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bomb, if you're in the west, for example, if there's an attack, most of the time the crew who would be dealing with that emergency, there's a distance, you go back to your home, you go back to your hospital base, and this is somebody else's problem, yes, they're living in this world, they're trying to help, yes, and we need to remember that lot of these people are not trained in construction, they don't know what's you know dangerous and what's not, what chemical may be released through the rouble, these are civilians, these are civilians have been. kept in an open air prison and a concentration camp for their whole lifes and they're rising their lives over and over again, something that recently spoke about is, palestinians are having to constantly prove their humanity by being exemplary models, you know the the paramedic who saves a child, the doctor who you know amputates this baby's leg, this this nurse, this teacher who's you know sharing her resources from her pocket, no um every palestins are heroes. everyday palestinians
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are out there doing the jobs of the emergent services that they don't have access to because of the cut off of resources and aid and electricity and um organizations that would usually be the people handling these affairs. you mentioned that you know the people here if if attack happened in the west then people would do their job and they would change its, you clock out, you can, right? there's no shifts here, this is this is the everyday. this is unrelenting 24-hours day. um, another bit of... uh video that you have to play for us, i think uh gives a gives a, it's satirical, but i understand what the tweeter here is saying, so what we can see is that you know these bombs are the same, they will have the same effect, the same in size, same in color, same in effect, but same destructive force, yes, absolutely, but we will see them differently based on where they come from, and who tells us this, and where they're going, and where they're going, well said. um, the framing of this is very, very
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clear, it tells us that the media is the one who paints the picture for how good or bad, it it gives us the barometer in which we measure these countries moral compaces by, it provides us framework of how to view the destruction and the genocide of each of these bombs and missiles, um, and you're an antisamite for questioning this bomb, i, you know, we we've seen the weaponization. in the uk and across the world, that's incredibly accurate, yes, it's it's a bit of lof, um, but there's truth underneath this one, yeah, because essentially the person who put that out on their page, you know they will be facing backlash for this, and i think it's so important for people to understand, even in expressing your own thoughts, the thought police, which is somehow uh supervised where a particular side of this conflict, will decide whether or not you've crossed the line, whether or not you're protesting in just the right way, whether or not you've
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been just the right kind of either pro-palestinian voice or palestinian in this, which is absolutely ridiculous, uh, it beggers belief uh, introduce your next piece latifa, so piggy, piggy backing off of uh that clip, um, yes, the media has huge say in how the mainstream, the leymen see this this attack on gaz, this genocide, this massacker, but this next clip shows us that the truth is being seen by the majority. you said stands with israel, i think you find that we don't, of why don't you go to ireland and ask them if they support israel? you go to scotland and ask them if they support israel, why don't you go match the uk? there 300,0 of us run now, you do not represent, this this earthy of bit about him, man really does talk about the people, he demonstrates the will of the people, the feeling of the people, he's not wrong, 3000 were the only people who could be there. day, imagine the people who were
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working, imagine the the doctors and the nurses who had their shifts, imagine the the mothers who had to look after their kids, you know, 300,000 is the minimum amount of people that support palestine, it's not, it's not the limit, it is the bare minimum of of the feeling in the uk, which some might argue in the case of british prime minister richard sunak, maybe 3000 more people than voted him since none of us did, we did get the opportunity to put it to the test, oh yes, oh yes, so in in in this particular clip, i think there's also... recognition that there is separation between the establishment or so-called leaders and those who are like you and myself, looking on and thinking, surely you can't think you're doing this in our name, there's a clip of rashi meeting recently, and he almost goes for a kiss and it's very to watch, but it just it really demonstrated to me the this very eag, desperate need to to... i'm a statesman, i'm
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with you, look at me, yes, and and it's you, that desperation comes from a place of weakness, he knows he has not gone of the support of the of the british people, and so he needs to really, really. me up to to um to the occupy entity to make sure that they believe in this that britain is with them because on the ground the evidence shows otherwise, and now to wrap things up, there is story, a split screen here that i think you're going to bring to our attention that really illustrates the disconnect in some cases with who is deserving of or sympathy and our humanity and who is not? yes please let's watch the clip is along the border and he's very very sweet and he's shy but he's very scared buse there a lot noises here, but they found him in a a small village near the ghaza border, and they said the family that had this puppy was killed during the attack on saturday morning, and just this puppy survived. we're noting saying the puppy isn't deserving of affection, but when you just the pose that with very real image of family
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being pulled out the rubble, we can't imagine how many made it, how many did not, and mainstream chooses to focus on this animal. i haven't seen fox news coverage. but i would i massacre even using that language, you know if i was betting woman, i would say that they probably haven't done the palestinians any justice in documenting the genocide, the um and and seeing this video with the with the two narratives being being laid out clearly for everyone to see, it it reminds me um with this track that uh british rapper loke put out many years ago but uh regarding the iraq war that just feels really really. point to mention in this message so it's about the the track is about young boy called ahmed who you remember was um he was the young child who was found laying the beach of turkey after his boat capsised while he was um fleeing from syria and at the end of that particular track the there is call harowing call um from a from a man in irak who is
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saying where is the humanity the west talks that they talks about being the um the standard bears of humanity they are ones to have all institutions that protect human rights. is the humanity in the situation, by god, your dogs and your animals are treated better than you would have us treated, your dogs are kept warm, your dogs are fed, your dogs are looked after, there is health careare for them, but what about us, we are human beings, and this just shows you that that line of thinking is ageless, it's it's timeless, it's something that has always been and always will be this dehumanization of brown and black people. my guess have been patiently waiting with me as we discuss social media and my thanks as always to latifa abu how important is it ahmed the social media war here clearly it's important otherwise we wouldn't be seeing restrictions on algorithms we would be seeing banned accounts our own instagram account for
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example is restricted for no reason at all to be or for a reason but oh yeah for a reason that isn't stated yes so clearly um we are seeing fear of the power of social media what is the power of social media? well, as people realize the transparent lies on mainstream news, mainstream media, they're going to look for alternatives and social media allows an organic way for people to create um bubbles of like-minded people um and these bubbles don't have to be political, it might be you have a community of people who love cats, love cooking, who love this and that, and then one some someone in that community brings this interest up like, i've been hear this about palestine, and then it just spreads and so you know social media is a really powerful. way uh of of people expressing their opinion, forming their opinions and so what we're seeing like in in real life on the streets in demonstrations or in petitions and letters to politicians, we're seeing people who are questioning the mainstream narrative and they're they're
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taking that from online into real life to try to influence real life politics, so it is really really important for zionists, those who are invested in the status quo to try and control that narrative as well. people need to be aware of that on social media batul, are you finding that some of your usual places where you would get in information or share information, if they've seen any restrictions during this genocidal move by israel? absolutely, mean there's a really effective page, it's called um palestine that was recently taken down that has millions of followers, ultimately it's a page that shows the extent of the savagery and the criminality of the occupation by showing actual of the palinians that are being slaughted on mass, mean it's absolutely. no price that censorship is on steroids when you have in likes of unit a 200 soldiers from the idf, those are former soldiers, they work in meta in facebook, or for example you have the former director general of the israeli ministry of justice, emmy pal who's on facebook, these pages get taken down, why?
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because they undo decades of of dehumanization of muslims and people of color, that has been a feature of media the longest time, ultimately to suit western foreign policy agenda, so for example you see that islamophobia was top of the... media's priority list during the war of terror to garna mass consent to wage wars in mislim countries. ultimately you have to dehumanize these muslims and people color, to justify for example the expansion of counterterrorism apparatus, to stifle real descent of these wars to create inferiority context in the muslims and the oppressed masses, again you have to dehumanize them, it's a prerequisite, undo all of that mass propaganda, by showing people the facts on the ground, by educating them about how the media establishment is working against the people of this country and to make people think in a very one-dimensional perspective such that they want to turn this country into dictatorship. if you disagreed the narrative of the media, you cancelled. oh, i'm telling you, now this conflict has seen nations pick size, we were discussing that earlier before. and in the west we heard overwelingly what the us and their allies have said, but what about perspective from further field? the ceo and
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founder of panafrican current affairs african stream, and i started by asking him his thoughts on why isolated in their positions, why did the us and its allies go to bat for israel to such an extent? well, if you understand imperialism understand that places like the united states me reach out. post to object its interests, now some would say oh well they have saudi arabia, now they have qatar, but from the united states perspective, this is not a reliable ally, saudi arabia now joined bricks, it's recently signed peace agreement with iran, qatar is allegedly providing financial support to the palestinians, these are not reliable allies as much as the so-called jewish. and that's because the so-called jewish state needs the united states and the united states needs it,
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so when the united states wants to launch war against the people of iraq, launch war against the people of afghanistan, it knows whatever happens in that region, it will always have loyal, and that's why the hill, also israel is a european settler colonial state, the united states, let me forget is state, so there's ideological similarities, the united states built is modern state on the ethnic cleansing the native americans, israel is looking to replicate that by building and maintaining its apart system on the ethnic cleansing on indigenous palestinians, so there's ideological differences, ideological similarities as well as strategic interests that means that the us, the uk um, and other you imperialist powers, canada, colonial places like australia will continue to b to back israel regardless of how many hospitals it bombs,
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how many churches it bombs, schools it bombs, how it displaces 1.5 men and counting, how it killed majority children, many of the children w still buried under the rouble, despite these countless violations of humanitarian law and international law, united states will always stand by, it's it's one quote on quotee relly in the in the middle east. i then asked ahmed about the state of support for the palestinian cause on the african continent. yeah, we actually interviewed mandela's great grandson and he said quite interesting, he said when it came to palestinian support for the anc and the arm struggling in south africa. it wasn't in rhetoric, it was actual real support, and now it's the palestinians turn, they need real, they don't need protest. outside the israeli embally, they don't need strong statements of condemnation, they need real support, um, and
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if the es way and the israeli embassies kicked out of south africa, that will be a good start, but it's not just south africa, we did a map on african stream, recognition the israeli regime, and on the overwhelmingly most countries recognize israel's right to exist and recognize and have full diplomatic. relations uh with israel and the countries that don't are muslim majority countries, but even those are foldding one by one, where my family came from the 2020 abrahamds, it was the beginning of recognition of and leading towards full diplomatic relations, morocco now has diplomatic relations with israel and and the concern is the the countries that have stood all might fall one by one due to to pressure from the united states, quickly if i have time, the there was a trade
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agreement signed between kenya united states between administration and donald trump's administration, and within that that trade agreement, there's a stipulation that says kenya cannot involved with any sort of boycot iversments or sanctions against israel and cannot cannot participate in anti- israeli sentiment, so what that shows to us? is that the united states is using israell as condition for financial aid for financial trade agreements um so with that happening it means that the picture for palestinian solidarity within african continent, looks very bleak at the moment, bleak indeed, for him, muhammad is back with helping of palestine in the news, for him, what have you found? well, we've have the uh journalist yara, who lost 30 members of her family, also explaining um how it is on the ground, even if there's a warning, where do people go, and
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more and more family are being lost by minutes and um, it's really you know he breaking to see and here. but this is the reality on the ground and also journalists that are losing the families as well as um there was the al jasera journalist who lost several family members to the israeli strike and he he lost his wife, his son and daughter while they were sheltered in what israel designated as a safe area all right well let's start to that first abc video and just see what she had to say for herself but i want to bring in yar aid a palestinian journalist uh we're going to talk about more on the situation now in gar thank you uh for being with us, we're watching these images, endless bombardments, some aid going in, not enough, what are you hearing? well, i have so much to say, i don't know where to start, but i can start with um what happened just around minutes ago, um, i was trying to call my
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mother a cellular connection and she was screaming and she said they bomed the house next to us and um it was it was a warning rocket, as israel likes to call it, and my grandma, my mother is staying with my grandma and my grandma is very old, she is very sick and she can barely walk, and they literally couldn't evacuate, they literally couldn't leave the house for more than, i don't know how long and and she was crying, terrified because any point even if they the house where are they going to go to? i personally as palestinian journalist myself, and only lost my best friend was a journalist, my boss and mentor is also a palestinian. journalist and the founder of the media organization i was working in, but i also 30 members, my immediate, unkles, aunts, the my cousins, their children, you know, 17 of those 30 are children, what we're seeing now, there's more than to speak with international colleagues as this is taking place, when the worst moment of your life, no time to grieve, and
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you could see from her face, i wouldn't want to project my own thoughts here, but there was just the recognition and resignation, there's just sense of anything else, what, what, what else is coming? yeah, and since the september, sorry, october 10th, we've also seen 23 journalists, that have been killed, so um, it's really shocking that these people are there with their bests and they're reporting, and their families are being designated to sort of safe areas, as i mentioned before, but unfortunately even their families, whether it's because of the reports that they are reporting and putting pressure on them, but they are still standing up strong, after hearing of these atrocities and still reporting, let's look at what happened to the chief, the bureau chief of the al-jazera network in gaza.
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i would also like to point out very clearly there was a comment, the top comment under that was that it was... hamas who was doing this and then this look at the uh video after this, i think it might be a screenshot, but the fight back that might be happening. ah, this is another sort of newsroom where we have people from the united states, commenting about how the mainstream media again and the white house are portraying narratives, but theyselves see it for what it really is, so there is definitely a push regardless of what's being said and they even sort of. rated that there were about 20,000 uh sort of protests uh you know contributing to uh sort of propastine and taking part so again uh people are waking up and no matter how much you know uh stories are being put out there um we are seeing people fighting back that's in their small podcasts or youtube channels and uh which would have been unthinkable years before actually and we're
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just going to end with uh this screenshot there's an actual video that goes with it but we didn't show it today cuz i think you get the general idea. explain for him um sally um this this is the recognition of the names of the palestinians of the men women and children and you can see the numbers there which is unbelievable scrolling down to show um sort of like memory and recognition all the lives that have been lost so far and this is within the context of the us president joe biden making that massive we wouldn't trust the palestinians to tell us the numbers we don't trust the data that's coming out of gaza, as if to completely delegitimize, to dehhumanize, it's not bad enough that you've killed us, you want to kill the memory of us, yes, erase the fact that we ever existed, because 'if 7,0 souls have gone and you're saying that didn't happen, we're tribute to their lives, fahimma, thank you, i will see you next time, oh my dear, some sometimes
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it's it's hard to shows like this, you know, well my guess ahmed are still with me and tool, there was so much to on pick in what we were talking about there, but what i just wanted to flag up with you particularly is how you see some of this misinformation, especially state sponsored. "we mentioned to the guest earlier that the us president stood up on the white house alone and casually said he'd be skeptical about the numbers of of the dead coming out of faza? absolutely. look, um, it goes back to the crucial and central point and that is that media are are basically echo chambers of the establishment of western establishments and really was western establishment that founded the zines entity in 1948 that advanced military colonial base um at the heart of the region of strategic importance um and you know there is a collusion of of interests over here right, and i think at one point even president said, if there was no sign entity, we would go out of for a way to create entity, as such to serve our interests, so
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ultimately yes, what mass media is going to do, even by the way, i argue we are kind of getting out of crossroads where the science entity is now in need of protection rather than protecting western interests, i would argue that right now zinus entity has become so strategically weak that the functional role for which it has been created for is been... lost and we're a place right now because it's it's a colonial outpost that's 7.5 decades old right, with time you have evolution of development interests, policies change right, but ultimately this is such an old colonial outpost, the basis of relations have changed the time, so ultimately that time has come for the west to deal with the real fact on the ground, to apologize, to atone for its sins, to abandon its arrogance, what we see with the mass media is really a continuation and an extension of those policies um ultimately, so that's why... sometimes you might see a lag between the two, between mass media and the real policies and the establishment, because ultimately if america today decides that it wants to recognize the power balance the ground, if
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america decides that it wants to deal with the real effective forces on the grounds in west asia, we're talking about the forces from nations in the region have formed that do not accept imposed tegemonic humiliation since it's the policy that led to those forces to monopolize and to cohease in the first place, then occupying entity will lose its functional role, and i would argue we're actually getting to point where the des so weak that it's losing its functional role, but making a mistake, the media will continue paroting the narrative in support of the design entity, because it was created as that colonial outpost, and it still serves western interests to some extent functioning as a reserve force in this area of strategic importance in case the west wants to enter into further confrontation with russia, with iran etc. yeah, all right, but tool, just very quickly, i'm in 30 seconds here, uh, a csfire is important now, because uh, because if now, fire is not given now, then it never will be, more lives will be lost, more excuses will be made, and uh, we're going to be seeing lot more debts, which which we need
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to stop right now, and with those comments we've come to the end of our show, thank you so much to my guest hussein, karam ali and batul subaiti and all of you who contributed to this very special broadcast, and thank you for watching and keeping palestine and gaza close to your heart, until next time, goodbye.
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for this hour israel is founding the besege god from the air sea and ground with resistance forces ring the invading tanks. the death toll from israely attacks on gaza 7700 with un chief that there could be thousand more civilian casualties.
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