From the River to the Sea. Ibaitik Itsasora (3)

From the River to the Sea 

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Israel: Above the law? | Featured Documentary

(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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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

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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

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should be the international law is there

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to be applied universally and not just

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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

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the the tool I think the tool needs to

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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

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they created a ministerial Department

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called the department for strategic

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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

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criticism of Israel any criticism of its

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occupation any criticism of its behavior

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in the occupied

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territories was made equivalent to

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anti-Semitism and they have been

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remarkably successful at doing that

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there is no other argument than accusing

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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

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upon for decades now I’m not surprised

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that Israel recurs to any strategies it

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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

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action because today you are not just

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attacked by Israel for being an

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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

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countries who do so and they

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betray also what anti-Semitism has

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really been The Surge of anti-Semitism

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in the United States of America and

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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

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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

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falsely accused of anti-Semitism I

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

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intimidated I become louder and louder

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and by doing so I think I also Inspire

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other people to do the

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same I’m

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Jewish my mother was one of 20 odd

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survivors of the Holocaust so to

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describe me as

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anti-semitic given my history of

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anti-racism

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and my work on genocide prevention my

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invoking of the Holocaust of which my

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mother’s family were

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victims it’s simply an

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absurdity the so-call Western world is

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prepared to

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sacrifice the entire architecture of

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international law that has been put in

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place post World War II specifically to

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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

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whom will be women and 117 of whom will

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be children we’re prepared to throw it

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all out that’s the point of Crisis that

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our politics are at now and it is up to

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all of us who recognize that to actually

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create a

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counternarrative to the nonsense that is

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spewed by our politicians to maintain

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their own place in this appallingly

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corrupt and malfunctioning political

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system we

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have we continue every single day to

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wake up and insist on freedom and life

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in the face of genocide and there’s

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simply nothing more dignified that

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anybody can do in such a hopeless and

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desperate

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

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sustainable to continue to prevent

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Palestinians from their right to Freedom

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The role of US citizens in Israel’s settlement & military activities | People & Power Documentary

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1kLUVK8NaU)

Settler violence and Israeli military raids in the occupied West Bank have surged since October 7. Residents have been displaced, homes have been attacked and Palestinians have been killed and injured.

More than a dozen countries, including the United States, France, the United Kingdom and Australia have condemned the violence, and some have announced visa restrictions on anyone found to have taken part in the attacks.

But these restrictions miss a big loophole: dual nationals.

It is estimated that of the 700,000 settlers who live in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank, at least 60,000 are also American citizens. People & Power investigates the role US citizens play in Israel’s settlement and military activities in the occupied Palestinian territory.

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since October 7th 2023 Israeli military

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raids and settler violence has surged in

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the occupied West Bank hundreds of

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Palestinians have been killed and

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thousands injured more than a dozen

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countries including the US have

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condemned the violence the White House

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has even announced sanctions against

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several Israeli settlers tens of

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thousands of Americans live in illegal

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settlements and many serve in the

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Israeli military people and power

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investigate the role US citizens play in

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Israel’s occupation and settlement

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expansion

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hundreds of Israelis are attending this

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proar rally in Jerusalem supporting the

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bombardment of Gaza a far right settlers

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and American jeel

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Nationals since October the 7th there

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has been a spike in violence carried out

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by Israeli settlers against Palestinians

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and as a result the United States have

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said that they will impose visa

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restrictions on those carrying out the

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violence but some Palestinians say that

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this doesn’t go far enough because the

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relationship between the United States

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the occupation and settlers runs deep

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in February 20124 after mounting

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pressure US President Joe Biden issued

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an executive order sanctioning four

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Israeli settlers accused of violence and

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intimidation against Palestinians since

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then more settlers and settlements have

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been added to the list but the US

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remains Israel’s closest political Ally

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and continues to give it more military

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aid than any other country in the world

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Mr President you’re meeting with our

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United War cabinet to lead Israel to

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Victory Israel has the right and I would

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add responsibility to respond to the

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slaughter of their people and we will

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ensure Israel has what it needs to

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defend itself against these terrorists

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if you could describe the relationship

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between the United States and Israel in

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one sentence how what would you say

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let’s get Trump back in because he let’s

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keep this broader let’s keep I’m going

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say need the support of both parties

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they got to start thinking a little bit

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more like the enemies I mean the United

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States in Great Britain their forces are

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being shot at uh in the Middle East also

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and what are they going to let that

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happen we we have to we have to draw the

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line and say enough they don’t

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understand restraint they don’t

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understand negotiation they understand

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force and power so you smack them punch

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them in the face and knock them down

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it’s different mentality in the middle

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eag we have children who are fighting

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for the IDF and and that puts us in a

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little different position as well since

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the Hamas attack on October 7th when at

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least

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1,139 were killed and 240 people taken

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hostage Israel has carried out one of

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the most intensive bombing campaigns

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against a populated area in history so

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far killing at least

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33,42 people and displacing 85% of the

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population there’s been a lot of

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coverage about accusations of war crimes

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that have been committed by members of

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the Israeli forces do you think that

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there is an issue there for American

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Jewel Nationals to be in an army that

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has this accusation put against them the

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Israelis you know we’re accused of war

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crimes whether whether we commit them or

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not we have suffered so many so many

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more losses of our guys and of our men

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and women in in in battle because we

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don’t go in and carpet bomb the way they

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think we do why should that building who

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a death trap why should we send our guys

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in there just knock it down knock it

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down

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human rights groups accuse the Israeli

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military of collective punishment

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arbitary executions torture and

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starvation Israel continues to blame

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Hamas for its actions while the US

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vetoed multiple calls by the UN for a

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ceasefire and despite Biden’s executive

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order Palestinians living under

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occupation say they face increasing

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restrictions on movement while settlers

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accused of violence enjoy near

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impunity settlers are Israeli citizens

5:41

who live in the West Bank in East

5:42

Jerusalem Palestinian territory which

5:45

has been occupied by Israel since

5:47

1967 there are now around 700,000

5:50

settlers the 3 million Palestinians

5:52

there are ruled under military law

6:00

since October 7th more than 430

6:03

Palestinians have been killed by Israeli

6:05

soldiers or settlers in the occupied

6:07

West

6:09

Bank 29-year-old zachar Adra lives inaf

6:12

Arata a collection of Palestinian

6:15

Villages which have faced years of

6:17

attacks and systematic Force

6:18

displacement by Israeli settlers and the

6:21

military on the 13th of October a

6:24

settler shot him in the stomach he now

6:27

has trouble walking and eating and is in

6:30

constant pain there’s a cell phone video

6:33

of the

6:34

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6:58

attack

7:06

for can you describe that moment did you

7:08

know what was happening to

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7:28

you

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7:54

for Zacharia says the shooter came from

7:56

the direction of havat on and legal

7:59

Outpost in the southern Hebron Hills

8:01

rights groups say it has a history of

8:03

violent harassment of Palestinians yet

8:06

according to recent media reports has

8:08

received private us funding this isn’t

8:10

uncommon us residents have funnel

8:13

millions of dollars of tax deductible

8:15

donations into illegal settlements which

8:18

violate international law and play a

8:20

significant role in the expulsion of

8:22

Palestinians from their land around 20

8:25

km North is heon City one of the

8:28

starkest symbols of the occupation it’s

8:31

home to around 200,000 Palestinians and

8:34

1,000 settlers hagit ofran monitors

8:38

settlements and their expansion for

8:40

Israeli campaign group peace now in

8:42

order to protect this small group of

8:44

settlers inside the Palestinian City the

8:47

Israeli Army sealed a whole neighborhood

8:52

from the presence of Palestinians the

8:55

heart of the Old City where you had all

8:59

the shops are closed for 30 years

9:01

already for Palestinians and there are

9:04

parts of the streets that they are not

9:06

even allowed to walk since October 7 the

9:10

whole area became even more restricted

9:12

for instance as I was walking up here I

9:15

saw a Palestinian house where the roof

9:19

of it is taken as a military post well

9:22

so they just take over the roof of their

9:25

home and they have a a military order

9:28

it’s called the seizure order and the

9:31

commander is say I need this property

9:34

for the security of the area and I take

9:37

it temporarily so this family has to eat

9:41

sleep go about their day while there is

9:45

an occupying force on their roof

9:48

sometimes it’s not only on the roof

9:49

sometime it can be in in the Next Room

9:52

all of it is for the security

9:55

needs suddenly our interview is

9:58

interrupted

10:00

so every time we do an interview we’re

10:02

met with soldiers they’re sent here I

10:05

believe to check if we’re a threat or

10:08

whatever I need to see your ID

10:13

please you have authorization from the

10:15

Israeli government to be here they know

10:17

that we’re here it’s okay that you’re

10:19

telling me but we need authorization

10:21

yeah but I’m just as well just so you

10:23

the guy here not to film

10:25

us they sent here a terrorist from El

10:28

jazer we have to make sure you’re not

10:30

where’s your accent from Michigan

10:33

Michigan okay after checking our

10:36

documents they finally

10:39

left what was really interesting is I

10:41

just spoke to one of the soldiers and he

10:43

told me that he was from Michigan and a

10:45

duel National how many of these

10:47

settlements that you’re talking about

10:50

are funded by us residents we cannot

10:54

really know uh how much money is going

10:57

directly from funds or Charities

11:00

American Charities to settlements there

11:02

are many settlements that get funds from

11:05

charities in America you can also look

11:08

at you know the Americans give Israel x

11:12

amount of of billions for our security

11:15

so it frees ex amount of billions for

11:18

other causes for Israel so you can say

11:20

that it’s indirectly support the the

11:24

settlements do you think that there’s

11:26

any desire to try and limit people

11:29

living on land that is deemed illegal

11:32

internationally I don’t see this still

11:35

in the United States any big opposition

11:39

to the very settlements what we saw is

11:43

like the first step and I think it’s not

11:45

insignificant it is an important step

11:48

and it puts a lot of political pressure

11:50

within Israel and it’s bringing the

11:53

issue of settler violence to the

11:55

headlines in Israel which is something

11:58

very very very significant but of course

12:01

this will not end the

12:02

occupation the soldier we met isn’t the

12:05

only American in the West Bank according

12:07

to a study by Oxford University released

12:10

in

12:11

2015 60,000 settlers living in the

12:14

occupied Palestinian territory are also

12:16

American citizens they’re playing a

12:19

significant role in enforcing the

12:21

occupation as we traveled through the

12:23

city to meet Palestinians we witnessed

12:26

just how difficult it was to move around

12:28

there are many many Israeli checkpoints

12:30

some denied us

12:32

entry we’re trying to find a different

12:35

route to get to the Palestinian that

12:37

lives in this area of heon high can we

12:38

see the ideas please yes where do you

12:42

how do you guys get in through the gate

12:44

over there yeah is that an

12:49

issue so this is the situation in heon

12:51

now there’s a lot of security and it’s

12:54

very difficult to move around over there

12:57

it’s called the red area but there’s no

13:00

signs on the gate there’s literally

13:09

none this is Asa he lives on the other

13:12

side over here he’s a local resident of

13:14

Hebron told us that he was attacked

13:16

after October the 7th he’s now trying to

13:19

communicate with the Israeli soldiers to

13:22

see if we can pass through

13:39

we didn’t expect this to be the fast

13:41

meeting sorry this is the

13:51

reality so this is the reality of

13:56

heon uh I am living here since

13:59

uh almost 17 18 years you literally have

14:04

to get through a dozen soldiers just to

14:06

get to your home and people can’t just

14:09

come and visit nobody can come to visit

14:11

me only the people who are living inside

14:13

the area are allowed to come here so

14:15

this is an occupied Palestinian Land by

14:17

the Israeli settlers and they usually

14:19

attack Palestinian families here and

14:22

here they attacked us ASA Amro says that

14:25

on October 7th he was attacked and

14:27

detained by both settlers and Israeli

14:29

soldiers and that in the days after his

14:31

release he was also forced out of his

14:33

home for weeks we put asa’s claims to

14:35

the Israeli military but we didn’t hear

14:37

back I was tortured I was almost killed

14:41

I was coming from here to my house the

14:44

way you you came and settlers in an arm

14:47

uniform who are my neighbors I was

14:49

kidnapped by them I was kept for 10

14:52

hours handcuffed blindfolded gagged

14:55

beaten sexually assaulted they pointed

14:58

the the gun and they put it on my head

15:00

in count to 10 I fainted two times

15:02

without any medical treatment spitting

15:05

at me seeing B bad things to me they

15:07

were celebrating torturing me for 10

15:10

hours continuously and you thought you

15:11

were going to die I I said goodbye to

15:16

everything you know I thought that it’s

15:17

my last moment and recently we’ve been

15:20

hearing from the United States from some

15:23

European countries that they are going

15:24

to impose visa restrictions on settlers

15:27

who were convicted of carrying out

15:28

attacks what did you think when you

15:30

heard this I can say that it’s a kind of

15:33

uh public opinion uh satisfaction the

15:36

sers are attacking Palestinians are only

15:38

four now in the West Bank there are 10

15:40

Palestinians killed by settlers directly

15:41

what are they and many American citizens

15:43

here that many American citizens they

15:45

live here illegally inside heon as

15:49

settlers they should take them to

15:53

American courts and treat them as war

15:58

criminals to be very honest they should

16:00

be brought to the IC nobody was

16:02

accountable for what happened to me and

16:04

to many other Palestinians and the sers

16:07

are not the only one who are attacking

16:10

Palestinians the Israeli soldiers who

16:12

are siters in an army uniform there are

16:13

many siters joined the army and they

16:15

kill Palestinians if you want really to

16:17

make them accountable make Israel

16:19

accountable the settlers they are backed

16:23

up by the Israeli government they are

16:24

supported by the Israeli government they

16:27

are financed by the Israeli government

16:29

so let’s go after the Israeli government

16:31

and stop them and dismantle all the

16:32

Israeli settlements according to the

16:35

international

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16:39

law the White House recently reversed

16:41

Donald Trump’s policy on Israel’s

16:43

settlement expansion declaring them

16:46

inconsistent with international law yet

16:49

organizations like the one Israel fund

16:52

an American not for profit exempt from

16:54

federal tax claims it’s raised millions

16:57

of dollars for settlements Kamas sent us

17:00

a message on October 7th never again is

17:04

now one of its prominent ambassadors is

17:07

Gabriel boxer who regularly promotes and

17:10

fundraises for settlements and Israeli

17:12

soldiers boom

17:15

shaka in February he also accompanied

17:18

the Israeli military as it bombed

17:24

Gaza wow that’s all I can

17:27

say right be behind me is hostile enemy

17:31

territory that we learned what really

17:33

they believe after October

17:36

7th we are now approaching the Cave of

17:40

the M this huge structure is the burial

17:45

place of the Patriarchs and matriarchs

17:49

of the Jewish people it’s also a holy

17:51

site for Muslims the ibrahimi

17:54

mosque in order to get around the

17:56

Region’s strict military control we met

17:59

with David an American Israeli tour

18:01

guide so what do you say to those in

18:05

America who say that there should be

18:07

more sanctions on even the funding of

18:10

settlements by private us residents I

18:13

think that the people who claim that

18:15

they support the Palestinians are not

18:18

aware of the facts on the ground are

18:20

either being fed misinformation

18:23

intentionally or imagining events that

18:26

are not actually happening

18:31

David takes us to ma alh its rare access

18:35

to a highly secured and gated settlement

18:37

which has received donations from the

18:39

one Israel fund around 700 settlers live

18:43

in the sprawling Suburban style luxury

18:47

Community we’re met by Gideon Ariel an

18:50

American Israeli settler who’s lived

18:52

here for 11 years of different places

18:54

here’s my home watch watch your head

18:56

when you uh pass by the flag that my

18:58

kids fo up I’ll let you leave the way

19:01

this this is the view that uh that sold

19:03

me on Mal my wife has a cousin who lives

19:07

here and we would come from time to time

19:10

for the holidays and uh one day her

19:13

husband took me outside and said you see

19:15

this house next door you can have it for

19:17

250,000 shekels which was a pittance in

19:20

the time why is it important to live in

19:22

a community like this well first of all

19:25

why is it important to live anywhere a

19:27

person lives where they want to live and

19:29

this is as you can see a beautiful place

19:32

historically God promised Abraham this

19:34

is the land that is going to belong to

19:36

you and to your children forever more

19:38

right here in my

19:40

backyard well it’s h Shabbat tomorrow is

19:43

Shabbat so my wife debah here is uh

19:46

preparing for

19:47

Shabbat deah BTO are you also American

19:51

yeah every time I hear an American

19:52

accent it’s like I what’s going on where

19:54

am

19:55

I we have people here from all different

19:58

places of the world we have people here

20:00

from United States from Russia from

20:03

India from Germany from

20:06

Ethiopia you it’s just a small community

20:09

of 100 there going be people watching

20:11

who are going to say what the hell is a

20:15

American doing in this land because they

20:19

are all Jews we are all Jews who were

20:23

exiled from this land about 2,000 years

20:26

ago we kept that connection to the land

20:30

all throughout those Millennium and now

20:33

thanks to God we are coming back to our

20:36

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20:40

land if the United Nations says that

20:43

there has been a significant increase in

20:45

attacks from settlers and then also as

20:47

this area was called by the United

20:50

Nations an occupation that is a legal

20:52

under the Geneva Convention then it is

20:55

only right for the United States to take

20:57

action

20:59

how do you respond to that it is not

21:01

illegal for me to raise my children here

21:03

I’m not bothering anybody else this land

21:05

never belonged to anybody else it was

21:08

always state land we’re going to decide

21:10

what’s best for us we’ve established a

21:13

state which is thriving which is helping

21:15

people all over the world and nobody’s

21:18

going to tell us what we can do or what

21:20

we can’t do I’m

21:21

sorry Israeli rights groups say part of

21:24

the settlement is built on private

21:26

Palestinian land in a AUST around 500 M

21:30

away settlers from an unknown location

21:33

armed with M16 rifles were filmed

21:35

physically assaulting a Palestinian

21:38

farmer how would you feel about

21:40

potentially having Palestinians live

21:42

here this specific a community is a

21:46

small community and it wants to stay a

21:47

small community and we’re also all

21:50

religious Jews over here so not here but

21:53

in other places yeah yeah in general

21:55

however it’s very important that Jews

21:58

stay the majority and we even though we

22:01

believe in democracy very much so we

22:04

believe in the only place for Jews to

22:07

live and call it their own the UN

22:10

describes settlements and the

22:11

displacements of Palestinians as a major

22:14

obstacle to peace in the region at the

22:16

heart of this obstacle are American

22:19

citizens and groups like the one Israel

22:21

fund one of the settlers accused of

22:24

violence and sanctioned by both the US

22:26

and the UK is by YF shown here on the

22:30

one Israel fund website thanking them

22:33

for donating a

22:34

drone these are the guys who are really

22:37

responsible for preventing Terror and

22:40

saving lives and fighting the bad guys

22:42

funding is often used to support Israeli

22:44

paramilitary groups with surveillance

22:45

equipment like drones vehicles and

22:48

helmets missing a lot of equipment they

22:50

needed before but now because of all the

22:52

donations they’ve been able to receive a

22:54

lot of stuff they wanted and thank God

22:56

we will be improving the security of all

22:58

Jud and Samaria so thank you all thank

23:00

you very much in the US there’s

23:02

increasing pressure to explicitly ban

23:05

the funding of settlements by groups

23:07

like the one Israel fund who did not

23:09

respond to our repeated requests for

23:12

comment for now American dollars

23:14

continue to fund settlements and

23:16

soldiers while Palestinians like ASA

23:19

bear the brunt of the

23:21

occupation there’s a drone up here just

23:25

now do you think they know we’re doing

23:26

an interview what what is this Israeli

23:27

settlers they have drones to film us to

23:30

intimidate us to spy on us and now it’s

23:34

only on us they so they’re filming us

23:36

they are filming us now it happens

23:38

almost every day whenever I have

23:40

visitors I have uh uh journalists who

23:44

are are here it’s a kind of that we are

23:46

watching

23:48

you what do you think America needs to

23:51

do America needs to uh work hard to

23:56

punish the Israeli government government

23:59

to punish the Israeli uh settlers

24:03

leaders and to punish the Israeli uh

24:06

settlement organizations and Nos and

24:09

even to start with themselves first to

24:12

stop the 3.8 billion dollar uh Aid to

24:16

the Israeli military every year H and

24:19

make it conditional on ending the

24:20

Israeli occupation and ending the

24:22

Israeli sitler violence and ending the

24:24

Israeli AAR tide here and they should

24:26

start with their own people to stop them

24:28

from funding the Israeli settlers

24:31

terrorist here it’s really important

24:35

that they should start first in their

24:37

own countries according to their legal

24:38

system

24:47

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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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