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'Australians' Protest From the Safety of Australia? · The Slippery Slope

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  OK, first let me preface everything else I'm about to say
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  with this I am not against immigration, not against
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  allowing people to come into this country.
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  I get it. It's a great country.
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  Fantastic country. It's where everyone goes to come
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  here. Why wouldn't you?
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  But you know, maybe maybe we should check people's people's
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  motives and what they're really about.
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  Maybe we should pay a little more attention to what they
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  really believe, you know And you know, are they really going to
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  be. They're really here to help
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  create a a cohesive society and to to help add into our society.
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  To help add into our culture, is that what they're here for or
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  are they just here to push their own agenda, you know, coming to
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  Australia? And yet at the same time they
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  stand up and go out and protest about things happening in the
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  country that they've come from and process and making demands
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  of the Australian government and the Australian people about
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  things that are happening in their own country.
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  Well then, go back to your own country.
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  Like I said, it's not that I'm against immigration, but if
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  you're so passionate about your own country, go back there
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  because this is what I don't get about immigration.
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  I personally would not move from Australia, OK?
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  But if there's something wrong with Australia, I'll stand up
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  and make my voice heard in Australia for Australian issues.
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  I'm not going to go to some other country and then demand
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  that that country. Takes a notice of me and my
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  desires and tries to force Australia to to bend, to change
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  in this country that I now live in.
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  Must bend to my will. But that's what's happening
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  here. That's what's happening with all
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  these marches about about Palestine.
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  But and and unfortunately when you look at the big picture here
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  with with the Israel, Gaza war, Israel.
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  Well technically I think they they might be, they might be
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  winning, they might be winning the war.
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  They're losing the PR battle. They are losing it big time and
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  and you know we for example and you know a couple of weeks ago
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  we had the bombing there was a hospital that got bombed and
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  here in Australia, I don't know about other place but here in
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  Australia for well over a week. All we heard, we kept hearing
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  reports. There's reports, there's
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  concerns, there's accusations that it was Israel.
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  The Israel military is the the IDF, they're the ones that
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  bombed this Palestinian hospital, this hospital in Gaza.
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  They did it. Israel kept denying it.
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  They kept saying no, it's not us, wasn't us.
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  We don't do that. We're not going to do that.
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  No. In the morning on on news
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  reports, on on our morning. News shows we'd have people
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  coming up. Yep, Israel did this.
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  They bombed, they killed, they've killed innocent babies.
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  They've done all this. They keep saying no, Look, we
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  believe it was a a stray Hamas missile might have been an
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  accident, who knows? But it wasn't us.
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  So for about, I think it was actually about two weeks.
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  We kept hearing all this propaganda, all this blame of
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  Israel. Then they came out with proof
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  that it wasn't them. It looked like it might have
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  been a missile that was either misfired.
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  Or it's just crashed a bit early.
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  So in other words, people from Palestine, people from Gaza,
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  killed other people from Gaza. It's all very tragic.
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  But The thing is, we had about two weeks here in Australia of
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  that rhetoric going around that Israel killed, Israel bombed the
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  hospital, Israel killed all the babies, Israel did this.
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  And then when it came out, they had the proof there that no,
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  Israel didn't do it. It was Australia Hamas missile.
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  We had about 5 minutes of oh OK, the evidence has come in.
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  It was actually Hamas that killed their own people
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  basically. And we're not going to talk
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  anymore about that story. Go figure.
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  So Israel are losing the the PR battle.
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  Not good. Anyway, let's check out this
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  story here and why I started off with my little discussion about
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  little discussion, Little rant about immigration here.
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  Please forcibly remove supporters against or after
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  demonstration at Port Botany against Zim ZIM Zui in India.
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  Mike Container ship. I was spelling it out because
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  I'm not sure whether that's a. Acronym or whatever.
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  Anyway, Police have forcibly removed activists who gathered
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  as Sydney's Port Botany in protest last night against the
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  unloaded of an Israeli owned shipping company.
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  Hundreds of protesters carrying Palestinian flags and holding up
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  signs called for a boycott of Zim, an international shipping
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  line and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
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  I love the way. I love the way all these people.
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  All these people who are living safely, very safely in Australia
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  go out and protest and demand. We demand Australia does
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  something. Well, we sit here peacefully in
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  Australia, living the peaceful, quiet life.
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  We're going to get out and stir up trouble and and make demands
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  because that's what it's all about.
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  We'll demand from the safety of Australia.
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  You know, if you've got some, if you think things are your
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  nation's being hard done by. And I this isn't, I'm not trying
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  to attack or anything, but in all honesty go back there.
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  Go back. I I I don't understand the
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  mindset that I'm being serious. I don't understand the mindset
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  because this, this was me and I went somewhere else and I could
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  see things happening in Australia.
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  I would go back, go back to Australia.
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  But this is the country that I love.
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  I go back and stand up for it. But if you haven't got the
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  courage to go back. And you want to call it all out
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  from, you know, thousands and thousands of kilometers away.
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  Seriously, I won't say any more, but, you know, come on anyway.
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  A jet ski with a Palestinian flag attached to it was
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  stationed in the water off the major commercial port while a
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  crowd chanted Free Palestine to banging drums.
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  The Palestine Justice Movement, Sydney, They even got their own
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  movement in Sydney. PJ.
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  CMS organized the demonstration targeting the Zim ship calendar.
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  Attendees were seen holding signs that said boycott Zim and
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  end the Gaza blockade. PJMS organizer Ahmed Al Abadla
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  said the Australian government should stop trading with Zim and
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  other pro Israel companies. Like I said, I love it, You
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  know, all these, we come here. We're going to live in the
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  safety of Australia, thousands of kilometers away and then
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  we're going to stand up and protest and make demands of the
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  Australian government. You must bear to our will.
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  You must stop trading, you must stop doing all these things
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  because we want you to. I mean we're not from the
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  country and you know we'll stand up and protest because you know,
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  in because Palestine, Gaza, such a great place.
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  We don't want to live anymore. We don't want to live there
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  anymore, but we want you to bend to our will.
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  Last month, Zim chief executive Eli Glickman said the company
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  would be positioning its ships and infrastructure to aid
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  Israel's defense ministry. Good on them.
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  About 18 NSW Police officers were also in attendance on
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  Tuesday evening, including mounted units.
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  At one point, line of officers stopped the group from marching
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  into onto Foreshore Rd. with the crowd chanting LET us pass.
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  The protest moved to a serious road, one of the entry points to
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  the port. Protesters were removed from
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  their city and spots around 8:45.
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  Protester Jenna Fayed, who is from the occupied occupied West
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  Bank, said one of the PJMS missions.
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  PJMS mission was to dismantle what she called the Israeli
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  apartheid system. Seriously, I don't know if these
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  people just don't understand language, but it's not an
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  apartheid system anyway. I mean, far be it for me to look
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  it up and, you know, actually explain to you what an apartheid
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  system is. But it's not an apartheid
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  system. I'm not saying it's a perfect
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  system, but heck, it's not apartheid.
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  Palestine had been suffering from a brutal military
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  occupation for the last 75 years, she said.
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  And you know why Palestine? 01 eyed I'll tell you what,
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  Israel has completely shut off water, food, electricity, fuel
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  and medical resources into Gaza for the last six weeks.
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  It's the latest demonstration to occur in response to the
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  overseas conflict in Gaza after protesters rallied outside NSW
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  Premier Chris Mien's office on Monday.
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  El Abadia Abadla. Sorry about mispronouncing your
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  name El Abadla. He said he was disappointed in
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  the state government's response to the protests because the NSW
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  state government should be taking notice of what he says.
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  I was one of those people who was cheering the Labour
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  government when they won in the state and federal.
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  I feel betrayed as a Palestinian, as a Muslim, as an
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  Arab. See, so he doesn't even consider
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  himself Australian. He's a Palestinian first, a
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  Muslim 2nd and an Arab third. Nothing about Australia.
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  If you don't consider yourself Australian, then go back to
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  whatever flippant country you came from.
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  Seriously, not, not trying to insult not.
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  It's not something racist. It's I don't, you know, not
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  against any particular group. I I just feel this across the
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  board. It frustrates me when I see
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  people come to our nation. And then insisting that we need
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  to change or we need to do things differently.
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  Our government needs to, needs to force the government where
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  they come from to to change. And then our government should
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  be bending to their will. Like I said, if you don't like
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  it, go back, go back, it's all good.
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  And this, this rhetoric about, you know, about occupied Israel,
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  you know, in Palestine. Sorry, occupied.
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  Occupied West Bank and Palestine has been suffering from a brutal
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  military occupation. I mean, do people realize what
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  Palestine, what Palestine want? So here's the thing the the
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  mantra that Palestinians live by, and you you've probably
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  heard this before, is from the river to the sea.
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  Palestine will be free The the trouble is what does that mean
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  you know when all these Palestinians and the whole I
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  mean even the word Palestinian even the the even that name
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  Palestinian do do these people realize where it came from and
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  it was actually created as a a slur?
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  I I don't know. Anyway, let's get back to it.
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  So when someone says. From the river to the sea,
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  Palestine will be free. What happens with the Jewish
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  people? What happens with the Israelis?
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  Because this is their mantra, This is what they this is their
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  desire, their hope. This is what they want.
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  They talk about apartheid. They talk about, you know,
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  living, living under this apartheid system or being locked
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  down, not being free to do what they want, but what they want.
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  Is the complete destruction and annihilation of Israel.
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  That's what that saying means. From the river to the sea,
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  Palestine will be free if the Palestinians own have control of
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  the river to the sea, there is no more Israel.
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  So what they what they mean when they say that is they want the
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  complete destruction of Israel. That's what they mean.
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  So all I can say is people need to actually learn and actually
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  do some research and what these things mean, where do some
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  research and where the the Palestinian name, the name
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  Palestinian came from, what it actually means, where these
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  people came from, how they ended up being there, Why there are
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  two borders. There are two borders from from
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  that Gaza area, one into Egypt. And one into Israel.
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  And yet no one's, no one's trying to get into Egypt.
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  No one's just saying Oh well, stuff that I'm just gonna walk.
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  I'm just gonna go to Egypt or have a bit of a look and
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  question why doesn't Egypt, why doesn't Egypt take control.
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  So all I can say these Australian protesters OK
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  wanting. Palestine to be free, wanting
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  the freedom, you know, the Gazan people to be free.
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  Very disingenuous in just my opinion.
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  If you really want that, if that's what you believe, go back
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  to Palestine, go back to Gaza, go and go and help your people.
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  Go and help get get rid of the Hamas regime.
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  Go and help educate your own people so they'll stop trying to
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  kill the Jews. Go and help.
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  Try and better your your country, your people.
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  Help try and unite it instead of coming here and protesting and
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  demanding that we need to change and that we need to force Israel
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  to do things and we need to listen to your will.
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  That's just my opinion. Thanks for listening to the
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  slippery slope