of the israel war in gaza continues to claim civilian lives, the carnage is so bad that the world is turning against israel and his stanch support of the us for that matter for supporting the genocide. many people are horrified at the images of... that children, especially at the hospitals, some have decided they would boycot israelly made products. boycotting israel, the topic of this edition of economic divide. coming up in this program, how will boycotting israel take place? well, there has been an irab leak boycott, but it has not been enforced. why is that? there's also diplomatic and military boycott. then let's take a look at the of region, west asia, or or as it's called middle east in some corners. as the trade embargo them. placed from the countries in

the region, iran for that matter, has recommended an oil embargo, also the normalization reversals, will that take place? then we take a look at social media, the role that it has played in israeli war on gaza, the word needs to be spread, that's what social media has done, generation z has uh taken a liking to that when it comes to tiktok uh and also twitter known as x. also multinationals, sustaining israel is what needs to be stopped. as israel's genocidal war against palestinians in the gaza strip continues, calls are growing among arab and muslim.

nations to boycott the televib regime. in 1954, the kairo-based arab league endorsed a resolution to boycott israel following its creation in historical palestine, but the arab league does not enforce the boycot and boycott regulations are not binding on member states. arab leaders have gradually abandoned the boycott movement and sign treaties with the regime. however, ordinary arab people are urging their leaders and the arab league to boycott the regime economically and politically. the boycott campaign has been accompanied by calls for arab countries to sever ties with israel. calls for the boycot made by young texavi individuals have spread. the boycott campaign includes browser extensions, dedicated websites and smartphone apps that identify and prescribed the products. more traditional methods are also in used. giant billboards and several arab nations have posted images of blood stained children in bandages. do not look away, do

not look away from gaza, from palestine, because it makes you uncomfortable, how could any genocide happen? people looked the other way, i feel like if there's anything we can take away from this tragic, tragic situation in the middle east is jenze has been talking lot about it. on tiktok, instagram, whatever, and i have learned so much more on tik tok in the past four days than i have like watching a news outlet or whatever. time now to take a look at the post online that took place, well - needless to say, it

seems like the flood gates have been opened because there have been so many uh that i'm sure you're familiar uh with the amount of information information out there that was posted and continues to be posted online. first up, we picked this one activist in missouri, block boing factory, which sends bombs for israel's genocidal attack against the us government enabling the gaza genocide. it's a people's duty to take action to stop complicity. next up, since day one zionist turned occupied palestine into a base for terrorism, israel has not a country, it's a terrorist camp against palestinians and other muslim nations. fighting this despotic regime is fighting against oppression and terrorism, and this is everyone's responsibility. next, boycott uh flavor in this particular post, after just three weeks of boycott, starbucks in malaysia has reduced operation hours nationwide, due to the devastating loss of customers. the next step would be individual outlet closures and eventually the complete disappearance of starbuck. from the country,

now in egypt, also a boycott move where a discount of 73 pounds, they have said this is crazy in that country, this has never happened before. in addition to the brands of pepsi, coca-cola and others, everyone stopped buying them completely, and whoever buys them, we treat them like an outcast, so you can see how the boycott movement there is actually um pretty much not only in egypt, it's taking momentum around the world. okay, let me introduce our guests for our program, we have first oliver boyd barrett, he's the emiratus professor of ohio and at ohio and california university, and he's also the author of conflict narrative. in syria, oliver barrett, welcome to economic divide, it's good to have you with us, um, to begin with, many are not aware that there has been an arab league boycot of israel, but it's not enforced, it was adopted by them to boycott israel and other relations between the arab

states and israel, but the fact that they don't enforce it is where the problem is, tell us why this was adopted, what it's all about and why it's not being enforced, especially at this time i believe that the arab league has in the past has played a very influential role in protecting palestinian interes, it was party to the formation of the palestinian liberation organization for example, but the in my view, the effectiveness the arab league the palestinian cause, began to deteriorate with the oslo accords of 1995, these brought about a

reconciliation of sorts between the plo and israel in as much as each recognized the other, and set in train. a process that was confirmed in 2020 by the abrahams record of a greater raprochement between the uh between many members of the arab league and israel uh in the meantime the the fishers between members of the arab league have even anything grown uh again weakening its effectiveness in its response to the events of october the 7th. okay, moving to the next guest, we have charles carlson joining us, he is the co-founder of we hold these truths and he's also the director of a an award winning documentary uh by the name of roots of christian zionism. charles carlson, welcome

to the program, this war obviously has shown to the world the uh true face of israel's brutality, and uh many are taking action aside from coming out on the streets. to uh boycott israel, especially countries who are very obviously sympathetic and aligned with uh the palestinian cause, and i'm referring to the countries here in west asia, after all israel trades with this with these countries, but how much of a will is there for these countries to actually boycot israel? well, uh, in the first place, all these questions about uh, why israel acts the way it does, can be a boiled down to very simple formula and that is uh, what does uh the power structure in the us uh tell the state of israel to do? the state of israel uh does appear to be the boss of the entire world uh when it comes to political matters, matters

of war, but actually the pressure groups uh that are in the us that uh provide the money to keep the stay in a going, the truth is when it stands in the way of objectives of the uh current us government and of the people control the us government, they simply uh put pressure on arab countries, and this is done economically, for the most part, but also in a threatening fashion in some cases. there have been plenty of conversations on talk shows covering the israeli carnage in gaza. one of the positive points have been the disinformation when it comes to the facts about the israeli palestinian conflict. but there have been moments when the guess that some of these channels puts things into perspective in such a way that it shows the

true colors of the israeli regime. such was the case and point in this talk show host. i would do exactly like israel did kill as many people as possible since the the the world is letting me do it. is the question is what is a proportionate response because it has been different from one tier to another, so if you look to this graph, for example, this is the death of israeli and palestinians and it's changing from one year to year, it's like fluctuating like... so my question is today, what is the going rate today for human life? mean, 2014 was a great here for benchapiro, 88 israelis were died and there was 2,329 palestinis killed on the other side, that is one israeli for 27 palestinian, that is very good exchange rate, mean 2018 300 palestinian died, ah who's counting, you know, do you condemn hamaz for the atroc, yes i condemn hamas, i condemn hamas, i condemn, hamas is the source of all evil there. and you know what, let's for a minute imagine a world without hamas, right? what will this word

look like? let's give this word a name, and let's name this word the west bank. hamas has absolutely no control the west bank and since the beginning of this only through august, 37 palestinian kids were killed. no music festival, no paragliding, no hamas. since the occupation of the west bank, 7,000 palestinians were killed. no music festival, no paragliding, no. him. it's time now for the inf news section of the program. first up we're going to take a look at the us financial system and this entry caught our eyes. it's something that is somewhere below the radar, but it's really really important news. um, it's uh called a terrorist economy. that's how it was described, where washington is prepared to create new, i repeat a new financial disaster for the whole. world, that's right, the us treasury market, that's essential to the functioning of the global

financial system, unfortunately, doesn't seem to be working, and uh, we are looking at this in terms of our take where when you take a look at us treasury bonds all together, it was once us's biggest export, since 2014, that figure, however has been negative, negative 4%, so that's a huge figure for that to be in the negative. sphere, foreign central banks, the reason have stopped the buying, meanwhile, you have us deficits deficits that have continue to grow, whether it's the national or otherwise, and we know the us deficit is obviously very high figure. okay, as matter of fact, we figured this would be best to cover in our next entry where this covers the us debt, it said the us debt to top $50 trillion dollars on paper, mind you, the country's $31.4 trillion dollar debts. was exceeded in january and it was later scrapped all together until the year 2025 and when we picked that piece of news,

this piece of news came out, which we merged into this one news here, mudies made announcement and lowered the outlook on us debt to negative, no surprise there. all right, let's go back to the israeli genicidal war in gaza, the un made announcement about the poverty in palestine, where it set to sore by more than a third, if the war continued for second month, we're in the second month right now, obviously it is going to continue, who knows for how long uh, but it put things in the perspective by saying nearly 20 years of development progress could be wiped out in the occupied territories as well. then uh a look at inflation in europe, that's always a big newsmaker uh, but in a different way here, the imf made this announcement where the middle east conflict could drive up inflation in europe, so again uh one of the um collateral damages of the israely war in gaza where this conflict has already impacted energy prices, no surprise there, which could drive up inflation in

europe uh more generally overall. those were the topics we pick for them for new section. if you think you have topic from whatever part of the world you're in, do send it to us, we really appreciate it, contact information is coming up. occupation forces are perpetrating a genocide in gaza. the zinist propaganda machine has gone into overdrive. on the one hand, people see every day, children, babies being dragged from the rouble dead and dying or having limbs amputated. on the other hand, israeli leads and zinis leaders have uh made a huge list of genocidal statements, the human animals, the unhuman animals, we must wipe them all out, there are no civilians in gaza, all of these are. we talk a lot about hostages, israel had 5,000 hostages before october 7. they've now

stolen kidnapped another 5,000 so they're over 10,000 palestinians imprisoned actual in in jails, not just the open air prison of gaza. one of the things that israel does is that it expands itself. which is an act deemed illegal under international law. now this way, can claim more palestinian land, naturally. you would think that it is israel that is paying for this, but believe it or not, it's the us that is footing this. to some degree and it comes from all places, charity from the us. that is the focus of our in-depth section for this program. in order to get an idea here, what the us does through its charity comes in this form, and it is the cfi, the central fund of israel, charity registered in new york, providing financing and investment for illegal settlement buildings in the occupied territories. now

the money that comes through from the us in this fund gets dispersed, it goes to what's called the ateret kohannum, that's an israeli uh organization, buys land through reclamation to expand settlements and settler population. okay, next, and they say that on their website. ffrat is a again an israeli entity, company, agricultural projects to meet the daily needs of the zinis is what they plan, then uh, also through efrot upgrading roads and security for the settlements for expanded settlment construction. this is how... all the money is spent, next the israeli land, marketing land and real estate exclusively for jews to create an ideological ownership, again the money that comes from the charity is dispersed, and these are the different organizations goes to, and finally regavim, supporting israeli officials for exercising military powers against palestinians, until all of the land is taken from palestinians,

that's what regaviem does, and this is what happens construction, activities of illegal settlements. it goes to this, the expulsion of palestinians, then the next one that we talked about agricultural products to meet the daily needs of the zin, it goes for the creation of settlements, each one of these contributes to the outcome that you see here on the wall, next, expanded settlement infrastructure from upgrading roads and security for the settlements, so you can see the connection there where this is the outcome, and then for the marketing of land and real estate, you have relocation of immigrants that goes to the settlements, they go to the settlements, and finally, in terms of supporting israeli officials for their military power exercises, legalization of settlements ultimately happens there, so there you have an idea about how the money from the charity in the us, which goes to this fund that i talked about, the cfi, and

the way it gets dispersed, these are all the different israeli companies in their website, they actually say the things that are outline here and then how that funds the illegal settlement construction. okay, all right, let's find out what our guests think about all this and more, we have oliver boyt barrett, emirates professor at ohio, and california university, who rejoins us. welcome back to the program, oliver barrett, what we want to uh, focus on in terms of the question i want to ask you, is the information that people were resorting to when it came to this illegal war that israel, the genocidal war was raging on palestinians and for example. generation z really took to social media and looked at twitter, now known as x, and also tiktok. um, how effective you think that was in terms of educating the masses, and for example, the generation z to get an idea about the conflict and how uh, there's so much disinformation when it comes to uh palestinians. we're living, this, this is an incredibly important moment that we are

living through from a geopolitical point of view. i i think i i tend to agree with those who feel that uh, there is no turning back at this point, the the the credibility of of israel has been gravelly damaged, there are very few countries in the global south right now, who will feel very enthusiastic about improving their relations with israel, i think the fostering of stronger relations between the arab league and the the bricks and of course there's a lot of uh overlap between those those two categories uh and other alliances incorporating the muslim world uh and incorporating countries of the global south or we can actually now call it the global majority, but i think right now, we need to be building even bigger, greater alliance, building on the outrage throughout

the world, including the developed world, or so-called developed world, including the collective west, in other words and including particularly the muslim countries of the global south. this is a time for global alliances in opposition to the outrage of israel's uh policy of genocide uh vis the palestinian people. all right, thank you for that. let me bring back charles carlson into the picture, co-founder of uh, we hold these through. um charles carlson, welcome back, our guests talked about the uh global uh impact that the genocidal war has had when it comes to uh the gaza strip, but there's more dimensions when it comes to the um conflict between israel and palestinians, people have taken to social media to uh have an idea about what's going on because of the biased

media narratives to western media in particular, um, how much of an impact has that had when it comes to shaping, the psychy the people when they take a look at this war? well, question is where is the power structure in the united states really come from, what supports this power structure that allows uh the... uh the wishes of the state of israel uh to uh preceed the better interests of the rest of the world and uh the uh the answer to this comes from power structures power groups in the united states that are standard in but not exclusively part the very influential christian uh majority i want to say majority. the voting people, majority of the thinking people uh in the united states have some affiliation with religion, either through the television or

through the tens of thousands of churches that are attended by americans. the ongoing. boycot is having a significant economic impact on israel. the war is estimated to cost the regime as much as $51 billion dollars, but that is an optimistic estimate of the cost of war, and boycotting israel will add more economic pain to the regime. muslims are abstaining from purchasing israeli goods in order to convey a message to israel. this boycot is considered to be part of a... wider movement called the boycott divestment and sanctions bds movement, which was formerly launched in 2005, a coalition of about 170 palestinian grass roots and civil society groups. calls

to boycot israel have grown in recent years and bit concern about its treatment of palestinians. the movement targets international companies that they say are engaged in violations of palestinian human rights, drawing inspiration from the boycots of south africa during aparthide. the bds movement encourages the continued pressure on those who support israel's. osidal war against palestinians in gaza. it's time to boycot starbucks, disney plus, coca-cola, mcdonald's, walmart and instacart and many other brands. i am deleting all the apps. i am no longer supporting those brands ever again, because they think that what they're doing to palestinians is okay, and it's not. hello and welcome to the quick take section. i'm mattiapolisan. when it comes to boycotting israel, it doesn't only include

products. there are different boycots from trade to the military diplomatic ones. all have come into effect in this genocidal war that israel is waging against the gaza strip. one of the starting points can be action from muslim countries, especially regional ones and that would... involve boycotting trade with israel, the following shows the respective countries and the amount of trade that they are doing with israel, obviously a stop to this would definitely hurt israel, especially at this juncture. the other boycott option would be in the arms and military sector, that is one of the biggest sectors in israel's economy, and a boycott there would negatively impact its economy. between 2018 and 2022, at least 30. five countries imported weapons from israel, totaling $3.2 billion dollars. it needs to be mentioned that 10 countries have received about half of all us foreign eight since

world war ii. israel has received about 264 billion dollars in foreign aid from the us, but some of the countries that are receiving this aid are also buying from israel, so cutting arm sales from israel would go against their interests. on the diplomatic front is has definitely taken a huge hit from the war it has waged against the defenseless people of gaza. worldwide protest for one show how its image has been shattered on the world stage. eight countries have recalled their ambassadors from israel as seen here. one country has gone a step further and has severed its ties with israel and that was bolivia. and that is it for this quick take section. please tell us what you think? contact info is coming up. i'm mattiapolis. and i'll see you next week. western media

has been trying hard to control the narrative on this war, but it has failed to do just that. media outlits like cnn, bbc and the lights have tried to portray israel as being the victim. one well-known cnn reporter at the rafa border crossing, however got an earful from an egyptian reporter who put her in place for the us and israel overall when it comes to palestinians. this is our problem, you own. narrative, you own the united nations, you own hollywood, you own all these mouthpieces. where are our voices? our voices need to be heard as well. we've been watching your channels and instead of morning our deads and instead of morning these palestinian children, we've been having to deal with more dehumanization of arabs. we ask you to condemn, where are your condemnations? where is your channel covering this? cover this, say the truth, we understand you're an employee, you're just

pubut, you're just about peace, i understand. you stand you have your foreign policy, no, i've heard you, and you stand you represent your government, but that being said, you're a country that explain free speech, and now we are watching an occupation and we are watching the result of your silence, of your misrepresentation of arab. that does it for this edition of the program. we're going to continue this theme with the israeli war on gaza, tell us if that's a good idea or not, and tell us if you like the program, contact information is behind me, from the tire team is goodbye, onto the next. divide.

the headlines scores of palestinians, many of them children are killed in a fresh strike by the israel military and school where civilians were seeking shelter from relentless attacks. hams says palestinians main demand is the establishment of their own independent states and the resistance will not retreat the realization of their goals. also in the headlines, demonstrations have been held all around the globe with people demanding an end to the israely onslot against palestinians.