk
13:35
back to Israel now where public anger
13:38
aimed at Benjamin netanyahu’s government
13:41
is on the rise more and more Israelis
13:43
including members of netanyahu’s own
13:46
cabinet accused the prime minister of
13:48
sabotaging ceasefire negotiations that
13:51
would bring Israeli captives in Gaza
13:54
home but as protesters flooded the
13:56
streets of Tel Aviv demanding the net
13:59
yahu stepped down there has been
14:00
noticeably little criticism of the
14:03
savagery being rought upon the
14:05
Palestinians of Gaza the war crimes
14:07
committed in the name of the Israeli
14:10
State Daniel Levy is a former senior
14:13
adviser to the Israeli Prime Minister’s
14:15
office and going back to the early 90s
14:17
was part of Israel’s negotiation team
14:20
during the Oslo Peace process he knows
14:22
Israeli politics from the inside out and
14:25
is now the president of the US Middle
14:27
East peace project Daniel
14:29
welcome to the program thank you let’s
14:33
start with the hundreds of thousands of
14:35
Israelis we saw on the streets
14:37
protesting this week demanding that
14:39
Benjamin Netanyahu resign even calling
14:41
for a ceasefire in order to get those
14:43
captives home but not demanding an end
14:46
to an 11mon long genocide in Gaza right
14:50
unpack that for us
14:52
please so let’s be clear that there is a
14:56
cohort within that protest movement who
14:59
are very aware of Palestinian realities
15:02
today predating October 7th and for whom
15:06
this is the way to at least end the
15:09
immediate Horrors that is a small
15:11
minority you have a larger cohort of
15:14
Israelis who are skeptical about the
15:16
leadership Netanyahu benav smotrich they
15:19
may know that not everything is okay but
15:23
the preponderance of what they’re
15:25
identifying with here is the fade of
15:27
those hostages and they’re saying look
15:30
you neglected those people once on
15:32
October 7th the failures that led to
15:35
that and now you are neglecting them
15:37
again by refusing to do a deal and they
15:39
are placing the lie and share of the
15:42
blame at the feet of prime minister
15:45
Netanyahu but if you want to understand
15:48
at a deeper level why are we not seeing
15:52
more of an outcry as to what is going on
15:55
there then sure October 7th let’s not
15:59
make light of it that’s a traumatic
16:01
experience but it’s 11 months later what
16:04
Israelis have been treated to is a
16:07
Relentless media barrage which has
16:10
served this idea that nothing to see
16:13
there anything that’s happening in Gaza
16:15
is hamas’s fault a prime minister of
16:18
course and a leadership that continue to
16:22
offer a lot of lies we saw that in the
16:25
uh press conferences rare press
16:27
conferences given by Prime Minister
16:29
Netanyahu an
16:31
opposition that does not offer
16:35
opposition so the entirety of the
16:37
Zionist political Spectrum in Parliament
16:41
is behind this war none are questioning
16:43
the war if you dig
16:45
further the Decades of
16:49
dehumanization of Palestinians the
16:51
inability to see that humanity and
16:54
equality in a way you couldn’t keep
16:57
Palestinians living Liv under those
16:59
conditions you couldn’t maintain what
17:01
the international court of justice has
17:03
now called an aparte regime if you
17:06
weren’t dehumanizing Palestinians long
17:09
before all this began the fate of the
17:11
captives is Central to the media debate
17:13
in Israel right now it’s personal for a
17:16
lot of Israelis let’s face it but is
17:19
anyone really confronting the reality
17:21
that Netanyahu has no intention of a
17:25
deal that would bring them home that in
17:27
the Warped world world of Israeli
17:30
politics a country that we continually
17:32
hear described as the only democracy in
17:35
the Middle East somehow it suits the
17:38
prime minister to continue this War I
17:41
think it’s important to pause on how
17:43
personal this is not just because yes
17:46
there would be people who knew those
17:48
being held in Gaza but also because for
17:52
300 plus days those personal stories
17:55
have been piped into everyone’s home it
17:58
an Israeli friend of mine described this
18:00
almost like a reality show because you’d
18:02
been exposed to to so many of those
18:04
personal stories so that we have to have
18:06
that in the background of our analysis
18:08
and it might surprise those watching us
18:11
to know that many in Israel are far more
18:16
critical of their prime minister of the
18:19
leadership he offers in terms of who is
18:22
to blame for this and they look at this
18:25
and they don’t say what the US administr
18:29
is saying which is well it all depends
18:31
on Hamas all of the blame is on Hamas
18:33
they’re saying no prime minister
18:35
Netanyahu and they using this
18:37
terminology at the protests and in the
18:39
bib critical media the blood is on your
18:42
hands secondly Netanyahu is trying to
18:45
rebuild himself politically as the
18:48
indispensable Irreplaceable wartime
18:51
leader to do that you have to continue
18:54
the war right but thirdly let’s not
18:56
forget this is also ideolog logical for
19:01
nanyu and for his Coalition and for his
19:04
liud party is this the moment where you
19:08
can deal a death blow a knockout blow to
19:12
the idea of Palestinian rights equality
19:16
and National aspirations for another
19:18
several Generations just as the first
19:21
displacement the knar of 1947 to 49 did
19:25
way back then the polls show that
19:27
Israeli still overwhelmingly support the
19:30
war in Gaza but something deeper is also
19:33
coming out of Israeli Society the
19:35
mainstreaming of some really extremist
19:38
points of view especially about Gaza we
19:40
saw an example of that this past week a
19:42
widely shared clip of from an Israel
19:44
based podcast take a listen the title of
19:48
the podcast two nice Jewish boys forgive
19:51
us if we don’t give a if you know
19:54
everybody there
19:56
dies it’s just the way we feel it if you
19:58
gave me a button to just erase Gaza
20:02
every single living being in Gaza would
20:05
no longer be living tomorrow I would
20:07
press it in a second how accurate a
20:10
reflection is that of Israeli public
20:14
opinion
20:15
unfortunately this is much more
20:18
widespread than one would want to
20:21
imagine it’s
20:23
not the only voice I don’t know how
20:26
exactly to quantify it
20:29
but I think what we can say is there’s a
20:32
strategic significance to the prevalence
20:35
the
20:36
ubiquity of this kind of discourse in
20:39
the media because the sense among a
20:42
significant body of
20:45
Israelis is we’ve maintained an
20:47
occupation we’ve denied these people
20:49
their right for decades but this is the
20:51
moment where maybe we can put an end to
20:54
this displace the Palestinians finish
20:56
the job that benuron began
20:59
so to do that you have to inoculate your
21:03
public from the ugliness of a nudge
21:05
nudge wink wink we know what’s going on
21:08
but it has to happen and it’s okay we
21:10
all think like this right there is more
21:12
to this certainly than security because
21:14
it’s not going to bring security there
21:16
is more to this than
21:18
revenge this is for some part of a
21:23
program where Palestinian territories
21:26
will be
21:27
uninhabitable permanently for
21:29
Palestinians and I think that there is a
21:32
legal question here as to the
21:36
culpability as to the responsibility of
21:39
these broadcasters for incitement to
21:41
genocide and after the Rwanda genocide
21:44
many of the leadership of the rtlm radio
21:48
station were held accountable and we
21:50
should remember that and remind people
21:52
of that and look to that kind of
21:55
redress finally you wrote recently that
21:57
it would be smart
21:59
to come up with a new starting point the
22:02
fact you said that America is not a
22:04
friend of Peace in the Middle East but
22:07
in fact an enemy explain why you think
22:11
that and what should journalists
22:14
understand about the changing face of
22:17
politics in the Middle East right now
22:20
the reality we still seem to live in
22:22
with the Middle East is as if
22:26
geopolitics power politics in the world
22:28
world hasn’t shifted since the Oslo
22:30
process began 1994 1994 a this unique
22:34
unipolar American moment and the
22:38
us could make the claim that it can
22:40
organize
22:42
things we’re not there today the US
22:44
didn’t deliver for the Middle East there
22:47
was more war of course I’m not
22:49
suggesting that there is an alternative
22:51
Global hegemon who we should be
22:53
welcoming what I’m saying is the US acts
22:56
in what it perceives to be it interest
22:59
it’s not a friend of
23:00
Peace if peace isn’t sufficiently in its
23:03
interest that’s how the US acts and it’s
23:06
not like the jury is still out we have
23:10
the evidence that the US is not going to
23:14
deliver what that behooves us to do is
23:16
twofold first of all to correctly set
23:19
the
23:21
expectations of what the
23:24
US can be encouraged and prevented from
23:28
doing mitigate some of the damage stop
23:31
the US from being able to continue some
23:34
of the worst excesses of what it’s doing
23:36
in the Middle East the other part of
23:38
that story is the US is not the only
23:40
player and the more we exclusively focus
23:42
on the US we more we feed into that
23:44
narrative I would like when you know the
23:46
UN Security Council meets the twom
23:50
minute sync the next day on a media
23:52
channel may include one other country
23:55
but it will
23:56
invariably mostly what did the US
23:59
ambassador say at the UN I want to know
24:01
what the Chinese Ambassador is saying at
24:03
the security Council the French the I
24:07
want to know what the Russians are
24:08
saying it’s important I want to know
24:11
what those global South voices who have
24:14
in the case of South Africa taking
24:16
Israel to the icj in the case of the
24:19
broader icj opinion what Malaysia
24:23
Indonesia the African Union some states
24:26
in the region what they have done is to
24:29
shift the legal discourse on this
24:31
question and if we are stuck in this
24:34
American Centric approach we encourage
24:37
the idea that it’s not your
24:39
responsibility because let’s just wait
24:41
to see what America says enough of
24:44
waiting they’re not going to get us out
24:46
of this problem and that’s something
24:48
that the
24:49
Palestinians I think have largely
24:51
internalized but not their leadership in
24:53
ramala and it’s something the rest of us
24:56
need to
24:57
internalize Dan Levy we wish you all the
25:01
best with your work with the US Middle
25:02
East peace project and thank you for
25:05
joining us here at the listening post
25:07
today thank you
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