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UK Column News - 10th October 2025 · UK Column Radio

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Good afternoon. It's Friday the 10th of October
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2025, just after 1:00. Welcome to UK column News.
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I'm your host, Mike Robinson, joining me in the studio today,
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Patrick Henningson. Welcome to the program, Patrick.
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Great to be with you, Mike. And Mark Anderson will join us
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in a little bit and we have a special guest we will we'll
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introduce shortly. But we're going to begin today,
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Patrick, with the the peace plan.
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This is the big story, isn't Mike?
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And this is the the meeting of the minds here or the meeting of
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something else. These three likely lads here.
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I mean, look at this, Benjamin Netanyahu, Steve Witkoff, Jared
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Kushner, Donald Trump wasn't there to really do the deal, but
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he is there in spirit as you can see on the back wall.
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But that's Netanyahu with his his trusted cabinet there, which
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he hand picked by the way he hand picked those two people in
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the Trump cabinet. Is it a ceasefire deal, Mike?
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Is it if they're already celebrating peace in the Middle
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East? What's going on there?
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Well, take a close look. If you know how this one's going
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to go, take a close look at that gentleman there, that Steve
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Witkoff. We like to call him the Dell boy
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of diplomacy. So we took a little the Dell boy
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of diplomacy. That makes Jared Rodney, doesn't
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it? Yes, it does.
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We don't want to insult Rodney, though, do we?
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And I'm I'm almost to feel like I'm insulting David Jason with
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that comparison, Mike. But that's kind of what we are
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are going to expect because these are con men of the highest
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order. Every single ceasefire has been
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a strategic pause to rearm Israel and continue the bombing,
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just like from the beginning of Trump's term.
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Let's take a look at Donald Trump.
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This is what he had to say about this historic deal.
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I think it's going to be a lasting peace, hopefully, and
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everlasting peace, peace in the Middle East.
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We secured the release of all of the remaining hostages and they
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should be released on Monday or Tuesday.
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And getting them is a complicated process.
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I'd rather not tell you what they have to do to get them.
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There are places you don't want to be.
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But we are getting the hostages back on on Tuesday, Monday or
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Tuesday and that'll be a day of joy.
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I'm going to try and make a trip over.
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We're going to try and get over there and we're working on the
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timing, the exact timing. We're going to go to Egypt where
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we'll have a signing, an additional signing.
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We've already had a signing representing me, but we're going
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to have an official signing. So, Mike, they, they don't have
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the timings. They haven't confirmed, maybe
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Monday, maybe Tuesday, they haven't confirmed the names.
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Israel hasn't agreed on the names of the Palestinians being
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released, including some high profile people we'll speak
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about, speak about in a moment. And, and so, yeah, but it's all
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about the signing. It's going to be, it's historic.
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There's peace in the Middle East.
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They're already celebrating on Fox News in America.
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Just finally there's peace in the Middle East.
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Nothing's actually happened yet. Nothing has actually happened.
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In fact, Israeli tanks opened fire on Palestinians celebrating
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the ceasefire just last night. That was the opening gambit from
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Israel is to basically shoot Palestinians.
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We're celebrating that the war's over.
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Well, I guess it's not over then, but, well, we'll see.
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Well, it's really said that they had held a defence cabinet and
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then a full cabinet before they agreed this thing.
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But let's just have a look here at what Keir Starmer had to say
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because this was this was his words.
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I welcome the news that the deal has been reached on the first
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stage of President Trump's peace plan for Gaza.
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And he then lauded the efforts of western aligned countries in
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the region for stepping up and and helping get this over the
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line. But he said that this agreement
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must now be implemented in full without delay and accompanied by
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the immediate lifting of all restrictions on life saving
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humanitarian aid to Gaza. Well, that may be his position.
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But while the various meetings were going on, Israel wasn't
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holding back. And as we can see here as well,
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first of all, as reported by Resistance Use Network from the
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Palestinian side and also in the Israeli media here, multiple
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attacks on Gaza were carried out in the run up to the ceasefire.
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Because why get into the spirit of what's being done when
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there's an opportunity to kill a few more people before the
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deadline, Patrick? Yes, exactly.
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Right, so, so let's just have a look at what the Resistance News
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Network said here. Now at 2:00 AM, the displaced
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people of Gaza are cautiously celebrating and crying tears of
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joy at shelters and hospitals in light of the news of a ceasefire
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deal. The IOF continues to bomb the
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Gaza Strip at this time, particularly cyber neighborhoods
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South of Gaza City, while drones are flying low over Muazi.
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Explosions rock Gaza City now, but the Times of Israel here was
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claiming that the idea of hopes to complete its withdrawal by
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noon starting 72 countdown, 72 hour countdown.
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Sorry to free the hostages. I don't know what your thoughts
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are on that. Well, I mean it again, the
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timing hasn't been confirmed yet.
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So when is the swap going to happen?
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That was a problem in the last agreements and Israel basically
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deep sixed every single one of these agreements in the past.
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There's a 0% success rate and they always come up with some
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excuse or they try to blame Hamas.
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So clearly the Palestinians are willing to take a step to make a
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deal. But I'm, I'm going to say
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cautiously, Mike, that at best this is a temporary, but perhaps
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ceasefire temporary. It's this not, it's not a peace
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plan. It's not a peace deal.
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But by the same token, Mike, we need to be also sensitive to the
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fact that I will not deny any Palestinian the respite of not
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having to be bombed for at least 24 hours, 48 hours, maybe a
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week, maybe a month. I will not deny them that, even
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though I'm a total skeptic about the sincerity of the Americans
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and the Israelis on this. Well, let's get an idea perhaps
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of the sincerity of the Israelis in this because here's Channel
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7. I guess this is Israel national
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news. I just want to quote a little
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bit from this because they say the names of the four terror
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aces that Hamas demanded as part of the deal, Marwan Bargaty and
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and three others were removed from the list of terrorists who
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were said to be released under the ceasefire agreement that
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went into effect early Friday morning.
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Now, before I go on with the quote here, .5 F of the
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implementation steps for President Trump's proposal for
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the the end of the Gaza war, which was signed, as you said,
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said. And I quote, as Hamas releases
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all the hostages, Israel were released in parallel the
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corresponding number of Palestinian prisoners as per the
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attached lists. And Barghodi's name was on that
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list and that was approved by, amongst others, Witkoff.
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And today, as we mentioned, the phrase employed by the Israeli
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government was and quote, at this point in time, he will not
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be part of the release process. And that quote goes on to say as
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Hamas releases all the hostages, Israel will release in parallel
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the corresponding number of parallel prisoners.
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But they're they're not adhering to the terms that were signed.
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So where does that leave the agreement?
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So that they already told basically the Americans to get
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stuffed will decide who's going to be on the list.
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So they've already basically gone bad on their own sort of
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side of the agreement. So that's Israeli opening
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gambit. Marwan Barghouti.
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To call him a terrorist ace or terrorist mastermind is patently
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ridiculous. These are practically elderly
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men by this point. They've been sentenced to life
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in prison and their main crime is their potential political
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leaders of of a Palestinian state that is their chief crime.
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So all of these people will either be assassinated or put in
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prison until they die. That is the Israeli policy and
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that's how they keep it Palestine down and and always
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have the excuse to say we don't have a negotiating partner says,
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says Netanyahu. Yeah, because you killed them
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all or they're in prison. So I mean this, this, this goes
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to show you what a farce this whole thing has been really for
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the last 40 years, the whole. And in fact, wasn't a couple of
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months ago that Ben Kaferi went to at him in prison and was
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basically gloating effectively, you're never getting out and you
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know, we will destroy the lot of you sort of thing was what he
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was doing at the time. It was pretty unpleasant.
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The defense minister, yes, Yeah, that's exactly what happened.
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Pretty incredible stuff, Mike. But we can talk more about this
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ceasefire with our next guest at the end.
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Well, maybe you'll ask her her opinion, but I want to welcome
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on to the program Yara Mardarelli.
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She's a journalist. She is also a crew member on the
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Global Summit Flotilla will put their their X account up here on
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screen so people can see it. I encourage everyone to fall.
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They've got a lot of followers in the last week.
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And this is the main flotilla that had over 40 boats that
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tried to break the siege in Gaza.
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And Yara, who we have on the line right now, she is one of
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those crew members who is just, she's recently been released and
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allowed to come home. She's going to talk briefly with
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us with the UK column about her experience.
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Welcome to the program, Yara. Hi, thank you for having me.
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It's a real pleasure to see you and of course everyone's very
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happy to see that you're well as well as your your crew mates and
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your comrades on that incredible mission, very important mission.
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But just to get started, for those people who don't know you,
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Yara, how did you get involved in the Global Summit Flotilla
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and and what is the Global Summit Flotilla?
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So the Global Sumud Flotilla is a coalition of the Freedom
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Flotilla. The Sumud convoy, which parallel
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to the Global March to Gaza, were both attempting to March to
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the Rafa crossing and I was part of the Global March to Gaza.
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After we were sabotaged by the Egyptian secret police via
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Israel, we attempted to break the siege by sea.
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And so we reconvened in Tunisia and started organizing and I
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quickly kind of became a Co head of of communications at the
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Global Summit Flotilla and part of the organizing committee.
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And so tell, tell us about this journey yard.
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How you know, when did you disembark?
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I know there was a huge gathering in, in in Barcelona,
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in Spain, but boats came from all over the Mediterranean.
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How did it start? How long was the journey?
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Just tell us briefly about how how how your experience with
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that. So we were at sea for around a
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month. Of course we had.
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We started out with around 70 plus boats on the journey.
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Of course some had failures, couldn't continue for different,
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different reasons and we ended up with 42 boats in total.
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We departed from the port in Barcelona with around 20 plus
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boats and then on the first leg of the journey headed to
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Tunisia. In Tunisia we were as many might
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have as many who might have followed along.
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We were we were attacked for the first time by Israel.
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My lead boat, which was the Alma was drone struck one day after
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the family boat was drone struck.
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And those were the large, the large ships that were kind of
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the mother boats riding fuel to all the smaller vessels.
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And so we were at risk of attack.
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We were attacked once in Tunisia.
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And subsequently then we were attacked by 15 drones which
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exploded above people's heads on the sailing boats in close to
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Greek territorial waters just a few days after we left Tunisia.
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And these were intimidation and fear tactics employed by Israel,
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of course, to scare us, to scare participants out of the mission,
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but they didn't work. We continued sailing and and
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then we were of course, as, as people know, intercepted,
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illegally kidnapped in international waters around 17
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miles from from the shores of Gaza.
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And, and Jara, there there was the reports that Italy, Spain,
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Greece had deployed naval vessels to escort to support you
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Turkey as well. What, what was the truth behind
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that? Because how much help were they
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giving you out of those countries?
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Were any of them better than others?
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What what? What are your thoughts on on
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that side? So the Greek warship only
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accompanied us until we actually left Greek territorial waters
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and then turned back. The Italian vessels were a
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complete PR stunt, no help whatsoever.
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The Spanish fleet, we actually never saw it, turned around
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before we even got to see it. And the only fleet that actually
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delivered any kind of help was the Turkish fleet actually,
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which came up to the Alma, our boat, and provided a bunch of
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humanitarian in aid. But that was about it.
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When we were in our hour of need and we needed the warships, when
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Israel kidnapped us, illegally abducted us, there were no
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worships to be seen. So to us, it was performative
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politics. It was we didn't expect anyone
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to come to our assistance or help.
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But you know, these, these warships did for us.
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They they were barely visible, barely there.
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That's interesting. A lot of people believe if they
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stuck with you that would have created a lot of problems for
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the Israelis. But this is a different
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discussion. Maybe we can have another time,
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but tell us about your crew mates.
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There was some incredible people involved, my understanding, all
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volunteers from all around the world.
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Many people applied their limited positions as crew
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members and there's some very high profile people as well.
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What was it like and what were some of the things that you can
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say about some of your your your comrades there on the mission?
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Only good things, I mean we had around 30,000 plus applications,
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which which says it all, like 30,000 people are willing to put
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their bodies on the line, potentially risk attacks, if not
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worse by the scientist entity to, to bring humanitarian aid to
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the besieged people of Gaza. On my vessel, on my ship, I had
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the honour to be with Mandela, Mandela, Mandela and Greta
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Thunberg and a lot of Thai keiki that many, many people know is
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an absolutely amazing activist and also Leila Hegazi, US
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activist, among other absolutely phenomenal activists who have
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been working tirelessly towards Palestinian liberation for most,
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most of their lives. So it was a real honour and a
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real pleasure to be surrounded by such incredibly inspiring
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individuals who were at the same time and very, very humble.
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And we, you know, were sailing together for around a month.
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And so we became close comrades and friends and almost family
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in, you know, on a, on a, on a boat for, for a month.
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You can never escape your comrades.
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And we had the absolute joy and pleasure to have built very,
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very strong relationships, and lasting relationships at that.
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And probably probably the most famous, at least at the moment
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in global politics was Greta Thunberg.
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She was famous as an environmental activist.
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But for the, since October 7th, she has become extremely vocal,
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extremely active on the, the, the genocide in Gaza.
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Just tell us about what it was like to, to, to, to be with her,
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to work on this effort with her. And also what there's there's
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stories about what the Israelis did they they, they singled her
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out for abuse when her her boat was apprehended.
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Tell us a little bit about what you know with with regards to
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Greta. Greta is Greta is exactly as she
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portrays herself to be. You know, Greta does not want
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the spotlight. She does not want to be seen as
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a hero. Neither do any of us.
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And she makes that very, very clear in each and every
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interview she does, umm, you know, she's using her privilege
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and her platform to shed light on what is happening in Gaza on
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this ongoing genocide ceasefire or not.
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Umm, and she's, she's an incredibly humble and kind and,
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and genuine, uh, uh, person. She was of course singled out,
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but this is not something that she, uh, even wants to bring to
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the media because she does not want to become the story.
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But of course the media has heard how she was draped in the
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Israeli flag, kicked repeatedly, made to kiss the Israeli flag,
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and just continually abused and mentally and physically abused
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by by this entity. Time and time again.
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Every day I would see her get dragged out of her cell and get
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brought in front of high IOF generals to discuss, in their
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words, the reason why we're there and to understand why
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we're why we're so adamant on bringing humanitarian aid to to
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a besieged population. Very, very strange, very, very
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bizarre. They wanted to kind of convert
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her to to their cause, which of course did not work at all.
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And tell us about the time of apprehension.
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So you're all you knew that it was coming.
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I mean, as you get closer and you started getting drone
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attacks, you start seeing their sort of ships circling you,
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hailing your vessels and so forth.
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And so you've been trained on a protocol.
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You're live streaming this from your boats.
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But yet at that point, you have to kind of, I heard, get rid of
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your devices. Tell us about the time of
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apprehension, what that was like, what was going through
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your minds? And then they brought you back
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to, to, to, to maximum security prison, apparently.
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Go ahead. Yeah, yeah.
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As you know, Israel was trying to manufacture consent to attack
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us for weeks, calling us terrorists and putting out
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fabricated reports of of of us being terrorists and each
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participant being guilty by association, therefore giving
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them a a right to attack us. Where after the warships came, I
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think realized that there was a lot of global pressure from the
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people, not necessarily from our states.
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Our states only brought the warship because of the pressure
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that people globally put onto them, protecting us and
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demanding a safe passage. We were abducted, you know, in
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kind of almost one by one at sea.
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They came for the big ships first.
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We had been encircled by around 12, uh, military vessels and
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they brought a floating, uh, prison, um, very dystopian and
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bizarre and, uh, water cannons and comes jamming boats.
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So they came with a whole kind of fleet of boats, uh, to umm,
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try to intercept us. Or they of course had, uh, we
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noticed they did not have the capacity, they barely had the
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capacity to intercept us all. So they sure as hell don't have
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the capacity to intercept 100 boats when we go back and break
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the siege next time, uh, which we realise is absolutely
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possible. But yeah, they abducted us, uh,
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illegally in international waters, brought us to the port
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of Ashdod where we saw the Madeline and the Handala, umm,
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put out as trophies of, uh, boats.
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That they stole in previous interceptions and then they
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attempted to humiliate us and and psychologically and
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physically tortured us for the the coming days.
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Yes, and and also so Ben Gavir is a sort of very far right
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extremist, you know, calling for the annihilation of the
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Palestinians, the extermination, ethnic cleansing and so forth.
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So you had a you and your caught your your crewmates had a direct
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kind of confrontation with him or he was trolling you.
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He had all of you from what the reports that we see tied up in a
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yard where he was shouting at you, but you guys and yourself
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as well shouted back. He put the video on social
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media. We'll show this video now and
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it'll give you give give our viewers a kind of a sense of
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what the scene was like and then we'll get your comment on it.
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But let's go ahead and roll this.
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I. I mean, apologies to our viewers
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for having to show you Ben Gavir for over a minute, but we'll,
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we'll hand it back to you. What was that like, Yara?
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I mean, to me, the most outrageous thing about this
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video is that they threw our aid overboard our aid, which was
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widely documented in hundreds of videos, that they threw it
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overboard and that our aid and the baby formula that
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Palestinians desperately need and the medicine, etcetera is
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all floating in the Mediterranean now.
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That's how depraved the Israelis are.
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Him calling us terrorists was all part of a smear campaign
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that was running for weeks and weeks to try to, to attack us
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into, to get to put us in, in Ketsuya prison in the Negev
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desert, a maximum security prison where they hold
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Palestinians, where they torture Palestinians and where they kill
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Palestinians. Just a couple of days ago, a
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Palestinian died in in, in detention, in administrative
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detention. And 10,000 plus Palestinians are
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still being held in administrative detention even
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after the 2000 Palestinians are released in this so-called peace
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deal. And there will still be 8000
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plus Palestinians, 450 of which are children.
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You know, Ben Gavir calling us terrorists came as no surprise
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to us, but it was very cathartic to be able to tell him that
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Israel is committing A genocide and that he's a baby killer.
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Something that startled him quite a bit, because I think it
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must have been one of the first times that he was faced with 500
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humanitarians that are kind of pointing the mirror back at him
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and showing him who the real terrorist and Madre is.
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Yeah, and he edited your your all your comments that shouting
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at he edited out his social media video, which was
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interesting, but he was also trolling you.
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This is the defense minister for Netanyahu came to the prison to
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troll you putting a picture, We'll bring this up on screen of
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of what the what was he called this the future Gaza.
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And he made you guys look at it every day or whenever you pass
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by. It was it was part of the
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psychological warfare they were playing on you.
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Explain that part briefly if you could.
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Yeah, this, this set the new Gaza in Arabic.
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This was a poster of a completely annihilated and
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bombed apocalyptic looking Gaza, which, you know, in the prison
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courtyard, the cells were all next to each other and the
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courtyard was in front of us. So each time you would look out
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the window, you would see this huge poster, below it an Israeli
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flag, and below it a pool of what I can only describe was
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blood. So every single day I woke up
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and I looked out the cell, I could imagine was, my God, what
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have they done to Palestinians here?
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If they treated us in the way that they did as uh, uh, many
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times they, umm, actually threatened to gas us, gas us.
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Umm, we were, uh, and, and when we asked, uh, when we told them
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that they're not allowed to pepper spray us, they said, no,
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not that kind of gas. So they were threatening us.
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They were pointing snipers at us.
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They were keeping essential life saving medications from people
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with cancer, people with heart problems, people with diabetes
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who desperately needed insulin. People were fainting.
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You know, this was happening every single day.
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And instead of helping us, their answer when we asked for medics
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was that they would gas us. Or at another juncture, an
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answer, but by a guard was, is she dead?
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Referring to a friend of mine who had fainted.
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Is she dead? Because if she's not dead, it's
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not an emergency. And I quote her directly.
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So this was aside from the fact that we got no drinkable water,
25:47
we got, we were drinking from from brown water in the bathroom
25:52
because they weren't providing clean drinking water.
25:55
We were getting a couple of slices of stale bread and rice
25:58
that had been left out in the sun all day, which is also quite
26:02
dangerous. Among all of these kind of
26:07
different things that they were doing, they were also directly
26:10
pointing snipers at our heads and keeping us from sleeping by
26:14
coming into our cells every couple of hours and just moving
26:18
you to a different cell at 2:00 AM for no reason whatsoever.
26:22
So these were all techniques that they employed.
26:24
But of course, if they do this with us, imagine how they treat
26:28
Palestinians. And well, here's a just a photo
26:32
of you on your release. This is as you're coming back to
26:35
Spain off of a chartered flight that the Israelis used to deport
26:39
you, took your passports, didn't let you have them until you
26:43
landed back in Europe. So, but it's great to see all of
26:48
you that you're back and that you're OK.
26:50
At least most of the crew that we've seen are in good spirits.
26:54
So again, we're we'd like, we'd like to continue this
26:57
conversation another time, Yara, but we really appreciate you
27:01
sharing your your story with us here on the UK column News Yara
27:05
Mondarelli, thank you so much. Thank you.
27:08
Thanks for having me. OK, brilliant.
27:10
Thank you, Yara. And well, Yara is off now to
27:14
have another interview and hopefully she gets as much
27:19
coverage as possible. Patrick.
27:21
Well, look, let's move on then. And the other news from this
27:25
morning, of course, is that the Nobel committee has announced
27:29
the winner of the Peace Prize. So let's just have a look at,
27:35
let's just have a look at the first clip of this because we've
27:39
got a couple of clips from the announcement.
27:41
But let's just listen to a few seconds of what was said at the
27:43
beginning. The Nobel Peace Prize for 2025
27:52
goes to a brave and committed champion of peace and.
27:59
And Patrick, you know, when I heard that, I just, the first
28:02
name that came to mind was Donald Trump.
28:03
It's gonna be 7 wars, 7 wars. Is it?
28:06
Is it not? Did he win?
28:08
Did he not win? Well, this was posted on the
28:10
official Israeli Prime Minister's Twitter account.
28:13
We'll bring this up here. That's an AI generated image.
28:16
This is on Netanyahu's official X account right here.
28:21
So this is they, they want Donald Trump to win.
28:23
Netanyahu himself recommended or nominated Trump.
28:26
Should Israel be allowed to nominate anybody for the Nobel
28:30
Peace Prize? I mean, it's crazy world we're
28:31
living in here. But we'll see, I guess, what
28:34
we'll find out. Well, let's find out.
28:38
To a woman who keeps the flame of democracy burning amidst a
28:43
growing darkness, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to
28:53
award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 To Maria Corina Machado.
29:03
She is receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work
29:07
promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for
29:13
her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from
29:19
dictatorship to democracy. As the leader of the democratic
29:26
forces in Venezuela, Maria Corina Machado is one of the
29:31
most extraordinary examples of civilian courage in Latin
29:36
America in recent times. Miss Machado has been a key
29:43
unifying figure in a political opposition that was once deeply
29:48
divided, an opposition that found common ground in the
29:54
demand for free election and representative government.
30:01
Well, apparently Trump didn't get it.
30:04
It'll probably complain it's a DEI award, but it's goes deeper
30:09
than that. And we'll show you how deep this
30:11
goes, actually. And so that's the the headlines
30:14
here. Maria Cortina Machado wins the
30:18
Nobel gong. I think we can call it a gong at
30:21
this point because the awards been thoroughly discredited
30:24
there. But they're calling her the
30:25
leader of the democratic forces of Venezuela.
30:27
That's like a military wing, but it's not.
30:30
It's funny you use the term democratic forces.
30:33
This is a hugely politicized award by the Nobel Committee.
30:37
I will argue Mike, this is the most politicized Nobel Peace
30:41
Prize award ever. Well, isn't Venezuela absolutely
30:45
the top of Trump's regime change list?
30:47
They're being attacked right now by the US, and this goes very
30:51
deep indeed. We'll show you a little bit
30:53
about this here. Now, this is what you have to
30:55
realize right now. the United States recognizes the Venezuelan
30:59
opposition leader, Edmundo Gonzalez as the president of the
31:02
country. So this is the new Juan Guaido.
31:05
The Americans just said we, that's our that's the guy that
31:08
we think is president didn't go, he didn't go through, you know,
31:11
any of the due process, wasn't elected to anything.
31:14
But the US didn't like Maduro. So that's it.
31:17
So what's interesting here is Gonzalez, let's take a look at
31:22
this. He has made Maria Cortina
31:28
Machado installed her as as executive vice president.
31:32
So if he steps down, she becomes the US recognized quote
31:36
president even though she's not elected to anything.
31:39
Now, there's been accusations ever since 2005, Mike, that this
31:43
woman is ACIA asset and this is the just type in Maria Quintino
31:50
Machado CIA asset into Google. And you can do your own research
31:54
on this. There's plenty to look at there.
31:57
And I've I thought, is there any legs to this accusation, Mike?
32:00
So I did a little digging as we do on this program and let's
32:05
take a look at that for a minute.
32:06
Well, this is an interesting story from a year ago.
32:09
Venezuela's attorney general to CNNNGO Sumat has no electoral
32:12
authority. What is Sumat?
32:14
Sumat is an NGO that monitors Venezuelan elections and
32:20
controls polling stations. Who funds SUMAT?
32:24
Well, it's none other than the National Endowment for
32:27
Democracy. That is a known CIA cut out
32:30
front. And who is the founder of SUMAT?
32:33
And this might shock you or it might not.
32:36
It is none other than Maria Cortina Machado.
32:41
So the accusations of her being ACIA asset, I'm afraid look very
32:46
credible at this point, Mike. And so you're looking at here a
32:51
massive regime change operation. And I don't know if we have one
32:56
more slide here, but yeah, this is how the media are are
33:00
positioning her. Look at this.
33:01
Who is more, this is Reuters, the opposition leader.
33:04
Here's Brookings Institute, that's the Hudson Institute
33:07
here. Maduro menace a conversation
33:09
with Maria Manchata, there's Brookings there bring bring
33:14
their case to the OAS Organization of American States.
33:16
Rolling Stone will prevail. Opposition leader is not giving
33:20
up. So they're positioning her.
33:22
Clearly this is and this is Marco Rubio and Trump.
33:26
So Trump is backing this Venezuelan and the Trump
33:30
administration backing her for regime change in Venezuela.
33:33
It's clear as day, Mike. Now, why would they be doing
33:37
that, Patrick? Why would they be doing that?
33:39
Is that anything to do with the fact that Venezuela supports
33:43
Palestinian cause? It might be, but probably more
33:46
so because Venezuela has the second largest proven oil
33:49
reserves in the world and mostly most of it's been taken offline
33:53
under the first Trump administration.
33:55
They stole the Venezuelan state oil company SITCO, stole their
33:58
assets, liquidated some of it and gave it to 1 Guido and
34:02
nobody knows what happened with the money.
34:04
We're talking about hundreds of of 1,000,000 billions in fact by
34:07
the end of it. But that it's also a
34:09
geopolitical thing. It's wrestling control.
34:12
And they have more of a hybrid economy in Venezuela, IE state
34:16
directed capitalist socialist hybrid.
34:18
Washington does not like this model at all.
34:21
They want free market privatization, open it up for
34:25
speculation and just vulture capitalism.
34:28
That's and the the Chavez and Maduro are keeping that at Bay.
34:32
This is really what it's about. OK, Thank you, Patrick.
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36:22
OK, Now, Keir Starmer, our illustrious Prime Minister, has
36:27
been in India to meet Prime Minister Modi.
36:31
There they are, they look very happy together.
36:35
He signed a £350 million contract to supply the Indian
36:39
military with UK manufactured lightweight missiles as part of
36:43
a deepening weapons and defence partnership between EU the two
36:46
countries. This is how the UK government
36:48
describes it. They describe it as a new
36:50
milestone reached in in UK, India, Defence industrial
36:54
collaboration. But get this Patrick, they talk
36:58
about a new milestone in defence industrial collaboration on
37:02
electric powered engines for naval ships.
37:05
How does that work if you're sailing, bearing in mind anybody
37:09
that has an electric car and you're trying to trying to drive
37:11
up the M5 or something and you get to Bristol and it's got no
37:14
power anymore and you got to park the thing up for three
37:17
hours to charge it up. What are they going to do with
37:19
these these these naval ships with electric motors?
37:22
Are they going to park them in the middle of the Indian Ocean
37:26
and provide some kind of far back for them to to recharge?
37:29
What are they gonna do? Maybe Elon will have a a network
37:32
of of charging stations in the ocean or they could have
37:36
retractable sails which they could put up or solar panels.
37:40
It'll be a slower journey, of course, taking a major tankers
37:43
with solar panels. But Mike?
37:45
No, we're talking about military Navy ships.
37:47
Navy ships, OK, but I think the best solution is of course the
37:49
most green one is to have diesel generators on the ship so they
37:53
can recharge the batteries, right.
37:55
That's. Anyway, anyways, getting back to
37:58
the missile part of it, this contract is going to, they say
38:02
deliver UK manufactured lightweight multi role missiles
38:06
built in Belfast to the Indian Army.
38:08
And this of course, is all part of the British regime's plan for
38:12
change and the provision of jobs, as you know, jobs.
38:17
Hundreds of new jobs. Hundreds of new jobs linked to
38:19
the deaths of other people. So.
38:21
So that's all good stuff. But in the meantime then,
38:26
somebody else that Starmer met was Nandan Nilikani, which who's
38:32
the very he's effectively responsible for the thorny issue
38:38
of digital ID in India. So Nilikani is part of emphasis.
38:45
Yeah, sorry, emphasis. He's sort of the head of
38:48
emphasis at the moment. And they are behind the roll out
38:50
of digital ID to 1.4 billion Indian citizens or so.
38:54
Now, interestingly, Sam Coats from Sky News asked Starmer
38:59
about this. He said this is during the
39:01
closing press conference. But he said that Starmer was
39:05
quote, infused by a fresh enthusiasm for the plan for
39:09
digital ID because Coats felt that that Starmer's was feeling
39:13
a bit deflated by the response from the British public on the
39:16
issue. But having spoken to the and
39:18
seen the way it operates in India, he's really excited about
39:21
it, which is really a bit unfortunate because really the
39:26
timing of this hasn't gone so well for them.
39:30
This is Discord, and this is Discord's Twitter feed today.
39:33
And actually, there's nothing about what's happened to Discord
39:36
on their Twitter feed. They seem to be just blanking
39:38
the whole thing. They're not acknowledging it
39:40
publicly at all it seems, at least as far as their social
39:43
media is concerned. And why am I mentioning Discord?
39:46
Well, because they have admitted to losing 70,000 government
39:52
issued IDs as a result of a hack.
39:55
Now that number in my opinion is a massive understatement.
39:59
The hackers themselves claim to have stolen data from 5.5
40:03
million unique users. The hack wasn't of Discord
40:06
itself, but it was of the age verification company the the
40:10
company that they had outsourced the age verification situation
40:14
to, which was Zendesk. And, and so the question is
40:18
bearing in mind the Starmer regime is about to consult on
40:21
digital ID for not only adults, for for children aged 13 to 16.
40:26
And of course, as we've been talking about over the last lot
40:29
of months, this is closely related to the age verification
40:31
regime brought in by the Online Safety Act.
40:34
Should the British government not be slightly embarrassed
40:36
about the fact that, you know, an age verification corporation
40:41
has has lost this amount of which just exposes people to
40:46
identity theft? Well, the solution to that,
40:49
Mike, is just make sure that an Israeli company is managing all
40:53
of that data and then there's nothing to worry about because
40:55
they're our best friends. Israel, by the way, Infosys in
40:59
India. Is that the same Infosys that
41:02
Rishi Sunak's family is? I couldn't possibly comment.
41:05
Heavily invested in father-in-law to the tune of
41:08
over half a billion dollars or something like that.
41:10
Is that the same Infosys? It is.
41:12
It is, but it's. So interesting.
41:14
Starmer. Starmer was elected on change.
41:16
And of course, if you're elected on change, you make sure you
41:19
employ the same people that were proposed in the original.
41:24
He's hoping for some spare change from the Infosys mergers,
41:28
and that would be. That would be an allegation, I
41:32
would say. They they wouldn't do that,
41:34
would they? No, they would.
41:35
No, of course not. But anyway, let's move on then.
41:39
You mentioned Israel again, but let's look at what's going on
41:42
militarily there. Well, look at the what?
41:44
What? This new report came out here.
41:45
Look at this. This is from Responsible State
41:47
Crab. He's doing some pretty good work
41:49
lately. This is a Quincy Institute in
41:51
the United States. 20 So they reckon since October 7th, the
41:54
United States has forked out 21.7 billion in military aid to
42:00
fuel Israel's war on Gaza. This is a new report here.
42:03
This is academic level report. And this is the the the gist of
42:08
it here, Mike. Israel could not have wreaked
42:10
the level of destruction it inflicted on Gaza without US
42:14
weapons and financing. And US provided them the ability
42:18
to widen the war to to the broader region that would have
42:22
been severely undermined had they not had US support.
42:24
A very important point here, very important.
42:27
But on this issue of supplying weapons to Israel, some European
42:30
countries are now finding themselves at leaders and
42:34
corporations are finding themselves at the other end of
42:37
the legal tunnel on this issue. And here's one, believe it or
42:41
not, Giorgio Maloney, Italian Prime Minister, she is named in
42:45
an ICC complaint alleging complicity in the Gaza genocide
42:50
here. The details of this are the
42:52
important part. So we want to 1st actually,
42:56
we'll we'll look at the her reaction to this.
42:57
Let's go ahead and roll that clip.
43:05
La France.
43:34
De la Palestina. So.
44:15
So she's clearly in a defensive mode on that.
44:19
So let's go on and look at the what could be behind her denial
44:23
or her response there. And we'll bring this up on
44:25
screen right now. And this is what this is from
44:29
our global affairs editor of 21st Century Wide.
44:32
Despite Maloney's nervous reaction, the move is not
44:36
unexpected given the comparable actions have already been taken
44:39
throughout Europe. In Germany, legal actions have
44:41
been filed with the ICC local courts targeting government
44:45
officials, arms manufacturers for alleged involvement in the
44:49
genocide in Gaza. But here's the important point.
44:51
This is from France. 100 lawyers in France have officially
44:54
requested the ICC to look into France's potential complicity in
44:59
Emmanuel Macron's complicity in the genocide in Gaza.
45:03
This is happening in multiple European countries.
45:06
And just another point to add here.
45:09
And this according to the Stockholm International Peace
45:12
Research Institute. It's a very good think tank, by
45:15
the way. I've cited them before.
45:16
Until, until he was among three nations exported major
45:19
conventional arms. So Maloney's saying we haven't
45:22
sent anything since October 7th, but she's just talking about new
45:25
orders. They kept fulfilling old orders.
45:27
But this is exactly what the British regime did as well.
45:30
They said we're going to stop sending arms to to Gaza, but
45:33
let's ignore all the billions of pounds worth of contracts that
45:36
already exist because they're going to be fulfilled.
45:38
And some of them slip through which you'll at the F35 parts
45:41
from Leonardo in Italy. But back back to this quote here
45:45
in this that that was between 2020 and 2024.
45:48
So the overlap of October 7th, but, but it's noteworthy, the
45:51
United States and Germany accounted for a staggering 99%
45:54
of exports in a broader category of large weaponry.
45:58
So Germany and the United States far and away and then Britain is
46:02
a sort of trailing 3rd place on that in terms of supplying
46:05
weapons to enable this genocide in Gaza.
46:09
So I think the ball is just beginning to roll on this story,
46:13
Mike. And you can see the panic.
46:14
Is this why all the European countries are suddenly
46:17
recognizing A Palestinian state? They.
46:19
Think that's going to stay off potential ICC prosecutions?
46:22
They're trying to create a public relations barrier to
46:24
protect themselves, perhaps. I, I personally, I think it's,
46:27
it's for other things as well to buy to help by time and give the
46:30
impression that there's some kind of peace deal so that the
46:33
Arab countries will back Tony Blair's Gaza Riviera Project,
46:38
Blair and Trump's debacle there in Gaza.
46:40
But anyway, that's a discussion for later.
46:43
OK, let's well what was Lincoln and do that up to?
46:49
Well, I don't know, but I, I didn't supply this, this image,
46:53
but I mean seeing that it's up here, right?
46:56
OK, well, I had to apologize. Is this?
46:58
Is this recent? No, this is not recent.
46:59
This is. This is actually an error, so
47:01
I'm going to apologize for that. Let's let's just.
47:03
It's a horrific picture by the. Way it is, yeah.
47:06
Yeah. OK, Look, I want to just mention
47:09
what's going been going on in the South China Sea and the last
47:12
few days because Exercise Bersama Lima has finished.
47:18
And on the Twitter feed, which is what you should have seen
47:20
there, it said Exercise Bersama Lima has wrapped up.
47:24
Now they said that Bersama Alida 25 is the largest of a series of
47:29
annual exercise exercises delivered by the nations of the
47:32
five Paris Defence agreements arrangements.
47:34
That's the UK, Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand and
47:37
Singapore over 2 weeks, they said.
47:39
The UK joined Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and New
47:42
Zealand for training across sea, air and land.
47:44
And this is a building, sorry. I'm building on this exercise
47:49
that that included military training, but it also included
47:55
sporting and cultural exchange activities aimed at building
47:59
personal connections and enhancing cooperation among the
48:02
five participating nations. So this is a well, let's just
48:07
just let's just put this little bit of video on screen here so
48:11
you can get an idea of what it looked like.
48:12
But it's, it's a pretty pathetic attempt at at Sabre rattling
48:16
towards China and perhaps India as well to a certain degree,
48:21
while at the same time running all these sort of cultural
48:24
exchange things. So.
48:25
So this is effectively more about soft power than it is
48:28
about hard power. Right, Yeah.
48:29
So it's using the military as a type of a soft power.
48:32
And but Mike, I mean, that means that they're going to get
48:35
together and and confront China in the in the sporting arena
48:38
maybe. I mean, they're not messing
48:40
around, are they? No, no.
48:42
So if you can't beat them on the battlefield, you try to beat
48:44
them on the what? The cricket pitch or, I don't
48:47
know, rugby or I don't know, football.
48:51
Who? Knows maybe.
48:52
Pickleball. No Table tennis.
48:55
It could be any of these. Cuz this is they.
48:56
Haven't got a chance against China.
48:58
And table tennis, yeah, cuz I mean, I don't know where they're
49:01
going on that actually the cultural side, like what's
49:03
involved there? What's that about getting
49:06
together, making chapatis like How does that work?
49:10
And dancing. We're sort of we're sort of
49:12
making fun of this thing in a sense.
49:14
It if it wasn't so serious, it's it's, it is a bit of a joke.
49:18
But anyway, look at what else has been going on then.
49:21
So Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper, well, she was in
49:27
Northern Ireland yesterday with what she described as European
49:32
partners don't see her there. Let's does she?
49:35
Oh, there she is. Yeah.
49:37
Anyway, so she was there. This is all about the Western
49:40
Balkans. So they call this the Western
49:42
Balkan Summit, foreign ministers meeting.
49:46
It's all about what they described as the importance of
49:49
building resilience in the Western Balkans to combat the
49:52
constant flood of Russian hybrid threats aimed at destabilizing
49:57
the region and finding ethnic tensions.
50:00
So I got to suggest that perhaps there's a little bit of
50:03
projection on to Russia, what we're doing ourselves as a
50:06
nation. I've been hearing rumours of
50:08
efforts to restart the Balkans conflict for several months now,
50:12
and the British regime has formed on this.
50:14
But before we just discuss the form that the British regime
50:17
has, let's let's look at the little propaganda video that
50:19
they pushed out on it. Nearly 30 years ago, dialogue
50:23
between leaders right here helped shape a peaceful future
50:26
for Northern Ireland. Today, foreign ministers are
50:29
meeting here to discuss preserving peace in the Western
50:31
Balkans. But peace is never permanent.
50:33
It must be protected. Western Balkans face growing
50:36
threats from instability, corruption and criminal gangs,
50:38
and close to 22,000 people transited through their last
50:42
year. Malign actors, including Russia,
50:43
are using cyber attacks and disinformation to stir division
50:46
and weaken democracy. These threats do not respect
50:49
borders. They compromise our shared
50:51
security, economic growth and our values.
50:54
The UK stands ready to support a secure and prosperous future in
50:56
the Western Balkans. From the lessons of Northern
50:59
Ireland, we look ahead together. So that's their pathetic little
51:04
propaganda piece. Now, what they're talking about
51:05
is pumping millions of pounds into the Western Balkans to deal
51:09
with people smuggling and all these kinds of things.
51:11
But of course, we know when, when Foreign Commonwealth Office
51:14
money goes into these countries in this, this acts as a front
51:17
for other activities. But they're talking about law
51:21
enforcement training in Kosovo, stronger border security and as
51:25
I say, people trafficking and so on.
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Look, one clue about what might be going on here that we might
51:31
talk about is whether or not there's any BBC media action
51:34
activity because and, and whether they have had any
51:38
projects running in in this region.
51:40
And indeed they have had projects running in Serbia, N
51:43
Macedonia, Bosnia and Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro, Croatia and
51:47
Slovenia. And we've got to remember the
51:49
role in Syria just to bring Juliet Harkin, formerly of BBC
51:53
Media Action, back on screen, because this is sort of the form
51:55
that the British Foreign Office has.
51:57
We, BBC Media Action, worked in 2004 with individuals within the
52:01
Syrian ministry who wanted change and tried to get them to
52:03
be the drivers of that. This organization, just one of
52:07
the front organisations that goes into countries as an NGO,
52:11
ostensibly in this case for, for journalism training and so on,
52:17
but they then use people to create narratives that help
52:20
destabilise and, and and so on. So I, I absolutely question what
52:27
Britain is doing here. Any suggestion that this is
52:29
about countering Russian hybrid threats is just nonsensical.
52:33
This is we are there attempting to destabilise that region as
52:38
another front against Russia, in my opinion.
52:40
I mean that that propaganda video you showed the beginning
52:43
is a is a masterpiece with the the classical score.
52:46
And then they're saying peace is never permanent.
52:49
Peace is never permanent. Let's think about the Balkans
52:51
for a minute. How did the breakup of
52:53
Yugoslavia occur? Did that just happen organically
52:57
or did that have anything to do with the EU and NATO forcibly
53:00
breaking up that country, including 75 days of bombing by
53:05
AUS LED and British LED NATO military campaign to this day.
53:10
This scars run deep. And and you know, we're over 20
53:14
years from that that conflict, Mike.
53:15
So I mean, Western Europe is the reason why there was conflict in
53:20
the Balkans. It didn't exist before, but that
53:22
was a major geopolitical piece that the Americans wanted to
53:25
break up because they're thought they're on a roll because they
53:28
just broke up the Soviet Union. That's how history should write
53:31
it. But yet we have all this
53:33
propaganda that's being shoved down our throats here to prepare
53:36
us for what? To accept another war on
53:40
European soil and to mobilize? No, we need to the Russians.
53:45
Conscription. Yes.
53:47
Mark, thank you for your patience.
53:48
Let's welcome you to the program at last.
53:51
What's what's been going on in the United States on the health
53:54
front? Well, you might recall,
53:58
gentlemen, good day guys, that last week I reported on the
54:01
basic thrust of Make America Healthy Again, Make our Children
54:05
Healthy Again through RFK's HHS. And no sooner had that come out
54:11
then, and we'll show this slide from the Wapo, a democracy dies
54:15
in darkness, says the Washington Post.
54:17
I think they create some of that darkness.
54:19
At any rate, right away, 6 surgeons general shot back.
54:23
It's our duty to warn the nation about RFK Junior.
54:28
So they're not just talking about his policies.
54:30
They just don't like RFK himself.
54:32
Now, let's name those six surgeons General really quickly.
54:36
They're on this next slide. Jerome Adams, who was under
54:39
Trump previously, Richard Carmona, Jocelyn Elders under
54:45
Vivek Murphy under Biden, Antonia Novello under George HW
54:51
Bush and David Satcher who also served under Bill Clinton.
54:55
Those are the six surgeons general that are shooting back
54:58
at Maha and whatnot. At any rate, let's go on from
55:02
there and take note that the the the basic claims here we are of
55:11
the former surgeons general. This is the the overall thrust
55:14
of what they're saying. I've really boiled it down a
55:16
lot. They're saying, quote, Kennedy
55:19
has spent decades, and I put emphasis here, advancing
55:22
dangerous and discredited claims about vaccines, most notoriously
55:26
the thoroughly discredited theory the childhood vaccines
55:30
cause autism. Actually there is evidence that
55:33
autism is caused by vaccines. Some some vaccines.
55:36
He has promoted misinformation about PV vaccine, which protects
55:41
against cervical cancer, and he has repeatedly misrepresented,
55:44
they say, the risk of mRNA technology and coronavirus
55:49
vaccines despite their life saving impact during the
55:53
pandemic. Life saving impact?
55:55
Really. Talk about an only one sided
55:59
rebuttal against Kennedy. My goodness anyway.
56:02
And of course, Kennedy's former outfit Children's Health Defense
56:06
then shot back again back at the surgeons general, saying the ex
56:10
surgeons general's latest to join RFK.
56:14
They're the latest to join the RFK junior smear campaign In a
56:18
statement provided to the defender.
56:20
That's the topless offense of publication Andrew Nixon.
56:23
Nixon, excuse me, the communications director for the
56:26
HHS accused former surgeons general of contributing to the
56:32
three public the penalty is now attempting to address.
56:37
So basically children tell the fans and saying the problem of
56:42
Kennedy of are pretty much caused by the likes of Kennedy's
56:46
critics in this case. Yeah, I think so.
56:51
Yeah. Are you there, Mark?
56:55
Is that? Yeah, sorry, sorry Mark, your,
56:58
your audio is absolutely broken and we actually can't hear you
57:03
very well at the moment. So that is unfortunate is.
57:06
He Is he still there? Are you still there?
57:10
Are you hearing me? Yeah, we are now.
57:11
Yeah, we've got you back. OK, let me let me just get that
57:15
Andrew Nixon quote and I'll try and finish in a slightly
57:18
abbreviated fashion. OK.
57:21
Anyway, Andrew Nixon, the HHS communications director, had
57:26
this to say. The same officials who presided
57:29
over the decline in America's public health are now
57:31
criticizing the first HHS secretary to confront these
57:35
problems head on. We remain committed, he says, to
57:38
restoring trust, reforming broken health systems, and
57:41
ensuring real healthcare choices.
57:44
And the rest of the slides they show the other here's an
57:50
important one. When when this came out very
57:52
recently and I reported most recently at last week the make
57:56
America healthy again make again one of the centerpieces of the
58:00
overall report and it shows the report there is ending the
58:04
corporate capture of public health.
58:07
And of course the the Kennedy HHS covers much more than
58:13
vaccines. One of the things about the
58:15
surgeons general and their their critique is they're talking
58:19
pretty much as if Kennedy his objections to a full blown
58:24
acceptance of vaccines is the only problem.
58:26
So as I put on this slide, RFK's plan about is more than vaccines
58:30
and pharmaceutical. It's about updating dietary
58:34
guidelines, reforming SNAP or food stamps to get to get sweets
58:38
out of the out of the cycle, out of the out of the game there
58:42
with with food stamps so there's less sweets and less junk food.
58:46
Radical transparency. Other examples of what he's been
58:51
doing, removing petroleum based food dyes or overhauling the
58:56
grass standard, restoring trust and vaccine safety,
58:59
investigating the cause of autism.
59:02
So Kennedy is an absolutely conclusive that vaccines are the
59:06
only cause of autism, but he has maintained their one of them and
59:10
so it's much broader than the surgeons general.
59:13
What would have you believe much just saying that RFK, aside from
59:18
a few points, is just a vaccine conspiracy and trying to make
59:22
that a stick. However, there's a twist in this
59:25
whole thing and the defender, of course, recently I showed this
59:30
slide. This is just a reminder there
59:32
was secrecy. Even Kennedy's own defender is
59:35
saying there's secrecy over the Trump Pfizer deal, sparking a
59:39
Freedom of Information Act inquiry.
59:41
I mentioned that last week. This is just for that.
59:44
Here's where it takes a turn as we move on RFK's face.
59:49
This is RFK's reaction. September 30th when Albert
59:54
Borla, the CEO of Pfizer, was in the White House cementing this
59:58
new deal where Pfizer would get, as it states here, no tariffs
1:00:05
for no tariffs on Pfizer for three years.
1:00:08
Pfizer, in return, will boost its domestic manufacturing to
1:00:11
the tune of 70 billion. Making its drugs more available
1:00:15
to Medicaid at a discounted rate.
1:00:16
Things like that and Albert Borla was in the White House to
1:00:20
cement that deal with RFK junior at the time.
1:00:23
And this sub stack post that I'm that I'm showing here as as the
1:00:29
small NF KS reaction as Trump odds and and pours out the
1:00:36
praise on Albert Borla and five chose RFK's reaction if it's
1:00:43
available. OK.
1:00:45
Yeah. OK.
1:00:47
Thank you for that. Mark, Unfortunately, your
1:00:50
connection today was not very stable, but we got enough of
1:00:54
that to understand what's going on.
1:00:55
You got any brief thoughts on it?
1:00:57
No, I think I probably would like to comment on the whole
1:01:00
Tylenol thing because that's an interesting story there.
1:01:04
There is some there's a method behind the scenes there.
1:01:07
And I think Bing Pharma is, is, is indirectly going to end up
1:01:11
benefiting from a lot of these things.
1:01:14
So I mean, I'm, I'm very skeptical when it comes to big
1:01:16
pharma because I know the lobbying, the lobbying power is
1:01:19
just immense in Washington. And I know Trump's very chummy
1:01:23
with the, the, the top echelon of the Pharmaceutical industry.
1:01:27
Of course that's how they a fast tracked operation warp speed and
1:01:32
he was groveling and fetting over them during his first term.
1:01:36
But that's that's history. We can talk more about that.
1:01:40
An extra I'm sure we will and lots to talk about an extras a
1:01:43
day. So if you are AUK column member,
1:01:45
please join us for that in a few minutes on the live stream.
1:01:50
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1:01:52
producing the programme for the first time today.
1:01:55
And so well done and we'll see how we go next week.
1:02:00
Thank you for that and thanks for joining us everyone.
1:02:02
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1:02:03
Otherwise, have a great weekend and we'll see you on Monday as
1:02:05
usual at 1:00 PM Bye bye.