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West Bank Escalation, Props for Assal Rad, Driving as a Palestinian Woman, "Board of Peace" Silence · IndieNewsNow LIVE! Clips

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  SPEAKER_00: Who are these people?
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  SPEAKER_03: So this is our thumbnail for the Fuck Israel segment,
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  SPEAKER_03: and it documents several different components that we're going to show.
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  SPEAKER_03: Some are videos,
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  SPEAKER_03: some are in article form,
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  SPEAKER_03: and I did want to shout out this lady right here,
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  SPEAKER_03: okay, Asal Rad, historian, journalist, and now published book author, another one.
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  SPEAKER_03: Before we get to Asalrod,
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  SPEAKER_03: I would like to first bring this video that I found on Instagram that,
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  SPEAKER_03: again, I had not seen anywhere else.
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  SPEAKER_03: There is music in the background that I'm hoping is not going to be copyrighted
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  SPEAKER_03: so we don't get claimed,
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  SPEAKER_03: but I'm going to refresh this, unmute it, and hopefully this is from the IMEU.
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  SPEAKER_02: We are both Palestinians.
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  SPEAKER_02: But Israel doesn't allow us to drive on the same roads.
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  SPEAKER_02: Why?
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  SPEAKER_02: Because Israel wants to preserve a racist system that places Israeli Jews above Palestinians.
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  SPEAKER_02: How do they do this?
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  SPEAKER_02: Israel uses a color-coded, tiered ID system to control Palestinian movement.
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  SPEAKER_02: These IDs determine where Palestinians can live and even drive.
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  SPEAKER_02: I have a green ID,
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  SPEAKER_02: which is an ID given to Palestinians who live in the West Bank
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  SPEAKER_02: under Israeli military rule.
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  SPEAKER_02: By default,
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  SPEAKER_02: this means I have a white license plate on my car and only drive in the West Bank,
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  SPEAKER_02: but not on every road.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm a Palestinian with Israeli citizenship.
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  SPEAKER_02: I drive a yellow license plate,
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  SPEAKER_02: which means I can drive on all the roads that she can't drive on.
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  SPEAKER_02: But I can't drive on all the roads that Israeli Jews can drive on freely.
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  SPEAKER_02: Make sense?
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  SPEAKER_02: Let's use a trip to the Palestinian city of Bethlehem as an example.
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  SPEAKER_02: The drive from Ramallah to Bethlehem should take 45 minutes.
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  SPEAKER_02: But if you're a Palestinian, the trip can take hours.
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  SPEAKER_02: To go to Bethlehem, you have to drive through Jerusalem.
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  SPEAKER_02: And since Israel denies Palestinians with West Bank IDs permission to go
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  SPEAKER_02: to Jerusalem, they have to go all the way around.
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  SPEAKER_02: I have to go through multiple Israeli military checkpoints,
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  SPEAKER_02: drive around illegal Israeli settlements, and avoid settler-only roads.
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  SPEAKER_02: Driving on Israeli-only roads by mistake could cost me my life,
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  SPEAKER_02: since illegal Israeli settlers often attack and kill Palestinians.
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  SPEAKER_02: For me, as an Israeli ID holder, I can use a route that cuts through Jerusalem.
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  SPEAKER_02: But because I'm Palestinian,
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  SPEAKER_02: I also have to go through an Israeli military checkpoint to get both out of Ramallah
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  SPEAKER_02: and into Bethlehem,
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  SPEAKER_02: since Bethlehem is in the West Bank, which is under Israeli military control.
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  SPEAKER_02: And although I have a yellow license plate,
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  SPEAKER_02: that doesn't necessarily mean I can drive on Israeli settler roads in
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  SPEAKER_02: the West Bank freely.
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  SPEAKER_02: I too would not be safe if these violent illegal settlers knew I was
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  SPEAKER_02: a Palestinian driving on their roads.
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  SPEAKER_02: Israel has established over 900 roadblocks and checkpoints throughout the West Bank.
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  SPEAKER_02: This can be anything from Israeli military checkpoints,
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  SPEAKER_02: to iron gates surrounding Palestinian cities, to settlement construction.
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  SPEAKER_02: Palestinians should be able to drive in their own land,
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  SPEAKER_02: in their own towns, and on their own roads.
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  SPEAKER_02: But Israel continues to make life increasingly difficult for Palestinians
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  SPEAKER_02: in every aspect of the world so that it can continue
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  SPEAKER_02: to push Palestinians off their land and give it to illegal settlers.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's a crazy video.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, there's so much.
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  SPEAKER_01: Think about the number of people that have never heard any of this stuff.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's what makes me angry.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then they'll go on Twitter and talk shit about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: They don't know shit from shit.
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  SPEAKER_01: They don't understand the segregation and multi-tiered system just that they have
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  SPEAKER_01: for Palestinians.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not everyone's even treated equally based on where you live and who you are.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's crazy.
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  SPEAKER_01: All of this.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is apartheid.
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  SPEAKER_00: How is this not...
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  SPEAKER_01: But no, they'll deny this and say that no, only democracy in the Middle East.
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  SPEAKER_01: What do you mean?
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  SPEAKER_01: That's democracy?
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  SPEAKER_01: That's equal rights?
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  SPEAKER_00: And oh yeah, if you drive on what they consider to be their road, you could end up killed?
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  SPEAKER_00: Freaking insane.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, next.
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  SPEAKER_03: This seems significant.
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  SPEAKER_03: Indie Media Award honoree Matt Kennard,
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  SPEAKER_03: who is a co-founder of Declassified UK,
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  SPEAKER_03: has now since moved on and has now written multiple books.
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  SPEAKER_01: Israel has just kicked these UK military personnel out of Ramallah.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's the West Bank.
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  SPEAKER_01: Again, no Hamas there.
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  SPEAKER_01: They were in place to train Palestinian Authority security forces
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  SPEAKER_03: so they could stop threats to Israel originating in the West Bank
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  SPEAKER_03: and prevent potential overspill of violence into Israel,
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  SPEAKER_03: quotes from the official UK documents.
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  SPEAKER_03: The whole Oslo settlement is being dismantled.
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  SPEAKER_03: Good.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, but...
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, are they turning this back over to the Palestinian Authority?
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  SPEAKER_01: Or are they just eliminating the middleman and the person that's actually training
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  SPEAKER_01: the Palestinian Authority?
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I brought this because it seemed significant.
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  SPEAKER_01: The fact that seven British Army officers
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  SPEAKER_00: based in the West Bank are being recalled.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, next.
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  SPEAKER_03: Hamas, we've heard of them, right?
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  SPEAKER_03: They claim through Middle East Monitor that Israel is exploiting the Board
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  SPEAKER_03: of Peace's silence to step up the Gaza attacks.
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  SPEAKER_03: Which, yeah, that's exactly what they're doing.
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  SPEAKER_03: So what's going on here?
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  SPEAKER_03: Local, okay...
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  SPEAKER_01: Hamas spokesman Hazem Qasem said on Tuesday last week that Israel's destruction
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  SPEAKER_01: of homes near displacement camps in Gaza showed that it's continuing
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  SPEAKER_03: its attacks
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  SPEAKER_03: on Palestinians.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yes, and we're going to show that not just in Gaza but also in the West Bank too.
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  SPEAKER_01: Qasem said that Israel is exploiting the Board of Peace's silence
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  SPEAKER_01: and weak response along with the failure of mediators in Arab and Islamic states
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  SPEAKER_01: to take practical steps to stop the attacks.
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  SPEAKER_03: Because they don't really want them stopped.
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  SPEAKER_03: He called on all parties to move beyond statements and take practical steps to stop
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  SPEAKER_03: the attacks,
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  SPEAKER_03: warning that the lack of effective measures would allow Israel
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  SPEAKER_03: to continue killing Palestinians and destroying their homes as a prelude
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  SPEAKER_03: to displacing them.
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  SPEAKER_01: Which is what everyone on the Board of Peace actually is okay with,
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  SPEAKER_01: even though they claim they're not.
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  SPEAKER_01: The comments came as Israeli aircraft carried out a series of strikes on homes
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  SPEAKER_01: and groups of Palestinians in several parts of the Gaza Strip last Tuesday,
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  SPEAKER_01: killing several people and wounding others.
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  SPEAKER_03: Now, since October 7th of 2023,
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  SPEAKER_03: Israel has carried out what Palestinian authorities describe as a genocide in Gaza,
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  SPEAKER_03: as well as most of the international community.
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  SPEAKER_03: Along with US and European support
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  SPEAKER_01: involving killings,
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  SPEAKER_01: starvation,
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  SPEAKER_01: destruction,
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  SPEAKER_01: displacement,
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  SPEAKER_01: and arrests,
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  SPEAKER_01: especially without charge,
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  SPEAKER_01: while ignoring international appeals and orders from the International Court
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  SPEAKER_01: of Justice to halt the attacks.
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  SPEAKER_01: The campaign has killed or wounded more than,
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  SPEAKER_01: and I'm not even going to repeat the official number,
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  SPEAKER_01: I would say 600,000 to 700,000 Palestinians,
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  SPEAKER_01: most of them women and children,
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  SPEAKER_01: and left more than 11,000 missing according to Palestinian official figures,
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  SPEAKER_01: except that all those books got destroyed.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's also displaced hundreds of thousands of people
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  SPEAKER_01: and caused famine that's killed many,
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  SPEAKER_03: mostly children, while widespread destruction has devastated much of the Gaza Strip.
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  SPEAKER_00: Surprise and new information to nobody who watches this show.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sadly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fuck Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, this is our headline fixer that I want to shout out.
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  SPEAKER_03: And there are not nearly enough strong,
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  SPEAKER_03: outspoken, prominent voices out there That are doing this kind of work.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I appreciate that Al-Salrad is doing so.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_03: She's a frequent guest on podcasts.
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  SPEAKER_01: And what we see her on often is definitely on Twitter.
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  SPEAKER_01: I believe on Instagram also.
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  SPEAKER_01: But what she does is she screencaps corporate media headlines and then comments
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  SPEAKER_01: on them or fixes them, literally.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then comments on that.
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  SPEAKER_01: So this is, again, from September 10th.
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  SPEAKER_01: This was last Thursday.
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  SPEAKER_01: Israeli strike kills parents and two children in Gaza, medics say.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, I thought they weren't doing that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Israel is still killing families in Gaza.
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  SPEAKER_01: The genocide isn't over.
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  SPEAKER_01: Parents and two children.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's a family of four.
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  SPEAKER_01: Tell me any other country in the world where that wouldn't be called a war crime.
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  SPEAKER_01: Where a country used a targeted strike
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  SPEAKER_00: to murder an entire family of four.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's another headline that she screencapped.
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  SPEAKER_03: This came from Haaretz, which is of course the Israeli newspaper.
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  SPEAKER_03: Baby, an update.
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  SPEAKER_03: He's just died.
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  SPEAKER_03: Israeli prison guards' texts expose a routine of abuse.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the sub-headline says, quote, We got tired of beating them.
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  SPEAKER_01: After a Palestinian prisoner died at Ketseot Prison in 2023,
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  SPEAKER_01: investigators uncovered Israeli prison service guards boasting about beatings
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  SPEAKER_01: and implicating their commanders.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because there's no consequences.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, what Assal said here was, quote, we got tired of beating them, quoting them.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do you understand the level of impunity you have to have to operate with to boast
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  SPEAKER_00: about torturing and killing people?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yet another one here.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's uplifting
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  SPEAKER_01: Miss Rachel.
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  SPEAKER_01: Miss Rachel calling out the racism of celebrities and leaders silent on Gaza
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  SPEAKER_01: because these Palestinian children
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  SPEAKER_03: aren't worth it to them?
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  SPEAKER_03: Again, here's what Miss Rachel had to say.
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  SPEAKER_03: And this was,
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  SPEAKER_03: by the way,
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  SPEAKER_03: before the
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  SPEAKER_01: latest controversy that exploded in the last two days with Pink
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  SPEAKER_01: and Ed Sheeran and McElbore, which is terrible.
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  SPEAKER_03: So many things to say about that,
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  SPEAKER_03: but I'm going to let that continue to play out before we speak about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was going to try to maybe say something yesterday,
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  SPEAKER_01: and then today,
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  SPEAKER_01: all the other opening acts and Ed Sheeran's backup band all pulled out of the tour.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, there's no more tour.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's poetic justice.
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  SPEAKER_03: But also, it sucks for all the people that held tickets.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um...
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  SPEAKER_03: Anyway, Miss Rachel says there are two kinds of celebrities
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  SPEAKER_01: and leaders right now.
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  SPEAKER_01: Those who are willing to shout at the top of their lungs that
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  SPEAKER_01: over 20,000 Palestinian children shouldn't have been killed in this genocide in Gaza
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  SPEAKER_01: and those that remain silent because those children are not worth it to them.
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  SPEAKER_03: And they probably would say something if those kids are white and from a different place.
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  SPEAKER_03: Please stop being racist and risk something.
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  SPEAKER_03: And damn,
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  SPEAKER_03: Miss Rachel calling out the racism of celebrities and leaders silent on Gaza
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  SPEAKER_00: because they aren't worth it to them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sad.
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  SPEAKER_00: Embarrassing.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's awful.
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  SPEAKER_03: And then, finally, we get this headline.
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  SPEAKER_03: Again, this is what happened yesterday because with Ed Sheeran...
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  SPEAKER_01: Basically,
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  SPEAKER_01: kowtowing and caving to,
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  SPEAKER_01: and then today,
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  SPEAKER_01: he released a statement apparently where he blamed it on the promoter.
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  SPEAKER_01: It wasn't my call, it was the promoter's call.
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  SPEAKER_01: Dude, if you said you were not going to perform anymore, the promoter wouldn't say shit.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I guess you're not going to perform anymore anyway.
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  SPEAKER_01: But in the meantime...
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  SPEAKER_01: Miss Rachel,
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  SPEAKER_01: imagine looking back 20 years from now at yourself,
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  SPEAKER_01: kicking someone off a tour because they spoke out during
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  SPEAKER_01: a genocide that's killed 20,000 kids.
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  SPEAKER_01: Miss Rachel is dragging Ed Sheeran and I'm here for it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Except, again,
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  SPEAKER_01: now that Ed Blake is trying to deflect blame,
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  SPEAKER_01: he's going to say, well, it's the promoter.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's those people.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's not really me.
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  SPEAKER_01: I invited him.
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  SPEAKER_01: I knew what he did and I invited him on my tour.
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  SPEAKER_03: Again, I don't want to make this about Ed Sheeran or about this story at all.
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  SPEAKER_03: I want to make this about Asal Rad.
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  SPEAKER_03: Asal Rad.
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh-oh.
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  SPEAKER_03: I hope we can get this video back.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_03: Had a conversation.
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  SPEAKER_03: Here we go.
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  SPEAKER_03: About the impartiality.
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  SPEAKER_03: Reality of impartiality.
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  SPEAKER_00: Reality of impartiality is that if you're impartial, you tell the truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: What happened?
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  SPEAKER_00: That's frozen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: She went on this Read the Fifth podcast.
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  SPEAKER_03: So catch up with that.
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  SPEAKER_03: I was trying to...
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  SPEAKER_03: It's only 24 seconds long.
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  SPEAKER_03: So definitely... Oh, here we go.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_00: It's not allowing this to be played for some reason.
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  SPEAKER_00: Try this one more time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Come on.
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  SPEAKER_00: The reality of impartiality is that
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  SPEAKER_03: They're not allowing it.
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  SPEAKER_03: Fuck you, Instagram.
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  SPEAKER_03: This sucks.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_03: I wanted to mention that
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  SPEAKER_03: her book was for sale on Amazon the last I saw.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's called Don't Say Palestine, How the Media Manufactured Consent for Genocide.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_03: This just published this week and is available either on Kindle,
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  SPEAKER_03: on audiobook, through Audible, or in paperback.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_03: Highly encourage everyone who can afford it to support her and purchase one.
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  SPEAKER_00: I fully intend to buy the paperback version and read it.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the don't is crossed out.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then, okay.
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  SPEAKER_03: So that was our Asal Raad.
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  SPEAKER_03: Another outstanding activist who we've been talking about for almost three years
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  SPEAKER_03: because she got arrested under Section 12 under the Anti-Terrorism Act
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  SPEAKER_03: in London is activist Sarah Wilkinson,
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  SPEAKER_03: who's used her platform to advocate and uplift Palestinian voices every day.
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  SPEAKER_03: Sarah says,
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  SPEAKER_03: apologies,
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  SPEAKER_01: I can find no living picture of little Saudi Galia,
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  SPEAKER_01: but in four days,
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  SPEAKER_01: these are just some of the people and children that the Israelis have murdered.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this was posted Friday, September 11th at 5.30 in the morning New York time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Israel is still murdering babies, children.
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  SPEAKER_00: Parents.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why?
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  SPEAKER_03: So they don't have to relocate them eventually to Somaliland
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  SPEAKER_03: or wherever they're going to try to kick them out?
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  SPEAKER_03: Every day we're hearing about more deaths, more murders, and nobody does anything to stop it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the bombs keep going and we continue to send them money.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, here's another.
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  SPEAKER_00: What the hell is going on with Instagram right now?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm guessing this one's not going to work either now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because it's inconvenient.
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  SPEAKER_03: And this is, the deepest sorrow is not only for a city being destroyed before our eyes...
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  SPEAKER_03: But for a world that witnessed it all and chose to look away.
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  SPEAKER_03: And there's more footage here.
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  SPEAKER_03: And of course, it's not working because Instagram fucking hates Palestinian people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because they're run by a Zionist.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's the destruction and the devastation that is Gaza.
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  SPEAKER_00: Come on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Come on.
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  SPEAKER_00: God forbid you're actually able to see the truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fuck Israel for this bullshit.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, sorry, we're having trouble.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, sorry,
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  SPEAKER_01: this is inconvenient to our narrative,
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  SPEAKER_01: so we're not going to let you
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  SPEAKER_00: show it to anybody, fuckers.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_00: And again, when you try to refresh it, this is broken.
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  SPEAKER_03: Fundamentally fucking broken.
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  SPEAKER_03: Fuck you, Instagram.
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  SPEAKER_03: You suck.
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  SPEAKER_03: We're done with you for the night anyway.
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  SPEAKER_03: Next.
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  SPEAKER_03: This one, wow.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_03: Everybody knows who Palantir is.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_03: And the crazy lunatic that runs it is a guy by the name of Alex Karp.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_01: Well, what you've probably never seen is a picture of Alex Karp wearing a keffiyeh.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_01: In his senior yearbook photo at Haverford College,
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_01: he was an active participant there in student activities to protest racism.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_01: This is from a book that's upcoming called
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_03: Valley of Death.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_03: I don't subscribe to necessarily who's publishing it,
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_03: but I thought it
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_01: was an interesting data point
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_01: that He certainly looked much more Middle Eastern with
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_03: the mustache and
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_03: a close cut haircut than the crazy fucking Zionist he looks like now.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_03: And somebody wanted to serve this as a warning that this can just,
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_03: for some Zionists,
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_03: supporting Palestinians can be a phase or a period in their life that they move on
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_03: from.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_03: But of course, that's disgusting and a war crime.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_03: And they're shitting on actual real people.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_03: Next, your OMAD monitor.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_01: Again, tell me how
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_01: Beyond that, there's no more genocide.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_03: There's a ceasefire, right?
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_03: Escalating attacks across Gaza.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_03: Despite the ceasefire.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_01: Entire families, as I mentioned.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_01: Forced evacuation orders.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_03: Wishing entire neighborhoods to flee as it bombs buildings to evacuate.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_03: All the while advancing the yellow line into new areas, further pushing people toward the sea.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_03: Seizing the yellow line.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_03: And actually,
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_03: for the thumbnail,
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_03: I was able to grab a screencap when it was in its explosionary period.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_03: Like that.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_03: That was in the thumbnail.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_03: Gross.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_03: Fuck Israel.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_03: A ceasefire that leaves people under attack is no ceasefire.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_03: Israel's killing of Palestinians continues,
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_00: and so does the genocide.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_01: Next, I got more from Middle East Monitor.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_01: Israeli army arrests 33 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_01: No, it's not a Freemasonry bullshit.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_01: They actually arrested,
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_01: no, it was 32 people and they arrested
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_00: another one, including two journalists.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_00: All right,
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_03: 33 Palestinians,
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_03: including two journalists,
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_03: two minors,
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_03: and former prisoners during raids Thursday in the occupied West Bank,
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_03: according to the Palestinian Prisoners Media Office.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_01: Amazing that there has to be one of those,
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_01: but with 9,400 of them sitting in Israeli prisons, somebody needs to be their voice.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_01: The non-governmental group said Israeli forces raided dozens of homes
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_01: and searched them,
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_01: damaging the contents of some properties during the operation,
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_01: which was concentrated in the provinces
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_03: of Nablus,
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_03: Bethlehem, Hebron, Janine, Tubas, and Tukharem.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_00: Again, not fucking Gaza!
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_00: West Bank!
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_01: It said 17 Palestinians were arrested in Nablus,
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_01: 7 in Bethlehem, 3 in Hebron, 1 in Janine, 2 in Tubas, and 3 in Tolkarem.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_01: That just happens to add up to 33.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_01: It's not some fucking Masonic plot, people.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_03: The group identified two journalists among those arrested as Sabri Musa Jabril
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_03: and Muath Amarna,
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_01: both from Bethlehem.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_01: And Janine,
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_01: an Israeli special forces unit,
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_01: infiltrated the area around the interior
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_03: ministry roundabout and arrested
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_03: a former prisoner, according to the group.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_03: Re-arrested, you mean?
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_03: Arrested a former prisoner
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_01: means re-arrested.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_01: And did they have a charge?
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_01: Or did they literally just take them into custody and put them in prison?
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_01: Because we know they've done that before.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_03: The arrests also included minors, naturally.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_03: They love to arrest children and other former prisoners,
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_01: including one who had been released days earlier.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_01: So they just threw him right back in the hole after celebrating, hugging his family.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_01: Now get the fuck back in there.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_03: The group said the escalation in arrests,
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_03: home raids,
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_03: and property damage,
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_03: along with the targeting of journalists,
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_03: children,
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_03: and former prisoners,
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_03: was part of an
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_01: ongoing policy of intimidation and arrests against Palestinians.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_01: That's the understatement
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_03: of the day right there.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_03: Right, so...
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_03: You get it.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_03: More than 9,400 Palestinians are
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_01: held in Israeli prisons,
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_01: including 370 children and 92 women amid reports by rights groups
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_01: that some prisoners have been subjected to torture,
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_03: medical neglect, and worse, according to Palestinian Prisoners Society.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_03: Next, I got Mondo Weiss, another Indie Media Award honoree.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_03: I appreciate this outlet,
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_03: even though sometimes I disagree with them, but this one happens to be good.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, good in that it reports the truth,
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_01: and somewhere that I haven't seen anywhere else reporting,
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_01: Israel has cut off water to 47 Palestinian families in the northern West Bank.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_01: Again...
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_01: Remember, this was all about Hamas, right?
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_01: We're going to revenge for October 7th, Hamas.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_01: What did the West Bank have to do with Hamas on October 7th?
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_01: Nothing.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_01: But yet, starvation, cutting off water, destroying desalinization plants.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_01: Now, cutting off water because of the roads that they're building
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_01: for their settlements is Since Israel severed the water lines feeding Ras al-Akmar
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_01: over a month ago,
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_01: its 47 farming families have now been rationing what little they have and weighing
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_01: whether to sell their livestock and leave.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, they can't really go very far.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_00: Kossam Muadi, an incredible journalist over
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_03: at Mondo Voice.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_03: In the Northern Valley,
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_03: 47 Palestinian families have gone without water for over a month
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_03: after Israeli forces bulldozed the roads
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_01: to their hurting community and cut
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_01: the pipelines that once fed it.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_01: It's not enough that they bulldoze the roads,
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_03: but they also are destroying their ability to water their crops and feed themselves.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_01: And, of course, have drinking water.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_01: Lufti Bani Oday has lived on this land for 45 years.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_01: Through them all,
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_01: the nearby towns of Atuf and Tamun were where his children went to school,
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_03: where his family sought health care,
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_03: where they bought what they needed and sold what they produced.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_03: But since early August, all of that has been cut off.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_01: The Israeli army bulldozed the road to our area and we have no way to Tamun except
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_01: through the hills, which were forced to walk on foot.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_01: Adding that he now spends hours walking seven kilometers on foot,
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_01: a commute that previously took minutes by car.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_01: The army bulldozed the road I could drive on,
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_01: and remember, they won't let them drive on Israeli roads.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_01: He said,
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_01: I walk seven kilometers just to bring food,
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_01: medicine,
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_01: diapers,
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_01: and other needs,
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_01: and soon our children will have to walk the same distance when
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_01: the school year begins in a few weeks.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_01: Do you know how long it takes to walk seven kilometers back and forth to school?
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_03: But the road isn't the worst of it.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_03: We can endure isolation and the lack of some basic needs for a long time,
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_03: he said, but we can't live without water.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_03: Bani O'Day is one of approximately 300 Palestinians,
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_01: nearly, again, half of them children because half of Palestine is under 18.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_01: Facing imminent displacement in Ras Al-Akmar, Aftala,
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_03: and Eastern Atuf in the Northern Jordan Valley after Israeli forces severed
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_03: the last water pipelines supplying the communities.
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_03: Fuck these genocidal monsters.
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, but they're not trying to commit genocide, right?
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_01: We're just going to destroy the pipelines that bring water to the communities.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_01: But that's not Jonathan's genocidal intent.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_01: They can walk seven kilometers a day to get their water, right?
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_03: Fucking war criminal scumbags.
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_03: The water cutoff is part of the construction of
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_01: a 22-kilometer Israeli military barrier known as the Crimson Thread running
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_01: from Ain Shibli to the Tayasir military roadblock which passes
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_01: through Palestinian-owned agricultural land and has been described
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_01: by Israeli rights organization Bet Salem as a deliberate strategy of expulsion.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_03: As of June 30th of this year,
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_03: Bet Salem documented that Israeli military attacks
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_03: and settler violence had forcibly displaced 64
• 27:29
  SPEAKER_01: Palestinian communities in
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_01: the West Bank, affecting more than 4,328 people.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_01: You know, Mary, I feel you, except who?
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_01: Who's going to do it?
• 27:45
  SPEAKER_01: Who's going to bomb those desalination plants?
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_01: They've gotten everybody on board and they've decapitated the world leaders of
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_01: the countries that weren't.
• 27:57
  SPEAKER_01: From Maduro to
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_03: Assad to
• 28:03
  SPEAKER_03: the head of Iran to now they're working on getting rid
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_03: of Lula who tepidly was in favor of it to Gustavo Petro.
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_03: Every world leader that was supporting Palestine now is no longer a world leader just about.
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_03: In the northern Jordan Valley,
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_03: the 47 families who've been cut off from water are farmers
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_03: and livestock herders living in Ras al-Ahmar,
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_01: a small rural community east of the village of Atuf.
• 28:33
  SPEAKER_01: Their main activity is raising livestock
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_01: and together they own approximately 15,000 sheep and goats.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_01: So Israel would be very happy to either see those sheep and goats die
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_01: and not be able to provide milk and
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_03: Wool and all the other things that those animals provide.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_03: Or they'll just steal them themselves.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_03: Abdallah Bisharat,
• 29:03
  SPEAKER_03: mayor of Atuf,
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_03: told Manda Weiss that
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_01: the Israeli military's construction work has cut off water pipes and blocked
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_01: the road to the area, leaving families isolated.
• 29:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no shit.
• 29:15
  SPEAKER_01: We in the Atuf Village Council have been trying to send livestock feed
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_01: and potable water trucks,
• 29:20
  SPEAKER_01: but most of the time the Israeli army has been sending us back.
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_03: The Israeli military is permitting the restoration of an irrigation water line,
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_03: but not the line that feeds the
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_01: homes and is blocking the movement
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_01: of materials needed for livestock work into the area.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_01: Families are allowed to leave and return on foot, but vehicles not permitted to pass.
• 29:47
  SPEAKER_01: But tell me that they're treated equally.
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_01: You know, most humane democracy in the Middle East, right?
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_01: Fuck these people.
• 29:55
  SPEAKER_01: And fuck anyone that says so.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_01: The barriers construction,
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_01: which began this past March, has already caused extensive damage to the area.
• 30:05
  SPEAKER_01: And again, who's holding them accountable?
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_01: Nobody.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_01: The Board of Peace?
• 30:11
  SPEAKER_01: Nobody.
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_01: Answer Allah, maybe?
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_01: But they're a little busy.
• 30:17
  SPEAKER_01: According to Pet Salem,
• 30:19
  SPEAKER_01: it's resulted in the uprooting of more than 300 olive and grape trees,
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_01: the destruction of crops and greenhouses,
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_01: the demolition of kilometers of water and irrigation pipelines,
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_01: and damage to approximately 45,000 dunams, or 4,500 hectares, of agricultural land.
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_01: By design,
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_01: they want to make that land uninhabitable and unable to grow anything for
• 30:46
  SPEAKER_01: the Palestinians.
• 30:48
  SPEAKER_01: The barrier's full route,
• 30:49
  SPEAKER_01: once complete,
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_01: is expected to isolate residents from their land and enable the seizure
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_01: of around 50,000 dunams or 5,000 hectares.
• 30:59
  SPEAKER_01: Seizure, meaning theft without compensation.
• 31:06
  SPEAKER_01: Families have been collecting whatever they can in tanks hauled by tractors through the hills.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_01: We have little water that we've been able to get in tanks carried by tractors
• 31:14
  SPEAKER_01: through the hills, but we need to ration them.
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_01: We're limiting our hygiene,
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_01: our drinking,
• 31:20
  SPEAKER_01: our cooking,
• 31:21
  SPEAKER_03: and we've given up on irrigating our vegetables, which have all dried out and died.
• 31:27
  SPEAKER_03: So it's working.
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_03: Israel's plan is working for them.
• 31:32
  SPEAKER_03: Because nobody is stopping them.
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_03: The sheep and goats can go longer without water than humans can,
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_03: which leaves family with a narrow margin.
• 31:44
  SPEAKER_03: But Bonnie O'Day makes it clear that the margin is closing.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_03: We can't live like this for long, nor can our livestock.
• 31:52
  SPEAKER_03: We need the water restored.
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_03: Israel has no intention of doing that.
• 31:57
  SPEAKER_01: Moving out is not a viable option for most families.
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_01: We have around 15,000 sheep and goats, which we have no room for except on our land.
• 32:09
  SPEAKER_01: They want them to abandon them.
• 32:12
  SPEAKER_01: If we move out,
• 32:13
  SPEAKER_01: we will be forced to sell most of our livestock,
• 32:16
  SPEAKER_01: which are our main source of income.
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_01: Again, that's what Israel wants.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_01: The mayor of Atum says the choice the families
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_03: face is stark.
• 32:29
  SPEAKER_03: These families live from their livestock and they don't have any space in the town
• 32:33
  SPEAKER_03: to graze and to keep them.
• 32:35
  SPEAKER_03: The choice is to sell the livestock and leave or try to hold on and stay for as long
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_03: as possible.
• 32:43
  SPEAKER_01: Last week,
• 32:44
  SPEAKER_01: Jerusalem Post quoted Israeli army sources saying that some of
• 32:48
  SPEAKER_01: the families have their homes built without permits in Area C.
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_01: The approximately 60% of the West Bank under full Israeli civil and military control
• 32:59
  SPEAKER_01: under the Oslo Accords,
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_01: where Israel's civil administration bans Palestinian construction.
• 33:06
  SPEAKER_01: So now what they're going to end up doing is leveling all those houses
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_01: that they didn't have permits to build.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_01: The Army said each family's case was being examined separately through the legal system.
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_03: That the barrier project may be affecting the water supply in the area.
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, maybe.
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_03: Uh-huh.
• 33:27
  SPEAKER_03: Bonnie O'Day's response is simple.
• 33:29
  SPEAKER_03: These are our lands and we have always lived here.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_03: And whatever the reason is, who cuts water off from dozens of families?
• 33:37
  SPEAKER_03: What can justify this?
• 33:39
  SPEAKER_03: Zionism and land theft and the Greater Israel Project is the answer, like it or not.
• 33:45
  SPEAKER_03: And I don't.
• 33:47
  SPEAKER_03: The Wallen Colonization Resistance Commission
• 33:51
  SPEAKER_01: documented 2,256 attacks
• 33:54
  SPEAKER_01: against Palestinians and their property in July of this year alone.
• 34:00
  SPEAKER_01: And another almost 1,500 by Israeli forces and almost 800 by settlers.
• 34:07
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 34:07
  SPEAKER_01: Describing the pattern as coordinated settler violence backed by military protection.
• 34:13
  SPEAKER_01: I remember when we,
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_01: when we covered,
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_01: they tried to burn down Esam Amro's house and the kids were doing it and threatening
• 34:21
  SPEAKER_01: and taunting him with literally the IDF soldiers with their machine guns in hand,
• 34:27
  SPEAKER_01: standing behind the kids,
• 34:29
  SPEAKER_01: reminding that Amro that he better not retaliate or do anything
• 34:33
  SPEAKER_01: or he'll end up killed.
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_01: These attacks have targeted communities,
• 34:37
  SPEAKER_01: farmland,
• 34:37
  SPEAKER_01: and infrastructure
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_03: across the West Bank,
• 34:40
  SPEAKER_03: and Ras al-Akmar is one node in that pattern.
• 34:45
  SPEAKER_03: The families there are,
• 34:48
  SPEAKER_03: in Bane Odeh's words, holding on to their last bit of capacity to endure.
• 34:54
  SPEAKER_03: Which again, is music to Israel's ears, sadly.
• 34:58
  SPEAKER_03: Fuck Israel.
• 35:00
  SPEAKER_03: They're literally starving out and droughting these people
• 35:04
  SPEAKER_03: by cutting off their ability to access potable water.
• 35:10
  SPEAKER_03: Just like they've been doing in Gaza, by the
• 35:12
  SPEAKER_01: way, for three
• 35:12
  SPEAKER_03: years.
• 35:16
  SPEAKER_03: This is the West Bank.
• 35:16
  SPEAKER_03: Remember, no Hamas there.
• 35:18
  SPEAKER_03: So why are they doing this again?
• 35:20
  SPEAKER_03: Because they can.
• 35:21
  SPEAKER_03: Because Miriam Adelson paid Donald Trump to look the other way.
• 35:26
  SPEAKER_03: Because our Congress is a bunch of weak fucking scumbags.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_03: Because the British Parliament's been bought.
• 35:32
  SPEAKER_03: Because the German government's been bought.
• 35:35
  SPEAKER_03: Because the French government has been neutered successfully.
• 35:39
  SPEAKER_03: Because the Spanish government pays lip service.
• 35:43
  SPEAKER_03: And the Turkish government has been bought off with Erdogan to play both sides.
• 35:49
  SPEAKER_03: And then you've got the Nazis.
• 35:51
  SPEAKER_03: Like...
• 35:53
  SPEAKER_03: Zelensky, that are fully behind this.
• 35:55
  SPEAKER_03: And then you've got Putin,
• 35:57
  SPEAKER_03: who isn't stopping this because,
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_03: of course, there's two million Russian speakers living in Israel.
• 36:02
  SPEAKER_03: He considers it an extension of Russia.
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_03: They've played all sides now,
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_03: and there's nobody left to save and to fight on behalf of the Palestinians.
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_03: It's so fucking frustrating.
• 36:16
  SPEAKER_00: Fuck Israel.
• 36:18
  SPEAKER_00: And my final fuck Israel story...
• 36:22
  SPEAKER_01: Again, remember that there is no Hamas in the West Bank,
• 36:25
  SPEAKER_01: but yet,
• 36:27
  SPEAKER_01: Zalos Motrich,
• 36:28
  SPEAKER_01: their finance minister,
• 36:30
  SPEAKER_01: another war criminal,
• 36:31
  SPEAKER_01: claims that Israel has demolished 35 Palestinian structures in
• 36:36
  SPEAKER_01: the Northern West Bank.
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_01: Again, under the guise that they didn't have Israeli permission to build them in
• 36:41
  SPEAKER_01: the first place,
• 36:42
  SPEAKER_01: because they predated when Israel had any control of the fucking area.
• 36:48
  SPEAKER_01: What's the Palestinian Authority doing?
• 36:50
  SPEAKER_01: Nothing.
• 36:51
  SPEAKER_01: They've ceded Palestinian Authority to the Gaza Board of Peace now.
• 36:55
  SPEAKER_01: They've been rolled into it.
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_01: Mahmoud Abbas is gone.
• 36:58
  SPEAKER_01: They have no leadership whatsoever.
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_03: And there is a bulldozer or a crane or whatever knocking down structures.
• 37:10
  SPEAKER_03: This was on September 9th in the Silwan neighborhood of Jerusalem.
• 37:15
  SPEAKER_03: Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich said authorities demolished 35 Palestinian
• 37:22
  SPEAKER_03: structures near access roads,
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  SPEAKER_03: serving new settlements in the northern West Bank,
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  SPEAKER_03: describing the buildings as unauthorized and linking the operation to efforts
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  SPEAKER_03: to strengthen Israeli settlements in the area.
• 37:36
  SPEAKER_03: Fuck your settlements, which are all illegal.
• 37:39
  SPEAKER_03: Smotrich said the demolitions were carried out by
• 37:42
  SPEAKER_03: the Civil Administration's Enforcement Unit,
• 37:44
  SPEAKER_03: that would be Ben Gavir,
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  SPEAKER_03: which falls under
• 37:48
  SPEAKER_01: his authority as part of his responsibilities within
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  SPEAKER_01: the Defense Ministry relating to civilian affairs in the West Bank.
• 37:57
  SPEAKER_03: Unbelievable.
• 37:58
  SPEAKER_01: Well, we're demolishing illegal construction,
• 38:01
  SPEAKER_01: creating a deterrent effect,
• 38:03
  SPEAKER_01: and protecting the Northern West Bank settlements that serve as a security belt
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  SPEAKER_01: for Israel.
• 38:10
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, my God.
• 38:12
  SPEAKER_01: So dystopian.
• 38:14
  SPEAKER_01: What about all the fences and the checkpoints?
• 38:17
  SPEAKER_01: None of that serves as any part of a security belt.
• 38:21
  SPEAKER_01: More construction, more layers and barriers between them.
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  SPEAKER_01: More people there to steal land and kill the Palestinians
• 38:30
  SPEAKER_01: that have been living there for generations.
• 38:34
  SPEAKER_01: He added that Israeli authorities were working to fortify and strengthen the settlements.
• 38:41
  SPEAKER_03: Smotrich did not identify the precise locations of the 35 structures,
• 38:45
  SPEAKER_03: because he doesn't have to, or provide details about their type and use.
• 38:50
  SPEAKER_03: No Palestinian response to the demolitions was included in the report.
• 38:55
  SPEAKER_03: Because they don't count as far as Israelis are concerned.
• 39:00
  SPEAKER_03: They don't even pay them lip service.
• 39:01
  SPEAKER_03: That only happens here in the United States when speaking about this.
• 39:07
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, no, no.
• 39:07
  SPEAKER_01: They give them a voice.
• 39:09
  SPEAKER_01: They let them vote.
• 39:11
  SPEAKER_01: There's Palestinian Israeli citizens.
• 39:15
  SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh.
• 39:18
  SPEAKER_01: Israel carries out demolitions of Palestinian-owned structures in Area C of
• 39:22
  SPEAKER_01: the occupied West Bank,
• 39:23
  SPEAKER_01: which I just mentioned,
• 39:24
  SPEAKER_01: which again remains under full Israeli administrative and security control,
• 39:29
  SPEAKER_01: frequently on the grounds that they were built without Israeli-issued permits.
• 39:33
  SPEAKER_01: Again, because they were built before Israel was anywhere in control of any of those areas.
• 39:39
  SPEAKER_01: So, of course, Israel needs to justify demolishing them all.
• 39:45
  SPEAKER_01: Palestinians and international organizations have long argued that
• 39:48
  SPEAKER_01: the Israeli planning system makes obtaining construction permits
• 39:52
  SPEAKER_01: in Area C extremely difficult by design.
• 39:57
  SPEAKER_01: According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs,
• 40:01
  SPEAKER_01: demolitions linked to the lack of Israeli-issued building permits displaced more
• 40:06
  SPEAKER_01: than 1,700 Palestinians in Area C and East Jerusalem last year during 2025,
• 40:16
  SPEAKER_01: which was the highest annual figure recorded since
• 40:19
  SPEAKER_01: the agency began systematic monitoring in 2009.
• 40:24
  SPEAKER_00: And my guess is they won't be allowed to monitor for much longer.
• 40:30
  SPEAKER_00: Fuck Israel.
• 40:32
  SPEAKER_00: Fuck Smotrich.
• 40:34
  SPEAKER_03: All these assholes should be arrested.
• 40:37
  SPEAKER_03: Including Trump.
• 40:38
  SPEAKER_03: Including Schumer.
• 40:40
  SPEAKER_03: Including every fucking politician that voted to send the weapons and that votes
• 40:44
  SPEAKER_03: to allow these assholes to continue to exist as
• 40:48
  SPEAKER_00: a country.
• 40:49
  SPEAKER_00: Fuck them all.
• 40:55
  SPEAKER_00: That's my Fuck Israel segment.
• 40:56
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• 40:58
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• 41:04
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  SPEAKER_01: No!
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  SPEAKER_01: We just fucking lost the stream!
• 42:50
  SPEAKER_01: I guess this isn't such an awful
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