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Why has Hungary defied International Criminal Court to welcome Netanyahu…
Why has Hungary defied International Criminal Court to welcome Netanyahu? | Janta Ka Reporter
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3Ro0YhDe00)
Hungary, a member of the European United and a signatory to Rome Statute, has r welcomed Be Jamin Netanyahu, wanted by the International Criminal Court, has effectively announced the demise of the world court, says Rifat Jawaid. Hungary becomes the second western country after the US to welcome Netanyahu despite the latter facing an arrest warrant.
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war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu has
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traveled to Hungary on a 4-day visit a
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country which is a member of the
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European Union and also a signatory to
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Rome statute this despite the fact that
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bloodthirsty terrorist Netanyahu is
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facing an arrest warrant from the
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international criminal court for war
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crimes the Israeli Prime Minister
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Benjamin Netanyahu has arrived in
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Hungary for a 4day visit defying an
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international criminal court arrest
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warrant issued over alleged war crimes
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in Gaza Hungary which is an ICC member
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has refused to enforce the warrant this
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is only the second time Mr Netanyahu has
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traveled abroad since the warrant was
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issued in November he went to the US in
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February yes this terrorist was first
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welcomed by members of the US Senate and
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Congress he had received a thunderous
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Applause for brutally massacring tens of
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thousands of children and
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babies but this is an exceptional move
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moment fast-tracking US military aid can
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dramatically expedite an end to the war
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in Gaza and help prevent a broader war
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in the Middle East in World War
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II as Britain fought on the front lines
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of
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civilization Winston Churchill appealed
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to Americans with these famous words
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give us the tools and we’ll finish the
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job today as Israel fights on the front
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line of civilization I too appeal to
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America give us the tools faster and
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we’ll finish the job
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[Applause]
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faster now the same baby killer is now
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being welcomed by another Western
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Country this should tell you everything
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about the support for genocide in the
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West the fact that Hungary is a member
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of the European Union brings a
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collective shame for the whole of Europe
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Hungary rolling out a red carpet for a
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war criminal has effectively announced
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the death of the IC this has also
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confirmed Beyond doubt that the West is
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predominantly ruled by racist and
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genocidal Thugs and if you live in the
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UK and felt a bit proud thinking that
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your government wouldn’t do anything
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like the thugs of the US and Hungary
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have done then think again even though
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the UK has a PM who built his career as
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a human rights lawyer he is another
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supporter of Israel in fact hardcore
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supporter of Israel up until now he has
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refused to clarify explicitly whether
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Netanyahu would be arrested in the UK If
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he sets his foot on British soil this
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shouldn’t have been a difficult question
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to answer given that Stam himself has
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been a seasoned human rights lawyer and
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his attorney general Richard hermer has
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been a top British lawyer this is what
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stammer said in May last year after the
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ICC prosecutor Karim Khan filed an
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application for an arrest warrant
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against Netanyahu uh I think the
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prosecutor has applied to the court um
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and the court has yet to make a decision
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so the court will have to make that
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decision in due course um I respect
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their independence um I don’t think
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there’s any equivalence between Hamas
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and Israel Hamas is a terrorist
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organization Israel has the right to
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self-defense but I believe in
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international law um and I support the
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independence of both the prosecutor and
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the court which will be called upon to
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make a decision in due course I
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understand that but President Biden has
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called the arrest the arrest warrant or
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the call from arrest warrant outrageous
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Richie sunn said it’s deeply unhelpful
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what’s your take on it
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I think that the court uh should be um
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able to come to its decision in due
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course it’s got the material before it
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um it will have to come to a decision
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it’s an independent Court um we have
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signed up to the Rome statute um I
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support the court and I support
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international law the court will have to
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come to its decision but as prime
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minister lots of people were looking to
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you for guidance what do you where’s
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your S I understand that you respect
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their independence but you must you’re a
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human rights law you’ve spent your
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career studying this sort of stuff you
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must have a a gut instinct what would
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your message be my gut instinct is um
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for this court as with all courts which
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is we have independent Courts for a
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reason outside of politics so that they
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can make independent decisions that is
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very important the rule of law I’ve
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believed in that all my life I fought
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for it around the globe um it matters
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internationally I believe in
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international law I believe in the inter
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in the independence of our courts in due
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course uh this court will have to make a
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decision in relation to these warrants
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okay and if we get to the point where
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warrants are issued what then will you
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support them because you support the ICC
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well let’s get to that point let’s see
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what the decision is of the Court what
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warrants they Grant on what basis but we
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haven’t got to that point yet but if
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you’re saying that you respect the ICC
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and their independence and what they
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come up with Surly then the next logical
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argument is if they say we want a
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warrant you would back that then I want
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to see the decision they make I want to
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see what warrants they actually issue
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what they don’t I’m not going to get
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into hypotheticals what ifs down the
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road in November this question ceased to
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become hypothetical as the ICC issued an
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arrest warrant for Netanyahu and his
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former Defense Minister yuav
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galand has star issued a firm statement
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stating that his government would honor
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the ICC arrest warrant no when an MP
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asked him in the immediate aftermath of
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the arrest warrant whether his
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government would now consider imposing a
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ban on arm s to Israel st’s answer was
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hell no we stand with
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Israel thank you Mr Speaker and of
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course we too welcome the ceasefire in
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Lebanon but now that arrest warrants
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have been issued for his allies
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Netanyahu and Galant the prime
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minister’s determination to supply
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Israel with the weapons it requires to
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carry out its atrocities in Gaza which
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has always been morally repugnant is now
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completely untenable but what the
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warrants would do is present him with a
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perfectly valid legal Avenue by which he
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can end the UK’s complicity in this
6:37
Slaughter so will he do that or will the
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Prime Minister continue to choose to
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license F-35 components to a regime
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which is now led by a man wanted for war
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crimes and crimes against
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humanity we’ve set out our position
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under the current law as he well knows
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I’ve set out my position very very
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clearly in relation to um the sale of
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capability to Israel to defend itself um
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against attacks such as those from Iran
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and I’m very clear that we’ll continue
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to do so meanwhile Israel continues to
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Massacre Palestinians in Gaza with
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impunity it has targeted several schools
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to slaughter dozens of children and
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babies who were taking shelter in those
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schools according to reports Israeli
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terrorist killed at least 112 more
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Palestinians today and the world is
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silent why wouldn’t they after all the
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victims of Israeli genocide are not
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white reacting to Israeli brutalities
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Hamas said in a statement and I quote
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the bombing of Dar Aram school is a
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genocide committed by the occupation
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against displaced children and women
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targeting civilians and displaced people
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is part of the fascist OCC Pati
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deliberate policy of committing
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massacres against our people the ongoing
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Mass killing starvation forc evictions
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and closure of Crossings constitute a
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full-fledged crime of genocide the US
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Administration covers up the occupation
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crimes politically and militarily and is
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a direct partner in the killing of our
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people and the destruction of Gaza the
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international community’s failure to
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stop the massacres reflects the moral
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and humanitarian collapse of a system
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Arab and Islamic countries must take
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urgent action to stop the catastrophe
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and massacres being committed by the
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fascist occupation in Gaza end quote
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Israeli terrorists have also carried out
8:48
more attacks on Syrian soil despite
8:51
mounting condemnation from across the
8:53
region but the Syrian regime led by
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former Isis terrorist Al jolani has
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refused to act instead his supporters
9:03
are now calling for the ethnic cleansing
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of Palestinians living in Syria do you
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still have any doubt that terrorist
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jolani is not a plant by Israel and the
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US anyway that’s it for me thank you
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Max Blumenthal: Banning Protests Against Israel
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Max Blumenthal: Banning Protests Against Israel
The editor-in-chief of The Grayzone, Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and the au
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Max Blumenthal: Criminalizing Protests Against Israel
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The editor-in-chief of The Grayzone, Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and the author of several books, including best-selling Republican Gomorrah, Goliath, The Fifty One Day War, and The Management of Savagery. He has produced print articles for an array of publications, many video reports, and several documentaries, including Killing Gaza.
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hi everyone and welcome Uh I’m joined
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today by Max Blumenthal a journalist
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author filmmaker and also the
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editor-inchief of the Grey Zone It’s
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good to see you again Max Great to see
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you Uh so we often see that the calls
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for censorship they appear to come under
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the guise of empathy And uh in the
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United States indeed Europe as well the
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political right has been very critical
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of how the LGBT gender ideology
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especially on college campuses has been
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used for censorship and cancellation
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However now we see it’s the political
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right which is uh yeah calling for
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censorship and cancellation on campuses
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uh with the argument that criticizing
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Israel’s war um against the Palestinians
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uh makes people anti-semitic or
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supporting of terrorism Um how how
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serious do you see this development at
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the universities and I guess what
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precedents are being set here
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well I’ve said ever since I became
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outspoken on this issue that the Israel
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lobby in the United States and around
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the West was the greatest free speech
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greatest threat to free speech in
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puditively liberal democratic societies
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And now all of my
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warnings are being realized and coming
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to
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fruition under the Trump administration
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which made various promises
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to Zionist organizations and Zionist
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supporters that it would do exactly what
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it’s doing now And in fact in
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2024 under the opaces of the Heritage
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Foundation which for decades has
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functioned as sort of the outsourced
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brain of the Republican party on Capitol
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Hill situated just blocks from the US
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capital on sea
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street There there was this project 2025
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which became kind of a boogeyman of
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liberal democrats in the United States
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because it spelled out the most
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maximalist agenda that Donald Trump
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could fulfill domestically
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uh which is playing out before our eyes
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in many ways and mainly focuses on
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attacking the administrative state
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attacking the administrative bureaucracy
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that is supposedly the base of the
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liberal project But separate from
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project 2025 at the Heritage Foundation
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was Project
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Esther And this was the product of a
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group of pro-Israel organizations not
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just Jewish ones uh a Christian right
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organization called the Family Research
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Council which is mainly known for
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opposing
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abortion and you know the LGBT
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agenda played an important role in this
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document And this document lays out the
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the blueprint that the Trump
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administration is following for
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suppressing and destroying the Palestine
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solidarity movement in the United States
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And it focuses heavily on campus
3:14
organizations but also just on civil
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society groups that are
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NOS’s and calls for with withdrawing
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student visas for people who participate
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in Palestine activism as well as going
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after green card holders and withdrawing
3:33
the nonprofit status of v various
3:36
Palestine solidarity organizations It
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does this by labeling all of them as
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HSN’s which means Hamas support network
3:48
They are members of a Hamas support
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network And
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therefore there is a pretext according
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to this project Esther blueprint for
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labeling them all as material supporters
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of
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terrorism because they are supposedly
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not just pro- Hamas but they are
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actually an arm of Hamas And we can go
4:08
into the the details of how this is
4:10
playing out but this is this was sort of
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the the theory of change for the Zionist
4:18
movement that had embedded itself within
4:20
the Trump campaign and now the Trump
4:23
administration that they could actually
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link the whole civil society network of
4:31
Palestine solidarity groups to Hamas and
4:33
then label them terrorist organizations
4:35
and then take legal measures
4:37
against them and criminalize and defund
4:40
them and that is now happening
4:44
Well it seems that this has always been
4:45
a bit of a propagandistic uh tactic to
4:49
play That is you create a simplistic
4:51
binary divide us or them So if you
4:54
criticize Israel’s slaughter in Gaza
4:56
then you’re a Hamas supporter and you
4:58
supporting terrorism Uh if well and
5:00
again we see the same applied to Ukraine
5:02
If you criticize NATO provoking and
5:04
prolonging the war in Ukraine then
5:06
you’re legitimizing or supporting
5:08
Russia’s invasion And it seems that
5:10
whenever you criticize the war machine
5:12
you take the side of Milosovich Saddam
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Hussein and Gaddafi This is yeah very
5:17
standard recipe It seems now to get the
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same play every single time But with
5:21
Israel though it does appear to be much
5:23
more powerful that that is as you said
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they’re working it into law So uh well I
5:31
guess where does this power come from
5:33
and also how extensive are these laws
5:35
because is it only legal to boycott
5:38
occupied territories or what where exact
5:41
how how far can this actually go
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well exactly There is a there’s much
5:48
more momentum to crush
5:52
opponents of Israeli apartheid in the US
5:55
than there is to
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crush prominent supporters of a
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negotiated peace with Russia and ending
6:02
the Ukraine proxy war I mean we saw
6:04
under the Biden
6:06
administration this ferocious attack on
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all voices who opposed the Ukraine proxy
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war We saw Scott Ritter uh targeted with
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a Farah investigation The FBI seized his
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uh files from when he was a UN
6:23
inspector And uh there was another
6:25
person in Washington Dimmitri I’m
6:27
forgetting his name He was a Sputnik
6:29
host Uh but he had done some consulting
6:31
for the Trump campaign His home was
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raided He was pushed out of the country
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It this wasn’t bipartisan though When
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the Trump administration came in we saw
6:40
a push for a different policy on Ukraine
6:44
There’s act there was actually a debate
6:46
in Washington on the issue of Israel
6:49
Palestine and Zionism specifically There
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is a
6:54
bipartisan elite enforced consensus that
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there can be no daylight between the US
7:00
government and Israel And that also
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means that civil society has to be
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brought to heal because civil society
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cannot be allowed to influence
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government policy on Israel The policy
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is going to be set by Apac the main arm
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of the Israel lobby and that’s it
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So I’ll give you an example
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of how this has this this assault on
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free speech and the first amendment and
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just academic freedom particularly has
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progressed in the United
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States under the Biden administration
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There was actually discussion of pulling
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student visas withdrawing student visas
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on a political
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basis for pro Palestine activity but it
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wasn’t enforced The Biden administration
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did deliver to the Israel lobby the
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sanctioning the actual sanctioning of a
7:53
Palestine solidarity group called
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Samidun which is also sanctioned in
7:58
Germany Its supporters had their
7:59
apartments raided their bank accounts
8:01
were seized and they declared that this
8:04
was linked to a terrorist group PFLP
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Popular Front for the Liberation of
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Palestine which is a
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Marxist Palestinian group that has very
8:15
little uh role now in the armed struggle
8:19
and they do have a militia in Gaza but
8:23
they’re and they’re they’re definitely
8:24
not involved in international acts of
8:27
what’s considered terrorism as they were
8:30
in the 70s when they participated in
8:33
hijackings It’s it’s a political
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organization that actually signed on to
8:37
the Oslo Accords and Sammy Dun’s links
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to it are um you know they’re they’re
8:43
not concrete Basically what they do in
8:46
the United States is they participate in
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protests and they or organize um
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awareness for Palestinian prisoners who
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are languishing in Israel’s prisons a
8:57
scholar at Yale University who is a
9:00
legal expert
9:02
uh who is considered kind of a rising
9:05
star in academia named Helia
9:07
Dutagi was recently fired by Yale
9:11
without any due process because she was
9:14
accused by an AI website a a a
9:18
pro-Israel AI website whose providence
9:22
is unknown no one knows who’s actually
9:24
writing it of being a member of Sammy
9:27
Dune So with that accusation she was
9:29
just thrown out the
9:31
door
9:34
Um the de so what I’m the this was under
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the Trump administration So it started
9:38
this process started under the Biden
9:40
administration but it they finished the
9:42
job under the Trump administration and
9:45
have left her unemployed And this is
9:46
happening to dozens and dozens of
9:49
scholars along with the targeting of
9:52
visa holders students who participated
9:55
in Palestine solidarity protest Romesa
9:58
Ourk was a student at I believe Amherst
10:01
University who was arrested by masked
10:05
uh federal agents in the street on her
10:08
way to an Eid dinner at her aunt’s house
10:10
in the middle of Boston It was filmed
10:13
What had she done sorry She was at Tus
10:15
University She co-authored along with
10:17
three other students an editorial
10:20
calling for Tus University to
10:24
um follow its own rules because the
10:27
student government had voted to divest
10:29
from companies that were involved in the
10:32
Israeli occupation of Palestinian land
10:35
So that’s all she did She co-authored a
10:37
single op-ed for her student paper and
10:40
now she is in a federal holding facility
10:43
in Louisiana thousands of miles from
10:46
where she lived in
10:48
Boston Who’s behind this well the Israel
10:51
lobby is behind it specifically in the
10:53
Trump administration because there is
10:55
more momentum in the Trump
10:57
administration to actually take these
10:59
actions that might have been a little
11:01
more controversial under Biden It’s the
11:04
Add family Sheldon Add the late casino
11:07
Baron was one of the first mega
11:12
billionaires to step up and donate
11:14
exclusively to the Republican party to
11:16
invest in the Republican party along
11:18
with his Israeli wife Miriam Sheldon
11:22
added during the Biden administration
11:25
and his wife Miriam who also owns an NBA
11:29
franchise called called the Dallas
11:31
Mavericks and has all sorts of business
11:35
interests has taken over And in 2015 the
11:38
Add’s founded something called the
11:40
Makabe Task Force which is one of the
11:42
main organizations seeking to crush free
11:46
speech and academic freedom on campus in
11:49
the name of Israel
11:50
Sheldon Add as I revealed at the
11:54
Greyzone functioned as a CIA asset He uh
11:58
helped the CIA surveiled Julian Assange
12:01
It’s a long story but it’s pretty
12:04
obvious that his wife is an Israeli
12:06
intelligence asset And the adds have
12:09
been called in repeatedly during
12:10
Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trials
12:14
to
12:15
testify against Netanyahu because they
12:18
were major donors to Netanyahu
12:20
throughout his career and they have
12:22
owned the largest pro- Netanyahu paper
12:25
in Israel Israel Hyome So you basically
12:29
have to put it in a nutshell an Israeli
12:32
billionaire who is committed exclusively
12:34
to Israeli interests could not care less
12:37
about the welfare of the United States
12:39
as citizens and runs the main arm of the
12:44
censorship industrial complex on college
12:47
campuses the Makabe task
12:49
force and has such a a an intimate
12:54
relationship with Donald Trump that at
12:56
his inauguration She was seated directly
12:59
behind Trump with a better seat than all
13:04
members of Congress and most members of
13:06
his cabinet She has contributed $300
13:09
million just to that campaign and
13:13
something like $600 million overall to
13:15
Donald Trump’s political career along
13:19
with hundreds of millions to Republican
13:21
candidates figures like Tom Cotton who
13:23
is one of the top ultraionist voices in
13:27
the
13:28
Senate So that’s where it comes from
13:31
Comes from money Unlike where you are
13:34
you can contribute unlimited money to
13:36
the US political system and the money is
13:38
coming substantially from pro-Israel
13:41
billionaires as well as billionaires who
13:45
are funding the endowments of Ivy League
13:48
schools like Harvard Um we saw after
13:53
Harvard Students for Justice in
13:55
Palestine group came out and protested
13:57
after October 7th various billionaires
14:01
um including Ofer Zim who runs Israel’s
14:04
largest shipping company who went to
14:07
Harvard Bill Aman of Persing
14:11
Capital and Larry Summers demanded that
14:15
Harvard ban that student group They
14:17
called its president Claudine Gay before
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Congress to answer for the fact that
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there was pro Palestine activity on her
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campus She refused to ban the group to
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criminalize it So they ousted her and
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now Harvard has been basically is being
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taken over under Zionist management
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because it lost so much of its endowment
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So it’s all about money It’s all about
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as we say in the US it’s all about the
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Benjamins
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Well we had similar developments in
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Europe Indeed Yaris Wakis the former
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finance minister of Greece was denied
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entry into Germany and he wasn’t even
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allowed to speak digitally apparently
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over Zoom at a conference Uh again not
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really a terrorist sympathizer instead
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but again a critic of the genocide
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occurring in Gaza Uh just my my my last
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I guess brief question would be on do
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you see any indications that what has
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been done to foreign nationals uh who
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have been associated with uh uh well I
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guess anti-Israeli or at least
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criticizing Israel being expelled Do you
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see any of these laws possibly being
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extended to apply also to Americans
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yes
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The withdrawals of visas and green cards
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are being pres are being overseen by the
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state department The state department is
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headed by Marco Rubio who ironically
15:48
lied about his own family’s immigration
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status Falsely falsely claimed that they
15:53
had entered the United States after they
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fled from the tyranny of Fidel Castro’s
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communism in Cuba Turns out they left
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under the USbacked tyrant Fhensio
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Batista prior to that time Um but he’s
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looking for any infraction inconsistency
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on anyone’s visa who’s affiliated with
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anything remotely pro Palestine to kick
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them out of the country jail them
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criminalize them
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And Rubio’s State Department spokeswoman
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Tammy Bruce was recently asked I think
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this was about one week ago at a State
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Department
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briefing if they would rule out moving
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from student visa holders and green card
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holders meaning permanent residents to
16:45
naturalized US citizens as targets of
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this witch hunt uh that they would
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actually withdraw the citizenship of
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naturalized citizens and she refused to
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say yes we will rule that out She
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refused to even answer the question and
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the Trump administration subsequently
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has not provided any answer on that
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question So it’s it remains an open
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@tobararbulu # mmt@tobararbulu
Norman Finkelstein Calls Israel ‘A Nation Of Murderers’
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Norman Finkelstein: Israel Is ‘A Nation Of Murderers’
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqrDB2Q8hYc)
Norman Finkelstein talks Gaza, a mass grave of Palestinian paramedics, and why he believes the Israeli army’s actions reflect the citizenry of Israel.
00:00:00 News report on the Palestinian paramedics and first responders mass grave
00:01:47 Norman Finkelstein on how watching this puts him in a defeatist mode
00:02:45 Norman’s Gaza story on the quiet bravery and courage
00:03:34 The Great March of Return snipers
00:05:44 Israel has turned into a nation of war criminals
00:07:14 Israel has a representative, citizen army
Norman Finkelstein is a political scientist, prolific author, and son of Holocaust survivors. He received his PhD from the Princeton University Politics Department in 1987. He is the author of many books that have been translated into 60 foreign editions, including THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY: Reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering, and GAZA: An inquest into its martyrdom, I’LL BURN THAT BRIDGE WHEN I GET TO IT! Heretical Thoughts on Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, and Academic Freedom. In the year 2020, Norman Finkelstein was named the fifth most influential political scientist in the world.
Transkripzioa:
News report on the Palestinian paramedics and first responders mass grave
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okay calm down
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Paramedics from the Palestine Red
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Crescent dig through the earth of
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southern Gaza They’re recovering the
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bodies of their colleagues killed by
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Israeli forces On March 23rd first
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responders were dispatched to this area
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of Rafa When they arrived Israeli
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soldiers opened fire
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[Music]
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Health workers should never be a target
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And yet we’re here today digging up a
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mass grave of first responders and
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paramedics On March 31st the IDF
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provided a statement to Fox News saying
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quote “Several vehicles were identified
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advancing suspiciously toward IDF troops
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without headlights or emergency
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signals.” Video released 5 days later by
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the Palestine Red Crescent directly
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contradicts that statement The IDF also
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claimed in the initial findings that
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nine out of the 15 medics were
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operatives in Hamas and Islamic Jihad
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Asked multiple times for evidence to
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support that claim none was provided
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Funerals were held late last week for
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those killed by Israeli bullets Families
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mourning the dead mothers trying to make
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sense of the senseless
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He went to save the martyrs and injured
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And we’ve been waiting for him for a
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week We were told that he was either
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martyed or injured But I realized that
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they had killed them from the very first
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moment They had killed them and buried
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them underground As bodies of these
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medics rest inside white plastic bags
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with a photo attached the face of Rifat
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Radwan stands out The man who recorded
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his final moments with a final message
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Forgive me mother This is the path I
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chose to help people He said
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there’s something different in some way
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and maybe it is just on a visceral level
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but between bombing and like executing
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in person one by one medical workers
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again it’s not it’s not better or worse
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but I find it like more I’m going to
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speak to you honestly uh Katie I know
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you’ll be surprised to hear this I don’t
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know what happened I didn’t read it I
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didn’t watch it I heard about it but I
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can’t read it because it emotionally
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depletes me and puts me in a defeist
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mode and I know I have to
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continue
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notwithstanding the apparent
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hopelessness of it all So now when you
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tell me they were executed one by one I
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wasn’t even aware of that I met with
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some of the medical workers who went
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out knowing that they would be targeted
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and in Gaza And I remember in particular
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a mother and her
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daughter who used to go out in the
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ambulances and the medical relief cars
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and the
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quiet
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bravery and courage They don’t wear it
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under lapel They don’t wear their
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sorrows under lapel And they don’t wear
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their courage under lapel Very
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low-key always carrying themselves
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acquitting themselves with dignity
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Uh I will tell you of all the things
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I’ve read the thing that gets me the
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most the thing that gets me the most is
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during the great March of Return in
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beginning March 30th
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2018 because it was overwhelmingly
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nonviolent was
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festive people camped out they brought
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tents There was circus
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performances and this was for your
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listeners It was an attempt among other
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things to break the siege of Gaza by
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nonviolently walking to the perimeter
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fence that caged them
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in And when you read the
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accounts by authoritative sources the
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International Commission of
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Inquiry Israel lined up along the
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perimeter fence its best snipers and
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they later
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boasted that every bullet hit its mark
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That’s what they said Every
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bullet landed where we wanted it to
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land And who did they target well
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according to the Independent Commission
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of Inquiry they targeted
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children They targeted
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medics They targeted
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journalists They targeted people with
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physical disabilities like a double
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amputees And these
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people were between one and 300
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meters away from the perimeter
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fence Most of them were just
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spectators leaning against the tree
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opening up a picnic basket
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basket And you really you can’t help but
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wonder what goes through the
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heads of these
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snipers But now Israel has turned into I
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know it’s not politically correct to say
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it It’s turned into a nation if not of
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murderers than of war
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criminals because Israel’s is not a
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nonrepresentative army It’s a citizen
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army During the war in
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Vietnam those who opposed it when
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atrocities occurred which they did in a
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daily basis and occasionally an atrocity
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actually got media attention So if you
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take the best known though not the worst
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not the most egregious but the best
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known atrocity was of course the Mi
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massacre Among those responsible was a
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fellow known as Lieutenant
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Cali Now for those of us in the anti-war
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movement and I’m not unique it was
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probably about half the country was
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involved The numbers grew as the horrors
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unfolded We never saw ourselves as
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implicated in what Lieutenant Cali did
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because in our minds he was white trash
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from somewhere in the south That’s how
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we
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assimilated Lieutenant Cali There were
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them and there was
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us But in the case of Israel you can’t
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do that It’s a representative army It’s
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a citizen army
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Either you’re carrying out the
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execution the
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genocide or your son is carrying out the
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genocide or daughter or your daughter is
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carrying out the genocide or your father
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is carrying out the genocide or your
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brother is carrying out the genocide And
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there’s no question or quarrel that were
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they the relatives in the shoes of those
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who are carrying out the genocide they
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wouldn’t be carrying it out
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reluctantly That is
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factually untrue
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They are carrying it out
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joyfully
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euphorically enthusiastically
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They’re posting
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right their the
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horrors committed by them all over the
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social media in
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the
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knowledge that they’re not going to be
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ostracized for posting what they’re
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doing Their pop
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singers compose songs like May Gaza burn
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May Gaza burn
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Geure herriari, Euskal Herriari dagokionez, hona hemen gure apustu bakarra:
We Basques do need a real Basque independent State in the Western Pyrenees, just a democratic lay or secular state, with all the formal characteristics of any independent State: Central Bank, Treasury, proper currency1, out of the European Distopia and faraway from NATO, maybe being a BRICS partner…
Ikus Euskal Herriaren independentzia eta Mikel Tor
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1 This way, our new Basque government will have infinite money to deal with. (Gogoratzekoa: Moneta jaulkitzaileko kasu guztietan, Gobernuak infinitu diru dauka.)
