tv Eye on Islam PRESSTV December 31, 2023 12:02pm-12:30pm IRST
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with this garbage headline yet, the one where they're trying to convince you that israel stole 80 dead bodies from ghaza of palestinians, pretending like they were trying to confirm that they weren't hostages. a do you know why they actually took them? remember that skin bank we talked about? gaz officials said that after they handed over 80 bodies which they refused to give names or areas of where the bodies were collected from, there was an examination of the bodies and it was revealed that the shapes had significantly changed due to theft of vital organs, and they didn't just take organs from body. that they collected throughout razza that were above ground, they exhumed bodies from graveyards. i'm sure it's shocking to some people, but to palestinians it's not. we have known that they have been harvesting organs from our dead bodies for decades. there's a reason why israel. what i wanted to say, you not everything that the palestinians have come out to speak about in terms of their their oppression, people have considered to be conspiracy theories, because really they are so inhumane. um, yet time
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after time we are proven correct, and it's a shame that it takes so long for the world to catch up and for them to open their eyes and to see what palestinin suffering looks like, because by the time they arrive to where we are, they've been desensitized, and they are um, and and that's the fear, you know, we don't want the world to be desensitized, we want them to be enraged, inflamed um, and and hopefully act with us against the occupying state, um... speaking of suffering uh, as if the relentless bombing wasn't enough, now the palestinians in gaza are having to cope with the elements, yes and of course disease as a result of that. so as you've said, the 90% of the population of gazda have now been displaced, that's almost two million people, the majority of or almost half of the population of ghazda are children that under the age of 18, we know that the um that they are dehydrated. that they are starving and in
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addition to all that, as you've rightly said, they are now having to face the elements, um, let's have look at the conditions that they're looking to face. okay, مطرت الدنيا علينا بهدلتنا وبهدلت الناس وبهدلت الزلام الكبار والاطفال الصغار وكله صار يطلع من الخيم بتنزل ميه عليهم ماحدش يضله قاعد في مكانه عامه البطاطين عامه عاميه.
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living there, it's it's really just sad state of affairs, what can you do in that situation, you're so helpless, um, and and i know that this is probably not the the right of thing to feel in this stage, but as a palestinian it only makes me feel so much more proud of my people that despite everything that they are suffering, that they are continuing, you know, looking after their homes, doing what they can, tying their camel and relying on allah subhanahu wa taala, this only speaks uh of the... resilience and the strength of the palestinian people, men, women, and the children, um, and our victory is nearway winning. imagine, imagine that it's been going on for 84 days, a small population that has been beseeged for over 17 years and still they are unable to get rid of of these people, they are unable to get rid of their um resistance and they are unable to get rid of their resilience, um, so despite all of the hardships, the palestinian people are winning, they sure are, let's... thank
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you, now the truth about the nature of apartite israel has been exposed globally, but despite that, fear still lurks among those who want to openly show solidarity with palestine. this is the case even amongst the general, the generation z, the gen z, who are more aware and outspoken. earlier we spoke to nabiha datu, a student paramedic in the uk about her experience at her university. um, "i think there is honestly lot of support for palestine within our generation, or at least um what i've witnessed in my university in particular, um, there have been stands organized by the islamic societies selling you, palestine badges and wrist bands, um, charities that offer support for palestine, and i think if you speak to lot of people you'll see that there is lot of support, um, overall, people have taken action as well to..." replace starbucks logos and the
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university with the palestine flag, so everywhere you go you can see that there is support for palestine, however i don't think it's as evident until you actually speak to someone. um, although lot of people have the same views, people are still worried about repercussions and i think there is still a lot of fear of publicly speaking due to fear of what would happen um amongst pears in which there was a society that was trying to organize a flag raising ceremony for palestine in in in honor of them and to show our support um which received um which the university. unfortunately refused to allow to happen and the student union of the university claimed that the reason for this is because the universities unable to show that they are a certain side of history or to take a political stance anything, however there's been a lot of backclash on this as students have argued the fact that when the
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same thing was happening with ukraine and russia the university outwardly showed their support towards ukraine, they allowed the events to happen, they allowed anything to go on, but when it comes to palestine... 'they are quiet and they refuse um to let the students really show their support publicly, so it's clear that the higher power is involved or what is stopping people from being able to to show their support as publicly as they deserve to. we also asked nabiha where she thought the world remains so unjust. one thing comes to mind and that is money, greed. um, people who have nothing want something, but the people who have everything want even more.' "and that's the problem. there's a reason that they say that money is the root of all evil, it's the reason why managements of big establishments won't stand for the right side of history, they won't stand for the truth. it all comes down to how much they're getting in their pocket at the end of the day. that shiny piece of paper can make lot of people forget
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everything about right and wrong, but i think that's why it's important that we continue to speak up and we continue to try to show the truth despite their efforts to silence us, because money will come..." go, but stuff like this, it's what shapes you as a person, so i would say take that as some consolation and be a light in this dark world that we live in, because i still have faith that we can change it a little bit a time. you're watching gaza under attack, coming to you straight from the british capital, london. let me put my next question to karameli who's been waiting patiently. um, karam, we just saw there many, the contribution. with the palestinian struggle comes in many different forms, you know all too well how the israel lobby goes after people who speak up for the palestinians, i've seen some of your amazing videos exposing corporate support for settlement expansion, what do you have to say
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to people who get want to get involved in palestine movements, but are afraid of the potential blowback or of the consequ'. it's very simple, sometimes points of history and in life, individuals need to take a stand, the same question can be asked to other people in other societies history, where they've also had despotic rulers and leaders and people have admired those have stood up against them, so it's who you want to be and the light that you want to be in this world you should... towards it, there are many, many action groups locally and nationally that are working towards creating information packages as well as dedicated days of action, sometimes a weekly basis to keep pressure up and also to keep palestine in the conversation as well as raising awareness
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which will then raise affinity which will then contribute towards more action, which is what we want, and i would invite anyone. curious uh about paleside, even have a conversation about it with their friend, and they'll be surprised to to see how far back uh this issue goes and dr. panjwani, it is hostile environment as far as pro-palestine solidarity is concerned, we had discussed it little earlier with fahim, as academic, how difficult is it, would you say for people such as yourself um speaking up? for palestinians, we've seen um professors um losing their jobs uh here in the uk, in the us as well, just how difficult is it to uh to do that? um, i would say it's increasingly difficult, and i agree with the fellow guest
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speaker statement that you your heart is important, you have to make a stand, but you also have to be clever, and that means you should know how a university organization functions, you should know the rights you have, you should know your... you should know the avenues that you can have a voice like as the sister said a student union for example or a trade union a workers union because there you are protected by law and so i think sometimes not realize that yes we can go out on the streets and we should do that, but in a working environment you also have to play the game, right? and you have to be very clever, well i am, i'm embarking on my free speech, this is in terms and conditions, my contract, my, so sometimes we may not always take that approach, and the only way that you can make a change is by law. today, okay, discrimination is very important at work, discrimination of gender, sex, and many other things, where did that come from, from the equality act? before that, there was no such thing. you could discriminate, you see that? so i think that we also have to have vision of how we want to enshrine certain elements
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of our free speech, and what is a protected characteristic? so you have the asarula uh in yemen, as we speak in the past couple hours, hundreds of thousands of yemenis took to the streets, in the insolidarity with the palestinians, um, some are saying that israel is targeting, the iranian mil targeted the iranian. military advisor to syria is attacking southern lebanon because it's trying to bait these countries and that are affiliated with with iran. um, what is this a precipis, how dangerous a situation is this in your opinion? well, of course, and it has happened before with the israel leban lebanon war for example, so there has been attempts beforehand of that, there has been verbal threats to iran, for example, so i don't think this is anything new, but think that if this were to occur then i think israel perhaps believes it has us support and uk and
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other people support, so if there is a military war in the region, it works in the favor to control resources, to control region to control land, and that would be the end game, i think benjamin netanyahu did say before all this, before 7th october uh, where he showed map, i think whether this was united nations or in the forum to to as if gaza wasn't there. and the he wanted a like a silk road if you like, you know, from the western states to the arab states etc. so that is the end game, but i think it's it's going to be very volatile. um, we'll see, it's it's only matter of time, it is, as you say, very, very volatile. now, um, disease, hunger, and lack of clean water, as well as limited access to healthcare are just some of the issues gaza's internally displaced persons faced daily. at the makeshift idp camp to the west of raffa. many of the thousands have been forced to flee and
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originally come from the north to areas designated as quote unqute safe zones for residence by the occupation forces. have look at this. i only been here for two or three days and i haven't encountered any kind of medical treatment at all. i have to try and get my kids to field hospital. but to be honest with you, it is unsafe for me to move around as i can get bombed or shelled on the way there. i don't have any kind of medicine available, not for the children and not for the elderly people. also, unfortunately, the water is polluted, which has led to many diseases. i've been disabled in in a wheelchair for five years now. i can't and don't know where to go for treatment, neither the clinic. nor the hospital were able to provide treatment and i have no idea how to get treated. fahim muhammad is back with her
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second batch of stories on the media coverage the gazan genocide. good to have you back fahima starting with israel's uh apartite system against palestinians, a cruel system of domination. absolutely. um, there is a shift obviously and another call in israel where people do... stand up saying not in our name, and we have daniel levy who's actually going to be speaking about this a little bit more in his video. if you know you're in the business of permanently denying another people their rights, of running a regime of of really quite horrendous structural violence where you're already picking up the the background music of this is going apartide, right? we we this is where okay. um, that's a really bad space for us to be
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in, how can we preemptively nip that in the bud? for you, if you can make the argument about, how dare you, what kind of animous do you have against us as people that you would even make that accusation? if you can make that the debate, rather than your own human rights organizations inside. israel have now reached the same determination as palestinian organizations. amnesty international and human rights watch have now made the legal designation that this is a regime of apartide exactly. how'd you answer that accusation sir? which which is a crime against humanity, absolutely, but again as he describes what he does, it means that they're so trained in sort of countering and and sort of you playing blind to all these accusations that even if they are going to go down that route again they don't really see it in that way and there's no evidence according to them even implicate them, turning it against the occupied, playing weaponizing their victimhood, absolutely. um, we discussed the
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the uk's responsibility or moral responsibility ability. that the doctor disagreed with, because that's not how they see it, uh, but what we have seen in the recent wars from iraq to afghanistan, to libya, every single time the uk government has taken the side of the abusers, they have done so, and it's not just because people always say, oh, they just follow the us, it's not that alone, it's the fact that they go so much length to do so much more, and the next post will actually show that they actually sent um 500 extra troops to cyprus base. um in order to supply weapons to israel, so these are operations that even they want to keep secret, and there's so much more that they haven't actually shown, and lot of the times it is, it is again not just to do with money, but it's a lot to do with power and to already show the alliance stability and strength to keep it going by having this continuous kind of operations. we talked
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about the settler violence against palestinians and it's not limited to the use of... guns, some are taking it a step further? oh, absolutely, the next video, i think we'll say it all, so we'll watch what she has to say, qui tombe tous les jours, tous les jours, vous ouvrez votre whatsapp et vous regardez 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, et ben aujourd'hui je pense qu'il a une décision à prendre, d'accord, c'est je comprends tout le monde, d'accord, je comprends les pauvres personnes de gaza et cetera, mais nous c'est notre survie, donc je pense que les politiques doivent accepter. de d'appuyer sur le boom et malheureusement j'ai juste un message à faire passer aux politiques, eradication, make it easy, make it simple and obviously survival of the fittis and and they see themselves as you know being the oppressed and they needing to eradicate who they feel is the actual threat and they will do whatever it takes in order to do that. the us led illegal invasion of iraq for wmd that
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weren't there exactly is seared in everybody's mind for sure. um... thank you very much, welcome. okay, um, let's continue the discussion here, and i want to put the next question to karam ali, and karem, you heard what that woman had to say, a relative of settler that apparently was killed, calling for nuking the palestinians. your thoughts. i've never seen anybody have a mental breakdown on television, but today. is the first day i've seen that, this is zionism in its ruorest, purest form, a complete and utter disregard and disrespect of the people the land, the culture on the land and the land itself. how can you proclaim to be, how can you proclaim to be the holy custodian of the land if you like, but be in favor of
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nuking it to oblivion, this is something that's very clear in gaza, anyway the way that they treat the land, so it's actually of no surprise, and as we said earlier in the program, it's the most right-wing government that the zianist regime has had, and by no, no doubt they've been voted in by others who've fallen in line uh into this liquid mentality since the assassination of yidzakabin by ultrazionists themselves. all right, um, doctor, we saw what happened to apartite south africa, it got to point where its existence became untenable, and that everything went down hill, um, do you see it happening to apartite israel, perhaps in our lifetime, i know it's very difficult to look into the future, given the kind of support
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israel has internationally, from the western countries, i, i don't think in the... same manner, because the difference is you see the military might and weapons that the us is supplying to israel, and it wasn't as such in south africa, this was something more organic and it it wasn't the full force that we're seeing of of military might, so i think that there was a possible of a government change of people living together, yeah, in israel you're seeing wiping out and annihilation of people, so the only positive thing that i see is in the long term, the the mental and political collapse. of israel, so whether or not palestinians can return there or some can, but at least what i foresee is perhaps a different kind of israel, so not the harmony. of africans and let's say if you like whites living together in south africa, but a different kind of israel possibly because of different generational thinking, that's a possibility. we'll see. karam, perhaps the
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same question to you, in south africa, when apartide was dismantle for one of better word, you you see the same people who who kept a partide in place, stay on in south africa, but some are saying if israel, a part of israel. were to be dismantled and for there to be a one state where palestinians or jews, christians and muslims live together, then some of the people who have migrated there illegally and took palestinians lands will have to just leave, absolutely, that is the core of the sort of post occupation discussion, what happens to the... settlers, well they got there somehow from somewhere, and if they do not wish to return the home
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that they are occupying to the original owner and move few streets down perhaps and live in peace and harmony, then perhaps an option for them might be to return to where they came from, at the end of the day they are settler colonialists, they are illegal settler. living on illegal settlements and they should be regarded as such uh even within our conversations and in our discussions uh in public. of course only time will tell right, only time will tell. we're going to have to leave it there gentlemen uh with those final thoughts we've come to the end of this edition of the program. many thanks again to my guests for their contributions. gaza under attack will be back next time with more. until then continue to keep palestine. in your hearts, goodbye.
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press tv headlines: day 86 of the us-israely onslot on gaza, tens of thousands have been killed, while displayed survivors are at imminent risk of famin and starvation. israely occupation forces once again stormed the refugee camp of new champs in the west bank town of tulkaram. and resistance groups in the region have launched more attacks than american and israeli targets and supported palestinians.
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