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Genocide Evidence WIPED, ILLEGAL Settlements, Dr Abu Safiya BEATEN, Why Should Palestinians DISARM? · IndieNewsNow LIVE! Clips

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  SPEAKER_01: Who are these people?
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm going to get to this long Fuck Israel segment because this is what we do every week.
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  SPEAKER_02: Every week there's new monstrosities and new horrors that are inflicted upon
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  SPEAKER_02: the Palestinian people and the rest of the world by the Israelis and by Zionists.
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  SPEAKER_02: And this week, of course, is no exception,
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  SPEAKER_01: sadly enough.
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  SPEAKER_02: Now, there was a slight victory we're going to get to first,
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  SPEAKER_02: and that's the story from the dissident that we're going to bring tonight.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I'm going to just whip through it quickly.
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  SPEAKER_02: We're going to talk about a Mitchell Plitnik article from Mondo Weiss
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  SPEAKER_02: about armed resistance and the rights to...
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  SPEAKER_02: To have two armed resistance that is already,
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  SPEAKER_02: you know, has been defined by the Geneva Convention and the United Nations.
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  SPEAKER_02: We're going to, of course, have to sadly talk about Dr. Abu Safiya.
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  SPEAKER_02: I've got even more than than this.
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  SPEAKER_02: Which is Israelis destroying evidence of genocide by digging up all of the area
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  SPEAKER_02: where there may still be Palestinian bodies buried.
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  SPEAKER_02: And carting out, I know Ghostart put this in, carting out 100 tons of rubble a day.
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  SPEAKER_02: Where are they putting it?
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  SPEAKER_02: I don't know, we're going to find out.
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  SPEAKER_02: And then this disgusting map.
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  SPEAKER_02: That was put out by Israel and then deleted.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm sorry, our band.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I'll get into that.
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  SPEAKER_02: Kyle Anzalone over at Indie Media Warden, honorary anti-war.
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  SPEAKER_02: But let's get started again with our friend at Dissident.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_02: Dissident and I have been friends for more than six years.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um...
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  SPEAKER_02: And I think I first met him in the Jimmy Dore Discord.
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  SPEAKER_02: We've done a couple of podcasts together on INN one-on-one.
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  SPEAKER_02: And when we were first starting INN,
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  SPEAKER_02: the idea was to have writers who could write excellent articles.
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  SPEAKER_02: And then the INN live streamers would then have exclusive content
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  SPEAKER_02: that they would cover, which...
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  SPEAKER_02: I still believe in that model.
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  SPEAKER_02: Robbie Yeager's articles I share,
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  SPEAKER_02: the dissidents articles we share,
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  SPEAKER_02: and we're always looking for new good writers to join,
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  SPEAKER_02: to support, and to include in Indie News Now as well.
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  SPEAKER_02: So we're going to talk about academic David Miller.
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  SPEAKER_02: So we've talked about Professor David Miller.
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  SPEAKER_02: I've read some of his articles recently.
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  SPEAKER_02: David Miller secures a rare victory.
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  SPEAKER_02: Cookies don't go yet.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is a good one for free speech in the UK.
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  SPEAKER_02: He actually sued his school that tried to dismiss him, Bristol University.
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  SPEAKER_02: Let's get into this.
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  SPEAKER_02: So he just made the Zionist lobby's silencing campaign much harder in the UK.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I'll let the dissident explain the story.
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  SPEAKER_02: Is that after a years-long battle,
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  SPEAKER_02: the UK-based anti-Zionist academic David Miller has secured
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  SPEAKER_02: a major free speech victory against the Israel lobby currently occupying Britain
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  SPEAKER_02: and using endless lawfare to silence critics of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_02: One of the many tools that they've used that lobby to silence dissent
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  SPEAKER_02: in Britain has been to get people fired for expressing anti-Zionist beliefs.
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  SPEAKER_02: David Miller just took this tool away.
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  SPEAKER_02: For context,
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  SPEAKER_02: a journalist,
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  SPEAKER_02: Freddie Ponton,
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  SPEAKER_02: reported Miller that a former professor at Bristol Youth faced complaints from
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  SPEAKER_02: the Zionist lobby groups,
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  SPEAKER_02: Bristol Jewish Society and Union of Jewish Students for giving a lecture
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  SPEAKER_02: where he identified the Zionist movement as one of the forces involved
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  SPEAKER_02: in fostering Islamophobia.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's not even a controversial statement.
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  SPEAKER_02: In 2021,
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  SPEAKER_02: Miller spoke in an online event titled Building the Campaign for Free Speech,
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  SPEAKER_02: where he described Zionism as racist and Israel as a settler colonial society.
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  SPEAKER_02: Again, zero facts, you know, zero lies detected there.
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  SPEAKER_02: He also placed Bristol Jewish Society and the Union of Jewish Students within
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  SPEAKER_02: the wider organizational structure of the Zionist movement, which hurt their fifis.
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  SPEAKER_02: It wasn't inaccurate, it just made them sad that he did that.
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  SPEAKER_02: Following this,
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  SPEAKER_02: the university received a large volume of demands for disciplinary action
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  SPEAKER_02: for speaking the truth,
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  SPEAKER_02: and the Union of Jewish Students called for his suspension
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  SPEAKER_02: While conservative members of parliament used a parliamentary hearing to describe
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  SPEAKER_02: the university as a hotbed of
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  SPEAKER_01: anti-Semitism.
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  SPEAKER_02: For these expressions of anti-Zionist beliefs,
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  SPEAKER_02: Miller was dismissed for gross misconduct in February of 2021.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is before October 7th.
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  SPEAKER_02: He was speaking out against Israel and their war crimes long before any of this.
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  SPEAKER_02: All right.
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  SPEAKER_02: Antiwar.com.
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  SPEAKER_02: Awesome.
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  SPEAKER_02: They're the best.
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  SPEAKER_02: And yes, this was some rare good news.
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  SPEAKER_02: Miller brought this case to the Employment Appeals Tribunal,
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  SPEAKER_02: which ruled in 2024 that his dismissal over his anti-Zionist beliefs amounted
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  SPEAKER_02: to unlawful direct discrimination by the university.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's like being discriminated against for your religious beliefs,
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  SPEAKER_02: even though this is against specific religion or ideology.
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  SPEAKER_02: Ruling the University of Bristol then appealed.
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  SPEAKER_02: Now the Employment Appeals Tribunal has released its judgment,
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  SPEAKER_02: which not only sided with David Miller on all accounts,
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  SPEAKER_02: but now codified into law that anti-Zionism is a protected belief under
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  SPEAKER_02: the Equality Act of 2010.
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  SPEAKER_02: So how is that now?
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm wondering how the British government and the police are going to square that
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  SPEAKER_02: with regard to the Section 12 accusations of...
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  SPEAKER_02: Of anti, you know, of being terrorists.
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  SPEAKER_02: All right.
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  SPEAKER_02: Of citing if you're anti Zionist,
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  SPEAKER_02: you can automatically be deemed a terrorist is what this is saying.
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  SPEAKER_02: Or maybe it's not.
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  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_02: The ruling found that the decision to dismiss the claimant and the refusal
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  SPEAKER_02: of his appeal against that dismissal were each found to be unlawful acts
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  SPEAKER_02: of direct discrimination.
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  SPEAKER_02: The dismissal was held to be unfair and wrongful.
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  SPEAKER_02: Good.
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  SPEAKER_02: The ruling also found that anti-Zionist speech is protected under the Equality Act
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  SPEAKER_02: of 2010 and that firings over anti-Zionist beliefs will legally be seen
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  SPEAKER_02: as unlawful acts of direct discrimination.
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  SPEAKER_02: Dr. Rame Aladwan, she's got to be over the moon about this.
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  SPEAKER_02: He's been like suspended six times.
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  SPEAKER_02: She's had her medical license suspended over this, over protesting.
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  SPEAKER_02: It ruled that it was coherent to describe as racist an ideology that promoted
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  SPEAKER_02: the establishment of a state for only one race of people,
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  SPEAKER_02: Group A,
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  SPEAKER_02: in a territory that contained a large number of people of a different race, Group B.
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  SPEAKER_02: If the ideology was said also to invoke the migration of members of Group A into
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  SPEAKER_02: the territory with the support of an imperial power to dislodge
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  SPEAKER_02: an indigenous population comprised of Group B,
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  SPEAKER_02: It could legitimately and
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  SPEAKER_01: coherently be described as colonial and imperialistic
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  SPEAKER_02: in reference to Miller's opposition to Zionism.
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  SPEAKER_02: Because that is what is happening here.
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  SPEAKER_02: If you remove the names and you just put that out on paper,
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  SPEAKER_02: they all agree, wow, that sounds a lot like Nazi Germany almost.
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  SPEAKER_02: It also ruled that anti-Zionism was a protected belief and not synonymous with anti-Semitism.
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  SPEAKER_02: Wow, I wish our Congress would hear that.
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  SPEAKER_02: Ruling that it accepted the claimant's evidence that he did not oppose
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  SPEAKER_02: or hold antipathy toward Jews or Judaism from his anti-Zionist advocacy.
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  SPEAKER_02: And here's one Jew right here on this microphone raising his hand and saying,
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  SPEAKER_02: I side with David Miller and I know that he does not have any antipathy towards Jews
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  SPEAKER_02: or Judaism.
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  SPEAKER_02: But it's Zionism specifically.
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  SPEAKER_02: And his opposition to Christian Zionism is just as fervent as his opposition to
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  SPEAKER_02: the Jewish portion of Zionism.
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  SPEAKER_02: The ruling now codifies into law the freedom to express anti-Zionist beliefs in
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  SPEAKER_02: the UK without losing employment over it.
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  SPEAKER_02: And that's the rub.
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  SPEAKER_02: Now you can't lose your job,
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  SPEAKER_02: but that doesn't mean that you can't be deemed a terrorist by the government
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  SPEAKER_02: and locked up.
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  SPEAKER_01: Have your devices seized and everything else.
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  SPEAKER_01: It seems.
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  SPEAKER_02: Now, Professor Miller noted that the legal precedent set by this case is now binding
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  SPEAKER_02: across the UK.
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  SPEAKER_02: It establishes that the articulation of anti-Zionist critique is fully protected
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  SPEAKER_02: under British employment law.
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  SPEAKER_02: It ensures that no academic can be summarily dismissed
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  SPEAKER_02: because their research happens to offend the political sensitivities of
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  SPEAKER_02: a genocidal apartheid state or its domestic advocates.
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  SPEAKER_01: All good things, yes.
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  SPEAKER_02: This precedent,
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  SPEAKER_02: he noted,
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  SPEAKER_02: takes away the Zionist lobby's power to have citizens fired
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  SPEAKER_02: over anti-Zionist beliefs.
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  SPEAKER_02: Now,
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  SPEAKER_02: Let me stop right there and say there's only one thing.
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  SPEAKER_02: Again, they may not necessarily get you fired for anti-Zionist beliefs,
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  SPEAKER_02: but they certainly can put a lot of pressure on your employer in other ways.
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  SPEAKER_02: Number one, funding-wise.
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  SPEAKER_02: Number two, protest-wise.
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  SPEAKER_02: Number three,
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  SPEAKER_02: some kind of a boycott, right?
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  SPEAKER_02: Like reverse BDS effectively.
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  SPEAKER_02: That could potentially get lawyers to get employers to back down
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  SPEAKER_02: and use some other excuse as their grounds for dismissal.
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  SPEAKER_02: It just means that they're going to have to find a way around it, in my opinion, sadly.
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  SPEAKER_02: Now, former diplomat Craig Murray said that this current legal precedent will affect
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  SPEAKER_02: so many employment cases,
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  SPEAKER_02: notably in the NHS,
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  SPEAKER_02: in reference,
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  SPEAKER_02: like I said,
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  SPEAKER_02: to the UK Zionist lobby's campaign to get anti-Zionist doctors fired from the NHS.
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  SPEAKER_01: That might work.
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  SPEAKER_02: It might.
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  SPEAKER_02: But they might go above the government,
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  SPEAKER_02: you know,
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  SPEAKER_02: above this to get all these anti-Zionists deemed under Section 12 to be terrorists,
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  SPEAKER_02: which then changes the entire thing.
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  SPEAKER_02: Because now,
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  SPEAKER_02: if you're now under suspicion for terrorism,
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  SPEAKER_02: they certainly can let you go that way just because they feel like that's bad
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  SPEAKER_02: for their reputation.
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  SPEAKER_02: Like he says,
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  SPEAKER_02: while the UK lobby will continue to use the Terrorism Act
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  SPEAKER_02: to have anti-Zionists arrested,
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  SPEAKER_02: this ruling takes away one of the major tools used
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  SPEAKER_02: in its wide-scale censorship campaign.
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  SPEAKER_02: And that's awesome.
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  SPEAKER_02: Laura, good for you.
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  SPEAKER_02: You divide my land and I'll divide.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, I'll take a look at that later.
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  SPEAKER_02: Thanks for dropping that in there.
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  SPEAKER_02: Let me grab that link real quick before...
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh, before I, before it gets out of here.
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  SPEAKER_02: So, and I'll put it there.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_02: Bookmark.
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  SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_02: No, it didn't work.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_02: Let's try that again.
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  SPEAKER_02: Copy current address.
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  SPEAKER_02: And then go over here.
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  SPEAKER_02: And.
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  SPEAKER_02: Nope, it's not working.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'll have to, I'll have to reach out to you later on that.
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  SPEAKER_02: Sorry.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_02: So that's the dissidence article about.
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  SPEAKER_02: Professor David Miller.
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  SPEAKER_02: And now it's only going to go downhill from here.
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  SPEAKER_02: But we did get this at least as one small victory.
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  SPEAKER_02: Now, this article was frustrating to me.
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  SPEAKER_02: Mondo Weiss, again, Indie Media Award honoree, outstanding publication.
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  SPEAKER_02: They're on Substack now as well.
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  SPEAKER_02: You can follow them as well as this guy,
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  SPEAKER_02: Mitchell Plitnik, who has his own Substack over there.
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  SPEAKER_02: And he's talking about disarmament and that Trump and Israel are demanding
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  SPEAKER_02: that Palestinians disarm.
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  SPEAKER_02: And here's why that's wrong and unjust.
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  SPEAKER_02: I think obvious,
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  SPEAKER_02: but at the same time,
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  SPEAKER_02: demands that they follow decades of international calls for
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  SPEAKER_02: a demilitarized Palestinian state,
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  SPEAKER_02: insists that they surrender their right to self-defense,
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  SPEAKER_02: a right that no people should relinquish.
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  SPEAKER_02: And honestly,
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  SPEAKER_02: I could read through the whole article,
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  SPEAKER_02: but that's really the gist of it right there,
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  SPEAKER_02: is that why in the world would they ever, like...
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  SPEAKER_02: Surrender their right to self-defense,
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  SPEAKER_02: especially considering,
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  SPEAKER_02: look at what Israel was doing to them before October 7, 2023.
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  SPEAKER_02: Ask how many Palestinians Israel had murdered in Gaza and the West Bank prior
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  SPEAKER_02: to October 7, 2023.
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  SPEAKER_02: I believe the answer was 380.
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  SPEAKER_02: It was more than one Palestinian per day on average that they were murdering.
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  SPEAKER_02: That did not happen in a vacuum.
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  SPEAKER_02: What happened at the Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan that year in April,
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  SPEAKER_02: where they set tear gas off on unarmed masks?
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  SPEAKER_02: People praying like there was a massive escalation throughout 2023
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  SPEAKER_02: that nobody ever wants to talk about.
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  SPEAKER_02: And they act like October 7th happened in a fucking vacuum and
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  SPEAKER_02: that everything was peaceful and honky dory the day before, which it was not.
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  SPEAKER_02: On top of the fact that as we watched last week in October 7th,
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  SPEAKER_02: a conspiracy theory that the IDF was told to stand down that morning.
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  SPEAKER_02: They allowed it to happen.
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  SPEAKER_02: Anyway, I move on.
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  SPEAKER_02: Middle East Monitor, a topic we've been covering and continuing to escalate.
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  SPEAKER_02: Israel now plans to build 2,300 illegal settlement units in East Jerusalem.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's the West Bank.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's not Gaza.
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  SPEAKER_02: There's no Hamas there.
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  SPEAKER_02: That was, remember, the justification for all this in the first place.
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  SPEAKER_02: So what are we doing?
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  SPEAKER_02: What's going on here?
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, the bulldozers are already out, and they're starting to now dig.
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  SPEAKER_02: All right,
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  SPEAKER_02: Israeli authorities are planning to build 2,300 new housing units to expand
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  SPEAKER_02: the illegal Gilo settlement built on Palestinian land
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  SPEAKER_02: in southwestern East Jerusalem,
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  SPEAKER_02: an Israeli nonprofit organization focused on affairs in Jerusalem, said Wednesday.
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  SPEAKER_02: This was last Wednesday.
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  SPEAKER_02: The project represents another step further toward isolating East Jerusalem
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  SPEAKER_02: from Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, the Ir Amim organization warned.
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  SPEAKER_02: The plan calls for construction on Palestinian land confiscated
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  SPEAKER_02: under Israel's absentee property law, it said.
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  SPEAKER_02: Insane.
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  SPEAKER_02: They're just claimed.
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  SPEAKER_02: Confiscated.
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  SPEAKER_02: Confiscated.
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  SPEAKER_02: With what compensation again?
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  SPEAKER_02: No, stolen.
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  SPEAKER_02: At least 28 dunams of land included in the plan were confiscated
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  SPEAKER_02: from their Palestinian owners and classified as state land before being allocated
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  SPEAKER_02: for settlement expansion, the group highlighted.
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  SPEAKER_02: Said who?
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  SPEAKER_02: Said them and said nobody to stop them.
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  SPEAKER_02: The area of confiscated land could increase if they decide that they want
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  SPEAKER_02: to steal somebody else's land as dozens of dunams within the plan remain classified
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  SPEAKER_02: as unknown ownership, the organization warned.
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  SPEAKER_02: No, we knew who owned it.
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  SPEAKER_02: They just don't want to acknowledge those people.
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  SPEAKER_02: The site designated for construction includes extensive olive groves
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  SPEAKER_02: with ancient trees,
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  SPEAKER_02: some decades old, reflecting private Palestinian ownership of the land.
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  SPEAKER_02: But again,
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  SPEAKER_02: they don't want to acknowledge that Palestinians even exist,
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  SPEAKER_02: let alone own any land, which is why they consider it to be claimable.
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  SPEAKER_02: Or, you know, again, if I don't steal it, somebody else will, right?
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  SPEAKER_02: Isn't that how that works?
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  SPEAKER_02: Implementing the project would likely lead to the uprooting
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  SPEAKER_02: of these trees once construction begins, the group said.
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  SPEAKER_02: Why?
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, because they want to erase the heritage of the region as well.
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  SPEAKER_02: Just horrible.
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  SPEAKER_01: Fuck Israel.
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  SPEAKER_02: In February,
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  SPEAKER_02: they announced the commencement of procedures to register land in Area C.
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  SPEAKER_02: I've talked about the different areas of the West Bank in the name of the state
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  SPEAKER_02: in accordance with the absentee property law.
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  SPEAKER_02: They need to be disbanded and de-recognized as a legal country.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is why they're allowed to do all of this is because they have sovereignty and
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  SPEAKER_02: the Palestinians do not.
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  SPEAKER_02: So if we remove their sovereignty, they are just a rogue group of terrorists.
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  SPEAKER_02: Aren't they?
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  SPEAKER_02: But I know there are puppets and Miriam Adelson and Bill Ackman and all
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  SPEAKER_02: the fucking Zionists that live here that have a hard-on for this place
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  SPEAKER_02: that they're not indigenous to, whether they want to believe it or not.
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  SPEAKER_02: I don't give a fuck what they say.
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  SPEAKER_02: The law now allows for the registration of land in the state's name
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  SPEAKER_02: where Palestinians cannot prove ownership with official documents.
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  SPEAKER_02: And does Israel recognize official Arabic-Palestinian documents?
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_02: Of course not.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_02: So all of it's really now, you know...
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_02: You can't prove any of it.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_02: It's just dystopian and gross.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_02: That's like saying I have the deed to my house in my safe here,
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_02: and then you bring it down and say,
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_02: yeah, but we don't recognize that agency anymore.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_02: That deed doesn't mean anything.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_02: No, that parcel, that's not yours.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_02: That's about to go up for auction.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_02: Imagine that were your house.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_02: Many Palestinians owned land,
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_02: inherited through generations without possessing formal title deeds,
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_02: particularly after Israel suspended land settlement procedures that had existed
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_02: under Ottoman,
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_02: British mandate,
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_02: and Jordanian administration following the Israeli occupation of the West Bank
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_02: in 1967.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_02: Hassan Brije,
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_02: head of the International Law Department at the Colonization
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_02: and Wall Resistance Commission,
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_02: Previously told AA that the measure constitutes the expropriation
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_02: of Palestinian land and its registration in the name of the state,
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_02: paving the way for its transfer, no theft, to Israeli occupiers.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_02: He warned that it threatens vast areas of unregistered land in the West Bank.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_02: Except, again, it's not unregistered.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_02: It's just that they don't want to acknowledge the actual owners.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_02: So they can steal it.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_02: At the end of June,
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_02: Buzalo Smotrich,
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_02: war criminal,
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_02: announced an acceleration of settlement construction in the West Bank,
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_02: noting that his government had established 160 settlement farms and improved
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_02: the construction of more than 100 new settlements,
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_02: stealing other people's land,
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_02: displacing them,
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_02: having them run, and having their homes destroyed by bombs and robots.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_02: The UN and most countries of the world consider Israeli settlements built
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_02: on Palestinian territory illegal under international law and believe
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_02: that they undermine the prospects for
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_01: a two-state solution.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_02: Well, yes, because there should not be a two-state solution.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_02: There should be a one-state solution, an equal and democratic Palestine run by everyone.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_02: But Israel will never allow that.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_02: They want a secular religious supremacist theocracy that they claim is a democracy,
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_02: which is even more infuriating.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_02: The Israeli Peace Now movement estimates
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_02: that there were approximately 500,000 settlers in the West Bank,
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_02: in addition to about a quarter million others in settlements in East Jerusalem.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_02: So, again, it's Okay.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_02: Palestinians believe that these projects are part of
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_02: an accelerated Israeli policy aimed at expanding settlements,
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_02: confiscating land, and imposing new realities on the ground.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, yes, and yes.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_02: And here's another $37 million allocated to develop alleged Jewish heritage sites
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_02: in occupied West Bank amid intensified expansion.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_01: What about all the World Heritage
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_02: sites that belong to other cultures that they're destroyed?
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_02: No, it's like they want to erase anything else that isn't there,
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_02: that doesn't belong to them exclusively.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_02: Just disgraceful.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_02: And yes, you cannot forget that Israel had the Hannibal Directive on October 7th.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to get to that too.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, now we get to the Dr. Abu Safiya.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, God.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_02: Free this man,
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_02: free this... Again,
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_02: the most disgraceful shit they're imposing,
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_02: they are keeping this person hostage,
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_02: captive,
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_02: prisoner,
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_02: beating him,
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_02: starving him,
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_02: he's been losing weight,
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_02: and now again, he suffered yet another beating after he spoke to his lawyer.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_02: Every time he talks to his lawyer,
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_02: or there's a major campaign out to have him freed,
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_02: the guards at the prison beat him even further.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_02: And he continues to hang on.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_02: And he warned his lawyer last time that he was worried that that might be
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_02: the last time he sees him because the beatings are getting more intense
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_02: and more fierce.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_01: Rubina Qureshi
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_02: from Bearing Witness,
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_02: Gaza pediatrician Dr. Abu Safiya has been subjected to further torture.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_02: Rib fractures and is in poor health due to heart disease,
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_02: high blood pressure, as well as injuries due to previous beatings in detention.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_02: And again,
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_02: I've been covering this story,
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_02: it almost feels like every week, definitely every month, where it's now 20 months.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_02: That was our latest picture of him versus what we saw of him
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_02: before he bravely walked into that tank in December of 2024 and has been imprisoned
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_02: and tortured ever since.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_02: Look at how thin his arms are here compared to what they look like here.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_02: So free him.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_02: Again, they continue to beat him and keep him captive and hostage and prisoner for
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_02: the crime of wanting to treat Palestinian children.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_02: Fuck Israel.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_02: Eva Bartlett, another Indie Media Award honoree, weighs in.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_02: Here is the Director General of the Gaza Ministry of Health.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_02: Save Dr. Sophia before it's too late.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_02: Serious concerns are mounting over the life of Dr.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_02: Hussam Abu Sophia amid reports of his assault inside the detention facility
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_02: and injuries to his eye, head, and chest.
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_02: These reports,
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_02: if combined with an ongoing detention and a lack of independent medical examination
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_02: and proper care,
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_02: make his health condition a source of extreme alarm that demands urgent action,
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_02: not postponed statements.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_02: Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who stayed by his patient's side at Kamal Adwan Hospital in the bleakest
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_02: of circumstances,
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_02: now finds himself behind bars,
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_02: stripped of his freedom as fears grow for his physical safety
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_02: and detention conditions.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_02: The irony is agonizing.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_02: The doctor who protected patients' lives under bombardment has become the patient
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_02: in need of protection today.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_02: He who once stood between death and his patients now needs someone to stand
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_02: between him and danger.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_02: We hold the occupation authorities fully responsible for his life and safety,
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_02: and we demand an urgent,
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_02: independent,
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_02: and comprehensive medical examination for him,
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_02: ensuring he receives the necessary treatment,
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_02: protection from torture and mistreatment,
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_02: and enabling relevant international and human rights bodies to reach him
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_02: and review his detention conditions, which they know would be gruesome.
• 25:52
  SPEAKER_02: We call on the international community,
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_02: the Red Cross,
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_02: the World Health Organization, the UN,
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_02: and international medical and human rights institutions to take immediate
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_02: and effective action.
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know what that is.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_02: For time is here is no trivial matter.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_02: Every hour of delay could mean greater peril to his life, which is Israel's intent.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_02: We do not want the world to wake to yet another piece of tragic news,
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_02: only to begin issuing statements of regret after rescue has become impossible.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_02: Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is not a number on the list of detainees.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_02: He's a doctor, a human being, and a voice from Gaza's healthcare system.
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_02: Save him before it's too late.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_02: Freedom for him and for all the other detained healthcare workers
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_02: and people imprisoned by Israel without charge.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_02: And remember, there were the girls, the four girls I reported on.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_02: Nobody's heard from them.
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_02: The two Palestinian soccer players and the American girl nobody's heard from.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_02: Now we talked weeks ago about these Ben Gavir and these crocodile filled moats
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_02: and how there was an environmental agency that was trying to step in
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_02: because they were more concerned about the crocodiles and
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_02: the actual prisoners themselves.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_02: Well, Ben Gavir said, fuck that.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_02: I don't care.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_02: We're going forward with it anyway.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_02: I don't care what anybody says.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_02: We're going to do it.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_02: Okay?
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_02: He toured crocodile trenches surrounding a wing of Ketziot prison housing Palestinian prisoners.
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_02: The visit came despite a temporary order issued by the Jerusalem District Court
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_02: on August 2nd,
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_02: suspending the plan to place crocodiles around the prison,
• 27:45
  SPEAKER_02: pending a ruling on a petition filed by the animal rights group.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_02: Let the animals live.
• 27:51
  SPEAKER_02: Again, they care more about the crocodiles than the human fucking beings.
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_02: So he's mad there are supposed to be crocodiles here,
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_02: but the court has issued an order and continues to put obstacles in the way
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_02: of what we're doing,
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_02: but there will be crocodiles and we will fight the battle in court.
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_02: He'll literally have the judges threatened.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_02: He'll lead pogroms in front of their houses and down their streets.
• 28:17
  SPEAKER_02: He's just a disgusting individual.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_02: He needs to be in one of these prisons.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_02: He is a war criminal who has literally taunted Gaza flotilla of freedom sailors
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_02: that tried to bring baby food to starving people in Gaza,
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_02: locked them up,
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_02: tortured them and stayed taming and then ridiculed them to their faces and then had
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_02: the guards beat them.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_02: Fuck that guy.
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_02: Next we have another one from Eva Bartlett talking about the size and the shrinkage
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_02: of Gaza and how only 35% of Gaza is now where all the residents live.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_02: So she points out that some 212,000 people are still facing emergency levels
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_02: of food insecurity,
• 29:11
  SPEAKER_02: mainly because they live near the Yellow Line,
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_02: which separates occupied Gaza from the remaining 35% of the enclave
• 29:20
  SPEAKER_02: where residents live, limiting their access to food and humanitarian aid.
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_02: So they're splitting the territory even further.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_02: This needs highlighting.
• 29:30
  SPEAKER_02: As does repeating that there is no ceasefire in Gaza in spite
• 29:34
  SPEAKER_02: of one supposedly taking effect last October.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_02: As I mentioned last week,
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_02: since then Israel has killed over 1,200 Palestinians,
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_02: wounded over 4,000 Palestinians,
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_02: and continues daily to bomb,
• 29:48
  SPEAKER_02: fire guns,
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_02: fire from quadcopters,
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_02: fire from Israeli gunboats,
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_02: and to prevent the needed humanitarian aid from entering Gaza.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_02: None of that equals ceasefire.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_02: Live is the wrong word.
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_02: People are living a slow death.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_02: Just barely living and being slaughtered daily.
• 30:11
  SPEAKER_02: Slowly.
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_02: What is it with the crocodiles?
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_02: It's another form of psychological torture, honestly.
• 30:19
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_02: And the psychopathic sadism.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_02: That's exactly what it is.
• 30:24
  SPEAKER_01: Alright.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_01: Good to see you, Mikhail.
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_02: But in case you didn't realize how small and overcrowded the Gaza Strip is,
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_02: 41 kilometers long and between 6 and 12 kilometers wide at different points,
• 30:37
  SPEAKER_02: prior to the ongoing Israeli genocide,
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_02: population estimates were 2.2 million,
• 30:43
  SPEAKER_02: two-thirds of whom were refugees from Palestinian towns already ethnically cleansed
• 30:48
  SPEAKER_02: by Israel.
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_02: Remember that Gaza was where all the refugees ended up because Israel stole their land already.
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_02: Now,
• 30:59
  SPEAKER_02: those who had not been murdered by Israel are now crammed into just 35% of a strip
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_02: that was already overcrowded.
• 31:07
  SPEAKER_02: And they're still being bombed and shot by Israeli forces.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_02: Here's what the map looks like today.
• 31:17
  SPEAKER_02: All right.
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_02: Here's this yellow line.
• 31:20
  SPEAKER_02: The original green line was the Gaza border.
• 31:23
  SPEAKER_02: Now it doesn't even extend to Rafa.
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_02: This is all rubble and wasteland that they're now starting to build a military base.
• 31:32
  SPEAKER_02: And remember,
• 31:32
  SPEAKER_02: we talked about this a while ago,
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_02: that the plan was originally to have three zones,
• 31:38
  SPEAKER_02: three concentration camps, Kanyunas, Gaza City, Deir al-Bala.
• 31:44
  SPEAKER_02: Then you have the northern Gaza area,
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_02: this entire area where if you go anywhere outside this yellow zone,
• 31:52
  SPEAKER_02: you're shot dead.
• 31:55
  SPEAKER_02: And there have been 196 Palestinians killed by Israel near the yellow line
• 32:00
  SPEAKER_02: as they continue to move that yellow line further and further inward.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_02: Disgusting.
• 32:09
  SPEAKER_02: Alright.
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_02: Following is from TRT World.
• 32:13
  SPEAKER_02: From October 2020, from July of 2025, where she wrote that.
• 32:17
  SPEAKER_02: You know, again, support Eva.
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_02: I adore Eva.
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_02: She's great.
• 32:21
  SPEAKER_02: She's living abroad, and she's reporting on anti-imperialist stuff all the time.
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_02: So that's, again, Indie Media Award honoree Eva Bartlett.
• 32:32
  SPEAKER_02: Another Indie Media Award honoree, the Electronic Intifada.
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, man.
• 32:39
  SPEAKER_02: This one broke me.
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_02: And...
• 32:44
  SPEAKER_02: I don't even know if I want to read this whole thing, honestly.
• 32:48
  SPEAKER_02: It talks about just how awful the conditions are for specifically women
• 32:57
  SPEAKER_02: in these camps.
• 32:59
  SPEAKER_02: But, you know, all these Israelis want to deny what's happening here.
• 33:05
  SPEAKER_02: And this is a first-hand account from somebody who's living it.
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_02: Who's living amongst the raw sewage.
• 33:12
  SPEAKER_02: Where there is no clean water.
• 33:17
  SPEAKER_02: Most mornings at Eldira Displacement Camp,
• 33:21
  SPEAKER_02: northwest of Gaza City,
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_02: the women gather in the open air outside the tents to drink coffee and commiserate.
• 33:28
  SPEAKER_02: Life is hard at this camp and the women have a lot to talk about.
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_02: Poverty, illnesses, problems with their husbands, and how to get aid.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_02: This woman who wrote this article said,
• 33:39
  SPEAKER_02: I live near the camp and a friend of mine,
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_02: knowing I'm a journalist,
• 33:43
  SPEAKER_02: told me about these morning meetings thinking I might like to attend.
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_02: I joined one morning in July and it did not take much time for me
• 33:51
  SPEAKER_02: to understand what most troubled the women,
• 33:54
  SPEAKER_02: a lack of sanitary and accessible toilets and the health problems that have come as
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_02: a result.
• 34:02
  SPEAKER_02: Aldera Camp is a temporary home to around 70 displaced families that is spread
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_02: across three dunams,
• 34:10
  SPEAKER_02: or a bit less than an acre of land,
• 34:12
  SPEAKER_02: according to the camp coordinator, Adya Al-Khiali.
• 34:18
  SPEAKER_02: A minority of the families have private toilets,
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_02: she said,
• 34:21
  SPEAKER_02: but the majority of people living at the camp must share three public toilets.
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_02: These public toilets don't have plumbing and sewage infrastructure.
• 34:33
  SPEAKER_02: Instead, they're simple holes in the sandy ground.
• 34:38
  SPEAKER_02: Privacy is also lacking,
• 34:40
  SPEAKER_02: as the toilet area, a space of about 2x2 meters, is enclosed by old blankets.
• 34:46
  SPEAKER_02: The odor is, of course, putrid.
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_02: For many, a trip to the toilet can mean a walk of up to 25 meters.
• 34:55
  SPEAKER_02: This is not a walk that many women feel comfortable making in the dark,
• 34:59
  SPEAKER_02: especially because of the dogs that roam around at night scavenging through
• 35:04
  SPEAKER_02: the trash.
• 35:06
  SPEAKER_02: The women describe holding their urine all night long and not drinking water
• 35:10
  SPEAKER_02: to prevent the journey to the toilet.
• 35:14
  SPEAKER_02: Several of them have developed kidney stones and serious health problems,
• 35:18
  SPEAKER_02: not to mention the mental toll of not having access to a fucking toilet!
• 35:26
  SPEAKER_02: She visited with the women individually at their tents to talk more about the situation.
• 35:33
  SPEAKER_02: And this is where it really started to get me.
• 35:37
  SPEAKER_02: Vaad Matar says, I live in hell.
• 35:39
  SPEAKER_02: She's a mother to four children and is currently seven months pregnant.
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_02: Because when you have nothing to do all day, what else do you do?
• 35:49
  SPEAKER_02: She used to live with her husband Mahmoud, 33,
• 35:52
  SPEAKER_02: and their family at Al-Karama Towers,
• 35:55
  SPEAKER_02: but they were forced to live in the camp after Israeli planes bombed the building
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_02: in December 2025.
• 36:01
  SPEAKER_02: Before this,
• 36:02
  SPEAKER_02: her husband had already endured an injury in his neck from shrapnel from
• 36:05
  SPEAKER_02: an Israeli attack.
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_02: We sat inside her tattered tent with a UN logo on it, with Matar holding her 18-month-old girl.
• 36:16
  SPEAKER_02: I can't even imagine what it's like to have to raise children and explain
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_02: to them what's going on and why.
• 36:24
  SPEAKER_02: Again, just fuck Israel.
• 36:27
  SPEAKER_02: Just the worst people for inflicting this.
• 36:32
  SPEAKER_02: This does not have to be.
• 36:33
  SPEAKER_02: This is inflicted by other people intentionally.
• 36:39
  SPEAKER_02: She says, I felt ill all night long.
• 36:41
  SPEAKER_02: I had severe stomach pain as if I was in labor.
• 36:44
  SPEAKER_02: I waited until morning and then I went to the doctor to find out that she had kidney stones.
• 36:50
  SPEAKER_02: The doctor's words were a shock to me.
• 36:53
  SPEAKER_02: When the doctor asked about her routine,
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_02: she was embarrassed to tell him that she held it all night since
• 36:58
  SPEAKER_02: the toilet was far away.
• 37:01
  SPEAKER_02: Her medical issues stemming from the toilet situation have compounded over time
• 37:05
  SPEAKER_02: and include UTIs and renal colic.
• 37:09
  SPEAKER_02: She can't afford the medicine and must rely on what she can obtain for free.
• 37:13
  SPEAKER_02: So, like, not getting better, but only getting worse.
• 37:19
  SPEAKER_02: I live in hell due to the tough circumstances in which we live.
• 37:23
  SPEAKER_02: The doctor further told her that malnutrition and complications could impact the baby's health.
• 37:28
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you think?
• 37:30
  SPEAKER_02: Yet she doesn't see the situation at the camp improving in the future.
• 37:37
  SPEAKER_02: Then they have about how the improvised toilets fall short.
• 37:40
  SPEAKER_02: Again, I don't really want to read this,
• 37:42
  SPEAKER_02: but I feel like we owe it to these people who are suffering,
• 37:47
  SPEAKER_02: whose dollars and bombs are making suffer.
• 37:53
  SPEAKER_02: Somebody needs to tell these stories.
• 37:57
  SPEAKER_02: Adia Al-Khiali from the camp committee that helps run day-to-day affairs said that
• 38:03
  SPEAKER_02: the camp leadership tries to provide the tents with private toilets,
• 38:07
  SPEAKER_02: yet what's needed goes far beyond their abilities.
• 38:10
  SPEAKER_02: Of course it does.
• 38:11
  SPEAKER_02: Women in the tents suffer a lot.
• 38:14
  SPEAKER_02: She says she estimated only 20% of those in the camp even have a good private toilet.
• 38:22
  SPEAKER_02: Among the women,
• 38:23
  SPEAKER_02: the connection between their health issues and the lack of access to a sanitary
• 38:27
  SPEAKER_02: and private toilet is clear,
• 38:29
  SPEAKER_02: and it's not unique to women in Aldera camp,
• 38:33
  SPEAKER_02: as nearly 1 million people in Gaza live in tents due
• 38:37
  SPEAKER_02: to Israel's systematic destruction of housing and infrastructure.
• 38:43
  SPEAKER_02: Remember, Eva said 2.2 billion before the genocide.
• 38:47
  SPEAKER_02: We've seen upwards of 600,000 or 700,000
• 38:52
  SPEAKER_02: Who have been murdered, erased, or unaccounted for.
• 38:55
  SPEAKER_02: So that's still a million and a half people.
• 38:59
  SPEAKER_02: Now they're saying a million there live in tents.
• 39:03
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know where the other half million live.
• 39:05
  SPEAKER_02: Or if they've just been able to get out or they're vaporized.
• 39:10
  SPEAKER_02: All across Gaza's tent camps,
• 39:11
  SPEAKER_02: improvised toilets are being constructed as materials such as piping
• 39:15
  SPEAKER_02: and toilet seats come at a high cost.
• 39:19
  SPEAKER_02: The cheapest method is to dig a hole in the ground.
• 39:23
  SPEAKER_02: Yet even these private toilets, being dug inside tents, can feel humiliating and unsanitary.
• 39:31
  SPEAKER_02: As of last month,
• 39:32
  SPEAKER_02: July 2026,
• 39:34
  SPEAKER_02: 87% of Gaza's households face barriers to accessing toilets or latrines,
• 39:42
  SPEAKER_02: with the top impediment being a lack of access to water,
• 39:45
  SPEAKER_02: thanks to Israel,
• 39:46
  SPEAKER_02: and the secondary obstacles being a lack of privacy,
• 39:49
  SPEAKER_02: cleanliness issues,
• 39:50
  SPEAKER_02: and fear of rodents or pests,
• 39:53
  SPEAKER_02: thanks to Israel, according to a UNICEF-led group, the Gaza Wash Cluster.
• 40:01
  SPEAKER_02: Here's another person, 21, Sally Saeed, was married two months ago.
• 40:06
  SPEAKER_02: She said the couple had no choice but to get married in their tent.
• 40:11
  SPEAKER_02: Her husband's family lives in Aldera Camp as well.
• 40:15
  SPEAKER_02: She uses their toilet, which is located outside the tent and about 12 meters away.
• 40:21
  SPEAKER_02: So they had to,
• 40:23
  SPEAKER_02: I'm guessing,
• 40:24
  SPEAKER_02: get married in the tent because there was a bathroom close by for enough people
• 40:28
  SPEAKER_02: to be able to use a bathroom if they needed it.
• 40:31
  SPEAKER_02: She says she doesn't feel comfortable using the toilet at night.
• 40:36
  SPEAKER_02: I feel afraid from the bombing as currently the tents are targeted mostly at night.
• 40:42
  SPEAKER_02: I also don't drink water in the evening at all so as to avoid going to the toilet.
• 40:50
  SPEAKER_02: And again, water is scarce there.
• 40:53
  SPEAKER_02: Clean water is even more scarce.
• 40:57
  SPEAKER_02: In July,
• 40:58
  SPEAKER_02: she started to feel discomfort and itching,
• 41:00
  SPEAKER_02: and she was having trouble urinating in general.
• 41:03
  SPEAKER_02: She visited the camp doctor and was told she had high levels of salt and a UTI.
• 41:08
  SPEAKER_02: The doctor further said that she was at risk of kidney stones.
• 41:11
  SPEAKER_02: That happens.
• 41:13
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know what to do.
• 41:13
  SPEAKER_02: She said, I pay for the situation for my health.
• 41:18
  SPEAKER_02: And then we get to the private toilet being bombed.
• 41:21
  SPEAKER_02: Here's a 50-year-old who lives in a tent with her husband, Nabil, 55, who has cancer.
• 41:28
  SPEAKER_02: I'm originally Egyptian, she said.
• 41:29
  SPEAKER_02: I came to Gaza 18 years ago to marry Nabil.
• 41:33
  SPEAKER_02: I tried to get out of Gaza during the war,
• 41:35
  SPEAKER_02: but it was in vain due to Israeli closure of the Rafa crossing.
• 41:39
  SPEAKER_02: I thought they were letting 150 leave a day, right?
• 41:44
  SPEAKER_02: She and her husband arrived at Aldera after their home
• 41:47
  SPEAKER_02: in northern Gaza City was bombed in December 2025.
• 41:51
  SPEAKER_02: Sounds familiar.
• 41:53
  SPEAKER_02: Fuck Israel.
• 41:55
  SPEAKER_02: He uses the communal toilet since three weeks ago,
• 41:58
  SPEAKER_02: an Israeli plane fired a number of missiles on a nearby tent,
• 42:02
  SPEAKER_02: and this destroyed the private toilet.
• 42:04
  SPEAKER_02: They're not even allowed to shit in peace.
• 42:09
  SPEAKER_02: The woman said they have no income and rely on aid.
• 42:14
  SPEAKER_02: And unemployment's in like the 80% stare.
• 42:17
  SPEAKER_02: Like, there's no money, there's no business that...
• 42:22
  SPEAKER_02: I sometimes have to wait 40 minutes to access the toilet.
• 42:25
  SPEAKER_02: The waiting costs me a lot.
• 42:29
  SPEAKER_02: She has a UTI and also regularly has blood in her urine.
• 42:33
  SPEAKER_02: Did some medical tests.
• 42:34
  SPEAKER_02: The doctor told her that she had a gallstone and she has to drink a lot of water
• 42:39
  SPEAKER_02: and take medications.
• 42:40
  SPEAKER_02: Well, how the hell do you do that when Israel won't allow any water in
• 42:47
  SPEAKER_02: and they've destroyed all the desalination plants?
• 42:50
  SPEAKER_02: And they filled all the wells with concrete.
• 42:55
  SPEAKER_02: She described the communal toilet as a crisis.
• 42:58
  SPEAKER_02: And the other women who live in the camp,
• 43:00
  SPEAKER_02: she does not see, like the other women, she doesn't see the situation improving.
• 43:05
  SPEAKER_02: Because fuck Israel.
• 43:06
  SPEAKER_02: They don't want it to.
• 43:10
  SPEAKER_02: And further war crimes,
• 43:12
  SPEAKER_02: Israel wipes genocide evidence in Gaza,
• 43:16
  SPEAKER_02: and Ghostart brought this last Tuesday night,
• 43:18
  SPEAKER_02: mentioned it in the chats, carting off rubble and remains in 100 trucks daily.
• 43:26
  SPEAKER_02: So they certainly know about running 100 trucks daily somewhere,
• 43:30
  SPEAKER_02: but they just don't believe in letting 100 trucks of actual aid get to
• 43:34
  SPEAKER_02: the Palestinian people.
• 43:37
  SPEAKER_02: These bastards.
• 43:40
  SPEAKER_02: And again, this was last Monday.
• 43:43
  SPEAKER_02: The Israeli forces,
• 43:44
  SPEAKER_02: along with Israeli civilian contractors,
• 43:47
  SPEAKER_02: are conducting a wide and organized operation to process and clear the rubble
• 43:52
  SPEAKER_02: from neighborhoods and facilities they destroyed in the Gaza Strip and relocated
• 43:56
  SPEAKER_02: from areas under their military control to outside the Strip.
• 44:01
  SPEAKER_02: This is occurring without any official record of the quantities removed
• 44:05
  SPEAKER_02: or independent oversight and before international
• 44:08
  SPEAKER_02: and local investigative committees have had the chance to survey,
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_02: examine, and document the sites.
• 44:15
  SPEAKER_02: This risks destroying crucial evidence of genocide and the remains
• 44:20
  SPEAKER_02: of victims still unaccounted for under the rubble.
• 44:24
  SPEAKER_02: Which is Israel's point.
• 44:26
  SPEAKER_01: Fuck Israel.
• 44:29
  SPEAKER_02: These operations are not part of organized humanitarian efforts to rescue
• 44:33
  SPEAKER_02: the missing, open roads, or prepare for reconstruction.
• 44:37
  SPEAKER_02: Instead,
• 44:38
  SPEAKER_02: Israel is acting unilaterally within closed areas under its military control
• 44:43
  SPEAKER_02: by demolition.
• 44:44
  SPEAKER_02: The Gaza Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment
• 45:08
  SPEAKER_02: Published jointly by the World Bank and the UN and the EU in April,
• 45:14
  SPEAKER_02: estimated that approximately 68 million tons of rubble are spread across
• 45:20
  SPEAKER_02: the Gaza Strip based on damage reports up to October 2025.
• 45:26
  SPEAKER_02: This figure does not necessarily account for damage caused by later demolition
• 45:31
  SPEAKER_02: and destruction operations.
• 45:34
  SPEAKER_02: According to its initial field data,
• 45:37
  SPEAKER_02: Euromed Human Rights Monitor estimates that at least 10 million tons
• 45:41
  SPEAKER_02: of rubble have already been removed,
• 45:43
  SPEAKER_02: crushed,
• 45:43
  SPEAKER_02: or moved from their original sites within the areas
• 45:46
  SPEAKER_02: under Israel's unlawful military control,
• 45:49
  SPEAKER_02: which encompass about two-thirds of the Gaza Strip.
• 45:54
  SPEAKER_02: Approximately 400 heavy pieces of excavation,
• 45:58
  SPEAKER_02: demolition,
• 45:59
  SPEAKER_02: crushing,
• 46:00
  SPEAKER_02: and transport machinery operated by Israeli civilian companies
• 46:06
  SPEAKER_02: Under military protection are active across eastern and southern Gaza.
• 46:11
  SPEAKER_02: They're the ones outside the yellow line.
• 46:14
  SPEAKER_02: They demolish remaining structures,
• 46:16
  SPEAKER_02: crush rubble from destroyed neighborhoods,
• 46:19
  SPEAKER_02: and load the debris onto trucks for transportation away from the original sites.
• 46:24
  SPEAKER_02: Paid for by American apportion dollars, by the way.
• 46:30
  SPEAKER_02: This is what some of our congressional apportion money is going towards.
• 46:37
  SPEAKER_02: In recent weeks,
• 46:38
  SPEAKER_02: Euromaid Monitor tracked nearly 100 trucks leaving daily,
• 46:43
  SPEAKER_02: leaving the Strip with debris.
• 46:45
  SPEAKER_02: These trucks carry rubble to undisclosed sites within Israel and further south of
• 46:50
  SPEAKER_02: the occupied West Bank.
• 46:51
  SPEAKER_02: The Israeli authorities have not provided details on the quantities removed,
• 46:58
  SPEAKER_02: the routes taken, the destination sites, or how the material is utilized.
• 47:02
  SPEAKER_02: Nor will they ever.
• 47:04
  SPEAKER_02: They're war crimes.
• 47:06
  SPEAKER_02: They've also not permitted independent oversight of the sorting,
• 47:10
  SPEAKER_02: weighing, or transport processes.
• 47:15
  SPEAKER_02: This lack of transparency makes it very difficult to trace the transported material
• 47:20
  SPEAKER_02: or identify evidence or recover any human remains that might be present.
• 47:25
  SPEAKER_02: I don't want to continue with this one.
• 47:26
  SPEAKER_02: I'm going to move on.
• 47:27
  SPEAKER_02: It's fucking terrible.
• 47:32
  SPEAKER_02: And then, of course, we have this map.
• 47:35
  SPEAKER_02: The ultimate gaslight by Israel put out there.
• 47:39
  SPEAKER_02: This was Jason Ditz over at Indie Media Award Honoree, antiwar.com.
• 47:44
  SPEAKER_02: We saw in chat, checking in to say hi.
• 47:46
  SPEAKER_02: Good to see them.
• 47:46
  SPEAKER_02: They're having a fundraising drive, by the way.
• 47:49
  SPEAKER_02: If you're able to support them, five bucks a month.
• 47:51
  SPEAKER_02: That's what I contribute.
• 47:53
  SPEAKER_02: And I believe it's tax deductible as well because they're a 501c3.
• 47:56
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 47:59
  SPEAKER_02: The headline says,
• 48:01
  SPEAKER_02: future of Israel-Lebanon talks in doubt after the annexation map was put out
• 48:07
  SPEAKER_02: and grave demands made.
• 48:10
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, Israel deleted its social media map that showed southern Lebanon as part of Israel.
• 48:19
  SPEAKER_02: U.S.-brokered Israel-Lebanon talks are already adjourned for the month of August,
• 48:22
  SPEAKER_02: but as the war continues,
• 48:24
  SPEAKER_02: various controversies raise doubts over whether it would be worth coming back to
• 48:29
  SPEAKER_02: the table in September,
• 48:30
  SPEAKER_02: and indeed if Israel is taking these matters seriously, which...
• 48:35
  SPEAKER_02: We know they're not.
• 48:36
  SPEAKER_02: They're just trying to kick that can down the road and obfuscate and stall and delay
• 48:43
  SPEAKER_02: while they continue to murder and steal area and destroy houses
• 48:50
  SPEAKER_02: and murder journalists, by the way.
• 48:54
  SPEAKER_02: One year anniversary of the murder of Anas al-Sharif.
• 48:57
  SPEAKER_02: May he rest in power.
• 49:01
  SPEAKER_02: The latest round of controversy started Friday when
• 49:03
  SPEAKER_02: the Israeli Foreign Ministry published a map on social media aiming
• 49:07
  SPEAKER_02: to downplay child malnutrition in the Gaza Strip.
• 49:11
  SPEAKER_02: Which is hilarious because every child in the Gaza Strip right now is malnourished.
• 49:16
  SPEAKER_02: Every single one.
• 49:19
  SPEAKER_02: The map rather conspicuously made Lebanon substantially smaller than it already is,
• 49:25
  SPEAKER_02: meaning everything south of the Latani River was basically grayed out.
• 49:32
  SPEAKER_02: I'll show you the map.
• 49:32
  SPEAKER_02: It was grayed out to indicate that it was actually Israel.
• 49:35
  SPEAKER_02: Right?
• 49:37
  SPEAKER_02: Right?
• 49:39
  SPEAKER_02: Israel deleted the map and claimed it was an error.
• 49:42
  SPEAKER_02: Sure.
• 49:42
  SPEAKER_02: The Lebanese government is reportedly investigating,
• 49:45
  SPEAKER_02: but notably hasn't made any public comments regarding the matter.
• 49:49
  SPEAKER_02: Hezbollah not being so quiet about that.
• 49:52
  SPEAKER_02: We'll get to that in a second.
• 49:54
  SPEAKER_02: But this map says that child malnutrition in Gaza was 1.3% or was that the number
• 50:03
  SPEAKER_02: of nourished children in Gaza?
• 50:07
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, but there's no data for all of Israel, which again now goes all the way...
• 50:11
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 50:14
  SPEAKER_02: This whole area...
• 50:21
  SPEAKER_02: This whole area,
• 50:22
  SPEAKER_02: this south of the Latani River,
• 50:24
  SPEAKER_02: right here, this is the Latani River, was Lebanon, right up to here.
• 50:30
  SPEAKER_02: And now they're just claiming all that as part of Israel.
• 50:33
  SPEAKER_02: The grayed out.
• 50:33
  SPEAKER_02: Right?
• 50:35
  SPEAKER_02: Right?
• 50:38
  SPEAKER_02: Or Great Lebanon, Israel.
• 50:41
  SPEAKER_02: Hilarious.
• 50:42
  SPEAKER_02: Hezbollah issued a statement calling on Lebanon to halt direct talks over the map,
• 50:46
  SPEAKER_02: accusing the Israelis of incorporating occupied Lebanon into their territory in
• 50:51
  SPEAKER_02: an effort to impose new realities on the situation.
• 50:55
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, Greater Israel Project, that's what they're doing.
• 51:01
  SPEAKER_01: Eventually, it's going
• 51:02
  SPEAKER_02: to be all of it.
• 51:04
  SPEAKER_02: Adding more confusion to the already struggling negotiations,
• 51:08
  SPEAKER_02: Israel reportedly also raised the prospect of a civilian prisoner exchange,
• 51:13
  SPEAKER_02: which would allow Lebanon to recover the civilians Israel has captured,
• 51:19
  SPEAKER_02: that's cute, has kidnapped so far over the course of the war.
• 51:24
  SPEAKER_02: Not war.
• 51:28
  SPEAKER_02: One side's got to fight back in order for it to be a war.
• 51:31
  SPEAKER_02: In return,
• 51:32
  SPEAKER_02: they wanted the Lebanese government to exhume the remains of Lebanese Jews
• 51:36
  SPEAKER_02: and send them to Israel.
• 51:39
  SPEAKER_02: Historically,
• 51:40
  SPEAKER_02: Lebanon had a rather substantial Jewish community,
• 51:43
  SPEAKER_02: and both Beirut and Sidon have historic Jewish cemeteries.
• 51:48
  SPEAKER_02: But the expectation that they'd be dug up and their bodies given to
• 51:51
  SPEAKER_02: the Israeli state was previously never broached and reportedly bewildered
• 51:56
  SPEAKER_02: the Lebanese negotiating team.
• 51:58
  SPEAKER_02: Especially if they plan on stealing the land for themselves anyway.
• 52:02
  SPEAKER_02: Why dig it up?
• 52:03
  SPEAKER_02: Just keep it as a historic Jewish cemetery.
• 52:07
  SPEAKER_01: Weird.
• 52:09
  SPEAKER_02: In return, Israel would only retain those captives.
• 52:12
  SPEAKER_02: They're confident aren't Hezbollah.
• 52:16
  SPEAKER_02: And since they were presumably captured in occupied southern Lebanon,
• 52:20
  SPEAKER_02: there's nothing to prevent Israel from simply recapturing them on their return,
• 52:25
  SPEAKER_02: while Lebanon cemeteries clearly have finite members of people to exchange for them.
• 52:32
  SPEAKER_02: Insane.
• 52:34
  SPEAKER_02: We will give you 30 dead bodies for 30 live Lebanese people.
• 52:40
  SPEAKER_02: Literally is what they're trying to do here.
• 52:43
  SPEAKER_02: The proposal further raises questions about Israel's seriousness in the talks.
• 52:48
  SPEAKER_02: Again, they're not serious.
• 52:50
  SPEAKER_02: As Israel is reportedly refusing to discuss withdrawing from Lebanon
• 52:54
  SPEAKER_02: or even halting attacks on Lebanon,
• 52:56
  SPEAKER_02: but is now transitioning to the talks to minutia regarding centuries-old cemeteries.
• 53:04
  SPEAKER_02: Uh-huh.
• 53:05
  SPEAKER_02: Again, this is all just stall and delay tactic.
• 53:11
  SPEAKER_02: And I got a little bit more for fuck Israel.
• 53:14
  SPEAKER_02: And this one, again, a little depressing.
• 53:17
  SPEAKER_02: Doomerism out of another Indie Media Award honoree, Chris Hedges.
• 53:21
  SPEAKER_02: I don't bring a lot of Chris Hedges articles, honestly.
• 53:27
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know why, but there's a lot of issues with Hedges.
• 53:30
  SPEAKER_02: I think that he also still believes in corporate media to a point and wants them to be good.
• 53:37
  SPEAKER_02: He sees fascism for what it is, I get.
• 53:41
  SPEAKER_02: He also was horrible on COVID.
• 53:44
  SPEAKER_02: He was the guy that convinced Cornel West to abandon the campaign that he had
• 53:48
  SPEAKER_02: and join the Green Party.
• 53:49
  SPEAKER_02: So I got my issues with Chris Hedges.
• 53:53
  SPEAKER_01: However, this one was an accurate article that he wrote called Gaza's Board of Pieces.
• 53:58
  SPEAKER_02: Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza is a mirage,
• 54:01
  SPEAKER_02: a conjuring trick in which peace is unilaterally declared
• 54:05
  SPEAKER_02: as Israel seizes more Palestinian land and brings the genocide
• 54:10
  SPEAKER_02: to its grim conclusion.
• 54:14
  SPEAKER_02: And amazing graphics by Mr.
• 54:17
  SPEAKER_02: Fish.
• 54:17
  SPEAKER_02: He's awesome.
• 54:18
  SPEAKER_02: And you can follow him on Substack too now.
• 54:22
  SPEAKER_02: And again, as Eva Bartlett also pointed out, Chris Hedges says the same thing.
• 54:27
  SPEAKER_02: There is no ceasefire in Gaza.
• 54:29
  SPEAKER_02: There is no functioning board of peace.
• 54:31
  SPEAKER_02: There is no roadmap to ending the genocide or mechanism to the creation of a Palestinian state.
• 54:38
  SPEAKER_02: Israel has refused to implement or abide by any of the conditions
• 54:42
  SPEAKER_02: of Trump's comprehensive plan to end the Gaza conflict since its inception.
• 54:49
  SPEAKER_02: It won't begin to honor them now.
• 54:53
  SPEAKER_02: There's only genocide.
• 54:55
  SPEAKER_02: It changes shape and intensity.
• 54:57
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that is right.
• 54:58
  SPEAKER_02: Hey, look, not an AI picture.
• 55:00
  SPEAKER_02: How refreshing.
• 55:00
  SPEAKER_02: Now, Mr.
• 55:01
  SPEAKER_02: Fish is a great artist.
• 55:03
  SPEAKER_02: Go blank, by the way, in chat.
• 55:04
  SPEAKER_02: Also outstanding artist.
• 55:09
  SPEAKER_02: There is, again, only genocide.
• 55:11
  SPEAKER_02: It changes shape and intensity, but it does not change its essence.
• 55:16
  SPEAKER_02: Trump's plan is a mirage, a conjuring trick, a fleeting vanity project.
• 55:21
  SPEAKER_02: In October of 2025,
• 55:23
  SPEAKER_02: Trump gathered world leaders in Sharm al-El Sheikh Egypt to announce his peace deal,
• 55:29
  SPEAKER_02: which he said took 3,000 years to achieve before disappearing offstage.
• 55:36
  SPEAKER_02: The peace plan,
• 55:37
  SPEAKER_02: like the Smoke and Mirrors Act that defines the Trump era,
• 55:41
  SPEAKER_02: has been relegated to a dark memory hole as our P.T.
• 55:44
  SPEAKER_02: Barnum commander-in-chief trots out another bloody spectacle, war on Iran.
• 55:51
  SPEAKER_02: Trump announced a historic agreement on July 30th that entailed
• 55:56
  SPEAKER_02: the complete disarmament of Hamas and all
• 56:00
  SPEAKER_01: other armed groups in Gaza.
• 56:02
  SPEAKER_02: He called the 15-point plan credited to the Board of Peace,
• 56:06
  SPEAKER_02: which has no Palestinian representatives,
• 56:09
  SPEAKER_02: and installed Trump as its chair for life,
• 56:12
  SPEAKER_02: a monumental step toward lasting peace and security.
• 56:18
  SPEAKER_02: But Hamas swiftly qualified the demand by saying that handing
• 56:21
  SPEAKER_02: over its heavy weapons was only contingent on Israel ending all forms
• 56:28
  SPEAKER_02: of its aggression and withdrawing its occupying forces from Gaza.
• 56:34
  SPEAKER_02: Netanyahu blithely dismissed Trump's proposal.
• 56:38
  SPEAKER_02: Israel, he said, will not withdraw its forces until Hamas is genuinely quote-unquote disarmed.
• 56:46
  SPEAKER_02: Read this to mean never.
• 56:48
  SPEAKER_02: The peace plan,
• 56:51
  SPEAKER_02: which was endorsed by the United Nations in a stunning disregard
• 56:55
  SPEAKER_02: for Palestinian sovereignty and international law,
• 56:58
  SPEAKER_02: was never more than a publicity stunt.
• 57:02
  SPEAKER_02: It exists to provide Israel with a diplomatic cover to bring the genocide
• 57:06
  SPEAKER_02: to its intended conclusion,
• 57:08
  SPEAKER_02: the voluntary emigration of Palestinians from Gaza,
• 57:13
  SPEAKER_02: a euphemism for ethnic cleansing.
• 57:16
  SPEAKER_02: My guess again is Somaliland.
• 57:19
  SPEAKER_02: Since the ceasefire went into effect on October 10th last year,
• 57:23
  SPEAKER_02: two months before the Trump peace plan was formalized,
• 57:27
  SPEAKER_02: Israel again has killed 1,258 Palestinians in Gaza.
• 57:34
  SPEAKER_02: Ceasefires with these body counts are not ceasefires.
• 57:39
  SPEAKER_02: Once Gaza is emptied, the West Bank will be next.
• 57:45
  SPEAKER_02: That line literally brought a tear to my eye when I first read it.
• 57:50
  SPEAKER_02: Of the myriads of peace plans over the decades, this one is the least serious.
• 57:56
  SPEAKER_02: Aside from a demand that Hamas release the hostages within 72 hours after
• 58:00
  SPEAKER_02: the ceasefire began, which took place, it lacks specifics and imposed timetables.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's filled with caveats that allow Israel to abrogate the agreement
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  SPEAKER_02: because they never intended to honor it.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's the point.
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  SPEAKER_02: It is not designed to be a viable path to peace,
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  SPEAKER_02: which most Israeli leaders understand, Hedges wrote when the plan was announced.
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  SPEAKER_02: Israel's largest circulation newspaper,
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  SPEAKER_02: Israel Hayom,
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  SPEAKER_02: established by the late casino magnate Sheldon Adelson to serve as a mouthpiece
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  SPEAKER_02: for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and champion Messianic Zionism,
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  SPEAKER_02: instructed its readers not to be concerned about the Trump plan
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  SPEAKER_02: because it's only rhetoric.
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  SPEAKER_02: Israel, he noted in one example from the proposal,
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  SPEAKER_02: will not return to areas that have been withdrawn from as long
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  SPEAKER_02: as Hamas fully implements the agreement.
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  SPEAKER_02: But who decides if Hamas has fully implemented the agreement, he asked.
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  SPEAKER_02: Israel, does anyone believe in Israel's good faith?
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  SPEAKER_02: Can Israel be trusted as an objective arbiter of the agreement?
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  SPEAKER_02: If Hamas demonizes a terrorist group, objects, will anyone listen?
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  SPEAKER_02: How is it possible that a peace proposal ignores the International Court
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  SPEAKER_02: of Justice's July 2024 advisory opinion,
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  SPEAKER_02: which reiterated that Israel's occupation is illegal and must end, he continued?
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  SPEAKER_02: How can it fail to mention the Palestinians' right to self-determination?
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  SPEAKER_02: Who gave the U.S. the authority to send to Gaza an international stabilization force?
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  SPEAKER_02: A polite term for foreign occupation, he wrote then.
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  SPEAKER_02: Why is Israel, which has destroyed Gaza, not required to pay reparations?
• 1:00:00
  SPEAKER_02: 92% of Gaza's residential buildings have been damaged or destroyed,
• 1:00:06
  SPEAKER_02: and around 81% of all structures are damaged, according to UN estimates.
• 1:00:13
  SPEAKER_02: The strip has been reduced to 61 million tons of rubble,
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  SPEAKER_02: including 9 million tons of hazardous waste that includes asbestos,
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  SPEAKER_02: industrial waste,
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  SPEAKER_02: and heavy metals,
• 1:00:26
  SPEAKER_02: in addition to unexploded ordnance and estimated 10,000 decaying corpses.
• 1:00:34
  SPEAKER_02: Israel has demolished some 1,500 buildings since the ceasefire went into effect.
• 1:00:40
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_02: How can anyone believe that Israel,
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  SPEAKER_02: intent on leveling Gaza,
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  SPEAKER_02: will reverse itself to allow Palestinians to rebuild what it spent so much time,
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  SPEAKER_02: money, and blood to destroy?
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  SPEAKER_02: Retired Major General Giora Aylan,
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  SPEAKER_02: former head of Israel's National Security Council,
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  SPEAKER_02: echoed this sentiment on Sunday on Israel's radio.
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  SPEAKER_02: Quote, Israel has no interest in Gaza being rebuilt.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's better for us than to be destroyed for generations to come.
• 1:01:14
  SPEAKER_02: The greater the despair in Gaza and the greater the destruction and the greater
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  SPEAKER_02: the monument to what they did on October 7, years to come, that is good.
• 1:01:24
  SPEAKER_02: How about what you did prior to October 7?
• 1:01:27
  SPEAKER_02: Where's the monument to that?
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  SPEAKER_02: Hedges continues, Israel will never permit reconstruction in Gaza.
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  SPEAKER_02: It will never restore health facilities or water treatment plans.
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  SPEAKER_02: It will never turn over authority to an international stabilization force,
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  SPEAKER_02: one which only exists on paper.
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  SPEAKER_02: It will never permit the creation of the National Committee for the Administration
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  SPEAKER_02: of Gaza or agree to Palestinian self-determination and statehood.
• 1:02:00
  SPEAKER_02: Trump promises a Gaza Riviera that will function as a special economic zone,
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  SPEAKER_02: a territory operating outside of state law governed entirely by private investors,
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  SPEAKER_02: such as the Peter Thiel-backed charter city in Honduras, Prospera.
• 1:02:19
  SPEAKER_02: But Trump's Gaza Riviera is nothing more than a pathetic temporary camp along
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  SPEAKER_02: the ceasefire line near Rafa.
• 1:02:29
  SPEAKER_02: It consists of portable cabins under Palestinian administration and
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  SPEAKER_02: a tiny international security force, according to The Guardian.
• 1:02:40
  SPEAKER_02: It is touted in desperation as a pilot scheme.
• 1:02:47
  SPEAKER_02: Despite some $17 billion in pledges to the Board of Peace, as of late May,
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  SPEAKER_02: Not a single dollar had reached its official World Bank-administered Gaza Reconstruction Fund.
• 1:03:02
  SPEAKER_02: Only about $23 million had been received through alternative channels
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  SPEAKER_02: for operating costs,
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  SPEAKER_02: with a further $100 million pledged by the UAE that was earmarked for
• 1:03:13
  SPEAKER_02: a future Palestinian police force, though it remains frozen, according to the FT.
• 1:03:21
  SPEAKER_02: This amounts to about 72 cents for every $100 pledged, not even a dollar.
• 1:03:29
  SPEAKER_02: Given the heavy economic costs incurred by Gulf and regional donor countries because
• 1:03:33
  SPEAKER_02: of the U.S.
• 1:03:34
  SPEAKER_02: and Israeli war in Iran,
• 1:03:36
  SPEAKER_02: including Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar,
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  SPEAKER_02: and Saudi Arabia and the UAE,
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  SPEAKER_02: it's very unlikely that those pledged funds will actually be paid.
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  SPEAKER_02: The EU, the UN,
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  SPEAKER_02: and the World Bank,
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  SPEAKER_02: as I mentioned last week or two weeks ago,
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  SPEAKER_02: in an assessment published in April,
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  SPEAKER_02: estimated that $71.4 billion is needed for recovery in Gaza.
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  SPEAKER_02: The Board of Peace,
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  SPEAKER_02: for which Bulgarian diplomat Nikolai Mladenov is the principal official,
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  SPEAKER_02: is desperate for funds.
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  SPEAKER_02: The U.S.
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  SPEAKER_02: attempted to pilfer $11 billion in Palestinian tax revenues
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  SPEAKER_02: and frozen bank funds withheld by Israel,
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  SPEAKER_02: which was rejected by the Palestinian Authority.
• 1:04:26
  SPEAKER_02: Nice to know they were good for something.
• 1:04:29
  SPEAKER_02: The Israeli withholding of tax revenues has deepened the financial crisis in
• 1:04:33
  SPEAKER_02: the West Bank,
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  SPEAKER_02: with the PA slashing salaries in half of thousands of Palestinian civil servants,
• 1:04:40
  SPEAKER_02: of the ones it still continues to pay.
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  SPEAKER_02: The ISF,
• 1:04:46
  SPEAKER_02: a multinational peacekeeping force that's supposed to be composed of troops
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  SPEAKER_02: from Albania, Kosovo,
• 1:04:52
  SPEAKER_02: Kazakhstan,
• 1:04:53
  SPEAKER_02: Morocco, Uganda,
• 1:04:54
  SPEAKER_02: and Indonesia,
• 1:04:56
  SPEAKER_02: the latter of which has since suspended its commitment, is also non-existent.
• 1:05:04
  SPEAKER_02: Finance Minister War Criminal Bozalo Smotrich and Settlements
• 1:05:09
  SPEAKER_02: and National Missions Minister Orit Strzok Have demanded that Netanyahu reconvenient
• 1:05:16
  SPEAKER_02: the security cabinet so that its July 26th vote authorizing the entry
• 1:05:22
  SPEAKER_02: of ISF troops can be reversed.
• 1:05:25
  SPEAKER_02: They have no intent of stopping.
• 1:05:28
  SPEAKER_02: The entire Trump project is an Alice in Wonderland fantasy.
• 1:05:34
  SPEAKER_02: As I said earlier,
• 1:05:35
  SPEAKER_02: anyone in Gaza who strays close to the yellow line,
• 1:05:38
  SPEAKER_02: which is constantly shifting and poorly marked, is shot.
• 1:05:42
  SPEAKER_02: Police are shot.
• 1:05:44
  SPEAKER_02: Hamas leaders,
• 1:05:45
  SPEAKER_02: along with their families,
• 1:05:47
  SPEAKER_02: including Azam Khalil al-Hayah,
• 1:05:50
  SPEAKER_02: son of Khalil al-Hayah,
• 1:05:52
  SPEAKER_02: who was the head of Hamas' political bureau and the faction's head negotiator,
• 1:05:57
  SPEAKER_02: they're all assassinated.
• 1:05:59
  SPEAKER_02: Palestinians lining up at food kitchens and those handing out aid
• 1:06:03
  SPEAKER_02: to them are obliterated by Israeli bombs.
• 1:06:08
  SPEAKER_02: Israel restricts food and humanitarian aid to half of the trucks stipulated in
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  SPEAKER_02: the ceasefire agreement.
• 1:06:16
  SPEAKER_02: Palestinians,
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  SPEAKER_02: 90% of whom have been displaced,
• 1:06:20
  SPEAKER_02: continue to live in tent cities amid rubble and open pools of raw sewage.
• 1:06:25
  SPEAKER_02: They lack toilets, as I just mentioned, or electricity.
• 1:06:29
  SPEAKER_02: There's an 80% unemployment rate.
• 1:06:32
  SPEAKER_02: Tens of thousands of children suffer acute malnutrition in Gaza.
• 1:06:37
  SPEAKER_02: A child on average is killed every day, still.
• 1:06:42
  SPEAKER_02: Tacitus understood they made a desert and call it peace.
• 1:06:48
  SPEAKER_02: Trump's plan was not designed to end the conflict.
• 1:06:51
  SPEAKER_02: It wasn't designed to provide an equitable settlement for the Palestinians.
• 1:06:56
  SPEAKER_02: It wasn't designed to halt the ongoing mass slaughter.
• 1:07:00
  SPEAKER_02: It was designed to allow Israel to complete its genocide
• 1:07:03
  SPEAKER_02: and drive surviving Palestinians from their homeland.
• 1:07:07
  SPEAKER_02: The culmination of the Zionist dream.
• 1:07:11
  SPEAKER_02: Trump, however obtuse, has at least figured this out.
• 1:07:15
  SPEAKER_02: But again, this is not just Trump.
• 1:07:17
  SPEAKER_02: This was in place under Biden.
• 1:07:19
  SPEAKER_02: This was in place before Trump took office again and
• 1:07:22
  SPEAKER_02: before Mary Madelson bought off his campaign to have him look the other way
• 1:07:28
  SPEAKER_02: before
• 1:07:31
  SPEAKER_02: now taking the West Bank and completing that genocide of Gaza and
• 1:07:36
  SPEAKER_02: that takeover.
• 1:07:38
  SPEAKER_02: Chris Hedges has been knocking it out of the park this week.
• 1:07:41
  SPEAKER_02: He also had an hour-long sit-down with Whitney Webb from Unlimited Hangout.
• 1:07:47
  SPEAKER_02: And he also had an interview with Hussein Dagruh.
• 1:07:51
  SPEAKER_02: And I don't know if you remember, we've talked about Hussein Dagruh before.
• 1:07:55
  SPEAKER_02: He ran Red Stream.
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  SPEAKER_02: He's got sanctions put on him by the German government for his support of
• 1:08:03
  SPEAKER_02: the Palestinian people.
• 1:08:05
  SPEAKER_02: And by the EU.
• 1:08:07
  SPEAKER_02: So Hedges, I'm going to close with this for Fuck Israel.
• 1:08:10
  SPEAKER_02: His recent conversation,
• 1:08:12
  SPEAKER_02: Hussein broke down the institutional pressures on journalists and media outlets
• 1:08:17
  SPEAKER_02: to spin the genocide in Gaza in a favorable manner to Israel.
• 1:08:22
  SPEAKER_02: What?
• 1:08:23
  SPEAKER_02: The potential for punishment, such as the German government's sanctioning and debanking of him?
• 1:08:30
  SPEAKER_02: Has imposed an omnipresent possibility of severe punishment culminating
• 1:08:37
  SPEAKER_02: or cultivating a culture of paranoid self-censorship in the media.
• 1:08:42
  SPEAKER_02: So let's listen to a minute of Chris and Hossein here.
• 1:08:46
  SPEAKER_01: What effect has this had on other independent media
• 1:08:50
  SPEAKER_02: organizations that do the kind
• 1:08:52
  SPEAKER_02: of work that Red Media did?
• 1:08:53
  SPEAKER_00: With October 7, a lot of journalists lost their jobs.
• 1:08:56
  SPEAKER_00: Why?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because they criticized Designers Antony.
• 1:09:00
  SPEAKER_00: They criticized the genocide.
• 1:09:02
  SPEAKER_00: Or they talked about the genocide.
• 1:09:04
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of journalist organizations like Reporters Without Borders Germany,
• 1:09:09
  SPEAKER_00: they made a report where they highlight how the news outlets pressure
• 1:09:16
  SPEAKER_00: the journalists to report directly or not directly,
• 1:09:21
  SPEAKER_00: but on behalf of designers entity and not to use certain words or certain phrases.
• 1:09:28
  SPEAKER_00: And that is affecting the job.
• 1:09:29
  SPEAKER_00: And journalists in Germany, they just avoid to talk about certain topics.
• 1:09:33
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that is sanctions as well.
• 1:09:38
  SPEAKER_02: Agreed.
• 1:09:41
  SPEAKER_02: So, shout out again to Chris Hedges, Indie Media Award honoree.
• 1:09:47
  SPEAKER_02: Again, don't always agree with him or his positions,
• 1:09:51
  SPEAKER_02: but he certainly fights for the little guy in a lot of the cases.
• 1:09:56
  SPEAKER_02: He has certainly been an advocate for the Palestinian people long,
• 1:09:59
  SPEAKER_02: long before October 7th, to his credit.
• 1:10:03
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, I Again, don't always agree with him, but I got a lot of respect for him.
• 1:10:09
  SPEAKER_02: And a lot of people still like him, listen to him, and he has a lot of influence.
• 1:10:14
  SPEAKER_02: And I do think that he is accurate in his assessment about what's going on here.
• 1:10:20
  SPEAKER_02: And again,
• 1:10:20
  SPEAKER_02: just further continuing to stall and delay while they implement the horrors
• 1:10:26
  SPEAKER_02: that they're looking to implement.
• 1:10:29
  SPEAKER_02: Alright, I'm a little exhausted on that one.
• 1:10:32
  SPEAKER_02: We're going to do some laughing about some AI dystopia in a minute,
• 1:10:36
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• 1:10:40
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• 1:10:42
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• 1:10:47
  SPEAKER_02: Again, that's a lot of stuff that Israel's up to,
• 1:10:49
  SPEAKER_02: and I take the time every week to go through all of that and assemble it,
• 1:10:56
  SPEAKER_02: partially for my own head, but also to have a documented record of it.
• 1:11:02
  SPEAKER_02: In the future, so that when people say, what were you doing?
• 1:11:06
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I was reporting on all of this and calling it out in real time.
• 1:11:10
  SPEAKER_02: That's what I was doing, at least.
• 1:11:12
  SPEAKER_02: And trying to educate everybody else to what was happening and get people on board
• 1:11:18
  SPEAKER_02: with taking some action, some direct action to stop this.
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• 1:11:24
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• 1:11:32
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• 1:11:34
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• 1:11:44
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• 1:11:48
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  SPEAKER_02: What are...
• 1:11:56
  SPEAKER_02: Hedges bad takes.
• 1:11:57
  SPEAKER_02: He had really bad takes on COVID, first of all.
• 1:12:01
  SPEAKER_02: That's mostly what it was around.
• 1:12:05
  SPEAKER_02: But I think that at times he also has lamented the New York Times because he worked there.
• 1:12:14
  SPEAKER_02: I've seen him kind of talk about kind of liberal stuff that Blazing over
• 1:12:21
  SPEAKER_02: and not necessarily being as harsh.
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• 1:12:27
  SPEAKER_02: There we go.
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  SPEAKER_02: I love y'all and I'll see you next Tuesday night.
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  SPEAKER_01: No!
• 1:12:33
  SPEAKER_01: We just fucking lost the stream!
• 1:12:37
  SPEAKER_01: I guess this isn't such an awful place Is that what you want me to say?
• 1:12:45
  SPEAKER_01: You prove it's possible to sleep for days And I still think you're right here away.
• 1:12:53
  SPEAKER_01: The cost of living isn't much to make.
• 1:12:56
  SPEAKER_01: But God, it's so hard to save.
• 1:13:00
  SPEAKER_01: And when they told you everything was safe, were you safe?
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  Were you safe?