Israel, AEB eta NATO zale estatu guztiak errudun, Palestinaren genozidioan (7) eta Francesca Albanese

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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?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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Conflict in Gaza is an “Israeli terrorism creation Factory”: UN investigator | Dawn News English

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The UN Commission of Inquiry accuses Israel of war crimes in Gaza, especially against healthcare, and condemns Palestinian groups for hostage abuse, urging immediate accountability and humanitarian compliance.

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when we were here a year ago today I certainly didn’t anticipate that

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we would be back now and this killing would be

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continuing uh there has never been a period in this 100-year

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war in which the fighting has gone on for so long resulting in the deaths of

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so many people uh it is a period without

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precedent in a war that has been going for a century we shrug our

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shoulders uh because the war has been going on so long and it’s understandable but

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regrettable that the impact of the killing of the last Almost 13

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months um is is lost on as a result I mean the statistics are overwhelming you

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know the statistics I I only want to give you one um one one set of of all the

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killing the killing that that gets me most is the killing of

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kids and I’m reflecting the fact that I’m a a father a grandfather and in

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about a month I’ll become a great-grandfather for the first time um kid kids mean something to

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me on on the 7th of October 38 Israeli

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children were killed one of them under the age of 2

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years since then at least as of last week

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13,39 children have been killed in Gaza of whom 786

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six were under the age of one and in addition 165 children have

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been killed in the West Bank now that’s the only statistic I

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want to give you and it’s a a statistic that to me says

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everything kids aren’t terrorists kids aren’t terrorists

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and yet between what happened in southern Israel on the 7th of October and what

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has happened since then we have had thousands and thousands of kids

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killed and that’s not even including those who are injured um those who are under the

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rubble those who have lost limbs it’s said that the amputations of Limbs of children is the greatest in any conflict

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in um recorded Modern

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Warfare kids who have lost parents you know I I I wonder when the

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current Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu talks about um finishing of

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Hamas I I wonder about what the 1 million children in

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Gaza will be doing in 20 years time

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the the the conflict in Gaza is an Israeli terrorism creation

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Factory and there is no sign of it

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finishing na’vi has referred to the decision of the international court of

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justice um that that is that is a landmark event for us lawyers an extremely significant event

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to have a legal determination of the status of the current

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situation and it’s a Way Forward because it provides the basis upon which any

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peace discussions if they ever occur can occur can be built um the law provides

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the foundation and peace negotiations cannot

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alter that Foundation the foundation is the law but that decision provides the

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foundation upon which bricks can be built and I’m very pleased that our

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reports have contributed to the decision taken by the international court of

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justice but I’m also acutely aware that our

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reports the decision of the international court of justice four resolutions passed by the

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security Council in the last 13 months resolutions part of the general

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assembly none of those have resulted in a single child not being

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killed so we can take a lot of pride in the decision of the international court

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of justice and we do um member states of the security Council can cheer because they have

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actually managed to achieve consensus on four resolutions when mostly they

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can’t but regrettably not a single child has not died because of all of these

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actions and that’s the reality that confronts the whole United Nations

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system today that’s

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all thank you thank you both of you for those opening remarks uh now we can open the floor to questions if you would just

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please identify yourself in the media outlet that you work for please go ahead commissioner F SED welcome back sherban

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ryby South African broadcast and on behalf of the UN correspondence Association thank you for coming to

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speak with us uh commissioner P you talk about uh a couple of imperatives right

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the need for a cessation of hostilities a ceasefire and also legal accountability and as a judge that has

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served within the ICC the international tribunal on Rwanda high court judge in

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South Africa I wonder High Commissioner for human rights what does international what does Justice really look like what does inter

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legal accountability look like here you’ve delivered several reports there are advisory opinions there are uh

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provisional measures that have been handed down by the icj that are being wanting only ignored and so when we talk

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about legal consequences here what does that really mean in the context of judgments that have been handed down or

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slow mo moving processes in the ICC for example people fear Justice means

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nothing today how do you see it wrong question to ask a judge

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I I am very pleased that we’ve brought the focus of this situation

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under the law because for years and years politicians have been handling uh

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the matter in fact some of the opposition to uh to our report on um and

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recommendations on taking getting a icj opinion that came from developed

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countries was that they busy negotiating and this referral to the icg

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will interrupt that uh so I’ll give you that as an example showing of the

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obstacles in the way of international Justice taking place but as a a judge

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and a firm believer in use of the law to address any

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violations uh it’s a slow process but we are getting there and we’re getting there mainly because of activism on the

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part of civil society and victims and commissions such as us whom they

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approach and convey their anxiety not not a single one of them would be prepared to drop Justice from Justice

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and accountability from peace uh it’s the to us it’s the uh it’s an imperfect

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system the international justice system you know it’s only about 30 years old

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the ICC where I sat as a judge and now as ad hoc judge on the

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icj um I do believe that this is one of the most important judgments because

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it’s the first time that the court was given an opportunity to rule on the

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lawfulness of the occupation itself which we identified as the root cause of

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the conflict I I see these as important stem steps and a game Cher because I see

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how that that opinion has been welcomed on the streets and but appalled at how

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in this building the United Nations the behavior seems to be the not

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to uh recognize that there is this I seej judgment this is why we prepared

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our paper the position paper which spells out that it’s a responsibility of

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every state it’s their obligation under international law to take positive steps

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to end the occupation and promote um

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self-determination so this is different it’s an important step it hasn’t been achieved in in what 60

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years it’s happened now because of the combined effort of Palestine requesting

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this commission and above all for the tremendous support that this commission

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receives from inside Israel this is where our information comes from we were

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able to hold a number of oral sessions where we held hearings but now because

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we’re not allowed into Israel we not allowed into Palestine and Gaza it’s a

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bit difficult to actually speak to victims outside anything for

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Shon you said you had a number of questions all

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right okay thank you m okay we’ll take good question from the second row uh thank you my name

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isim newspaper good to see you back here again uh I have a few uh questions

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including followups you in your answer you said um you talked about the positive steps to uh that countries

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should take to end the occupation could you elaborate on that and in relation to

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that also the issue of uh Third Country Role on in the war and the genocide

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that’s happening in Gaza including countries that provide weapons uh to the

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Israelis whether the us or other countries their role and their obligation and if you could comment on

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the honor ban by the Israeli keset and how you see it um um as part of this um

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efforts to um within the war on Gaza thank you

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you know when it comes to what steps can be taken to end the occupation let’s

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remember the icj said rapid rapid uh

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rapidly end the occupation and the and the judges told member states you have to distinguish

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you have to change the way you’ve addressed this matter before you have to change your attitude in the way you

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treat these two states Palestine and Israel you have to distinguish between them so

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you know one is an occupier and the other are occupied and the owners then lies on

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every state under international law to take steps not to cooperate with the

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occupation itself and so because that’s the order we then spelled out the

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various steps uh you know I don’t have time to go go through all those steps but it’s the clearest Direction coming

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to every state that you have the responsibility not to continue to

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support this occupation and that would be any support you know militarily

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politically um or recognition even about moving their embassies to Jerusalem

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every step that one can shine the microscope on comes under this you have

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to change your traditional way of treating the situation um with regard to

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you know one of the things you said is the weapons transfer now the Human

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Rights Council last June added two new mandates for this commission and one was

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to investigate the transfer of Arms from states to Israel and the other is to

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identify settlers who are committing violations and I’m really sad and

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disappointed to say that we can’t even begin with those two mandates we’re

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expected to report in June next year we can’t because the funding has not been

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allocated as yet and yet I consider those two additional mandates are very

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urgent and they have to we have to Begin work now so with unal I’ll hand that to

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you Chris

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yes the the unra decision or the unra legislation has very serious

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implications uh because unra is the principal deliverer of or vehicle for

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the delivery of Aid and assistance to Palestinians uh and is also the

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principal service provider um there have been allegations made by the

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Israeli authorities about unra staff uh unra has investigated and dismissed as I

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understand nine staff um I’m I’m not unra you need to check that with them

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but I think it’s nine staff um that’s more than the number of staff

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that the Israeli Defense Forces have dismissed for violations of international humanitarian law such as

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war crimes and crimes against humanity um umran at this stage is doing far better than the IDF in dealing with uh

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allegations and investigations of misconduct by employees and nine staff out of in

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excess of 13,000 um to be perfectly Frank is

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significantly fewer than what I would have expected um and unra has acted so the

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suggestion that unra can be um excluded because of some links with terrorism is

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not supported by any established facts at all but the interesting contrast

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though the the ironic contrast is that unra has saved Israeli taxpayers

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billions of dollars over the last 57 years

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billions because Israel as the occupying power under the Fourth Geneva Convention is responsible for the care protection

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and the provision of services to persons under occupation Israel should have been

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providing hospitals medical support schools universities Social Security

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employment programs and it hasn’t um the International Community

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has been doing that by its financial support for unra so if unra is kicked

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out the cost for the Israeli taxpayer is going to be ginormous

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so this is a decision that is bad for the Palestinians and ridiculous for Israeli

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taxpayers okay thank you um uh go ahead thank you and thank you again to

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see you again um Abdul Hamid say from the Arabic da

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alabi among your mandate is the root causes and do you see some hypoc y now

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especially among Western State who thinks that history started on October 7

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they try not to mention anything before as if the conflict started that day so

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how is how can you highlight the root causes which deeply seated in the

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occupation which lasted as you know many many years and the atrocities committed

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not only in in Gaza but also in the West Bank so how do you highlight that my

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second question about the issue of the children sir if you hear I mean the defense

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minister saying these are human animals and some saying that we will cut off

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food medicine and water that create a culture that children and one of them

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said I can bring you the quote when he said there is no innocent Palestinian if these babies and children

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grow up they will become terrorists and just let me see today a sitler leader

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she said she will establish new settlement in Gazza and she said the uh

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the sound of bombardment in Gazza is like music in my ear I am only worried

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if I don’t hear the bombardment so when you hear this statement and the incitement I want to ask you if you

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include this in incitement in your report and that would justify killing

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13,000 children with no eye blinking thank

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you I agree with you uh about the double standards in approaching in these Halls

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especially where member states deliberated and that was the case this morning as well you know that tired old

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complaint was made by the the the state that I expected would say that and that

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is that they oppose the formation of this Commission because it’s not time bound you see I call that a tired old

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complaint with with thousands of children being killed uh you know I also

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have all these statistics of of the deaths that have happened that it’s so it’s quite

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hypocritical to make a speech about why we don’t support you because you you’re

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not time bound and I’m very happy that it’s we’re not time bound we were able to invest instigate all these matters we

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were on the ground we were the first to address the the situation even on 7th

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October So my answer this morning to member states is yes history didn’t

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start on the 7th October and that we have recorded again and again the huge

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violations that occurred historically and it’s it’s

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occupation uh so it did come up and I responded to that

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you know as as a person who was a a lawyer in the criminal courts for almost 30 years and a judge as Sherwin said

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yeah I’ve yet to find people accused of crimes admitting that they’ find ways of

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denying denying the crime or diverting attention from that you do not expect

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that at the level of member states discussion so I was surprised that it’s still there to avoid addressing the

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issues tell us which fact is wrong yeah give us your own statistics let us

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in so we could see for ourselves none of that comes up uh so I’ll I’ll just

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address that to say this commission is very very well aware of the hisory history and you know I myself got

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educated reading the number of books I don’t know how we allowed the what we

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can do about Colonial Powers you know we were victims in South Africa of British colonialism and I see how long ago that

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started um all right so as I said to you earlier we stick to the

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law we try to cut our minds off from the political Dimensions but even under the

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law we addressing the facts as as as something that happened long before 7th

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October uh your other question related to the children could I just perhaps add one

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thing to navi’s answer on on the first question we we have tried at all times to put

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events into a historical and a legal context um both are important uh in in

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2022 two two years ago when we reported to the general assembly we gave our analysis that the occupation was

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unlawful and indicated why we had come to that conclusion and that was the

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occasion two years ago when we recommended to the general assembly that a refer will be made to the international court of justice to answer

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that question and the questions that flow from it and that is very much the historical context for the 7th of

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October um understanding and justification are two separate matters and I always get

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anxious that people try to say that understanding a situation means justifying it when it doesn’t but it is

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impossible to understand the 7th of October without understanding ing the

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occupation and what that has meant that doesn’t justify what

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happened we have made the legal context having sought that understanding the

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unlawfulness of the occupation does not justify the commission of crimes against

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humanity on the 7th of October nor does the commission of crimes against humanity on the 7th of

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October just war crimes sorry with commission of war crimes on the 7th of October nor does the commission war

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crimes on the 7th of October justify the commission of war crimes every day for the two years since

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then so the historical context must be understood and the legal context must

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then be applied on on children if I may go to

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your second question yeah um the the human Animals part and not just that but

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an enormous number of other statements uh are directed towards the dehumanization of Palestinian people

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regardless of age young people old people male female the lot and we dealt

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with many of those statements in our report to the Human Rights Council in June this year we went through the

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context and we’ll be coming back to those statements because we have much more legal analysis to do as to what the

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consequences in international law are for statements like that that have been

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made we’ll come back back to that but to revert to where I

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began kids cannot go through what they have gone through in the last 12 months without it having a an enormous impact

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on them for their entire lives that that is certainly the case physically for

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kids who have lost arms or legs or both and we we’ve met them we’ve met them in

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hospitals we we’ve interviewed them for them this is a lifelong result

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but the kids who were traumatized by the loss of of parents siblings aunties

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uncles grandparents cousins um who have experienced now 13

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months of severe food deprivation leading to a situation that

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is uh now described as acute Mal malnutrition these kids are going to

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have this impact throughout their lives um so in one sense I think some of these

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statements made by some of the Israelis um

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extremists are correct in that how these kids as adults are going to respond to

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what’s going on should be troubling Israelis but that’s not the kids’s fault they can’t go through what they

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have had to experience without this having a severe impact on them and their

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lives um forever

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okay thank you um another question uh on the left

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side could you kindly give us the website where to find your

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reports I can share that with you and secondly welcome Madame P we haven’t

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seen each other for a while she was the featured speaker uh for the dag hammerel

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fund for journalists several years ago of which I’m still chair

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okay thank you um take a question from the from the back goad thank you commissioner by the

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way I I hope I look that good when I’m a great-grandfather I look it’s bad and I got two young girls a a couple questions

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for you number one I’m trying to absorb your assertion

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fear whatever you want to label it about this next Generation you say of of terrorists the terrorist breeding ground

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that Gaza will become there have been Wars before I don’t want to compare them but I mean World War II the the

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destruction left in Germany the destruction of Japan these didn’t lead to breeding grounds for a future

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generation of terrorists so God willing Gaza will emerge ruled by something

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other than an internationally designated terror group why why do you it seems

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like an assumption that gazen children growing up today are going to be Terri of Tomorrow is that not a dangerous

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assumption um yes it is a dangerous assumption and there is one distinct definitive determinative

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difference between the examples that you site it’s continuing and there is no end

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in sight so when an end comes weeks months

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from now weeks months this has been going on for a 100 years weeks months Gaz it has been occupied for 100 years

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no the war has been going on for a 100 years as well for Israel well for 75

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years I’m not denying that for a minute I’m saying this war has been going on for a 100 years and there is no end in

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sight to help these kids to help

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Israel it’s got to stop then there is a possibility but until it stops there is

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no chance it’s an interesting take um in terms of the report itself I want to gain some clarity because it seems like

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a Pandora’s Box the assertion or the conclusion one of them made in your latest report is that anything that

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helps Israel carry out or continue to carry out what’s labeled as an occupation needs to cease any assistance

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from member states there’s a few different ways of looking at it and I want to clarify which way you’re looking

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at it because one can say that anything that benefits uh settlements in Jude and Samaria in

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eastern Jerusalem where have you that is helping uh uh perpetuate what you label

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as the occupation there’s another way of looking at it where anything that goes into Israel proper Sovereign Israel can

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be put into a proverbial slush fund to enable it to perpetuate this occupation it’s

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unclear from your report what exactly you mean by that can you please clarify

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the chair has given that one to me um first it’s yes we have occupi we have

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defined it as an occupation um so has the inter Court of international court of justice um this is now a decision taken

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by the most authoritative judicial body in the International System there ain’t no

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higher than the icj and there’s nowhere else to go

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to get a higher opinion or even an alternative opinion so the reason why we

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made the recommendation in the first place because we said well we’re pretty good we’re a commission of inquiry we’ve

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got na’vi pil as our our chair but we are a commission of inquiry and this is

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a matter that in our opinion needed the authoritative decision of the international court of justice and that

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body decided overwhelmingly it wasn’t a close thing overwhelmingly that the

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occupation was unlawful so our opinion

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has been superseded by that of the most authoritative body in the International

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System and it was the court that said that states individually and

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collectively have a responsibility not to Aid or assist the continuation of the

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occupation the maintenance of the settlements the establishment of new settlements the court left it to the

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security Council and the general assembly to put flesh um on that that

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ruling that position and our position paper is designed to do that

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we first indicated that the Court’s decision

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applies to the occupied Palestinian territory uh the court was asked about

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the occupation and and that was all and it commented on the occupation and that

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was all the court did refer to the fact that there should be political distinctions

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made that there are questions of economics and finances and militarization or arms and arms trade

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and so forth and we sought to elucidate that in our

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opinion the obligation not to Aid or assist

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relates to the occupation and the Palestinian and sorry and the Israeli settlements in the occup

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occupied territory where the complication comes in relating to your

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question is where it is not clear or even more where the Israeli authorities

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deliberately obfuscate what has done in relation to the state of Israel and what is done in

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relation to the occupied Palestinian territories if for

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example there was one section of the military that was directed only to the

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defense of the state of Israel against foreign Invasion that part of the military would

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not be covered by the icj decision but where the military as a

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whole is used in relation to the occupation well then the decision

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applies if a state decides that assisting the occupation economically um would be the consequence

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of trading in settlement products then the state could decide not to trade

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in settlement products but if the state of Israel were to stamp all products made in Israel without distinguishing

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between those made in settlements and those made within the state of Israel that obfuscation would have much broader

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implications so there is first a due diligence obligation on states to determine what aspects of their

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relationships either support the continuation of the occupation or the maintenance of the settlements and what

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do not and if there is a lack of clarity then the due diligence

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obligation shifts to the state of Israel to make those distinctions so what we have said in our

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position paper is very much that the Court’s decision applies to the

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occupation of the territory and the maintenance of settlements within the territory but that requires examination

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of relationships to determine what does that and if there is doubt if there is

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doubt well then it could be that the implications of the decision abroader one one last Sor sorry I have

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to cut I I’m sorry I have to cut you off we are running short of time we’ll come to the front and if we have time we’ll come back

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