in a divided world, john henry and has the story from chicago into chicago studio, the meaning of instruments and voices of the world plan into a global symphony. to chicago, the immigrant orchestra is a rotating country, is up to 30 musicians, playing a unique blend of world music that combines persian vocal, the mongolian through the end instruments from around the world in each composition from a chinese rewan to and fro peruvian percussion uniting sound in society, music is a ard, the $0.10 boarders, and it's, it's $0.10 pressure. this is and, and, and stereotypes and it's, it's, it's something that everybody can kind of experience collectively. when is the rule

or the groups, palestinian american co director plays the bazooka place in between notes that are not on the suitcase or on the piano or on the guitar. if this style is hard to pinpoint the speakers, the music is from no single place. the instruments of the world together through the universal language in music co director for read hon. the chicago born son, if a truly and mother and a pakistani father says instruments never played together before combined seamlessly more so he says the nations they come from one of the things about this group is we get along so well. and you would assume that they would be a lot of friction culturally, you know, but there isn't at all. it's more than music is nigerian american senior says it's an example for the city in the world. i think it's hope for a better, more unified world. right now, especially in chicago is

a very segregated city. and so i think that is, it represents what life could be if we actually accept one another and learn from each other as our immigrant experience the, from the rehearsal studio, to the concert hall. the immigrant orchestra is a tapestry of global sales at a metaphor, for the harmony it hopes to symbolize for the nations from which those instruments have john henry l g 0, chicago. and that's as a man, as we put on them for this type of news, but they're stay with us. a documentary is really about the news is coming up next . thank you for watching the now let me tell you almost suffice the cold result. the 1st of its kind in west

africa, we were surrounded by a wild life. from the moment we enter the a coupon occupied right now, able to practice what the now be used. only look just very close here like common. he sits on to play with a large stairs face with a look in my private now. thanks. royal. i can also offer somebody probably equal, resulted in gun to me . it's an extremely cynical moments for international law. it's an extremely devastating moment for the palestinian people. the, there are rules under international law and no matter which way you look at this is real as in violation of those rules. as of the 7th of october,

there's no one nor of international humanitarian law that does no being violated by the i never imagined that in my lifetime, i would see a genocide taking place in real time before my eyes. the fact that it is being protected by most western government takes it to a level that i just never imagined would be possible. the gum disease or with a single message. you're not, you're not alone. canada will be

a friend of israel and defend its rights including its right to exist and he sort of has the right to defend itself. in fact, it has the duty to defend cease and desist the buyers from tidings furnished up, screwed up to ships 40. i'm sorry for, for that false, put the name of the site as a default application as your friend or to stand with you in solidarity to stand with your people. and we also want you to if one looks at all political leaders today and all of our mainstream politicians, they all the most mandation, the most mediocre, the least talented group of politicians that i can remember during my almost 60 years on this that it is astonishing just how deeply corrupt materially

am tomorrow, lee, they are because many of them be through their nations to the political parties, the motions, to them passively donations to their organizations, like the labor of friends of israel, the conservative friends of israel, the democratic friends of israel, the republican friends of israel and the multiple in myriad other organizations like that. they provide an extremely good living for that to pass. and for those political parties, a thank you for having me, and i'm looking forward to having a thorough discussion about where everybody goes from here every day. in the depth and breath of co operation, the west is intimately involved and israel's genocidal campaign. in garza, for months, we have seen us officials a firm time and again that there are no red lines for israel using exactly that language. when of course, we know that international law draws many red lines, and yet the us has come out and stark opposition granting is real full authority to

proceed and to create as much death and destruction as it sees fit. the . i'm shocked by the last old auction of the international community. i'm shocked by the hands raised by the us unbox that are in the security council. voting against a says saw here between that says fire. i'm shocked by the lack of action of principles . states need to take, again, a principal concrete stand against this observation and start thinking of functions. the, what we've seen is that the laws of war are used against weaker parties. but if you are, ally is the united states. and if you are,

ally can veto any security council resolution. and if you're allies are the european states, then the chances that the i c c will bring you to justice are very, very slim. the international court of justice is a court that renders guilty the losers in a conflict. it is a court of victories and the court that has double standards for the allies of the powerful and for those that it thinks of as it's and that means the views it. so that's it to submission to the international court of justice is some sort of anti semitic screed. i'm black libel. this is nonsense that you couldn't make up. and the

nonsense that is being enunciated constantly, not just by the israelis, but that is imperative by the us government, the u. k. government, the german government, the french government, etc. and this is being done to defend the indefensible, to defend the slaughter of tens of thousands of innocent civilians to defend a tax on health facilities on residential homes and places of worship on places of what we're seeing a genocide taking place in gaza. well, choose matters to where it is. you go after you choose to see there's the seat on trimble times it's true. you don't have to be jude because i just a don't have to be to, to be a scientist. it stinks

a nationalist community and its powerful member states life, particularly to the us. but in general western countries, which is still pilot. and it's heavy then to individual power that some member states can exercise within the when the feet of those members state are from the west. it does or something. no african countries has a veto power in the united nation system. it's the and star system which is not only representative of where the world is today, but i would like to see this change and we need to think of better mechanisms not only inside the law, but how the lie is applied to ensure that there is no double standards, so it's both a changing of the laws to so that they address the current circumstances. but also the institutions of the judicial institutions that apply

the law. so they, they don't apply it with double standards and we will continue to actively engage in the hard work of direct diplomacy on the ground until we reach a final solution. ready ready ready ready the destruction of over 70 percent of cause of the killing of over $30000.00 palestinians, including $13000.00, posted in babies and children, the injuring of around now $70000.00 palestinians. and the destruction of almost all of the civilian infrastructure in gaza. international law prohibits this completely. we have to remind the but there are, at least in theory,

rules which is real, must abide by and which is violating the, the is doing anything they can in our to really lies. the cause of it is when it targets the the military targets, but again, we are in the war in the war civilians. gus harris, he will never see the i is the targets shoot down as severely and you will never see a group of children walking on the beach of guys on is way target them specifically, or an old lady crossing the street and isn't still the old lady is what it does, not target civilians as the head, joe,

a foil and the same as the house of a man. and what do you mean to be the loan of wilma, to another for lunch on the box is where the target military target is. why the target paris and when this terrorist surrounds himself with cecilia, is with this little children, with this old lady. with this all the paypal of this city williams might get hurt. but it's not on the fault of israel is on the fault of the one who surrounded himself with a civilian as the one that to use them as human shields. the the argument of the human shoes of palestinians in general, and being

a eager to sacrifice their own children as human shields that's been used and this nice over and over. the 1st one to this nice. this argument was editor of gold stone that the head of the 1st commission of inquiry over the 1st war in gaza and it has been disproven over and over. what is the evidence, the israel's instruction to the palestinians 1st to move south and then to move west and then to move north. but basically that instruction which has displaced $1800000.00 people tells the is re lease that any civilians that remains in that area or us. israel assumes that any civilian that remains at the,

in that area is either a participant in hostilities and therefore it can be killed or a human shield. namely someone that is being used to shield the legitimate military target. and that allows israel to relax, the repertoire is of least lethal violence that they use is against these people. and in a court of law that can be used to justify the wholesale killing of civilians. the . it's where it says more than even it's inquired 8, drops flyers over. does that to tell the people to vacate the area? it makes phone calls to residential um,

civilians to vacant. the area is red calls to back of the area was if i took these precautions, it's allowed to take them to build the east civilians for sure. so say they take the their own responsibility the . this is a complete distortion of international law if you consider also the fact that israel's and occupier, which i think is the relevance. legal framing here is real, has obligations under occupation law, not only to end the occupation which has now been ongoing for 56 years,

but also to protect the occupied people. and we also know that israel has no right to claim self defense in accordance with the article, $51.00 of the un charter with respect to a tax emanating from the territory that it occupies. and this notion was upheld by the international court of justice. and it's 2004 ruling on the legality of the wall. and so regardless of which way you look at this, there's absolutely no legal defense to committing a genocide the lucky leaving my soul not to lays as such months and muscle and mine

in daily. so they come in the logging bit there the we have the president of the state saying there's no innocent civilian or there's no on involved civilian in the gaza strip. so these kind of remarks to point that the intent and the if, if it gets to a court of law, then these kinds of remarks become very important in terms of the genocide dual aspect of this war. and lot of people in israel, we not food bad for the palestinians, but yet the leadership in israel fails the for the palestinian people. and they allow whatever the minimal humanitarian ad to be provided to the

population in gaza at the the, the law does create a vision of a certain kind of justice that we want to aspire for. we want to aspire towards a world where human rights for all are protected. the amends scale

of suffering. any god there must be an immediate cease fire for at least the next which is what is currently on the table. does human rights law give us the tools to achieve human rights? i'm not sure because of the interest of powerful states because of the double standards that are applied in the international arena. and therefore, if it gets to court, often the human rights do not win the day. and so we need to think of other mechanisms to achieve these human rights. the, the problem is not the problem is with the force mental potential. and in,

in the middle east and in the global south, i would say the problem is that law is closer to political convenience then to adjust this a as in, i'm very sorry to say 500 years of core. oh, nice ation. has less, they huge in print, you know, words, dna in general, western people are not able to assess objectively, what is what is being done through the not publication of international law or through the discretionary application of international law. it is terrible to see the dismantlement of international order premier support international law piece by piece the

image will have to show the ministry by the name of the for them to tie penn national debate. been what's to be the horn and actually the domestic bomb. i'm not somebody computer level. i'm out there is more than a c bite and sure enough when he left him on monday it's a whole lot. golf come as much as you've got the. it's unclear what absol victory will look like when you've destroyed already 70 percent of gaza when the overwhelming majority cost of $2000000.00 palestinians are displaced. it seems to me that absolute victory means the total destination of gaza to the point that is completely uninhabitable. and that the population of gaza, which israel has told us time and again in this current moment that that is their goal. but their goal is the d population of gaza. and the settlements of goes up by is rarely settlers course in total violation of international law. the

israel does not briefly, international law is way allocate safety. there, there is safety or the rules of law according to the international law. why a country should be above scrutiny? i mean, no one should be the international law is there to be applied universally, and not just for cherry picking because this, this trust phones as i often say, human rights protection into protectionism. and this is unacceptable. the for me, the, the idea that the law will lead to liberation or emancipation, or palestinian self determination, is a fiction of human rights is not necessarily the tool. i think the tool needs to be more political in the sense of divestment and the sense of

sanctions in the sense of boycotts to use this kind of arsenal of non violent weapons, to pressure israel to bring about change the israel about pro, let's say years ago realize having been so close to a pottage south africa, the very real threat that b as opposed to the existence of these re, the state as a racist, occupying state. and they created a ministerial department called the department for strategic affairs. specifically to count to the b ds movement and what was the strategy that they hit upon?

it was to ensure that any criticism of israel, any criticism of its occupation, any criticism of its behavior in the occupied territories was made equivalent to anti semitism to. and they have been remarkably successful at doing that. there is no other argument that they're not using as of them to send me these massages to deflect the attention from what matters the most from what our analysis insist upon for decades now. i'm not surprised that each road recurs to any strategies to can to a whole it's goals to reach its objectives. but i'm surprised that the international community joins this action. because today you are not just attacked by israel for being and it's on to submitted. if you just ask for the application of international law, do we, is there any, is there any options? it's many, many western countries to do so, and they'd be tre also,

what i'm to summit is them as really being the serge advantage. semitism is united states of america and around the world. sick, you know, we see it across our communities and schools and colleges and social media, a surface painful scars for millennia. so hate of hate to genocides of jewish people. every time i get, i choose to falsely accused of onto the same it is i respond. i don't stake white, i don't get intimidated. i become louder and louder. and by doing so, i think i also inspire other people to do the same on jewish my mother was one of 20 odd survivors of the holocaust. so to described me is empty semitic given my history of anti racism and my work on genocide prevention. my info, king of the holocaust of which my mother's family was victims and it's simply an

absurdity. no. c western world is prepared to sacrifice the entire architecture of international law that has been put in place post world war to specifically to prevent their being and of the genocide like the holocaust we have prepared to rent all of that asunder so that israel can continue to med uh, $247.00 palestinians on an average day. 48 of whom will be women. and a $117.00 of whom will be children. were prepared to throw it all out. that's the point of crisis that our politics act now. and it is up to all of us who recognize that to actually create, to count a narrative, to the nonsense, the dispute by our politicians to maintain that own place. in this

a pulling leap, corrupt a malfunctioning political system. we have the we continue every single day to wake up and insist on freedom and life in the face of genocide. and there's simply nothing more dignified that anybody can do in such a hopeless and desperate moments. i don't believe it's going to be sustainable to continue to prevent palestinians from their right to freedom. the

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center, i bet of the displace palestinians under attack is really missiles target tends to be a special kind of at least 2 people. the federal on elizabeth put ottoman this is our life from dough ha. also coming up on the brink of starvation, yulusef issues of donald warning is dr. strong to treat severely malnourished children and gaza thousands of israelis protests.