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hello that i am. james pays the desk told in the gauze of war, continues to rise as israel pounds, palestinians with its intensive bombing of densely populated areas. since israel was founded in 1948, the united states has been its stories that lie sentiments expressed by the us president of to home ass gunk, been killed. hundreds of israelis on saturday by commitment visual security. the safety of the 2 is people is unshakable. united states has israel's back and we're going to be working on this all through the day and beyond. the u. k. is another of israel, strongest, political and military back isn't his place to continue with. it's intelligence and security support. we already have a very long standing relationship with israel, with one of the strongest allies we've provided in the past, the top kinds of equipment that they've used to defend themselves over the past couple of days. and as i said to the prime minister, we will continue to provide whether that's diplomatic intelligence, social security, support, as they need shortly off to sensitize attack you commission president,

us up on the line was quick to support israel and a tweak she said i spoke to my friend president isaac hood scroll and conveyed to him my full support to israel in the face of today's terrorist attack by him ass reset wreath, right? the israel has the right to self defense. the humans, the victims of the sense this attacks and stands by israel today. and in the next week the u. s. and the u haul, so provided financial and humanitarian support, the palestinians, but that's coming under pressure and increased course. nice since the events last, we tend to, by the ministrations provided about half a $1000000000.00 and funding since most was frozen by the previous president. donald trump was off to the attack by how mass, your pain commissioner declared bowden. $700000000.00 worth of a to publish thing is will be caught. but the e. u has since clarified, but funding will continue for now. so that last spring, you know, a puddle of gas to discuss it, old and go ha,

i've deal out already on the associated professor of history at georgetown university in castle. he's a specialist on us middle east policy in rome. is maria luisa on top of your head of middle east and africa program for the a tally and think times institute to a faulty international holler. and in dublin is richard boyd barrett, a member of the irish pub in the parliament, with the people before profit policy, a warm welcome to you, o. like i would like to start with you. i feel if i can, right to the beginning of the basics, perhaps no surprise the tool israel is still actually being backed by the us to. yeah, i mean, as you say, there is no surprise really in this policy, this is something that has been part and parcel of us foreign policy in this region for quite some time. but i would like to focus on weight. maybe what some of the differences are, i think what we're seeing really over the course of the past decade or so has been a complete abandonment, even of any pretense of becoming a so called honest broker. we know that us never effectively managed to offer you

know, with the palestinians, of course being, you know, complete leads, you know, denied their own liberation, their own state. there was a thoughts in the 1990s that the united states could sponsor a process that the so called oslo accords as a means of providing them with state hood. but from the very beginning, i mean really going back to the mid ninety's, it was very clear that israel had no intention of actually delivering on this 2 state solution. and instead you use that opportunity of pass if any, from the palestinian side to double and triple the number of settlements and sort expansion across all of the palestinian territories. and then of course, later on, once we get into the mid, early to mid to thousands, we see this blockade of guys are beginning. and the kind of in circle meant in besiege meant of what is now over 2000000 people population. and so i think what's really distinct about the last decade in particular, you know, going back maybe to the late obama period. so then of course, under donald trump,

who everyone saw as being a kind of very exceptional president, as, as one who sort of says out loud, what most us policymakers would never dare to speak is that he cared nothing whatsoever for the plight or palestinians. he completely circumvented and bypassed any demands and kept them basically in the exact same situation that they continued to be in. and instead, focused on this idea of normalization between is real and a number of arab states, all of whom, of course, found mutual benefits. and that arrangement under a kind of us regional security umbrella. and along with that, of course, all of the major economic benefits. and so in the meantime, the palestinian question was no longer even on the back burner. assembly didn't exist. there has been no discussion whatsoever. and then we get to the vine in administration, and they simply inherited the trunk foreign policy to the middle east. we've seen no distinction between what trump was doing. you know, the by that administration endorsed the move of the us embassy to jerusalem, which was an incredibly volatile move. and i've been a very daring moving away in terms of upsetting what had been seen at that point as

be something over no go because of the fact that jerusalem continues to be considered occupied territory by the us and by international law. and then of course we see this push to double down on the normalization agreements between israel and now the saudi arabia, which is kind of the big fish and all of this. so i think there is something to be said about the fact that us policy has gotten even more staunchly, you know, and oppositions have any notion that there should be anything of a settlement for on palestinians who continued to be stainless and, and very much on stock in this kind of apartheid situation, maria, let me just ask you, you could say what we're seeing on our screens is what we've seen play out many times before in garza. but there are big differences to the scale of these. randy casualty is the largest loss of life and an attack in the country's history, the tactics that we used by him, us. and also how important do you think is the fact that this time there are

captives inside guns? no, definitely. i mean this is uh something uh that is uh, quite to um, president and then the uh into so like the level of the infiltration suite in like the, these rated territory. and i think the assistant expands uh its, uh, its been something that's a camel. so as a shock to the western and european public opinion, and this is why also there has been such a sort of skipped. the frantic responses also from the human institutions was served an extended because the level of the violence of being so shocking at the public that then this has created a very emotional response to assertive distance and expand and long. um, definitely uh the new uh as being the whole was uh like supporting the idea of the

state solution by seeing that the problem has been that the 1st, the 1st responses were actually much more inclined towards showing it. so they directed towards either ends, which is normal, but however, i think that it has been in his management team. the communication also because of this has created some confusion on what actually on where they use best to be that view of this conflict. so a lot of emotions the and the little attention, i think for the what as being the strategy towards this concept for, for many of them so that you approach a new responses in the early days of this conflict. richard, you are also in a b u capital like maria. i wanna come back to the you. if i may, does that in motion the maria talks about? does that explain the fact that the, the white house statements seem to lack any of the usual cause cools for proportionate response? so exercise of restraint. yes,

i think that is the case and at i mean, jake, for example, are minister of foreign affairs yesterday where he was being interviewed as i was on the radio. and he felt able to say this. israel was acting in self defense as a, when he was questioned about is rails traps to back star does that. and all of his population of, or of energy of food. he could use terminology like self defense. and obviously i, you know, i challenge that very, very strongly and sad disaster. it is, was not self defense and the trash to collectively punish 2200000 people to a, you know,

bombard with mass of artillery strikes. and the most densely populated residential area in the world, world war crimes. and if they, if you, like, we did, those you were speaking on behalf of palestinians were being post on the defensive . and so i think there's in the united states, israel bailey, those items to be able to act with granger impunity that they might on the wise at feel. and that we're seeing that as you know, with the extraordinary explosives and brazen traps by israel to come, is on. and indeed they started to commit is more crimes. and in front of the eyes of the world and say explicitly that what they're going to do, which is by any definition is a war crime that they're just going to do it any way in the united states stands firmly behind them. and many, if not,

most of the european union leaders equally sort of giving legit, tennessee giovanni's riley's doing so. it's really a shocking when of course, the truth of the matter is that's what happens. and it's, you know, the, the loss of life is terrible and everybody is, is appalled by this escalation of violence. but certainly, i think, i feel that many people would feel none of what happened to get caught up. happen were not for a 17 year long sage on guys that the extraordinary sort of escalation of the war and the palestinians by d as riley, as is particularly vicious, is right, the government, and as in yahoo smock origin. but it gave her a body's bodies. the real context is the, is the ongoing crimes against your miles. you've been committed against the public stadiums, or there is no damage that that is around sales and bones at the moment as do it's major backers. so richard has just laid out the narrative as he sees it in the

context of the low. but just tell us a bit about how this is seen in the us because you study the us and it's policy towards the middle east. i mean, i watch us media as well. in fact i, i, i live most of the time in new york, although i'm currently in though 22 us citizens killed. 17 missing and may be held prisoner. do you think the prison, the cost of it and the would hostage is the one that's being used in the us media? do you think that perhaps explain some of the reporting and then some of the actions by the administration? well, certainly i think, you know, part of it is the media coverage. i think there's a narrative that immediately takes hold. the moment events like this, you know, happened. and that narrative tends to be in a kind of a very one dimensional way. it will pay $1.00 side as an aggressor paint one side is victim, and then erase all history, all context, all even recent events as if you know,

everything just sort of occurs in this bubble in this vacuum on the day of, of, you know, these, these horrific events, and so i think somebody else 2 of the apartment with what can i ask you to the historical context of, of hostage crisis. i'm going a long way back to 1979, but in fact, you know, president biden was one of the closest supporters a president call to do you think that historical echo may perhaps explain why why the occupants of the west wing is pursuing the policy is i don't know that that that would necessarily be the connection. i mean, i think in general there's been seen as just massive support for israel in particular because let's not forget, there are palestinian americans that are constantly being victimized that are concept being oppressed that are being killed by israel, right? we, we know the case of your colleagues should be in a box that was a palace city, an american journalist. and if you look at all of the attends by the family to go and seek any kind of investigation on the part of the us into her killing by israel

last year. there was almost no response, right? them us, secretary of state was not flying to israel. it to have conversations about the safety and return of is rarely americans could never do the same for palestinian americans. i think that's a, it's, there's a fair question there. as far as why is this always been the case? why is there a double standard wire, some american citizen lives, you know, worth less than others? i think this is, this is certainly something that comes out of a much deeper affinity that the us has always had with the state of israel irrespective of its actions. irrespective of, as we see there is an our growing international consensus about the fact that there's an apartheid system that's in place about the fact that we see in violence of this scale on multiple other occasions. although now certainly it's been ramped up even further, and it's been in large part because of us offering a kind of a green light that we've never really seen up to this point. and even in terms of the, the violence that we're seeing, it's not just and guys of even going into the west bank with some of the shooting

sprays that we're hearing about in terms of, of, you know, palestinians for essentially escaping some of these kinds of revenge. attacks that we see. so i think that there's a, there's a bigger, deeper context here that seems to be ignored. we don't care about most of this in the us media and public opinion and sympathies have certainly aligned in a very particular kind of way that is very much in keeping with the longer standing narrative, the diesel monetization of palestinians. the idea that you can have officials both in the us and an israel make, you know, an incredibly deep human as in racist genocidal remarks. and it goes completely on by and responded to right. or the media does not make any kind of an attempt to challenge any of those narratives. what let me bring that up with richard. i'm in some of the things you probably heard from across the atlantic power. those with 911 senator lindsey graham, we're in a religious war on a, on a public drastically stand with israel, a news conference in recent. how's the us secretary state and these really prime

minister saying how mouse is the same as the actual? oh i so whatever you call it, what do you make people of is that sort of language? yeah, well i, i, i, i think i feel is absolutely right. i mean, i think public opinion over the last number of years has increasingly become aware of the the a part dies nature of d as riley regime. all the, it's, it's, you know, ongoing campaigns of ethnic cleansing. it's dysfunctional and sort of a abnormal territory has been highlighted by the amnesty international reports on human rights watch reports and other reports i've added the apartheid nature of that stage. and so on. the one that is right has been de legitimized in the minds of millions of people, but now uh israel and his bikers feel they have an opportunity to push back against

all of that. and again, is dollars said it's like they start the clock of the story. what happened over the weekend as if there is no other context. and they rely on, you know, the lack of knowledge or information or awareness of the background and history to all of this uh, all of significant sections of the public in the united states and in europe to kind of it mean, you know, a normal about history so we'd all just stars and not the weekends. now i think, you know, we own. oh, that's not true. and if i got, yeah, i will give credit to the irish president, mary robinson, the former irish president. and she was being interviewed on the radio. just about an hour ago i was listening to her and she was managing the point does a during the summer she warned that if the siege of guys that was lifted, if the n g o z, a israel was joining in terms of the ethnic crimes and the legal settlements,

the ongoing, a brutal lock your patients if these matters were not going to be addressed by the international community that she feared. and this was during the summer that we were phasing into a terrifying escalation of items, an uncontrollable, i think, escalation of bylaws and she was out. so the, the rice and that is the context. but of course, is around the united states that rockers in europe want to pretend that there was no history to all of this. and it all began with the events of the weekends and they are trying to use that then to justify. i need a more savage, a escalation of the war on guys and on the palestinian generally there, i'd like to put to the point that i made the wrong. this is a complete indictment of the bite and strategy on the is riley palestinian conflict, which seems to be nosy, set the continuation of the trump strategy. and it basically wants to ignore the

policies to go around the palestinians. try and get an economic piece with arab countries. what's your view of how that strategy has played out? i think that they've been laid out in a tragic uh way in the sense that the, despite the definitely the causes of his com fee that is locked in his own going from 7 and the kids. however, there is, there is no conflicts the in reach this of thought to please. and there is a lot of conflicts that is one of which for several weeks and for several months is that is being in our most pressure exits is by the by washington. no, on the on so the read yeah. and uh on the golf. engender though, so they've been particular to obviously the go ahead with this minimization view. so um which is between southern india and israel. so is this more money additions deal um, which include them,

have been that again. so they've read the rescinding it since in the amount of nearly 3 uh, uh, military uh, infrastructure. if this deal was, doesn't happen. obviously the problem as being an issue with the being uh, i think go boost raisins completely from the, from the, from the discussion because as a, despite the solid, these a wishes or uh, statements that they wanted to deliver something on this. the, it seems to me that the action that i, there was no one doing that. um, there was no action wishes from anything. now government to activity, they either anything on this. so these red is obviously were convinced that the sellers could be okay. just with the, with the ministry deal that watches out of ministration, probably sold at the same. and that obviously has to be the push back investigated . it pushed back to, i believe not on the uh from uh, local, move them into like home office, but also i think from many of the originals,

they used to cool, did not want to disclose to disappear from the deeds. so i think that them on the back of a mouse in some way we that brings back the police being in the show at the very center of the region on if you need be on the mom and didn't reach it, risk has to be towards any um they need to do, but it is important to say that's a part of this, a tragic advantage. also. i think the in director and even the direct results of, of us trusted you. which really for the hands of the some of my vision and didn't understand that, you know, there's too long the to achieve them. their money is additional. you need the time you need to con session. but they didn't have time because there was a business election and they didn't want to make a session or they didn't want to pressure these right in the government to make our session. it seems. and so the result has been the whole his, the push back. so i think that the somehow,

if you compare this approach to with the, what we have seen over the past moms, the chinese approach, which has been that sort of trying to actually get the brew uh break broke a deal between the original drivers. but just so that even your on it will most comes to the point of saying that the chinese strategy has been a so far may be more successful. so i think that the ged that is the loss of rethinking, of, uh, how washington moves uh, when it comes to uh, to minimize ition. i think the normalization could be possible. but now with the some steps for the on the policy number, he sure which is substantial support. abdullah, we see secretary blinking in the region. now he's not looking at the big picture. he's showing support for israel, but he's also focusing and we had talk about humanitarian colored car doors and safe passage. there's already been detailed negotiations. we understand between these railways and the egyptians,

the us now reported that the sex just state will be coming to catch all the. but i'm also hearing reports that egypt and also allowing a mass movement of people into its territory. could we be looking at a, some sort of deal with dual nationals, us nationals. we think there are about 5 or $600.00 or without all out of rafa and the rest of the population of goals and get stuck the. i mean, i, i don't think we have any indication of that as of yet that there is a specific codes concern for, for us citizens there. certainly there hasn't been over the course of almost a week of, of incense carpet bombing of the entire territory of gaza. you know, i, i think in terms of what the response has been for people who have attempted to go to the board. or of course, as we've seen, you know, instances of, of a 0 actually bombing the crossing. and so people who are attempting to cross at that point, and then there's also been of course, the denial by israel and the threats made that if you were to try to offer aid to

enter into guys or that they would also be bombing that those a convoys. so you know, there, there really is a question here about what you've been controls, the territory, the border between guys are our palestine and egypt. and i think that's, you know, and there's another point that i think is worth considering, which is going back to it's a kind of the previous conversation about the view of these normalization agreements from the air upside as well. because i do think that, that, you know, we have transitioned from a period in which, you know, many of the regions rulers would at least pay lip service to the notion of the palestine issue to the point where it gets completely erased. and i think that's because the nature of how legitimize ation of these regimes happens has changed substantially in the aftermath of the spring uprisings. and so now we're looking at, over decades from that period in which many of these governments are ruling their own populations quite ruthlessly. so it's not surprising that they would not even entertain the notion of, of justice for palestinians. and so i think it has actually, in some ways is the process by which these normalization deals going to happen.

maria, back to you. we seen the responses of the us and the little paper they look very similar, but do you think within the you comp, that is perhaps some of these behind the scenes certainly before the latest defense, over the last 18 months, in my day job at the united nations of speaking to you politicians, the diplomat to show you real dis squats about the is really most right wing governments and some of this activities definitely that our experience of the managers. i mean different members, they said the whole. so different policies, different approaches that has been uh, definitely a discomfort though with the now government and they retrenchment of the democratic freedoms in israel by being then overall there has been the whole was the, um, i mean the discussion about the supporting the is really concerns when it comes to

security concerns, so all of these are, this is, it is something that, that is all was present. but i think the other question to ask is more of what rules for the you also in this situation because after this uh, very confusing response to where the one commission came out saying we will have to catch the aides and the, the, the, the, the, the 19, i need to the college student sizes and you know, there as being the and it going back to the disposition and saying all we will not . and then so there is a very confusing response in the 1st days. i think that however, now that you is in this, of the you and in the interest of so of the united states really avoid that. there isn't a vision of this conflict and therefore this is why such a motion of response to a and bullet rising, thrown on the coffee, there must have been. they think that the use should source of everything except through which we invest really into that what the been like. that was the solution

idea, but also and most importantly on video of a how full know started the leveraging on those regional play. yes, the presenting the gold watch. any do not want to edit and not a vision of the conflict. engage with them and, and try to really um, the source of support of containment. all of this, of this conflict. uh, if we can say sore and not it's a spread dollars to the trust and we let me put that, put that to richard because you are just one individual you politicians. what should individual, individual politicians, what your members of the public do very quickly to end the conversation? well, well, i mean, certainly what i'm doing as owners of like minds are trying to say in the face of people being horrified of what they're looking as this terrible escalation of volumes that we have to get to the root. cause that if, if this is not going to get even worse and continue

forever at the, we need to get to the root cause and uh, in my view. and certainly what i have been arguing a very strongly and i think many others are, is that the root cause of this is a, the, a part diag nature of this right, these days, the colonial eldest nature of these right, these days that it is based on the ethnic cleansing of a panelist, indians, on the denial of their most basic rights, the rights to return the right to self determination. and are these based entirely on the ruthless, brutal that murder, a suppression of palestinian rights under this, in the same way as apartheid. south africa was not acceptable as a movement of angelie or resistance inside south africa as well as internationally . finally, led to the dismantling of that regime,

but that is the only way we're going to get these and just as in palestine. thank you, richard. thank you to all guess to maria the visa on top of a bill already on on richard boyd barrett and fascinating conversation. if you didn't catch it or you can see it again on the website, i would just say we're dot com on this show. we discuss one of the main stores of the day, so i'm sure what the ongoing will be the focus of off the conversation for sometimes come, do you have a comment on an aspect of this story? anything you want us to come to get in touch find on facebook page, that's facebook dot com. forward slash a inside story or on x. that's the one i still called twitter. we're at a inside story for me, james. based on the team. bye for now. the the

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