From the River to the Sea. Ibaitik Itsasora (2)

From the River to the Sea

Ibaitik Itsasora

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Trump Targets ICC With Sanctions After Netanyahu Warrant | Vantage with Palki Sharma | N18G

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUsnz7wrauU)

Trump Targets ICC With Sanctions After Netanyahu Warrant | Vantage with Palki Sharma | N18G

US president Donald Trump has announced sanctions on officials at the International Criminal Court. Trump has accused the court of “illegitimately and baselessly” targeting American and Israeli personnel. How will Trump’s sanctions affect the ICC’s functioning? How can we reform such global bodies? Palki Sharma tells you.

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another day another fight for president

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Donald Trump this time with the ICC

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that’s the international criminal court

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this is a global judicial body it

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investigates the worst Crimes of the

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world like war crimes or genocide or

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Force starvation sounds like the good

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fight but Trump is against them he has

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announced sanctions on members of the

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SCH cour their names are yet to be

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revealed but the impact will be massive

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no travel to the United States no access

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to us assets and no Financial

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transactions To

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America that will be the impact of this

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move but why is Trump doing it let me

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quote the White House statement this is

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what it says the ICC has engaged in

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illegitimate and baseless actions

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targeting America and our close Ally

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Israel the IC has without a legitimate

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basis asserted jurisdiction over and

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opened preliminary investigations

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concerning Personnel of the United

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States let me simplify that for you

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Trump says the ICC is unfairly targeting

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the US and Israel though they have no

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legal basis to do so you see the icc’s

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powers come from a global treaty the

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Rome statute of

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1998 if you sign that statute you accept

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the ICC jurisdiction if not you’re not

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bound by the court more than 120

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countries in the world have signed the

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Rome statute but a lot of big Powers

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have noted the United States Israel

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Russia China even India these countries

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do not accept the international criminal

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court the court can still probe these

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countries but they’re not bound by the

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findings or judgments they can simply

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ignore it which brings us back to Donald

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Trump he’s not the kind to ignore

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anything his issue with the dates back

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to his first term in 2020 Trump

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sanctioned officials of the ICC the

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reason the court was probing us war

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crimes in

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Afghanistan this time the US is not in

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the dock but Trump’s Ally Benin

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Netanyahu is ICC prosecutors have

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accused him of war crimes they’ve also

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secured a warrant for his arrest hence

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the decision to sanction the court the

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question is what happens next Israel has

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naturally welcomed Trump’s move but most

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of Europe is against it the European

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Union has released a statement it says

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Trump is undermining the international

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criminal justice system Germany’s Olaf

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scholes calls it a wrong

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decision I don’t think it’s right to

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impose sanctions on the international

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criminal court it’s so difficult to

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fight for it to enjoy a reputation and

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respect and of course it’s perfectly all

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right to get angry about things to argue

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to stand up in court with your own

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positions but sanctions are the wrong

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thing to do they are jeopardizing an

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institution that is supposed to ensure

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that the dictators of this world cannot

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simply persecute people and start

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wars the ICC has also condemned it they

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are promising to stand by their

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officials they’ve also said that their

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work will continue now let’s zoom out

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for a moment away from the politics and

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the the

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reactions how will this affect our world

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are agencies like the ICC required

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for starters this is not an isolated

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move Donald Trump has pulled out of

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multiple treaties and agencies like the

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Paris climate Accords the World Health

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Organization the UN Human Rights Council

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and the UN Aid Agency for Palestine he’s

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walked out of all of these he says these

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bodies are all

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anti-American and it is part of Trump’s

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new isolationism no to Global agencies

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yes to invading neighbors and occupying

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Gaza that’s what he’s doing now this

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selective isolation ISM will have

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consequences especially on funding the

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US is the biggest contributor to the

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United Nations they make up 22% of the

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overall

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budget 27% of the peacekeeping budget

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and

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47% of the population fund

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programs these focus on child birth and

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reproductive Health if the US leaves

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these programs the funding Gap will be

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huge we will need other states to step

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up plus there will be a political vacuum

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China is already trying to hijack United

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Nations institutions this is the perfect

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chance for them so Trump’s actions will

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have real world

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consequences which brings us to the

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second question our agencies like the

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ICC necessary well they’re not perfect

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but not in the way that Trump claims the

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IC mostly focused on the third world or

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focuses on the third world they have

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ignored crimes committed by the

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West let me show you some numbers until

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April 2024 the ICC has indicted 54

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people 47 47 of them 47 out of 54 were

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African that’s 87% of the indictments

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from one continent and we are not saying

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ignore crimes in Africa but focus on

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Western crimes as

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well look at what the ICC did to the

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United Kingdom they found evidence that

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British troops committed war crimes in

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Iraq the UK is also a member of the ICC

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so the the court did have jurisdiction

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on

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them yet the case was dropped same with

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Australia their soldiers were found

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guilty of war crimes in Afghanistan

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their commanders were stripped off their

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medals yet the international criminal

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court did not probe them if this isn’t a

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double standard what is so Trump is

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right in saying that the ICC is broken

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but America is not the victim here they

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have in fact benefited from the icc’s

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bias if not most of the living US

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presidents would be in jail so it is

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important to reform these bodies in the

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right way to make meaningful and just

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changes we’re calling the show Vantage

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we hope you like what we put together

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youed as the

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minimum from video India’s neighbors

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were the first to send the special

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edition of Vantage lives of the White

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House throughout the Hindu Mand in we’re

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on a way to measure but it’s also the

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perfect way to drive I don’t think the

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prime minister of Bhutan Shar welcome to

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since that meet iron bar separate you

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Trump had it says and at $4.3 trillion

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Where Did Donald Trump Get His “Gaza Riviera” Plan From? | Vantage with Palki Sharma | N18G

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xNfczbY8lk)

Where Did Donald Trump Get His “Gaza Riviera” Plan From? | Vantage with Palki Sharma | N18G

White House officials have clarified that US soldiers and funds will not be used in post-war Gaza. The clarification came after global condemnation against Donald Trump’s bid to “take over” Gaza and turn it into a West Asian riviera. Where did Trump get this idea from? Palki Sharma brings you the origins of Trump’s Gaza plan.

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here

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Unity is very rare in our world but

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yesterday we saw it all thanks to US

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president Donald Trump he unveiled his

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Gaza plan this week a plan to remove

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Palestinians and rebuild the strip his

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end goal is to create a Riviera a sort

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of Resort town in Gaza and cue the

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criticism European powers China Russia

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Arab Nations all of them rejected

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Trump’s plan

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so his team had to dial it down remember

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Trump said he would take over Gaza but

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the White House has assured that us

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solders will not be used and they’ve

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also refused to fund the rebuild the

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president has not committed to putting

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boots on the ground in Gaza he has also

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said that the United States is not going

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to pay for the rebuilding of Gaza uh his

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administration is going to work with our

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partners in the region uh to reconstruct

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this region so no US troops no us money

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then what what exactly is Trump’s

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contribution it’s like that one member

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of the group project in school who does

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nothing but takes the

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credit and what about the gazans Trump

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wants Egypt and Jordan to host them he

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said they shouldn’t return to Gaza

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because it is unlucky again his team has

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dialed it down they say the relocation

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is temporary the only thing president

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Trump has done very generously in my

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view is offer the United States

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willingness to step in in clear the

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debris clean the place up from all the

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destruction that’s on the ground clean

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it up of all these unexploded Munitions

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and in the meantime the people living

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there will not be able the people who

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call that home will not be able to live

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there while you have Crews coming in and

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removing debris while you have Munitions

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being removed Etc so that’s what Trump

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is offering he will clean up the debris

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and clear the bombs which makes sense I

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guess after all most of the bombs did

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come from the US but either way one

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thing is clear this plan is a nonstarter

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nobody in West Asia or the world is

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accepting it which makes you wonder

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where did the idea come from who gave

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this plan to Trump if you’ve seen the

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movie Inception this will be easier to

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understand the movie is about entering

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another person’s dream once you enter

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you plant an idea in it and that idea

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grows into a plan something similar

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seems to have happened here the Riviera

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idea probably came from Trump’s

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son-in-law his name is Jared Kushner he

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is married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka

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kushna played a key role in Trump’s

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first term he was placed in charge of

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West Asia to strike a comprehensive

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peace deal for the region he got mixed

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results but in the process he also made

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some contacts he began seeing potential

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in Gaza not for peace but for beach

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front tourism he floated the idea in

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March last year listen to this when Wars

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happen um you know borders are changed

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historically over time and gaza’s

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waterfront property it could be very

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valuable to uh if people would focus on

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kind of building up uh you know

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livelihood but I think from Israel’s

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perspective I would do my best to move

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the people out and then clean it up it’s

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the same plan pitched by Trump eject the

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people clean out the strip and build a

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Riviera Trump already has a real estate

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background so when Kushner planted the

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idea it grew which brings us to present

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day Trump’s West Asia Envoy recently

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visited Gaza he too has a real estate

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background his name is Steve witkoff

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after returning from Gaza this is what

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he told Trump

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there 30,000 unexploded Munitions it is

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the buildings that could tip over at any

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moment there’s no utilities there

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whatsoever no no working water electric

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gas nothing God knows what kind of

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disease might be festering there this

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left an impression on Donald Trump plus

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he was getting desperate no one was

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offering him a feasible plan the Arab

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states were not pitching in and he was

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told that rebuilding Gaza would take 10

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to 15 years so Trump decided to shake

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things up to Spur the regional players

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into action apparently that was the

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intention of his plan shock and awe now

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this strategy has worked in some cases

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this week Trump imposed tariffs on

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Canada and Mexico both countries gave

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minor concessions in his first term he

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derided and mocked NATO the Allies

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responded by hiking defense budgets to

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2% so shock and a can work and it has

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worked in the past but in this case it

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backfired spectacularly the Arab nations

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are not playing ball they will never

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fund the displacement of

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Palestinians it shows the limits of

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Trump’s tactics he sees West Asia as a

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deal-making landscape his onvoy sees it

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as one giant real estate

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deal that approach did work in the first

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term Trump got multiple Arab Nations to

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recognize Israel but this time he went

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too far he thought his personal

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equations with smoo

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differences Jared kushna thought so too

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he runs a priv investment firm nowadays

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it is flush with Gulf money the Saudis

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have invested $2 billion the UAA and qar

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have also invested Millions plus the

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Trump organization has Assets in the

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Gulf they’re building Towers in Riyad

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and

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Dubai was Donald Trump counting on these

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personal

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equations perhaps he

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was but this isn’t a normal real estate

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deal you see it’s a decades old conflict

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there are lives emotions and history at

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stake not just a piece of land

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we’re calling the show Vantage we hope

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you like what we put together for

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India’s neighbors were the first to the

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special edition of Vantage life of the

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White House throughout the Hindu Mand in

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did the IR we were actually you doing

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how do you like it’s been one year since

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Trump Announces Plan to “Take Over” Gaza and Eject Palestinians | Vantage with Palki Sharma | N18G

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueXEXjqXNvk)

A look into how and why international laws and principles are being applied and ignored in the Israel-Gaza conflict.

The events of October 7 sent shockwaves across the world and brought to the forefront once again a conflict that has been ongoing for 75 years. The Israeli government’s response to Hamas’s attack was prompt – it embarked on a war of magnitude in Gaza, claiming it needed to take out Hamas and rescue the captives. At first, the consensus of Western powers seemed solid: Israel has the right to fight back against Hamas. But more than five months later, Israel’s military was facing criticism worldwide, including allegations that it is committing war crimes, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing and even genocide.

This documentary will explore whether Israel is breaking international law and, if so, why are Western powers, in particular the United States, silent.

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it’s an extremely cynical moment for

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international law it’s an extremely

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devastating moment for the Palestinian

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people there are rules under

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international law and no matter which

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way you look at this Israel is in

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violation of those

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rules as of the 7th of October there is

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not one Norm of international

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humanitarian law that has not been

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violated I never imagined that in my

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lifetime I would see a genocide taking

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place in real time before my eyes the

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fact that it is being protected by most

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western governments takes it to a level

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that I just never imagined would be

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possible I come to Israel with a single

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message you’re not

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alone you are not alone

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Canada will always be a friend of Israel

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and defend its rights including its

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right to

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[Applause]

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exist and Israel has a right to defend

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itself in fact it has the duty to defend

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its people

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as your friend we will stand with you in

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solidarity we will stand with your

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people and we also want you to

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win if one looks at our political

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leaders today and all of our mainstream

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politicians they are the most mendacious

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the most

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mediocre the least talented group of

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politicians that I can remember during

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my almost 60 years on this Earth it it

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is astonishing just How Deeply corrupt

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materially and morally they are because

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many of them be through donations to

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their political parties donations to

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them personally donations to their

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organizations like the labor friends of

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Israel the conservative friends of

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Israel the Democratic friends of Israel

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the Republican friends of Israel and the

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multiple and Myriad other organizations

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like that they provide an extremely good

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living for that person and for those

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political

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parties thank you for having me and uh

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I’m looking forward to having a thorough

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discussion about where everybody goes

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from here every day in the depth and

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bread of cooperation the West is

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intimately involved in Israel’s

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genocidal campaign in Gaza for months we

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have seen us officials affirm time and

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again that there are no red lines for

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Israel using exactly that language uh

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when of course we know that

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international law draws many red lines

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and yet the US has come out in Stark

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opposition granting Israel full

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authority to proceed and to create As

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Much Death and destruction as it sees

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fit battle it’s America’s

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battle I’m shocked by the lack of action

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of the International Community I’m

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shocked by the hands raised by the US

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ambassador in the security Council

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voting against Asis fire vetoing Asis

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fire I’m shocked by the lack of action

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of principled States who need to take

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again a principled concrete stand

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against this aberration and start

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thinking of

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sanctions what we’ve seen is that the

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laws of war are used against weaker

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parties but if your ally is the United

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States and if your ally can veto any

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Security Council

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resolution and if your allies are the

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European States then the chances that

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the IC will bring you to Justice are

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very very slim the international court

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of justice is a court

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that renders guilty the losers in a

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conflict it is a court of the victors

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and a court that has double standards

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for the allies of the powerful and for

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those that it thinks of as its

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enemies The View that South Africa’s

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submission to the international court of

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justice is some sort of anti

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anti-semitic screed and blood liel this

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is nonsense that you couldn’t make up

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and the nonsense that is being

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enunciated constantly not just by the

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Israelis but that is then parroted by

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the US government the UK government the

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German government the French government

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Etc and this is being done to defend the

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indefensible to defend the slaughter of

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tens of thousands of innocent civilians

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to to defend attacks on Health

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Facilities on residential homes on

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places of worship on places of

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work we are seeing a genocide taking

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place in Gaza well truth the matter is

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if there weren’t an Israel we’d have to

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invent one the truth of the matter is

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that I believe that you as I went home

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and said got in trouble it’s the time

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but it’s true you know you don’t have to

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be a Jew to be a

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Zionist you don’t have to be a Jew to be

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a Zionist it’s the International

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Community and it’s powerful member

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states like particularly the the us but

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in general Western countries which is

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still pilot and it’s evident in The veto

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power that some member states can

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exercise within the UN three of those

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member states are from the West it tells

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us something no African countries has a

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VTO power in the United Nations system

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it’s the entire system which is not

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fully representative of where the world

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is

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today but I would like to see this

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changing we need to think of better

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mechanisms not only inside the law but

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how the law is applied to ensure that

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there is no double standards so it’s

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both a changing of the laws to so so

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that they uh address the current

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circumstances but also the institutions

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the judicial institutions that apply the

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law so that they don’t apply it with

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double standards and we will continue to

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actively engage in the hard work of

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direct diplomacy on the ground until we

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reach a final solution

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the destruction of over 70% of Gaza the

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killing of over 30,000 Palestinians

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including 13,000 Palestinian babies and

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children the injuring of uh around now

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70,000 Palestinians and the destruction

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of almost all of the civilian

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infrastructure in Gaza international law

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prohibits this completely

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we have to remind the world that there

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are at least in theory rules which

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Israel must abide by and which it is

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violating the IDF is doing anything they

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can in order to minimize the uh culties

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when it targets the the military targets

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but again we are in a war in a war

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civilians got

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H you will never see the IDF Target

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shoots down a civilian you will never

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see a group of children walking on the

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beach of Gaza and Israel Target them

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specifically or an old lady crossing the

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street and Israel shoots the old lady

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Israel does not Target

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civilians Israel targets military

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targets Israel targets terrorists and

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when these terrorists surround

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themselves with civilians with this

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little children with this old lady with

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this old

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people these civilians might get hurt

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but it’s not on the fault of Israel it’s

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on the fault of the one who surrounded

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himself with these civilians the one

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that use them as human Shields

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the argument of the human Shields of

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Palestinians in general being uh eager

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to sacrifice their own children as human

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Shields has been used and dismissed over

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and over the first one to dismiss this

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argument was Richard uh Goldstone the

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the head of the first Commission of

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inquiry over the first war in Gaza and

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it has been disproven over and over

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where is the evidence

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Israel’s instruction to the Palestinians

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first to move South and then to move

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west and then to move north but

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basically that instruction which has

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displaced 1.8 million people tells the

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Israelis that any civilians that remains

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in that area or Israel assumes that any

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civilian that remains at that in that

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area is either a participant in

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hostilities and therefore can be killed

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or a human shield namely someone that is

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being used to Shield a legitimate

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military Target and that allows Israel

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to relax the repertoar of Le lethal

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violence that it uses against these

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people and in a court of law that can be

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used to justify the wholesale killing of

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civilians Israel does more than even

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it’s required it drops fly

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uh over Gaza to tell the people to

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vacate the area it makes phone calls to

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residential um civilians to vacate the

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area uh Israel calls to vacate the area

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once Israel took this

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precautions it’s allowed to take down

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the building

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if civilians prefer to stay they take

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the uh their own

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responsibility this is a complete

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Distortion of international law if you

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consider also the fact that Israel is an

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occupier which I think is the relevant

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legal framing here Israel has

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obligations under occupation law um not

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only to end the occupation which has now

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been ongoing for 56 years but also to

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protect the occupied people and we also

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know that Israel has no right to claim

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self-defense in accordance with article

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51 of the UN Charter with respect to

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attacks emanating from a territory that

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it occupies and this notion was upheld

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by the international court of justice in

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its 2004 ruling on the legality of the

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wall and so regardless of which way you

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look at this there is absolutely no

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legal defense to committing a

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genocide

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andal and Mazon

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and

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M we have the president of the state

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saying there’s no innocent civilian or

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there’s no uninvolved civilian in the

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Gaza Strip so these kind of remarks do

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point at it intent and the if if it gets

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to a court of law then these kinds of

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remarks become very important in terms

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of the

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genocidal aspect of this war a lot of

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people in Israel will not feel bad for

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the Palestinians but yet the leadership

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in Israel feels for the Palestinian

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people

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and they allow whatever the minimal uh

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humanitarian Aid to be provided to the

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population in Gaza

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the law does create a vision of a

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certain kind of justice that we want to

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Aspire for we want to Aspire towards a

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world where human rights for all are

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protected the immense scale of suffering

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in Gaza there must be an immediate

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ceasefire for at least the next six

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weeks which is what is currently on the

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table does human rights law give us the

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tools to achieve human rights I’m not

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sure because of the interests of

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powerful states because of the double

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standards that are applied in the

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international Arena and therefore if it

17:08

gets to court often the human rights do

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not win the day and so we need to think

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of other

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mechanisms to achieve these human rights

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the problem is not the law the problem

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is with the enforcement of the law and

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in in the Middle East and in the global

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South I would say uh the problem is that

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law is closer to political convenience

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than to

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Justice as a European I’m very sorry to

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say 500 years of colonization has left a

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huge imprint in our DNA in general

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Western people are not able to assess

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objectively what is what is being done

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through the non-application of

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international law or through the

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discretionary application of

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international law it’s terrible to see

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the dismantlement of international order

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premised upon international law piece by

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piece

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manen it’s unclear absolute Victory will

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look like when you’ve destroyed already

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70% of Gaza when the overwhelming

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majority close to 2 million Palestinians

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are displaced um it seems to me that

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absolute victory means the the total

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decimation of Gaza to the point that

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it’s completely uninhabitable and the

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depopulation of Gaza which Israel has

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told us time and again uh in this

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current moment that that is their goal

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that their goal is the depopulation of

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Gaza and um the settlement of Gaza by

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Israeli settlers of course in total

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violation of international law

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Israel does not Bridge the international

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law Israel keeps strictly very very

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strictly all the rules of law according

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to the international law why a country

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should be above scrutiny I mean no one

19:50

should be the international law is there

19:53

to be applied universally and not just

19:56

for cherry picking because this this

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forms as I often say human rights

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protection into protectionism and this

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is

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unacceptable for me the the idea that

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the law will lead to Liberation or

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emancipation or Palestinian

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self-determination is a

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fiction human rights is not necessarily

20:30

the the tool I think the tool needs to

20:33

be more political in the sense of

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divestments in the sense of sanctions in

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the sense of boycotts to use this kind

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of Arenal of nonviolent weapons to

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pressure Israel to bring about

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changee freeee

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Israel about 12 or so years ago realized

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having been so close to apartate South

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Africa the very real threat that BDS

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posed to the existence of the Israeli

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State as a racist occupying State and

21:24

they created a ministerial Department

21:26

called the department for strategic

21:29

Affairs specifically to counter the BDS

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movement and what was the strategy that

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they hit upon it was to ensure that any

21:38

criticism of Israel any criticism of its

21:40

occupation any criticism of its behavior

21:43

in the occupied

21:45

territories was made equivalent to

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anti-Semitism and they have been

21:51

remarkably successful at doing that

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there is no other argument than accusing

21:56

us of anti-Semitism so as to deflect the

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attention from what matters the most

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from what our analysis insists

22:06

upon for decades now I’m not surprised

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that Israel recurs to any strategies it

22:12

can to uphold its goals to reach its

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objectives but I’m surprised that

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International Community joins this

22:19

action because today you are not just

22:22

attacked by Israel for being an

22:23

anti-semitic if you just ask for the

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application of international law to

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Israel

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Israeli actions it’s many many Western

22:32

countries who do so and they

22:35

betray also what anti-Semitism has

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really been The Surge of anti-Semitism

22:41

in the United States of America and

22:42

around the world is sickening you know

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we see it across our communities in

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schools and colleges and social media

22:49

they surface painful scars from

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Millennia to hate of hate to genocide of

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the Jewish people every time I get

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accused

22:58

falsely accused of anti-Semitism I

23:01

respond I don’t stay quiet I don’t get

23:05

intimidated I become louder and louder

23:08

and by doing so I think I also Inspire

23:11

other people to do the

23:14

same I’m

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Jewish my mother was one of 20 odd

23:20

survivors of the Holocaust so to

23:23

describe me as

23:24

anti-semitic given my history of

23:27

anti-racism

23:28

and my work on genocide prevention my

23:32

invoking of the Holocaust of which my

23:34

mother’s family were

23:36

victims it’s simply an

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absurdity the so-call Western world is

23:46

prepared to

23:47

sacrifice the entire architecture of

23:51

international law that has been put in

23:54

place post World War II specifically to

23:57

prevent there being another genocide

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like the Holocaust we are prepared to

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rent all of that aunder so that Israel

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can continue to murder

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247 Palestinians on an average day 48 of

24:13

whom will be women and 117 of whom will

24:17

be children we’re prepared to throw it

24:19

all out that’s the point of Crisis that

24:22

our politics are at now and it is up to

24:24

all of us who recognize that to actually

24:28

create a

24:30

counternarrative to the nonsense that is

24:32

spewed by our politicians to maintain

24:36

their own place in this appallingly

24:39

corrupt and malfunctioning political

24:42

system we

24:46

have we continue every single day to

24:49

wake up and insist on freedom and life

24:51

in the face of genocide and there’s

24:53

simply nothing more dignified that

24:55

anybody can do in such a hopeless and

24:58

desperate

24:59

moment I don’t believe it’s going to be

25:01

sustainable to continue to prevent

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Palestinians from their right to Freedom

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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 currency, out of the European Distopia and faraway from NAT0, maybe being a BRICS partner…

Ikus Euskal Herriaren independentzia eta Mikel Torka

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