Hasiera berria / A new beginning
Oso argi geratu denez, Palestina-ren aurkako eraso guztiek helburu bakarra daukate: genozidioa. Ezin da beste modu batez definitu.
Beraz, hemendik aurrera, genozidioaz arituko gara. Ea egoera eta epe berri batean sartuta gauden, to know whether we are in a new time or not.
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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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“I SWEAR TO BE LOYAL TO THE GOVERNMENT OF PALESTINE” SIGNED BY ISRAELIS WHEN EMIGRATING FROM EUROPE IN THE 1930s
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Lord Rothschild Claims His Family Created Israel
Bideoa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUpZT5hEh8Q
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Alison Weir reveals the secret of Israel’s creation:
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1807269838907224331
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UN General Assembly overwhelmingly calls for end of Israeli occupation
Read the resolutions text here: https://www.un.org/unispal/icj-and-question-of-palestine
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Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis@DrLoupis
The occupation of Palestinian land began 107 years ago today, in 1917.
The Balfour Declaration, issued by the British government on November 2, 1917, expressed support for the establishment of “a national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine.
This declaration was conveyed through a letter written by then-Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild, a prominent figure in the British Jewish community.
The declaration states:
“His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”
This date represents the first official support for Zionist goals, ultimately leading, 30 years later, to the establishment of the State of Israel on occupied Palestinian land.
The Balfour Declaration played a significant role in shaping more than a century of ongoing war and chaos in the Middle East, culminating in the establishment of an Israeli state on Palestinian territory in 1948.
Today, the Balfour Declaration, in its outcomes, is seen as the foundation for the ongoing genocide, which in the past year alone has resulted in the death of more than 40,000 Palestinians, reflecting a failure to protect the historical and human rights of the Palestinian population in the region.
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(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuK97E07b2Q)
?La creación del Estado de Israel no responde a un desarrollo lógico de la historia, sino que la creación de este Estado es fruto de las confabulaciones políticas internacionales en las que participaron gustosamente los sionistas. Theodor Herzl fijó una hoja de ruta para crear el Estado judío y sus seguidores continuaron su legado. Antes de la creación de Israel en mayo de 1948, los británicos pusieron la primera piedra con la Declaración Balfour, la cual permitió crear el Hogar Nacional Judío, pero ¿cómo se gestó la Declaración Balfour? Quedaros hasta el final porque en este video os voy a hablar sobre la Declaración Balfour y todo lo que hubo detrás de esta promesa británica. ?
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Palestine is the most well-documented genocide in history, yet the most denied.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1855599445863223457
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Don’t stop talking about Gaza
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UN’s Francesca Albanese is 100% Right – LOCK HIM UP
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Times of Israel: “IDF chief finally acknowledges that Israel supplied weapons to Syrian rebels” “Israel’s supply of weapons has been reported for years, including by Syrian opposition groups interested in expanding their cooperation with Israel in the fight against Assad”
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ASSAD (2019): “When they sent their army into Iraq, they paid the price. It’s much easier to send a proxy. Al Qaeda is a proxy. There is a war between the United States and the rest of the world. Syria is a microcosm of World War 3.”
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1863031734192718097
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WORDS OF A JEWISH MAN:
Zi∅nists are racists.
Zi∅nists are colonialists.
Zi∅nists are a stain on humanity
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1862781471930699992
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Remember Alice Qaisiyah, the Palestinian Christian woman who confronted armed Israeli settlers for stealing her family’s land? Today, Israel arrested her and her mother, Michelle. AGAIN. Their crime? Daring to visit the land that was stolen from them.
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French journalist Marine Vlahovic was found dead! 
She was working on a documentary on the Gaza genocide and exposing IDF war crimes!
Mossad? 
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Before being sent to Idlib, the “moderate rebels” some of you are supporting caged 400 kidnapped Syrian women, children and men to parade them in Ghouta as human shields. The same terrorists are being backed publicly by Israel against Syria.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil@ivan_8848
Taiwan is a part of China.
My advice to Taiwan is don’t become the next Ukraine.
I said to the Ukrainians, don’t become the next Afghanistan.
I told the Ukrainians, you will be destroyed not by Russia, but by the United States.
I often quote Henry Kissinger’s quip when he said to be an enemy of the United States is dangerous. But to be a friend of the United States is fatal.
What China wants is for the United States to stop bullying us.
China is surrounded by U.S. military forces in Japan, in Korea, in the Philippines, throughout Southeast Asia.
Harvard Economist Jeffrey Sachs Shocking Prediction for US China Relations in 2025
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1862808124618367024
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So here we have the President of Azerbaijan destroying another BBC bullshit reporter, who is accusing him of censoring free speech, but she can’t give an example.
Then he fires back:
“Let’s talk about Julian Assange”
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1862820132638081530
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Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump
The idea that the BRICS Countries are trying to move away from the Dollar while we stand by and watch is OVER. We require a commitment from these Countries that they will neither create a new BRICS Currency, nor back any other Currency to replace the mighty U.S. Dollar or, they will face 100% Tariffs, and should expect to say goodbye to selling into the wonderful U.S. Economy. They can go find another “sucker!” There is no chance that the BRICS will replace the U.S. Dollar in International Trade, and any Country that tries should wave goodbye to America.
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If you’re going to win the world back to the dollar, make the dollar attractive to the world.
Stop secondary sanctions.
Return confiscated sovereign funds.
Open Swift to everyone without restrictions.
Make the dollar usable by everyone.
Or no one will want to use the dollar.
And all your posturing won’t change their minds.
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Gogoratu:
#LearnMMT: https://modernmoney.wordpress.com/index/
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Zorionak. Congratulations!
Segi lanean. Keep working!
Euskal Herritik. From the Basque Country!
Wonderful!
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Today, I am incredibly happy and wanted to share my joy and this great achievement with you all 
. Despite the hardships we’re facing in Gaza war, today Al-Azhar University sent me my graduation certificate for my Master’s degree, which I defended amidst the war and the sounds of artillery. My wish now is to soon begin pursuing my dream of completing a PhD .
Erakutsi haria
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@tobararbulu # mmt@tobararbulu
25 minEXPOSED: How the UN Has FAILED to Stop Israel’s Genocide on Gaza | Mark … https://youtu.be/BP4czFPQhGI?si=89uS_F7-LAye9_u1
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EXPOSED: How the UN Has FAILED to Stop Israel’s Genocide on Gaza | Mark Seddon
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP4czFPQhGI)
Mark Seddon exposes how for over a year now the UN has been effectively powerless at stopping Israel’s genocide on Gaza, illuminating the limitations of António Guterres’ leadership as Secretary General and also highlighting the UN’s weak attempts to get aid into Gaza.
He also exposes Israel’s ongoing war against UNRWA and explains the process of how Israel could well be expelled from the UN while offering his perspective on whether the UN is indeed a dying institution.
Mark Seddon is a former UN Correspondent for Al Jazeera English TV and Editor of Tribune magazine. He has also worked as a Speechwriter for former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
He is now director of UN Studies at the University of Buckingham. Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza.
0:00 Introduction
1:00 What does the election of Donald Trump mean for the Palestinians in the short term and long term?
3:00 170 countries to 6 voted for Palestine’s full membership at the UN
5:00 Netanyahu wants to drag US into a war with Iran
6:00 What signal does the appointment of Mike Huckabee to US ambassador to the UN send to the rest of the world?
7:00 Elise Stefanik and Mike Huckabee are as extreme as Smotrich
8:20 Has António Guterres been an effective Secretary General of the UN?
10:40 What power does the UN really have?
11:00 Malaysia calls for Israel to be expelled from UN
13:10 Uniting for Peace resolution explained
14:00 Why can’t the UN take aid into Gaza?
16:30 Will the UN’s latest report on genocide in Gaza make a difference?
19:00 How many UN resolutions has Israel violated?
22:00 We the Palestinians don’t have time
24:00 Israel must reach a settlement
25:30 Israel’s War Against the UNRWA
30:20 What is the future of the UN?
Transkripzioa:
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so hello and welcome to Palestine Deep dive today I’m very happy to be joined
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by my colleague Mark seden uh but Mark sidden is not only a colleague of mine at Palestine D dive
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he’s a former un correspondent for Al jazer English TV and editor of Tribune magazine he has also worked as speech
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writer for former un United Nations Secretary General bimon and serves as
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director of the UN studies at the University of beckingham today Mark and
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I will talk about the UN uh but also we will talk about the implications of the election of Donald
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Trump and what that means for the Palestinians mark thank you very much for joining me today thank you ahed
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lovely to see you oh thank you very very much uh so Mark we will we will talk u a
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bit today about the UN but let’s talk a little bit before that about the election of Donald Trump and uh what
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that means for the Palestinians in the short term and in the long term for word
What does the election of Donald Trump mean for the Palestinians in the short term and long term?
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well I mean one of the reasons Donald Trump was elected as you know um is that
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many uh traditional Democrat voters especially Michigan uh Arab American
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voters uh had had enough of the Democrats had had enough of President Biden and didn’t vote for Kamala Harris
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uh principally because as you as we all know the Biden Administration has
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continued to support Israel as it’s crossed red line after Red Line after red line so we know why Donald Trump’s
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been elected that wasn’t just the re the only reason but it was certainly one of them what we seem to know so far is that
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he did have a call with prime minister Netanyahu of Israel the reports we had from that call was that uh he Trump said
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to Netanyahu I want this over by the time of my inauguration by which um many
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commentators have taken as a as a message really to stop the actual fighting in Gaza to allow him M Clean
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inauguration but looking Beyond this and I know I know we we’ll probably go on to discuss the some of the individual
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appointments I think that in many respects The Darkest Hour comes before
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Dawn and what we’re seeing from uh this President is a a a man who has appears
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to have learned absolutely nothing from his first term in office and actually is
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well disposed to whatever Netanyahu wants to do next in terms of the
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colonization and the driving out of Palestinians from the occupied Palestinian territories in in so far as
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they’re able to do so I think that the uh Trump Administration uh is going to continue
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obviously with the military support of Israel no matter what and will be as
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isolated as it is now and more so and I just bring just one example Amed
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yesterday I mean you all know there was a vote at the general assembly on self-determination for the Palestinian
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people once again the United Nations reaffirming 170 votes 170 votes to
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six so those six countries that voted against uh the recognition of Palestine
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self-determination of the Palestinian people are Israel the United States and
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two South American outliers Argentina and Paraguay and and two three uh
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micronesian uh Pacific States which are effectively U American protectorates
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that’s how isolated the United States is and I think the United States is going to be more isolated under Donald
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Trump but Mark the US is the most powerful country in the world how
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important do you think that will play in in in Palestine the US can be isolated
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when it comes to Palestine but eventually they’re the most powerful country in the world and they can make whatever they want
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so yes I mean I mean there are two ways of looking at this one one is that if we were to believe what the Biden
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Administration was saying and what blinkin was saying the Secretary of State blinken all of these red lines
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that they kept on putting up for Israel the the attack on Rafa that shouldn’t happen the 30 days in which Aid had to
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be increased to 340 trucks a day and and essentially there had been 40 trucks each and every time the Americans have
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asked netan who to do something he’s ignored them so um of course you could
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say well how serious were they because they never ever ever stopped supplying
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weapons and the bombs that have been dropped on civilians so um in in in one
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respect they seem to have little influence over Israel even if they want to exert it unless they turn off the
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military um the military tap but more broadly I mean you do wonder I mean
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clearly as as as as you and I know netanyahu’s game plan for a very long
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time and nobody can pretend that they don’t know that this is the case he goes to the general assembly each year and
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produces the map of Greater Israel and the threat from Iran and he talks about
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working with the Saudis I mean he clearly wants a US
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Administration president Donald Trump to join him with uh having a war on Iran now the
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idea that Iran could be some kind of walkover as Iraq was is of course for
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the birds in my view so I think that um you know there’s a real danger that the
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the might of trump and the United States for them is OV exaggerated and so they
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should be very careful what they wish for and we also heard that um
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Netanyahu and not Netanyahu biz MCE is is talking about his plans to Annex the
What signal does the appointment of Mike Huckabee to US ambassador to the UN send to the rest of the world?
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West Bank and most likely the people that uh Trump is appointment appointing
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as ambassadors to the UN and to to Israel are people who want to implement
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these plans of annexing the the W spank so my questions my question to you is what signal does the appointment of Mike
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hikab as the uh US ambassador to Israel sent to the rest of the world well you
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could stand back and you could look at Linda Thomas Greenfield the current un amb for instance yeah who was vetoed as you
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know throughout used the US veto throughout to frustrate the security Council over uh over Israel Palestine uh
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who’s who’s accused uh the UN special rapporter Franchesca albanes have been
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an anti-semite we’ve had the most extreme uh actual policies from the United
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States under the Biden Administration so it’s going to be a Continuum under Trump and his new appointments as you say I
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think there’s a difference though because under Biden many of these people
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pretended that they wanted to do something now there’s no pretense anymore Mike Huckabee and the new UN
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Ambassador um Elise stepanick are Hardline Evangelical Christians and they
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actually are as Extreme as smotrich and Ben gav they’re the same people yeah so
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this is what this is what we see and the and the reality of course is that um they will be incredi even more
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isolated and what it does mean I think uh is that it’s going to be incredibly
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difficult for the British for instance to continue along the lines of supporting whatever whatever America
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does and the Germans as well and don’t forget the Germans have their own election coming up uh because the German
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government has just collapsed so I think the I think things do do change at an
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international level but I think that things are going to be particularly Grim as as we all know um in the
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occupied Palestinian territories in the immediate period ahead and what of the UN and its Secretary General Antonio
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guates has has he been um an effective leader of the
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UN um I mean there are many of us who’ve been very critical of I mean it’s a very difficult job of course I mean secretary
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gues came in um at the same time as president Trump his first you know his
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his first election President Trump um and you know gues said at the time I’ve
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been dealt this impossible hand because of course Trump had very little time for the United Nations um I mean there was a
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kind of deal done of sorts you know that you keep your Tanks off my lawn and I’ll
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keep mine off yours so the UN under GES uh didn’t give the US a hard time under
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Donald Trump the first time around but now he’s been elected again Donald Trump
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I think they’re very big question marks as to whether gues can actually finish his term because he has lacked uh
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courage in many respects uh he’s been he he he really could have been a whole lot
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more effective not only over uh Palestine but also over Ukraine and it’s
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easy I know it is easy to say all of this but over 200 odd uh former senior
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un officials did actually write an open letter critical of GES over Ukraine and
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I I would say that even more critical of his stance over Palestine that just he’s
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just not standing up being strong enough and demanding entry uh to the
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Palestinian territories turning up at the Palestinian borders demanding to be let in I mean he has been treated in the
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most appalling manner by the Israelis never before has a Secretary General been banned from entering the
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Palestinian territories they’ve got no right to do that they are breaking international law and doing that so with
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as a contempt for the UN for unra which they voted to stop actually bringing Aid
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into and helping to that what’s left of Gaza function and the rest of the the the the occupied territories it is
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extraordinary that Israel has been able to get away with all of this and it’s not it’s is more the fault of the United
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States and other countries and the security Council but but the Secretary
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General Bears some blame himself but does he really have a have power to um
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let a humanitarian uh Aid to come to Gaza what kind of power does the UN
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have well I mean you know the the the old adage is the UN can only be as
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strong as its member states allow it to be and right at the moment right now at the moment you’ve got paralysis at the
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security council with Russia vetoing everything over Ukraine and America vetoing everything over uh Israel
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Palestine uh and that has meant that you know uh the Secretary General at one stage introduced a chapter 7even
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resolution which is actually his own resolution calling upon all permanent
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members uh of the security Council to uh to to to stop using their veto and to
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and to get behind um the UN over Palestine you know that that didn’t work and so it has moved to the general
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assembly um the general assembly has called for sanctions and I think that um
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you know there is a um a push by Malaysia for a resolution calling for
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the expulsion of Israel from the United Nations which would be kind of a bit of
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a first actually um now I know China and South Africa and when I say China I mean
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Taiwan have been on the receiving end of the general assembly in the past but this is quite would be quite a big move
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but I simply say I mean with this um expulsion from the UN for Israel for
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being in breach of international law for being engaged in genocidal
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activities for the forced displacement of civilians which is a which is a war
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crime um that expulsion can only happen with the majority vote of the general assembly and the support of the SEC AR
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General now Israel could be suspended by a simple vote of the general assembly it doesn’t need the
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secretary General’s support so I think they’ll be calibrating Malaysia and other
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countries which is most likely to pass but of course when it comes to a do you
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think it will pass do you think a resolution like that could pass I I think I think a vote to suspend Israel
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could very well likely pass absolutely it’s a simple majority nobody can veto a general assembly vote a
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resolution so and there is also another resolution which can be passed um which
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has been but not in its strongest form which is called uniting for peace it was
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actually the uniting for peace resolution that has called for sanctions against Israel and we are seeing member
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states around the world taking sanctions um a whole number of them as we know and that will only grow the isolation of
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Israel at an international level is growing and more and more countries are boycotting
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Israel now it would be very interesting to see let’s say for example if a vote
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to suspend Israel was passed by the general assembly what would the United States do United States might even
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decide under Donald Trump to suspend itself who knows I know that’s a bit of conjecture but we live in very strange
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times but it just does show how isolated both Israel and the United States
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are but what will mean uh what will that mean to the Palestinians if Israel gets suspended from the UN will it help in
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the genocide at least or give the Palestinians any right or anything I mean I I you know I think a lot of
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people around the world are wondering why it is that the International Community cannot put together an
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intervention Force to actually take aid in across the
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borders uh the blue helmets take them in I look the blue helmets and the UN have stood far firm in southern Lebanon
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they’ve been attacked Time and Time Again by the IDF but they stood firm and
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I think what people around the world are wondering is why doesn’t the UN why don’t member states why can’t the Arab
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League with the UN take in Aid just do it and and see what the Israelis do
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because this this current this current situation is just it just cannot it just
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cannot continue I think if you go to Gaza and ask any Palestinian what they think I think
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every single Palestinian will tell you will ask you the same question why can’t the world why can’t the International Community why can’t the UN Force Israel
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to allow humanitarian Aid to Gaza this is the1 million dollar question I don’t know what’s preventing what’s preventing
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the world from acting see live million dollar question the UN itself uh has
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learned all these lessons from previous genocides in Rwanda uh the the genocide
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of shonit and gadza in uh in Kosovo and Yugoslavia never again the world said uh
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at the end of the second world war we had the nurenberg trials where the Nazi war criminals uh were put on trial and
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the and the question I think a lot of people are asking is you know how long do we have to wait we we we know
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probably actually that Netanyahu and land and others will one day face some
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kind of Justice um but what what people want to know is what is going to happen now what
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is it is a stopping um it’s not the you know it is actually those member states
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they can say right we as members of the UN we are going to take aid into Gaza
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they did it before by the way in in not a very successful way but even those
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airdrops have stopped um and never mind the the failed
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pontoon but absolutely nothing is happening now and um yes and Mark
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yesterday we uh we saw that a new u a new UN special committee report found
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that Israel’s Warfare methods in Gaza are consistent with genocide including
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the use of servation as a weapon of war and can you tell us what does that mean
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and would it have any impact well again I think it becomes ex
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incredibly difficult for people for instance such as the British prime minister saki stama I was I was taken by
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the by the fact that this week he was asked a question by a backbench member
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of parliament um he was asked about uh genocide taking place he was asked why
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his foreign secretary David Lamy had said that actually it genocide is actually more of a question of num
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demonstrating a fantastic and possibly quite deliberate ignorance about what genocide actually is but K stama said in
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answer to the MP’s question I I really think that it’s uh very poor that you
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didn’t preface your question by mentioning October the 7th and the hamus attacks first and then he went on to say
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and I know what genocide means and yes he does because both starma and Lamy are
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in International lawyers yeah sunak and others previous government ministers at
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least had the figle for an excuse that they weren’t International lawyers despite the fact that they will be
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getting plenty of legal advice so what’s stopping Kia starma and David Lamy from
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calling this out for what it is and actually doing something I think that it it becomes you know we of course and
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Palestine de Di has been calling this out for a very long time but it’s very important that the inter AAL
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institutions get in behind this and say this is what is happening because then it becomes more and more difficult for
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governments such as Britain to continue to play this Tiner uh this disgraceful
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uh disgraceful game that it’s been playing these past months Mark tell us about the history of
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the U of Israel and the UN for instance over the years do you know how many un
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resolutions have been passed against Israel and how many resolutions is has violated well I mean I wish I had the I
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should have been prepared for that question and I wasn’t obviously one awful lot of resolutions and of course
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the Israelis turn around and say oh well you know the UN just picks on us um but
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look the UN doesn’t pick on Israel the reality is is that the UN was Midwife to
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the birth of Israel as you know of course what was supposed to happen at the birth of Israel was also the birth
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of Palestine but it never happened and you know I think that you know looking
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back in history you can’t rewrite history of course but there’s a friend of mine
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whose uh whose mother worked for Elena Roosevelt who played a an enormous role
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in putting the UN Charter together and was there at the time of the creation of
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the state of Israel and when she heard the news she put her head in her hands because she knew what that was like to
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mean in terms of what the program of some of the Zion settlers was which was
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to drive out Palestinians from their towns and Villages and the NABA of course what we’re seeing now
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Palestinians are saying is far worse than the NABA but look the the the the reason why the United Nations uh
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Security Council and general assembly have passed so many resolutions on Palestine the occupied Palestinian
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territories is not just because the un was Midwife to the the birth of Israel
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but not Palestine as was intended but because the Israelis over the decades
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have acted uh without restraint in contravention of international law time
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and time again and if anybody spends just a tiny bit of time themselves
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looking at the history they will see uh that uh from attacks in Lebanon before
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shatila attacks I mean mean time and time again there have been um there have
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been mass killings of Palestinians and the Israelis have been quite egregious
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about what they’ve done and they don’t seem to think that anybody will ever stop them and if it continues like this
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then I think it actually becomes in the longer term very difficult for Israel as a
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country and there are many Israelis of course as we know who have wanted an end to these conflicts and Wars who have
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wanted to reach a settlement there are even some is I who uh like others want
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to live in a secular Democratic country where there’s one person one vote um but
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the majority unfortunately now um being led by this extremist government are
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embarked on a course which is absolutely self-destructive in the longer term because president Trump won’t be there
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forever Mike huckerby and the Evangelical Christians won’t be there forever and at the end of the day people
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have got to live together in a in a tolerant way um and if if we have this
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extremist settler state with this ideology which is based around apartheid and separation much as that that was in
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South Africa and Al and in Algeria but far worse it won’t survive in the longer
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run um I know Mark that Trump will not be there forever and evangelicals will
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not be there forever but unfor unfort fortunately we the Palestinians are rting time we don’t have much time left
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and now where we know that they will Annex the West Bank they are bringing back the settlements to the Gaza STP
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they’re enforcing the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in Gaza they will go to the West Bank we know that they will
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go to the West Bank they will not let the Palestinians live there in the West Bank so we don’t have
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time we the Palestinians we don’t have time no no you don’t you don’t um but
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look at the end of the day uh the palace the number of Palestinians is the same
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or equal to the number of Israelis you cannot exterminate a whole people um you
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know the the look some of these extremist settlers have this idea that you can just drive two million people
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from Gaza off somewhere well I mean this hell hole that people are having to to
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live through the the stinking Rubble of Gaza there is nowhere else for them to
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go so it’s it’s it’s it’s a myth that the Israelis can actually do what they
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really want to do and get away with it in the longer run it simply cannot happen and look the other thing to I
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think that’s really important to bear in mind you know better than I do but the Arab street right across the mreb right
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across the Middle East people are appalled and Furious
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about this they want this to stop they really want this to stop and they look at their governments and they are
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appalled by the the way that uh their governments whether it’s the Egyptian government or the Saudi government or
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some of these Gulf shakeds are in the pockets of the US Administration and
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it’s going to become increasingly difficult I mean you can forget for instance the Abraham Accords being
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revived it’s going to become very difficult for for the Saudis and for UAE
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and other countries when you have people like Mike hakabe and and Donald Trump’s
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appointments and their Evangelical uh view of the world which is absolutely
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the same as the extremist settlers they won’t be able to get their peoples to support this so at the end of
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the day I mean it’s a terrible terrible thing what’s happening right now I cannot see the
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Israelis continuing as they’re doing for a longer period I just can’t see it it
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can it cannot work you cannot be um you cannot be a tiny power even if you’ve
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got all the military support from America um constantly antagonizing millions of people who
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surround you so the Israelis have got to reach some kind of settlement which many of them want to do um so you know it
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doesn’t answer your question about the short term but I do think things are moving not fast enough of course not
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fast enough things need to happen now and who by the way Aid could
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possibly have thought a year ago that things could be as bad as they are now
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maybe you did maybe you did but I think most people I didn’t things could be
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this bad yeah and the bad news for Israel is that we Palestinians we will not just go away yeah we will not just
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go away let’s go back to the UN and hona Mark now we know that Israel is at full
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war against the UN and hona they’re not in this war is not only with the
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statements and words but they have bombed the US in Gaza they have bombed the UN schools a headquarter and and
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everything and we know that Palestinians that the U the Ana for example is the biller uh of the humanitarian a to Gaza
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now Israel wants to close Ana and shut it down what will happen when Israel go
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ahead with their plan to stop Ana from operating the OBT well I mean firstly I’m just to to your point about the uh
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Israeli attacks on the United Nations which have been quite deliberate and all the way through uh of course course they were predicated by this claim of uh of
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several unra workers being part of the Hamas attacks those workers were dismissed by the way and I don’t
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actually know that the the the jury is still out on whether they individually were involved however the unra has some
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I think some 13,000 uh possibly more employees in Gaza alone and so um even if half there
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were half a dozen rotten apples um you know frankly this was just an excuse for
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the Israeli government to do what they’ve always wanted to do not just to ban unra as they’re trying to do now but
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to kill un staff and let’s be clear about this it’s not just un staff they’ve been killing they’ve been
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killing journalists they’ve been killing civilians they’ve been using civilians as target practice they’ve been shooting
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children in the head they’ve been using drones to fly over children’s and Civ I
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who are lying their wounded to shoot them we heard that from a doctor in front of a House of Commons select
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committee yesterday these are the most egregious attacks uh on civilians on the
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United Nations on journalists and all of this should have got governments in the
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west to move months ago any other country they would have done but when it
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comes to unra what does it mean in practice well we all know that unra is the lifeblood of the occupied
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Palestinian territories it provides schooling provides health care it’s provided uh
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Aid when it’s been allowed to get through but as you were saying earlier as we know the Israelis have been using
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uh hunger as a weapon Another War crime so I have to say that um without a a
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program from other countries of getting Aid in and there doesn’t seem to be one
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the Israelis seem to be saying oh well we can employ various private security companies um to do this job well good
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luck to them because it’s a very it’s not just a question of driving a Lori across a border and going through
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multiple checkpoints the situation as you know is so desperate in parts of Gaza uh in
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Northern Gaza in particular which frankly is a ghetto it’s reminiscent of
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the Warsaw Ghetto where the Germans used starvation and killing to ethnically
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cleanse and kill the Jewish residents of the Warsaw Ghetto there isn’t a difference really between Gaza in my
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view and the Warsaw Ghetto so all of this is happening and um I don’t see how
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uh private companies can get security people can get in and deliver do the job
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of unra I just can’t see how it’s going to be not me but this is what most people are saying now the Israelis will
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say well the world food program can step in but none of this I mean unra has taken years to set up none of this can
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translate and be set up in a matter of weeks so or even days which is what is needed 300 this is what the United
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States said to Israel there must be 340 trucks a day to deliver the bare minimum
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to people in the north of Gaza there have barely been 40 if that often there
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are far fewer it’s deliberate starvation the Americans red line has been crossed
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yet again Netanyahu knows that they’re never serious and and on top of that uh the Americans seem to be content
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that unra uh is shut down too they stop funding unra they never started funding
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it again what is the future of the UN Mark we know that the UN was established
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after World War II to maintain the international order and world peace and
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also to stop a new genocides from unfolding but after one year of live
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stream genocide in Gaza why should anyone have any confidence in this institution anymore should something new
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emerge well I mean something something new could emerge um but that would be without some of the current protagonist
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being involved in in the current organization and it’s you know the UN was set up to include every um every
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sovereign country uh you know it’s uh the whole point of the UN was to obviously peace and security but trying
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to uh try to bring about agreement between uh different nations and War ing
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forces and so the UN historically has had to talk to both sides in conflicts
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but of course you know when it comes to this particular it’s not a conflict actually it’s not self-defense this is
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as we can see it’s a genocide um the the the UN can say well we have uh you know
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an exponential growth in Wars around the planet there’s a terrible War raging in Sudan a brutal War raging in Sudan
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there’s been the the colder slower but equally bloody war in uh Ukraine
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um and people are saying well how effective is the UN well it’s not the organization it’s the member states the
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the UN the The veto was never set up to be used as it is by Russia and America
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and also Britain when it suits it it was not never The veto was there to try and encourage peace and security and not
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frustrate it so the question is is um does the UN the UN Will Survive of
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course it will and it will continue to do lots of the things that it does well whether it’s um inoculation programs I
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mean one of the successes that minor successes in Gaza it’s managed to to vaccinate many of the children against
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polio all of those sorts of things are going to continue but I think they’re going to have the new Secretary General
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whoever that might be is going to have to take a long hard look at peace and security and come up with um a much and
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be much more direct and involved and take a harder line against
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transgressors and the the un itself has got to be prepared as it did with right
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responsibility to protect uh when it introduced that to protect civilians
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against attacks and it did that in Sudan well there needs to be that needs to be
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revived and it needs to happen very quickly obviously but it there needs to be responsibility to protect civilians
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in the occupied Palestinian territories so I mean look it would be great to say yes wave your magic wand
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you you can get a much stronger better International Organization but I I’m I’m afraid that
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you know it’s it is so long as we’ve got um we’ve got countries member states
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that are are kind of out of control it’s very very difficult well if it’s up to me Mark as
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a Palestinian we Palestinians we don’t we hope we can reach a moment where we
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no longer need onwa we no longer need the UN we need a Palestinian state with sovereignity over our own lands and
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borders uh and where we have a freedom to establish our own roads and borders
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and everything but until then we will need anwa we will need the UN to be
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empowered and uh and safe mark thank you very much for joining me today I
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appreciate it thank you very much Ahmed thank
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Fields of Palestine (Adaptation) by Seth Staton Watkins https://youtu.be/3_mgwFcmH_M?si=_6QFidRwPNnu8tCa
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(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_mgwFcmH_M)
On the heels of yet another massacre of Palestinian civilians retrieving food aid, this time by an Israeli military helicopter, here is my adaptation of the poignant and timeless ‘Fields of Athenry’ by Pete St. John. The parallels between the Irish struggle for Independence and the Palestinian struggle are many, including their origins in British colonial occupation and the deployment of the Black and Tans in both Ireland and Palestine to subdue Irish and Arab nationalists through acts of terrorism and barbarity.
To quote British Israeli historian Avi Shlaim, “Since 1948 the Israelis have had the whip hand, and their victory in June 1967 has turned them into violent oppressors…from his [Edward Said’s] perspective both peoples [Jews and Palestinians] were ‘communities of suffering’. It is precisely because the Jews suffered so much as the hands of the Nazis, according to Said, that they became obsessed with security and ended up as oppressors. This perspective helps to explain the psychology behind Israel’s violence and inhumanity towards the Palestinians, but it does not justify them.”
Today, Israel has killed or injured more than 100,000 Palestinians since Oct. 7th. At least 27 people, including 23 children have died of malnutrition and dehydration as Israel continues to block aid on the ground. Even the humiliation of air dropped food has not come without its toll, as five Palestinians were killed when the parachute malfunctioned on one such airdrop in Gaza city on March 8th. This barbarity must end and the people of Palestine must be granted their freedom.
Lyrics:
By a lonely border wall
I heard a mother crying
“Waladay, they’re tak’n you away
For you dared to throw them stones
At the mighty Israeli drones
Now an army truck lies waiting in the lane”
Low lie the fields of Palestine
Where every Spring the olive trees once bloomed
Our love was in the toil, as we nurtured land and soil,
Now it’s lonely ’round the fields of Palestine
By a lonely prison wall
I heard a young boy calling
“Nothing matters, mother, when you’re free
Against soldiers taking our land I tried to take a stand
Now I’m forced to suffer cold indignity”
Low lie the fields of Palestine
Where every Spring the olive trees once bloomed
Our love was in the toil, as we nurtured land and soil,
Now it’s lonely ’round the fields of Palestine
By a lonely harbor wall
She watched the last stars falling
As missiles lit up the evening sky
Still in hope, she dwelled, night and day,
For her kin she fervently prayed.
It’s so lonely ’round the fields of Palestine
Low lie the fields of Palestine
Where every Spring the olive trees once bloomed
Our love was in the toil, as we nurtured land and soil,
Now it’s lonely ’round the fields of Palestine
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Scott Ritter
Fahrenheit 7232
(https://substack.com/home/post/p-152341823)
Nov 30, 2024
Illustration by Victoria Ritter and S. E. Poling, from Daydreams
“The sun burned every day. It burned Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burned things with the firemen and the sun burned Time, that meant that everything burned!”
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Annie Jacobson, in her book “Nuclear War: A Scenario,” describes the first few seconds of a one-megaton thermonuclear weapon detonating over an American city as beginning “with a flash of light and heat so tremendous it is impossible for the human mind to comprehend. One hundred-and=eighty-degrees Fahrenheit is four or five times hotter than the temperature that occurs at the center of the sun.” The fireball produced by this explosion is so intense “that concrete surfaces explode, metal objects melt or evaporate, stone shatters, humans instantaneously convert into combusting carbon.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin, addressing the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) at a meeting held in the Kazakh capital of Astana this past Thursday, declared that Russia’s new intermediate-range ballistic missile, Oreshnik, which was used to strike a Ukrainian military production facility near the city of Dnipropetrovsk, possessed destructive power comparable to that of a nuclear weapon.
“Dozens of warheads, self-guided units attack the target at a speed of 10 Mach (ten times the speed of sound),” Putin said. “This is about three kilometers per second. The temperature of the striking elements reaches 4000 degrees. If my memory serves me right,” Putin noted, “the temperature on the surface of the Sun is 5,500-6000 degrees. Therefore, everything that is in the epicenter of the explosion is divided into fractions, into elementary particles, everything turns essentially into dust.”
In short, the Russian President declared the use of several Oreshnik missiles in one strike would be comparable in destructive power to a nuclear weapon.
Hiroshima in the immediate aftermath of the atomic bomb attack, August 6, 1945
The imagery presented in Annie Jacobson’s book is so utterly horrific as to surpass the ability of most humans to comprehend, let alone apply real-life examples that allow for a modicum of intellectual comprehension. As such, when Vladimir Putin made his analogous claim regarding the comparative destructive power of a hydrogen bomb and the Oreshnik missiles conventional warhead, one’s brain is deflected away from the unthinkable and toward the practical.
The Oreshnik missile attack against the Yuzmash factory outside Dnipropetrovsk produced stunning visual images of six separate impact “events,” each comprised of six luminescent “rods” impacting the factory grounds. The Russian government had alluded to the destruction caused by this attack as being devastating; the Ukrainians, on the other hand, have minimized the damage done as negligible.
Scott will discuss this article and answer audience questions on Ep. 216 of Ask the Inspector.
In theory, the destructive potential of kinetic “rods” striking the earth at hypersonic speeds is enormous. A 2003 US Air Force study on what were called “Hypervelocity Rod Bundles (HRB)” speculated that 20-foot by six-foot rods of Tungsten, when dropped from a space-based platform and impacting the earth at a speed of ten times the speed of sound, would produce results equivalent to a nuclear explosion.
In 2018, Chinese researchers from the North University of China located in the city of Taiyuan, Shanxi province, working with the university’s Intelligent Weapon Research Institute, test-fired a tungsten rod from an unnamed high-altitude platform. In the test, a 140-kilogram tungsten rod was fired at a speed of over four kilometers per second and produced a crater with a depth of three meters and a width of over four and a half meters—far from the effect one would expect from a nuclear weapon. Moreover, the penetration effect of the tungsten rod was reduced at speeds over three and a half times the speed of sound.
The Oreshnik submunitions impacting Dnipropetrovsk on November 21, 2024
The physics surrounding the effects of the Oreshnik payload remain confusing to even those who have spent a lifetime studying the physics of such weapons. Dr. Theodore Postol, a weapons expert from MIT, has done some preliminary studies on the Oreshnik which mirror the assessment of the researchers from the North University of China.
But Russian experts have spoken about advances made by Russia in material sciences associated with the performance of materials at hypersonic speed, advances which may alter the physics in question (for instance, the pure tungsten rod envisioned by the US Air Force and tested by the Chinese may, in the case of the Oreshnik, have had a coating of an advanced alloy formed from tantalum carbide and hafnium carbide, materials used by Russia in reentry operations from space, where heat absorption is desired).
The Russians point out that the Oreshnik “rods,” whatever their precise composition, would, once heated to 4,000 degrees Celsius (7,232 degrees Fahrenheit), would vaporize steel and concrete, including reinforced concrete, on contact. “It would vaporize,” as President Putin observed, “everything that is in the epicenter of the explosion is divided into fractions, into elementary particles, everything turns essentially into dust.”
The underlying question remains, how much of an area does the “epicenter of the explosion” encompass? Ukraine has been surprisingly reticent about documenting its claims that the Oreshnik caused “minimal damage,” only noting that the warheads which struck Dnipropetrovsk carried no explosives and, as a result, did not cause significant damage. This conclusion was shared by German experts commenting in Bild Magazine. Jeffrey Lewis, the director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in California, in a recent interview with Reuters, commented on the Oreshnik, noting that, “This is a new capability, but this is not a new capability that represents a dramatic change in the way that conventional weapons are developed.” He continued, “It’s a series of old technologies that have been put together in a new way.”
Oreshnik debris recovered by Ukraine
Lewis added that using the Oreshnik with conventional warheads was an expensive means “to deliver not that much destruction,” noting that, given the expense associated with ballistic missiles of the Oreshnik class, using this type of weapon to hit Ukraine was more likely designed to achieve a psychological effect than military impact. “If it were inherently terrifying, [Putin] would just use it. But that’s not quite enough,” Lewis said. “He had to use it and then do a press conference and then do another press conference and say: ‘Hey, this thing is really scary, you should be scared.’”
While Lewis’ analysis is open to scrutiny (his claim that the Oreshnik was simply a bunch of “old technologies” that have been “put together in new ways” is refuted by Russian statements and the evidence—his analysis of the reentry system is sophomoric, and does not take into account Russian reports which suggest the Oreshnik made use of new independent post-boost vehicles, or IPBVs, known in Russian as blok individualnogo razvedeniya (or BIR). Likewise, Lewis’ critique seems to simply parrot Ukrainian battle damage assessments without any attempt to delve further into the new technologies associated with the kinetic rods used by the Oreshnik.
Schematic of Oreshnik warhead by Theodore Postol incorporating new Russia BIR technology
(It should be noted that Theodore Postol, in conducting his analysis, has incorporated these new technologies in his work.)
Therein lies the rub—while President Putin undoubtedly employed the Oreshnik as a warning to Ukraine and its western allies about the consequences of striking Russian soil with US- and UK-manufactured and directed weapons such as the ATACMS and Storm Shadow, the deterrence value of the Oreshnik depends entirely upon its ability to inflict damage of such magnitude that Ukraine and its allies, when doing a risk-benefit analysis of the consequences of continuing to strike Russia with ATACMS and Storm Shadow missiles, would opt to avoid escalation.
Assessments like those produced by Bild and Reuters, when backed by the statements made by Ukrainian officials, lend credence to the notion that the Oreshnik was all bark, with little or no bite. This mindset has resulted in Ukraine, with the blessing and assistance of its US and UK masters, continuing to strike targets in the Kursk region using ATACMS missiles.
This in turn has resulted in Russian President Putin warning that Russia may hit Ukraine again with one or more Oreshnik missiles. Putin indicated that the targets could include military, industrial, and national decision-making centers, including Bankova Street in Kiev, where the seat of the Ukrainian government is located.
Ukrainian Presidential administration building, Bankova Street, Kiev
It is in Russia’s interest to make the results of such an attack visible to a global audience and, by doing so, negate the analysis of western experts such as Jeffrey Lewis. If the Oreshnik, fired singly or as a multi-missile salvo, can impart on Ukrainian and western leaders the futility of continuing their missile strikes into Russia, then such an escalation would be of value.
If, however, the Oreshnik’s impact is hidden or—worse, for Russia—supports Jeffrey Lewis’ less than flattering assessment, then the deterrence value of the Oreshnik will be negligible, encouraging Ukraine to increase the scope and scale of its missile attacks on Russia, and putting Russia in a position where it must, given the political capital already invested in trying to deter Ukrainian missile attacks, escalate its response. This could include using new conventional weapons possessing massive destructive capability, such as the “father of all bombs” thermobaric weapon or the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle.
But escalation begets escalation, and if Russia is not able to deter Ukraine and its western allies from attacking its soil using ATACMS and Storm Shadow (and, perhaps in the coming days, the French-provided SCALP missile), then at some point the question of nuclear weapons becomes part of the escalation equation.
Russian image of the Oreshnik missile being launched on November 21, 2024
The bad news for Russia is that the US intelligence community has conducted several assessments over the course of the past several months which conclude that Russia would not use nuclear weapons in response to Ukraine’s use of ATACMS and Storm Shadow missiles to attack Russia. This conclusion has been embraced by the White House and Congress, which explains the almost non-existent pushback from within US political circles to the decision to allow Ukraine to strike Russia.
The US intelligence assessment hinges around the notion that Russia will instead seek to match the ATACMS/Storm Shadow escalation with escalations of its own—of which the use of Oreshnik was the first.
As things stand, Russia appears to have two, perhaps three, rounds of conventional escalation left in terms of its retaliation for continued attacks. These could be exhausted by mid-December, which means the possibility—indeed probability, given the apparent mindset in Kiev, Brussels, and Washington, DC—of a nuclear exchange preempting Christmas is quite real.
The inability and/or unwillingness of Ukraine’s western masters to understand the consequences of deterrence failure makes nuclear war seem inevitable. The collective ignorance of the US and European leaders in this regard reminds one of the mindset of Guy Montag, the “fireman” in Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451:
“It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history. With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black. He strode in a swarm of fireflies. He wanted above all, like the old joke, to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace, while the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house. While the books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning.”
Guy Montag, Fahrenheit 451
Life, however, isn’t a novel. And when the modern-day incarnations of Guy Montag decide to “flick the igniter,” all life as we know it will “blow away on a wind turned dark with burning.”
There will be a “No Nuclear War” event held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, on December 7, where the danger of nuclear war and the options available to prevent it will be discussed by leading experts such as Larry Wilkerson, Theodore Postol, Melvin Goodman, Max Blumenthal, Anya Parampil, Margaret Kimberly, Garland Nixon, Dan Kovalik, Wilmer Leon and others, including the author of this article.
The National Press Club venue can accommodate 400 attendees. For those who cannot attend in person, the event will be streamed live. Go to NoNuclearWar.com for details. #NoNuclearWar
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World’s Leading Intellectuals Call Israel a “Stupid Idea”
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Transkripzioa:
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Hello, I’m CJ Werleman, and in this episode,
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we reveal all the reasons why putting Israel in the Middle East was a very stupid idea.
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But first – please remember to like and subscribe to our show.
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Now let’s get into it!
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The Zionist state was created in 1948 by Western diplomats at the United Nations,
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making the state of Israel 7 years younger my 83-year-old father.
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My dad was born in 1941, four years before US President Franklin Roosevelt met Saudi Arabia’s
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King Abdul Aziz aboard the USS Quincy, a US warship parked in Egypt’s Suez Canal,
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where the Saudi ruler proposed a new homeland for European Jews on
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German soil to punish Germany for committing the Holocaust.
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And although FDR initially baulked at the idea, he assured the Saudi King that
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the United States will never support the creation of a Jewish state on Arab lands,
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saying such a move would not only be a stupid idea but also disastrous for the Middle East,
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going so far as to say it would constitute the greatest mistake of the 20th century.
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Two months later, FDR collapsed and died from a cerebral haemorrhage.
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The presidency was passed to his Vice President Harry Truman, who contrary to FDR’s wishes,
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put his support behind the establishment of a Jewish state on Palestinian land.
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A stupid idea became the new reality in the Middle East, with this new reality becoming a
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nightmare for one million Palestinians who were forcibly removed from their homes, evicted from
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their land and expelled to neighbouring countries by Zionist terrorist groups.
1:53
Now – I want to share with you a clip from an interview featuring
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the late British intellectual Christopher Hitchens – in which he perfectly explains
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why Israel’s creation was a profoundly stupid idea.
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I would go further than Hitchens in arguing that Israel is more than a stupid idea.
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It’s a horrible, criminal, monstrous, idea that should be dismantled from the
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Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. It has inflicted too much bloodshed,
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chaos and instability to believe otherwise.
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Now – in the interest of full disclosure -I had my differences with Hitchens over
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the years, mostly because he was a vocal advocate for the US imperialist project,
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having argued for the US invasion of Iraq.
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But with that said – his support of US power lends weight to his criticism of Israel,
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given the Jewish state is nothing more than a US military forward
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operating base in the Middle East, where Hitchens supported US power.
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So – let’s take a little moment to digest exactly what he said.
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He said that if Jews born in Brooklyn, New York have a right to state in Palestine,
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then Palestinians born in Jerusalem have an even greater right to a state in Palestine –
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but Palestinians have been denied this right because of the financial, diplomatic,
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and military support the criminal Zionist occupation receives from the United States.
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This support has made American born Jews extremely arrogant and shameless about
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their freedom to forcibly and unlawfully evict Palestinians from their homes.
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Christopher Hitchens was also clear-eyed about the way in which US support for Israel enforces
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a system of occupation, apartheid, and cruelty on the Palestinian people.
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So, what does the United States receive in return for its $4 billion in annual
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financial assistance to the state of Israel?
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Well, two things stand out here:
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The remarks from an American Jesuit priest who said that “every time
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anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East,
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I can’t help but think that, before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East.”
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And second – US support for Israel has unleashed Zionist manufactured chaos and violence,
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specifically international law violations and war criminality – in underwriting
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Jewish supremacy – and – by extension – the Greater Israel project in the Arab world.
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Israeli Jews really do believe that their rights as human beings supersede
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the rights of those who live under the crushing weight of Jewish colonial rule.
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But in the minds of Jewish supremacists, who created and built the state of Israel,
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it’s not only about denying Palestinians their basic human rights.
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It’s also about uprooting, displacing,
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and killing every Palestinian until Palestine becomes a Jews only state.
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Jewish supremacy or what we have come to know as the ideology of Zionism today – started in
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Europe in the late 19th century, before being exported to the Middle East in the 1920s, after
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Britain paved the way for Jewish migration to Palestine in 1917 – under the Balfour Declaration.
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In the years 1922 to 1947, hundreds of thousands of European Jews migrated to Palestine, where
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they formed into armed militias and terrorist groups to terrorize and liquidate more than 500
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Palestinian towns and villages, before renaming them these same
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locations with Hebrew names and then turning them into Jews only enclaves.
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Well, a full century later, Israeli Jews are exporting an even more radicalized
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version of Zionism back to the European continent, as illustrated by the arrival
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of thousands of Israeli football hooligans in Amsterdam last week,
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where they assaulted Dutch police and locals, while chanting hateful and genocidal songs.
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If that isn’t bad enough, then consider that the mob you just saw in Amsterdam
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singing songs about genocide in Gaza included members of Israel’s elite forces,
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who are directly responsible for war crimes and genocide in Gaza.
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What on Earth is happening here?
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European authorities must take immediate action because what you just saw is no
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different to allowing ISIS terrorists to travel from the Middle East to Europe
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to sing songs about mass murdering and mass raping Yazidi women and children.
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This is exactly what FDR warned what would happen, and it’s exactly what Albert Einstein – the
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world’s smartest man and most famous Jewish person – warned would happen in this letter,
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where he predicted Zionist terrorism will be “real and final catastrophe” that befalls Palestine.
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He also said the creation of Israel was a stupid
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idea because it conflicted with the essential nature of Judaism.
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So, there you have it – the world’s number one intellectual,
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along with the United States’ greatest ever President and Britain’s most famous polemicist,
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agree that Israel was and still is a profoundly stupid idea.
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Because it has only ever brought tyranny, terrorism,
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misery, and grief to the indigenous peoples of Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan,
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and Syria – and for this reason, it must be dismantled. It will be dismantled.
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And – Palestine will be free.
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But that’s my time for today.
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