occupied west bank. disney warren gaza continues to claim civilian lives. the carnage is so bad that the world is turning against israel and it stan support to the us for that matter for. the genocide, many people are horrified at the images of dead 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 arab league 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 region, west asia or or as it's called. in some corners, there's a trade

embargo that can be 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... tik tok 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. continues: calls

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

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 genzy 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. on

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 out there that was posted and continues to be posted online, first up we pick 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 scientis occupied palestine into a base for terrorism. israel is 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 boycot, 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 starbucks from the country. now in egypt uh 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, uh, we have first oliver boyd barrett, he's emiratius professor of ohio and at ohio and california university. and he's also the author of conflict narratives in syria. oliver barrett, welcome to economic divide. it's good to have you with us, um, to begin with, uh, 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

boycot israel and other relations between the arab states and israel, but the fact that they don't enforce it is where the problem is. uh, 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 interest visas israel, it was party to the formation of the palestinian liberation organization, for example, but the in my view uh the effectiveness of the arab league visavy the palestinian cause uh began to uh deteriorate with the oslow accords of 1995, these brought about a reconciliation of

sorts between the plo and israel and as much as each recognized the other. and set in train a process that was confirmed in 2020 by the abrahams accord of a greater rapprochement between the uh between many members of the arab league and israel, in the meantime the the fishers between members of the arab league have if anything grown, again weakening its effectiveness uh 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 and zionism. charles carlson, welcome to the program, this war obviously has shown to the world the uh true face of israel's brutality, and many are taking action aside from coming out on the streets to boycot israel, especially countries who are very obviously symp sympathetic and aligned with the the palestinian cause, and i'm referring to the countries here in west asia, after our israel trades with this with these countries, but how much of a will is there for these countries to actually boycot israel? well, in the first place, all these questions about uh why israel acts the way it does can be boiled down to very simple formula and that is uh what does uh the power structure in the us 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 manners and matters of war, but actually the pressure groups uh that are in the us that uh provide the money to keep the state of israel going, the truth is when it stands in the way of objectives of the 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 conflicts, 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 word is letting me do it, the thing is the question is what is a proportionate response, because it has been different from one year 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 crypto, so my question is today, what is the going rate today for human life? i mean, 2014 was a great here for benchapiro, 88 israels were died, and there was 2,329 palestinians killed on the other side, that is one israeli for 27, palestinian, that is very good exchange rate, i mean in 2018, 300 palestinian died, ah, who's counting, you know, do you condemn hames for the atrocity, yes, i condemn hames, i condemn hames. i candem hamas is the source of all evil, there are religion for, 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 westbank 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, 700 palestinians were killed. no music festival, no paragliding, no hamas. it's time now for the info 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 somewhat 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 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 uh sphere, foreign central banks, the reason have stopped them buying, meanwile you have us deficits deficits that have continued 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 debt ceiling 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 uh one news here, moodis uh made announcement and lowered the outlook on us debt to negative, no surprise there. all right, let's go back to the israeli genocidal war on gaza, the un made announcement about the poverty in palestine where it's set to sore by more than the third if the war continued for second month, we're 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 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 uh 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 picked for then for new section. if you think you have topic from wherever part of the world you're in, do something to us, we really appreciate it. contact information is coming up. while israel's occupation forces are perpetrating genocide in gaza, the zinish propaganda machine has gone into overdrive. on the one hand, people see every day, children, babies being dragged from the rouble dead, dying or having limbs amputated. on the other hand, israely leaders and zionist leaders have uh made huge list of genocidal statements, the human animals, the unhuman animals, we must wipe them all out there. those civilians in gaza, all of these are patently genocidal statements, we talk a

lot about hostages, that israel had five, hostages before october 7th, 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 its settlements which is an act deemed illegal under international law. now this way it 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 bill 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, this fund gets dispersed, it goes to what's called the ateret kohannim, that's an israeli organization, buys land through reclamation to expand settlements and settler population, okay? next, and they say that on their website, frot is again an israeli entity company, agricultural projects to meet the daily needs of the zinis is what they plan, then also through efrot, upgrading roads and security for the settlements for. expanded settlement 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 regiving does. and this is what happens. construction activities of illegal settlements from a teret kohanim, 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 uh for the... of land and real estate, you have relocation of immigrants that goes to the settlements, they go to the settlements, and finally in terms the 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 disperts, these are all the different israeli companies in their website. they actually say the things that are outlined 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 boy barrett emiratus 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 uh illegal war that uh israel the genocidal war was raging on palestinians and for example, generation z really took the social media and looked at twitter, now known as x and also tick toc. um, how effective do 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. well, living, this, this

is an incredibly important moment that we are living through, from a uh gear. political uh point of view, i i think i tend to agree with those who feel that there is no turning back at this point, the the the credibility of of israel has been gravely uh damaged, there are very few countries in the global south right now, who will feel very enthusiastic about improving their relations with israel, i i think the fustering of stronger relations between the arab league and the the bricks and of course there's a lot of overlap between those those two categories uh and other alliances incorporating the uh 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 uh we need to be building even bigger greater

alliance building on uh the outrage throughout the world including the developed world and call 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 policy of genocide uh vis the palestinian people. all right, thank you for that. let me bring back charles carlson. to the picture, co-founder of uh, we hold these truths, um, charles carlson, welcome back, uh, our guest 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 conflict between israel and palestinians, people have taken to social media to 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 of the people when they take a look at this war? well, question is where does the power structure in the united states really come from, what supports this? structure that allows the the wishes of the state of israel uh to precede the better interest of the rest of the world, and the the answer to this comes from power structures, power groups in the united states that are standtered in, but not exclusively part of the very influential christian u majority, i want to say, majority of the voting people, majority of the thinking people 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

grassroots, and civil society groups. calls to boycot israel have grown in recent years and met 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 genocidal war against palestinians in gaza. it's time to boycot starbucks, disney plus, coca-cola, mcdonald's, walmart and instacar 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 2008. and 2022, at least 35 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 again. their interest on the diplomatic front, israel has definitely taken a huge hit from the war it has waged against the defenseless people of gaza. worldwide protests 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 does it for this quick take section. please tell us: what you think? contact info is coming up. i'm mattia posian 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 outles 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 this role overall when it comes to palestinians. this is our problem, you own the narrative, you own the united nations, you own hollywood, you own all these mouthpieces, where our voices, our voices need to be heard as well, we've been watching your channel, and instead of morning our dead, 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 your name. you're just topic, you're just about peace, i understand you have your foreign policy, no, i've heard you, i understand 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. and the tire team is goodbye to the next economic divide.