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mar. 25

Obama gave Israel more aid than any president in history, raised anual aid to $3.8 bil, and placed Rahm Emanuel, descendant of Irgun lineage, at the head of White House decision making.

All while brokering the traitorous Iran nuclear deal:

Under the deal, Iran was permitted to retain its uranium enrichment program and infrastructure, including the ability to stockpile and import hundreds of tons of natural uranium while the agreement was in force. The deal included explicit sunset clauses that began expiring after 10 to 15 years, meaning many of the most restrictive limits on centrifuge numbers, enrichment levels (capped at 3.67% for the duration), and stockpile sizes would automatically lift, allowing Iran to legally resume advanced enrichment and potentially race toward weapons-grade material without violating the agreement.

The JCPOA delivered massive sanctions relief estimated in the tens to hundreds of billions of dollars over time, freeing up Iranian oil revenues and frozen assets that could be redirected toward any priority the regime chose. Compounding the financial windfall was the 2016 delivery of $1.7 billion in cash (euros, Swiss francs, and other currencies physically stacked on wooden pallets) as a settlement of a pre-1979 arms deal debt; this cash component was explained away because banking sanctions made wire transfers impossible, but Obama literally had the presidential authority to temporarily override sanctions and wire the money directly, which he had already done before. The only reason cash would have been sent instead is because it would be impossible to audit and trace where it ultimately went. Couldn’t the funds return in the form of political donations or massive donations to institutes and foundations?

All coinciding with the release of American hostages, (a mere cover), EU

sanctions relief and the implementation of the JCPOA itself. To make matters worse, the Iran deal was kept from Congress and placed at the highest level of classification. Meaning, a U.S. Senator could not review the deal but other foreign powers could. On top of all this, Iran also received uranium through the Uranium One scandal. Uranium One, a Canadian company with mining rights in the U.S., was sold to Rosatom, Russia’s state owned atomic energy corporation. The deal required approvals from U.S. agencies under the Obama administration, including the State Department, then led by Hillary Clinton. During the approval process, the Clinton Foundation received donations from individuals and entities linked to Uranium One and Rosatom. All of this happened under the Obama administration.

These provisions stand in stark contrast to President Obama’s simultaneous record of providing Israel with more military aid than any previous American president, a level of support that continued and was later surpassed under Biden, (widely known to be a senile puppet of Obama.) Obama is the one who raised annual aid to Israel to $3.8 billion a year. Obama’s chief of staff during this period was Rahm Emanuel, the son of a former Irgun fighter, (the Irgun being the Zionist paramilitary Jewish terrorist organization active in the 1940s, that was later absorbed into the IDF). This creates a profound surface-level contradiction: an administration that publicly positioned itself as restraining Iran’s nuclear ambitions through diplomacy was simultaneously empowering Iran with natural uranium access, future breakout pathways via sunset clauses, and billions in sanctions relief and cash, all while extending unprecedented military backing to Israel and placing a direct descendant of Irgun lineage at the center of White House decision-making.

The optics of Obama functioning as a pro-Iran asset versus the greatest friend Israel has ever had, in terms of aid, become difficult to reconcile without a deeper framework, one which considers that public alliances and enmities are largely false theatre and really controlled by the same hidden power structure.

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mar. 25

Israel is still bombing refugee tents in Gaza. After, they’ll lecture us about human rights.

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Netanyahu claims that Israel is the only safe place for Jews in the world. But

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because of his record, because of his brutality,

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because of the genocide that he has been perpetrating in Gaza,

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Israel has become the least safe place in the world for Jews. I’m here today with Avi Schlame, who’s one of the

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leading British Israeli historians in this country, but who’s almost never interviewed by Britain’s mainstream media and especially not during the last two years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

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and we’re here today to discuss how the Israel lobby is trying to curb free speech on the issue in this country, his own personal journey from Zionism to

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anti-Zionism, and how he’s involved in a Palestinian group to try and charge the British government with issuing an

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apology and reparations for crimes committed in Palestine under colonialism. Avi, thanks very much for joining us today.

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Thank you for inviting me. It’s a pleasure to be here.

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We at Declassified have been trying to document the British support for Israel over the last couple of years as it’s

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inflicted this horrific situation on Palestinians in Gaza. Why do you think that British governments back Israel so strongly?

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One answer is the strength of the Israel lobby in Britain. There is conservative friends of Israel.

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Over 80% of Tory MPs are members. The majority of the cabinet ministers are

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members. This is the most powerful foreign policy lobby in this country

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and they organize trips to visit Israel by MPs and they keep in touch with the

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MPs. There is the labor friends of Israel and the same happens there. The

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Israel lobby gives financial support for the campaigns of MPs whatever party who are pro-Israeli.

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But there is another explanation as well. The commercial interests very major commercial interests that tie

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Britain to Israel. that the arms manufacturers in Britain who sell arms

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to Israel. So the military-industrial complex in this country also support close relations with Israel.

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And you mentioned Labour friends of Israel there a being one of the prominent lobby groups in the UK. When we’ve asked them, Labor Friends of

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Israel, about those trips, they’ve they’ve replied to us saying that such questions fuel quote anti-semitic tropes

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and conspiracy theories, including about Jewish power, money, and influence. This is when we’re asking Labour friends of Israel about their sources of funding.

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Israel and the friends of Israel using anti-semitism

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as a weapon to silence criticisms of Israel. This is an extremely dangerous

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phenomenon because um Israel is a state. Zionism is the official um ideology of that state. Uh,

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anti-semitism is the hatred of Jews because they are Jews.

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Uh, anti-Zionism has nothing to do with anti-semitism.

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But Israel and its friends have deliberately, I repeat, deliberately conflated

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anti-Zionism with anti-semitism in order to discredit critics of Israel.

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uh in order to smear them. Now, the Labor Friends of Israel are the mainstream

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um Jewish organization within the Labor Party. It’s a an openly um a wildly

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Zionist organization. To be a member of that organization, you have to be a Zionist and to accept the official

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ideology of the uh state of Israel. But they claim to represent all British Jews. And this claim I would challenge.

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Kir Stalmer described himself as an unconditional Zionist.

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Um and he when he took over as leader kept talking

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about pulling anti-semitism by the root and he conducted a witch hunt against us

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against Jewish voice for labor both because we supported Corbyn both because we support Palestinian rights and

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because we are on the left of his party and he carried out a purge of the left of his um party

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and I’ve I’ve seen you say that you’re not a practicing Jew, but that you have moved closer to Judaism um because of

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its core values of altruism, peace, and um truth. And I I was wondering how how

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you feel when you see how the Israeli government and its supporters use anti-semitism as a way of countering

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critics of Israeli policies. I’m both a Jew and an Israeli and in the mid 1960s

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I served loyally and proudly in the IDF because in those days I believe the

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Israeli narrative that Israel is a um small peaceloving country surrounded by

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nasty Arabs who wanted to throw us into the sea. So we uh had no choice but to

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stand up and fight. Um but the turning point for me was the June 1967 war. For

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me personally, it was a turning point because the army in which I had served,

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it was the Israel Defense Forces now became the brutal police force of a brutal colonial power. And my

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disenchantment with Israel has continued ever since. But it really accelerated in the last two years because of the

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Israeli atrocities um uh in Gaza.

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Uh and so I’ve in the last two years I’ve become more and more alienated from Israel and I feel I have much more in

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common with British Jews and Jews in the diaspora.

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uh because the core values of Judaism are altruism,

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truth, justice and peace and the Netanyahu government is the antithesis of these Jewish values.

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Uh the essence of Judaism is nonviolence.

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This is the most violent and aggressive and belligerent and openly racist government in Israel’s um history.

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Um and to be Jewish for me is to be on the side of the underdog. So I’m on the side of the underdog. I read somewhere

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that there’s been a 400% increase in anti-semitic episodes in this country.

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So British Jews should ask them why has this happened? It can’t be that there is

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suddenly a massive outburst of anti-semitism that had lain dormant. The

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answer surely is to do with Israel’s policies in Gaza, the Israeli

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destruction of Gaza, the Israeli um ethnic cleansing of the West Bank. And

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Netanyahu claims that Israel is the only safe place for Jews in the world. But

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because of his record, because of his brutality,

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because of the genocide that he has been perpetrating in Gaza,

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Israel has become the least safe place in the world for Jews. And that is the

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great tragedy. And what they’re all saying is not in our name. Israel doesn’t represent them and Israel doesn’t speak uh for them.

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I wanted to ask you about a group of Palestinians who submitted a 400page legal petition to the Foreign Office in

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September calling for an official apology and reparations from the British for British violence and repression

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during the British mandate over Palestine during 1917 to 1948. and you were one of the prominent figures

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involved in that in that petition. Can you can you say why you wanted to to get involved in that?

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This is a highly significant project. If I were to summarize my view of the

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history of the British mandate in Palestine uh in one sentence, it would be that Britain stole Palestine from the

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Palestinians and gave it to the Zionists. So it’s to raise awareness uh

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to give publicity to Britain’s uh role in the tragedy of Palestine.

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And as I mentioned in the introduction,

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you you’re one of the leading historians in the world on the Middle East and you’re you’re based in Oxford, but I think I’m right in saying that the only time that the BBC has interviewed you,

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certainly in the last two years since Israel began its genocide against Gaza was was an interview with Radio Olter.

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No, no other interviews by the BBC. Why?

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Why? Why do you think that is? I think that the BBC is guilty of much much worse sins than not interviewing me.

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They are guilty of being one-sided and reporting only the Israeli narrative of

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this conflict and not reporting the Palestinian narrative, let alone the Hamas narrative of this conflict. The

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BBC has very good reporters, but the bosses are cowardly. They’re afraid. They’re intimidated by the Israel lobby.

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Whenever they have anyone criticizing Israel, they get a barrage of complaints from the Israel lobby. And I wanted to

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ask you about your your own personal journey because you were previously a supporter of the two-state solution, I

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believe, but you’ve now come to support um the creation of a single democratic state in Palestine with with equal

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rights for all. what what was your journey to to that point?

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It was a very long journey that brought me to this point and for most of my um

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academic career I supported the two-state solution,

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that is to say an independent Palestinian state on the West Bank and Gaza with a capital city in East um

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Jerusalem. And when the Oslo Accord was signed in 1993,

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I was euphoric. I thought, “This is the real deal. It’s a modest step in the right direction, but it would lead to um

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uh a two-state solution, but it was not to be because uh it was assassinated.

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The liquid came back to power and this is in 1996 under the leadership of

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Benjamin Netanyahu and Netanyahu in his first term proceeded to dismantle

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and subvert the Oslo Accords and he says time and again that he is totally

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opposed to an independent Palestinian state.

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So I had to take this on board. Um, I supported a two-state solution, but Israel has killed the two-state solution

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by expanding settlements. And Israel is expanding settlements as we speak, by

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annexing uh East Jerusalem, the capital to be of the Palestinian state. and

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Israel has built a security barrier on the West Bank which effectively annexes

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um a chunk of the West Bank to um Israel. So, Israel has done everything

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to prevent the emergence of a Palestinian state. And given that that two-state solution is dead or an

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illusion as you’ve called it, why is it that British ministers, Western ministers constantly call for the two-state solution?

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It is convenient for British politicians to talk about a two-state solution because it seems reasonable.

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But they haven’t done anything uh to promote a settlement,

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let alone a Palestinian state. When David Lami was asked, “Is Israel guilty

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of genocide?” He replied, “No, genocide is a legal concept and we have to wait

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for the courts to determine.” He was flat wrong because we have a definition

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of genocide. It’s in the 1948 convention

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for the prevention and punishment of genocide. And incidentally, this convention

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was signed in order to prevent what happened to Jews under Nazi Germany from

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happening again. And the message of the Holocaust is never again not just for Jews but for anyone. So under the genocide convention, Britain has a duty,

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a legal duty to stop all arms supplies to Israel, to stop arm purchases from

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Israel, to stop the sale of technology or the buying of technology from Israel.

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Britain has a legal duty to do that now because the convention doesn’t say you can [music] wait for genocide to happen