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tv   A Window To Palestine Israel weaponising hunger  PRESSTV  April 1, 2024 2:02pm-2:31pm IRST

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the wall is too close, one meter from the field, mean it's too close that if the ball is thrown out of the stadium, it hits the wall, do you understand what i'm saying? terrible, terrible, and it surprises me because palestinians have obstacles every day like the one you describe, i'm surprised by the joy of the palestinian people, the occupation, the israeli z crime has not won the joy of the palestinian people, you must have experienced the same thing i saw in all the places i visited, the hogs, the cough, well it's resilience, we need to remember. i always mentioned this points in all my programs. palestine is a land whose people have had to resist throughout more than 700 years of history. invasion after invasion only having 127 years of peace in its entire history. therefore it is imaginable. that the
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palestinians who were there before the first invaders arrived, who will surely be there after the last ones leave, or used to it. in these successive blows of life, others who are not from this land argue that the control and possession of this territory is so important for the history of humanity. the palestinian nation has learned to live, to reproduce their existence and to deliver the fruit of their work to the rest of humanity under those conditions. the last time you lived in palestine was 2015 when this... process of increasing pressure on gaza it already begun and the objective was to user gaza at some point and make palestinian people disappear from there. did you have the opportunity to visit gaza? gaza? i arrived at the gate of gaza. i had traveled there with my nephew. it was a brutal experience. at that time my nephew was 20 years old and he had to honor go three to four hours of.
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interrogation, i walked around, looked at him, he was locked in a table and they kept asking him questions, we rented an israel car, arrived at the gate of gaza, there was an old man at the gate, it was like gate, told them, i come from chile, how can not know gaza, understand me, at least i want to be able to say that i have visited gaza, i said, open the door for me, and let my head inside, took look and left, believe me, daniel, he aimed at me with his gun, he said, he wanted to make sure i do not enter gaza. what language did you communicate in in spanish? why? where did they come from? it is interesting that those who were born in argentina, their parents were born in argentina, their grandparents were born in argentina, their great great grandparents were born in argentina. than me while my
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father comes from palestine, in fact i deserve to be there a thousand times more. what strikes me so many times dear daniel is that how the only country created by the united nations, the only country in the world created by the united nations is the one that is most often violated the international law, these days you have talked with javier with your son, what does it tell you about the current situation? it was very difficult lately tremendous.
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but i also understand that almost 80% of the jobs in palestine disappeared due to everything that this conflict has meant, not only for palestine but for the entire world, pero si además daniel, tú que el mayor empleador en palestina del estado. the largest employer in palestine is the state. if there are no jobs in palestine, how can the largest employer, the state support its people, the state of palestine has to provide jobs for the people. i remember that my son. 'who is also very fun of soccer told me that the only possibility for me to return to chile is if they offer me a position in the palestino sutter club, that's because he has strong feelings for palestine, and they did, they offered him, they called him once and offered him to be the general manager palestino, and he said no, he said no, i know him and the commitment he has towards not only palestine, but also the right of return,
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this right is a universal, inalinable right, and many have forgotten that it is part of what is being discussed today in this genocide, that's because what israel intends to do is to displace 2 million people who have already been proposed territory other than the original one where they used to live millones de person everyone has said the same thing with peace of mind they simply say and the international community has said nothing under these conditions thought about returning either. he's palestinian today, he's there because he wants to make his homeland in palestine, and he is happy in palestine, despite the current conditions and the atrocities, this nation acts quite contrary to those who are escaping to their
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countries of origin today, because they feel insecure in a regime that had promised them security and peace. well, i thank you very muchzar for this conversation, it has been very constructive. fishing has become an impossible activity. "we are only allowed to fish within a space of six nautical miles in the western area. we risk our lives to work because israel's naval ships attack us. even when we are within the fishing zones, they monitor us with a special screes. we could be shot, kidnapped or injured within five minutes and we can be arrested for up to three or five years. as
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you can see, there is not a single person in the fishing port. we have just watched two videos, one. very topical with the israeli war minister talking about a strategy to annihilate the palestinian people in gaza through total blockade, we're cutting off water, electricity, preventing any economic activity and any entry of humanitarian aid becomes a tool for the objective of exterminating the palestinian people, with the excuse of confronting an alleged armed faction of the palestinian resistance. the other video is a video from 2015 of fisherman who at that time was already denouncing the... blockade and the entire policy of preventing economic activity in the territory of gaza in such a way as to deepen the force dependence of the palestinian economy on the israeli economy, which was effectively ratified by a report from the united nations conference on development and trade in 2020,
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analyzing a period of 11 years. it came to determine that the blockade of israel similar to what happens with cuba, which is a collective punishment, which is an illegal action in every... possible way, one can understand why only when the blockade of cuba is voted in the united nations, the united states and israel are the only countries that support it, and it is for a fundamental reason, it is a tool that they are using in gaza simply to do the same thing they do with cuba, with the palestinian people. how does it work? stifle the economy, prevent the emergence of the historical activities of the palestian territory, which are agriculture, livestock, fishing, and also small-scale manufacturing, small weaving industries and others, which have been disappearing with a strategy that starts from preventing this country of raw materials, preventing exports, but also separating the palestinians from the territories that are completely isolated and impossible to connect with each other, in such a way that the scales of production are
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incompatible with the scale of trade that they themselves possess. according to the united nations, already in 2020, 80% of the palestinian population depended directly or... directly on foreign aid, humanitarian aid and unemployment had risen to close to 30% in all of palestine and in the case of gaza, it was close to 50% with much higher levels in the segment of young people and women. what is the objective of this? not only force displacement, but also the creation of a manipulated market, cheap labor for the israeli economy, which is the main economy where palestinians who do not have opportunities to develop activities in their own territory have to... to work for paying and receiving poverty wages, hunger wages, really, the israely minister of tourism declared few weeks ago that the palestinians had three possibilities, either to all leave palestine or to stay and work as slaves or to be exterminated, nothing more eloquence and
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by confession, a relief of evidence. now let's go to the questions from the audience, i don't know if any of you want to ask, we have space for and i have been listening very carefully to the program, to everything it tells us, and i wanted to ask you about something that you already mentioned about the palestinian economy, how it is structured, what its branches are, also if there are linked economic institutions to the palestian estate, if there are banks, etc. and i wanted to ask you how all of this has been affected following what happened in the october of last year and ultimately how the palestinian population both in gaza and the west bank is...
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being here with us, indeed today we are welcome to the program too, thank you for perhaps experiencing the last step, that is, the last chapter, the last link of a policy of economic extermination that has been going on for decades, in fact the palestinian economy has no right to have currency, it does not have the right to have its own currency, which is already an absolute limit, because it can only operate directly with checks, which is the israeli economy, which generates dependence on the entire monetary policy of the occupying power, or in jordanian money, which also has difficulties circulating. until very recently there was no palestinian banking, there were some arab banks with israeli permission to operate in the occupied territories, but today a palestinian bank has began. to emerge, but absolutely incipient, which still fails to respond even to the credit needs let alone
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with the leverage needs of the industry or small palestinian commerce. in addition, there are other obstacles such as the fact that all tax collection is done by the occupying power, and the occupying power withholds the money from the palestinians, when it wants and how much it wants, sometimes even affecting the money that has to reach the palestinian local government, which are those directly involved in solving the direct most... pressing and daily problems of palestinian population. they also limit access to those resources, including humanitarian aid to the central government, to the palestinian national authority. there is a permanent and systematic weakening that has been destroying everything for palestinians. with honorable exceptions, there are some cities that still manage to survive, for example, from tourism, as is the case of the bethlehem conerbation due to the great tourism activity, especially christian, that comes. to the area throughout the year, and especially in situations like easter or christmas and other holidays, there's a niche
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that allows subsistence, but absolutely control. a clear example, uh, tour guides have to have permission to operate from israel, and palestinian tour guides do not have permission to enter israel, and therefore anyone who arrives and departs a tourist trip from israel, the israeli tour guide is the one who takes it to all of palestine, not being able to do the same the other way. around there is an indirect control and attempt for absolute subordination of the palestinian economy with these two objectives. there is also attempt to help usurpers finance the regime. this policy in fact reduces the possibility of the israelis losing this captive market of slaves who work for almost nothing forced by illegal military occupation militar ilegal. hello daniel. i'm lorena bassman, i want to ask a question: is there any direct relationship
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between extreme poverty in palestine and the wealthy classes in israel? efectivamente, como todo el mundo, indeed there is, like everything else, if there were no poverty, there could be no wealth, wealth is generated by paying workers less than what their work is worth, and in some conditions, such as in the case of domestic care work, never paying the value of a work that is done every day and that sustains the entire society. in the case of occupied palestine, there is the captive markets with low-priced slaves that allow israel to have a competitive industry. this market receives more than $3.8 billion dollars annually from israeli military aid, but it is aid that, being military activates the entire economy, and therefore we have an israeli industry that is capable of working with much higher profits.
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in the recent video, not all of it is bad news, the absolute complicity and financing that the united states and europe give to israel to commit this brutal genocide or beginning to be opposed by the people of the world who are rising up in all latitude to represent not only their discomfort, but also their indignation over this genocide and make an urgent call for sease fire and to stop this monstrosity of the international community called israel. along with this, numerous union organizations from around the world begin to rise in various ports around the world to prevent 90% of the imports that israel receives, which are by sea even
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managing to stop the import of weapons during this crisis. notable examples are yemen, which has decided its own risk to prevent the passage of all israeli flagged ships or companies that trade with israel and bring supplies to israel until the blockade of gaza is lifted. 30% of the ships that arrive in israel of this 90% of imports passed through the red sea, and today they are adding incredible amount, not only of additional days to the journey, but also a cost that is undermining not only the israeli economy, but the economy of all the countries involved. parallel, to this, malaysia has also taken measures to boycott israel, the boycott, divest and sanction movement is making a global call not to consume products from companies that directly or indirectly finance this genocide through their businesses, here we have an image of the companies that are involved, some notable ones are missing such
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as starbucks coffee, and therefore we are making a call to the world because we have a fresh image. قل متاع الدنيا قليل والاخره خير لمن اتقى ولا تظلمون فتينا صدق الله العلي العظيم.
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this week on expose, benjamin netanyahu vows
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to reject any calls to halt the rafah invasion as he and joe biden intensify their staged public spat over zionist israel's genocide in gaza. now following the statement made by former president donald trump that there would be a blood bath if he is not elected in november, left his politicians and media person. realalities completely lose it on social media, and lastly, a recent politico ipso survey reveals that 50% of americans think trump is guilty and ought to be tried before the 2024 presidential election. stay tuned for expose. the truth is just the revelation away. in today's show we'll be covering the growing popularity of cudsday and the frantic efforts of zinist extremists to undermine and
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sabotage it. well, it tells you that they uh intend to intimidate, booly and harass any organization that gets in their way and they intend to be able to occupy those organizations, so that's been saying. these were organizations which did it off their own, but the designers didn't even have to lift finger in some some... cases because the organizations took each other to court, they contacted every uh non-brown named person individual um back in 2017 saying you work for an antiisemite, how do you feel about it, but they didn't contact anyone with a brown sounding name, which shows uh where they're coming from really, but yeah it really does take it out of you, but thanks to friends, thanks to support thanks to people like yourselves who've gone through what you guys have gone through, you know and that energy helps.
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first of the headlines this hour, iran and hamas call for an international investigation, as scores of bodies are found in gaza's alzhe hospital after the israely militaries withdraw from the facility. israely forces killed a palestinian man over a stabbing attack that left three settlers seriously injured in the... part of the occupied territories, also on the headlines, the islamic resistance in iraq says it has carried out fresh attacks on israely targets in the port city of ilat, response to the regime's ongoing genocide in gaza.