according to you, i didn't say that, i didn't say that, well i think i think in a way, in a way you've highlighted one of the big problems you're going to face going forward the ground invasion, how do you tell somebody who's a combatant from a civilian, it can be incredibly difficult in general portrayers again was talking about something that you just said petraas and mark regov who came before loke on that interview, exactly, so here what we have. is um something that's become very typical i think since you know the trump era, which is - the the platform that these people have and their arrogance to to make these statements and to kind of then be able to take back what they've said very you know as as if no damage was done you know in the era of um alternative truths and facts someone like him who should have a responsibility to kind of you know promote the... the truthful narrative, even he lies

about what he said himself, whether he's forgotten or not, the information that he said in that interview was incorrect, um, and this is something that you know is the danger of what we're facing now on social media, um, information is spread, damage is done, and a small retraction occurs because they have to tick the legality boxes, but the mainstream have... brainwashed into agreeing with this narrative and and and being shocked and interhearing about what's been happening to the you know the poor israels, but actually no, um, they are being lied to, and this is something that i think you'll you'll be able to see with the next video, it's um, it's it's a theme that constantly occurs, this, this video, do you know what, let the video speak for itself, let's let's have a watch, no, these are not bodies of the... people in

gaza that appear to be suddenly moving. in fact, what you're looking at is decade old video from a 2013 protest in egypt. and this is not a palestinian woman faking injuries. this video uploaded in 2017 shows makeup artist mariam salah at work in a movie set. you will come across many viral videos like of these as you scroll social media where of alleged crisis actors have been caught or exposed such as this tiktok video which has been taken down for misleading content with the... flip being edited from an abc interview. content like this where victims of disastrous events are falsely described as paid actors spreading propaganda is getting millions of views. even a simple post could end up part of this disinformation war, much like this photo of a child in a halloween custom in thailand which has been circulating lately as proof of a palestinian actor car of camera, but it's just despite overwhelming evidence of suffering and mass casualties as a result of... israeli bombardments, there

are people out there, troll armies trying to discredit palestinian suffering, for sure, um, but also this is actually something out of the american playbook, you know, during the isis period, they themselves paid, the pentagon was found to have paid um companies to create these videos of of um, of isis members beheading or acting in a you know in a terrorist fashion, and and this is something that now is being used. again by their proxies. now it's a any person with with heart can see that what's happening in gazza is real, what's happening in gazza is an absolute tragedy, it's a massacre, it's genocide, but there we've seen time and time again since the beginning of this genocide, um, starting on the seventh, talking about this wave of the genocide, that they will do anything to as you said, discredit, make light of the the... the true suffering of the

gasens and this is just one extension of that and it's yeah it's the disastrous effects again going back to what we spoke about earlier with with loki and peer and the four deeper headed babies and the rape and the you know the all these allegations that the information is out there and it's so difficult to then reach the same group of people and make that retraction and make it clear the damage is already done now what is it that we can do about that? so that's where i want to move the discussion a little bit and i'd like to... to um have look at the next video where yes you know we should definitely be promoting things online and we should definitely be amplifying palestinian voices and getting our news, this is very important, getting our news from credible sources, but also you know there is power in our movement, in in our in our dollar, in our money um as as we're about to see with with the video, um there is this lady in sweden who was absolutely you know shocked, she's a... national um swedish born individual and

she has never seen the like of um of these kind of discounts on big products that are actually you know we know are supporting design. entity, now what does that mean? that means that actually we do have power here, you know, we're able to spend our money in the appropriate places to um, either promote or or support uh groups and and brands that are on the right side of history, and to also punish those brands and those businesses that are promoting the genocide, that are physically supporting the genocide, we're giving material support to israel, we know that mcdonald's is providing meals for for the idf, we know that starbucks is doing... you know um donating money so is is uh disney plus and we know that nesl and all the their other um food and cleaning products and drinks and whatever that they're all having an impact on supporting the oppression of the palestinians and therefore in our millions

and our billions we can counter that which you know we saw and a glaring example of people power came in the form of the bds movement but while people are as we saw as you say at the weekend coming out under the streets, turning up in huge numbers, what are the leaders doing? yes, um, excellent point that you're making there, and i think this next image will will definitely give us - kind of a feel of where there are the millions who are out there boycotting and are putting themselves in um, in uncomfortable positions where they are, you know, taking days off work and depriving themselves of their, you know, bread and butter for the day and protest. you see the arab nations or the arab leaders um are just sitting around and and enjoy, i don't if it's enjoying, but at least just watching on, we're paying lip service to it all, yeah, for sure, we we do have some arabic leaders who are um who do

the big talk, but actually so far haven't done much in terms of uh expelling ambassadors from their from their countries um shutting down um businesses that that do promote design entity that supportist entity, there's there's a song that reminds that really um pays tribute to this image and it's a a song by um julia butros and she says um where are the arab nations, where are the millions, where are the where is the arabic um uh, where is the where are the integrity the arabs, where is the karama of the arabs, you know, and and it shows that the this image shows that the integrity and the... karama and the the izza of the arabs doesn't exist because these men are sitting and watching this genocide, they claim that this is their holy land, they claim that the the suffering of the palestinians means something to them, well actually their actions demonstrate something entirely different,

fiddling while gaza burns, latif with chakra, thank you very much, thank you latifa, chakra, now the clamor for a ceasefire is becoming ever louder inside the corridors of power, already a distinct fisure can be seen inside the opposition labor party here in the uk, after london's mayor, sadiq khan, publicly called for sessation of violence that runs contrary to sir kier starmer stance. the conservatives saw the sacking of a junior minister for his ceaspire demands. we spoke with the author and political analyst chris bambery earlier about that. we began by asking him to explain why british politicians were at odds on this issue. the real debate here is inside the opposition labor party with labor weeder secur has taken unconditional support for israel in his main stance, that has provoked lot of anger as the

sultan gaza has intensified. we've seen the mayor of london c khan, the mayor of manchester andy burnam and the scottish well party weer come out with a statement. for immediate seaspire, we've seen 250 muslim councillors in across britain call for an immediate seaspar, we've seen growing numbers of well party councilers leaving the wall party, including eight in oxford where the wabor have was control of the city council, and yesterday we saw the suspension of andy mcdonald, a web from the party from parliamentary party for referencing from the from the river to the sea in a speech, not in the chanted slogan, in a speech where he calls a hope for democratic palestine where jews and muslims could live together, and therefore we're seeing a growing momentum, so kira starmer seems to be digging in, but he is out of step with british public opinion, 76% of people called support an immediate

seaspire, and therefore we are seeing growing numbers of people take it to the streets, half million in the streets of london and saturday, growing numbers of the world party members and elected representatives. calling for seats fire, this is a growing momentum, and even if starmer digs in and refuses to accept this, this uh this this call, he's going to do a reparable damage, many muslims believe that he's simply taking their votes for granted and are kicking back against that, many people would support palestine are questioning what's going on, so i think the real issue in britain at the moment is rishi sunat, the conservative prime minister is quite clear he supports israel in the vast majority of the party agree with that, it's inside the labor and with the wabor party prime minister in waiting, that's the issue, whether or not starmer will call for a cspar and give into opinion in his own party or whether or not you to by that opinion and damage in the process. we also ask chris,

what it would take for senior british leaders to lead the call for an immediatefire. what israel is doing by cutting all energy, food, medical supplies to two and a quarter million people. what it's doing by indiscriminately bombing civilian areas and targets such as schools and hospitals, even though it denies it's doing this, is collective punishment. health ministry officials at gaza say 881 entire families have been wiped out, that means all surviving members have been lost in bom attacks in gaza over the last three, three weeks, so this is clearly collective punishment, and united nations aid workers have been targeting, some 81 have been killed so far, killed so far. so israel white doesn't recognize many aspects of international law, is guilty of a breach of

this, and it remains to be seen, whether or not the protection of the united states will be sufficient to stop it facing the international courts of justice over what it's been doing in gaza, but a clear way it's creating revulsion internationally, it's also creating some tensions inside israel where the families of 240 hostages held in are demanding seasfire as well and incidentally a prisoner exchange with the palestinians so they could be released, so this is not. chris bambory, author and political analyst speaking with us earlier. now fahimo mohammed is back with her second helping of palestine in the news. fahema, take it away. well, we have the first one from kuts news network, um, showing um the former israeli military officer.

so what does that say, we're calling on all the women, all the children, everyone, so um, again, he is a former military officer at the israel's elite intelligence, unit 8200, and he's really calling for ethnic cleansing in this video by claiming that all of them needs uh to obviously be eradicated because they are all terrorists, so you cannot get any clearer than that, speaks, it's expodient, absolutely, which again is quite more than a... but again we're not seeing this and we're not hearing this on the mainstream media. the next one we have is a video from a

middle eastern lady in the in america who's talking about how the mainstream has actually affected everyday people, and if we have a clip of what she's saying, we can get an idea of that as well. the western media has been labeling arab and muslims and palestinians as these barbaric unciviliz. as terrorists, as animals, as people who do not deserve life, people who do not deserve self-defense, and because of because of this, well if we continue with this, we will do later on if you want, but i just want to quickly say that she's basically saying that they have been attacks even a six-year-old boy in chicago has been stabbed, as we know, but that was in the sort of news about that, so people are not feeling safe in their own homes if they are muslim, palestinian, arabs and this is due to the mainstream media reporting and dehumanizing um you know exactly, exactly, so again we've got evidence of that, which is uh

again very very sad, the last video we have of here in the uk, um, aliani is obviously an mp in the labour party, and he's obviously having a conversation about um the firing of paul bristro bristro who's actually one of many mps who was at the actual um protest and calling for sea. inspire in peace, but because of that is been taken um an offensive way and this is what he says briefly as well to times radio, what andy mcdonald had said as far as i can see in his quote. is that all israelis, all palestinians, be them jewish, christian, or muslim, have the right of self-determination, and if that is reason to remove the whip, then this is the most evidence we are ever going to need of a hierarchy of racism in our party, and with a hierarchy which puts us, muslims, rock bottom. what do you first of all make of the suspension? i guess we're talking here about

the quote, the statement from the river to the sea, is seen as anti-semitic, but again we've had many people ' describe that that terminology and clearly um this mps did say and mention jews and muslims living together, it's not an eradications exactly, so so and palestinians do actually not just muslims by the way, they are you know of all faiths as well and backgrounds which we have to understand, so basically call call for peace, lose your job, call for a war, be a warmonger, you get to keep your job, that's it in a nutshell unfortunately that's happening and unfolding you know in front of our eyes today, and "this is not the first time it's happening, people are getting suspended, losing their jobs for speaking up, for calling for seaspire, because they're seeing under television screens on their phone screens every single day, 24/7, images of children being the body parts being ripped ripped off, i think they sending very clear message, blood lines being, yes, it's a clear message being sent out to people who are speaking against what the government is

actually now calling for, and i think this is setting an example, if you speak, this is what happens." fahiima, as always, thank you very much for coming in. you're welcome. well, we're going to hear from fahema um more about what's happening in the palestinian territories as well as uh the different reactions from people and politicians around the world. but let's keep the ball rolling with the scholar and lecturer sheikh ahmed hanif here in the studio with me and also by a skype former ambassador to bahrain and syria, peter fort. gentlemen, thank you for. for your patience and for sticking around sheikh hanif um your reaction to any of the stories that we saw um faham share with us. i it goes back to the whole idea of um of uh the natives having no voice, um the native native is being dehumanized, the uh the the

viewpoint of the um the israeli soldier um that we just saw for example is typical. um, we have them uh, the the the the settlers uh being armed, you know, and taking it upon themselves to carry out vigilanty justice or even just on their own, murder people and and and and and and do all kinds of injustice to them, then now you now we we understand why the cowboys always used to wear guns in the west, they were settlers. and and having those weapons was part of that whole cleansing operation at gun point, exactly. now in the past in the 19th00s, the 1800s, the 1700s you did not have any competing media media system to that of the state, but

today uh we are having this, and because of the... uh we have the opportunity to see different points of view on uh this issue um so i think it becomes it becomes very important for us to be able to champion that freedom of the media and i think you know somewhere along the line we the people will find ways by which we can um change. situation in terms of for example organizing demonstrations, organizing boycott movements and so forth to be able to put pressure upon that, want to ask a media related question of ambassador ford, so one thing that the warring parties do is control the narratives a time like we are in, do you think that

israel despite all the support is had the you know the rupert murdock conglomerate supporting the israeli narrative, you think is its attempts to control the media narrative may have failed, yes it is failing, largely, i think because of social media, most people these days especially young people get their news from social media, and you can see that in the the the growing hyferia of the the pro israel camp in in their. and the the naked racism of it, since the beginning of this crisis, it's become almost respectable. now in parts of the mainstream british media to be openly islamophobic, before it was a bit disguised, but now it's come right to the the surface,

and it's being stoked, it's being encouraged by the government and perhaps not deliberately, but nevertheless definitely by the leadership of the labour party, as one of the speakers said, there's a hierarchy of racism. and muslims are at the bottom, it's no wonder that the islamic community, the muslim community in this country is angry, i cannot imagine how in the forthcoming general election, a single muslim could vote for the labor party or all the conservative party, there will be massive, massive abstention, massive abstentions, well well, it's it's only matter of time for us to see that, now there have been... calls of the highest global diplomatic levels to push through a ceasefire, despite a fail attempt last week, on monday, it was the turn of the united arab

emirates to move the needle on the issue. last friday, 121 countries representing an overwhelming majority of the world, issued an unambiguous call for immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce in gaza. they stood up for the humanitarian imperative, for human rights, for international law, and most importantly for the self-evident truth that palestinian life is precious, equal and deserving of the full protection of the law. we have heard many say that the 2.2 million palestinians in gaza are not hamas, that this is not a war against them, and while these are welcome words, it is time that action reflected them. if we lean on the general assembly's moral authority in other settings, we must also respect it in this one. indeed,

members of this council have repeatedly expressed their concerns about the fraying of the international order. this council, ignoring the expressed will of the majority the world, maybe what breaks it. colleagues, we need a ceasefire now. your reaction to this push, was it always going to fail? uh, yeah, i believe so. you know, i think the the powers that be is, it is in their interest, um, for uh, israel to prevail over the palestinian people, and i think why goes back to the actual function of israel itself, in terms of fulfilling uh, western imperialist designs of... upon uh a non-western population, you remember israel was was was established as a sort of western outpost, you

know in the fractious middle east, and we even heard the american president say if there weren't in israel, we have to create one exactly to protect american interests, exactly, um, the i mean just the if you look at the security council uh you have this... idea of the veto, which is very undemocratic idea, and it's because of that veto power that nothing gets done, especially with respect to the palestinians, america has been consistently veting any kind of progress, upon this issue, you know, um, and so therefore the the the un is basically kind of a place to to to blow off steam or to appear that you're doing something properly. well in fact no, the un itself, you know, with the agencies and so on, yes they they provide aid for uh refugees and so forth and so on, but

this is more like a sort of um, you know, to deal with disasters, put it that way, you know, to deal with need, but not to deal with empowerment, when you're dealing with empowerment, this is where you the un actually fails or it becomes a partner in the project, like you see for example in the coalition of the willing and and the the you are not being not exerting itself and not exerting itself with respect to israel in this time. let me squeeze in one last question to peter, and peter, i will ask you the question on the minds of many and that is how many palestinian lives will be enough? yes, that that is with 64 question, and those people like kier starmer, say that it's too early. to have a sire, why don't any of the british journalists ask him, well, how many palestinian children have to be killed,

before you think it would be time for se put number on it, is 5,000 enough for you, 10,000, 50,000, tell us what is the limit, at the moment it seems that tierma has an absolutely limitless capacity to see palestinian children dying, and piestama is the weak link in british political establishment, if he is forced to change position, then britain. division in new york may also crumble, america will be isolated, so we all need to put maximum pressure on kier starmer, leader of the so-called labor party, and with those comments, we are coming to the end of the show, i'd like to thank my guests and you of course for tuning in until next time, goodbye.

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