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deep felt condolences and just as deeply felt rage at the mass killing on the gaza border is there anything at this point that you can do to stop it first of all i appreciate your kindness and. your understanding of the situation and your condolences to the palestinian people we have witnessed the. real massacre sixty four people were killed. totally and i and in their land none of them across the israel and then there's really army sixty four and one day two thousand five hundred and the west bank and gaza and and the line the line that we hear from israel is that israel defend itself i don't know defend itself against what and against whom. and then the united states nikki haley then best of the it's really becoming to be the spokesperson of those really government and this american administration has really thrown this region down the bath of extremism violence
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and counter-violence and bloodshed let's not sort of diminish it only to you the united states is there israel obviously there is also an international community and you cannot say that it has entirely turned a blind eye to what has happened and number of countries have recalled their ambassador is the u.n. human rights spokesman called the monday violence appalling and deadly the europeans including the russians expressed condemnation do you think though this reaction is proportionate to what has happened as you pointed out more than sixty people killed on the one day and more than twenty seven hundred injured well first of all we appreciate the support of the international community to support those countries will stood tall and stood trial the to shoulder with the palestinian people in their moment of sadness and darkness it was too tall to condemn the masses are only massacres and war crimes being committed here and that i think the
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majority of the nations of the earth have expressed their condemnation of such acts then out of the condemnation what do we do about it. what do we do about it since march thirtieth to now we have hundred and four palestinian killed mostly women and children five thousand wondered what do we do to morrow israel feels immune and and the end of the day. we have done everything humanly possible as palestinians as leadership here to achieve peace with israel we have organized as a right to exist on the sixty seven lines we have accepted the two state solution we have worked so hard with the quartet americans are european union and united nations to achieve peace but there is really government refused the two state solution refuse the creation of palestinian state continue to build settlements and dictation on the ground and then comes the united states administration to support all the israeli more than steps and to dictate on us that's just throwing.
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international diplomacy towards chaos lawlessness and enter now mr erekat as i said in my introduction this is a hugely hugely and fair world and this is not the first time that these rallies are resorted to such disproportionate and in my view callous violence against your people but let me repeat my question again do you think there is anything that other countries can do. to change that what exactly you would like to see russia the european union china any of your supporters in the arab world to do at this point i would like or the people who stand with international law the countries that stands to defend international like russia china and the european union. organizations like the u.n. and other countries to hold israel accountable they cannot continue business as usual with israel they cannot continue receiving israeli prime ministers and their capitals they cannot continue that appeared with israel as long as they do these
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things. is a must be held accountable if any country on earth does this to its people and to the people to do that to their neighbors what would enter national unity do. now this government feels immune feels that people one statement condemning saying it's bad and then in this critical time we have an american veto in the general assembly we have solutions that are inevitably mental so if you want me to be very frank i want these nations because if to stand tall and hold the israeli government accountable now we have made it a fair deal for the international criminal court we want the help of the members of the international court criminal court to open to help us open an official investigation and this war crimes against the israeli prime minister and defense minister and others or officials we have a guest now in the human rights council calling for an investigation committee we won the support of the international community to send and compel israel to accept
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this investigation committee to begin its work that's that's what we need but then you know if you feels that they can continue building settlements massacring palestinians and then it's business as usual and their occupation and their the militia of arms and collective punishment and then and then business as usual if i say there are people who tell me this is not realistic how can we be part of making peace while we treat as i like this israel has a government that in one partner we don't have a partner in israel for peace anymore this israeli government is there to destroy that was their solution and to destroy hope for peace mr arafat you made it clear on a number of occasions that you don't do not see the united states as an honest or independent peace broker and i think many people at least in moscow would totally agree to that but with the united states absent who can possibly come power and this is i mean this is a painful question but i have to ask you who can possibly compel israel to negotiate
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in good faith or even sees what doing what it's doing that's that's up to the international community that's up to the moral standards of nations if they want this region because who was. benefiting now from such actions presidential and they are not spit the united states is not only not a partner they cannot be a partner they are not a broker they have taken the seats of netanya now they are dictating the solution they're throwing this region towards lawlessness extremists in this region have been strengthened and bravado demolition by this american is a decisions and actions more than time before moderates and arab world people like me have been destroyed so that the nations of the world if they can't get through security council if they can get through the international criminal court if they can do anything about their trip that means you're telling the arab people the only way for you is do is while and the only way we're for you is to support extremism and that's what we've been fighting against as arabs because we we want to live and
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let live we want we want to human rights we want to human rights women's rights democracy the rule of law we want peace but with such actions such fascism such up our side being exercised by israel and israel getting away with it i think this is opening the get off in this region speaking about who is benefiting from i think there is a deliberate effort on the israeli side now to paint all the gas the protesters as hamas which they clearly weren't having said that do you think there's any truth to the argument that hamas may find these demonstrations and the ensuing violence welcome distraction allowing it to refocus you know the growing frustration with that same group in gaza into anger against israel well i don't you know this is this is the israeli argument all the time isabel is the finding itself how many israelis were on the domain israelis were killed how many israelis
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were threatened none how mass has nothing to do with this demonstration there are people from all spectrums of the listing and civic society they are your reporters are there the. do you see a single palestinian and is the most russians with a gun with open with anything nothing women and children and men and all all from societies from all palestinian factions from all parts of the world but then israel's line is that you're on a mass has threatened destruction of israel they're destroying hitting syria they're hitting lebanon they did it killing the palestinians and then they clip their big limb to be the victims and that's the irony that's the irony of fascism we have seen such pretext given by all fascists who want throughout this history israel is killing and destroying a palestinian civilian population under occupation under israeli occupation under
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international law civilians should be protected and the international community must move in a direction of providing international protection for palestinians mr arafat as he as you mentioned we do have reporters on the ground and most of them are attached to the very indeed peaceful nature of this protest they say that given how many people have participated in the demonstrations they were actually surprised how by how placid those demonstrations were on the palestinian side but i also have to know that there have been reports of some young men bringing knives and fans cutters to the demonstrations there were also reports of calls over the loudspeakers to burst through the stands and. i just wonder what do you think would be the proportionate reaction from the israeli side to those kind of actions let's say that people who cross the line ok which by the way there is no line because there's a good lobby fine it's one of those a little bit here but you know there's a fence there and there are israeli soldiers guarding that fence the fence
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a self-imposed self created israel has not declared its borders yet that's the question but when we saw that if it is coming from the middle east towards europe then as of thousands. did you hear of any people being killed and russia oland or in germany or in france or in britain yes if as palestinians across the line you can assist them you can arrest them you don't have to open gunfire and we have pictures of israeli soldiers killing our kids and our boys and girls and then celebrating grabbing. their happiness these are war crimes these are murderers i cannot accept any pretext other than saying that they defending how can they defend themselves do use the pretext of such massacres i think the message is very clear i think the message is telling palestinians we're here to stay as you're occupiers we're going to block it we're
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going to continue our control in the west bank we're going to continue our settlements we have the full support of this american administration that i'm administration which is really throwing the whole world thought chaos and lawlessness and same ism and its actions and then those nations where there are one hundred ninety four nations on earth not a single nation without a problem in its social demographic fabric or geographic fabric so if we're going to go on the backs of lawlessness. that drumbeat is pursuing the result will be chaos lawlessness the rule of the jungle violence and counter-violence and bloodshed and extremism is that what we want is that what europe want what russia wants what china wants mr arafat this is obviously not what we want but unfortunately the world has allowing has been allowing this for for a number of years if not decades already let me ask you one very specific question on the on may fourteenth advance because the protests in on the gaza border let's
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call it border around the gaza found had been ongoing for more than a month there were victims and casualties before dozens of people killed and yet. the majority of the casualties occurred on that specific day of israel's founding and the opening of these really of the american embassy interest in him do you find these fact that the majority of casualties occurred on may fourteenth a tragic sad coincidence or do you think that these really army was tasked with being more forceful with using lie fire on that specific occasion well exactly the palestinians present from canberra as a fire and then he poured fuel on the fire then instead of being the fireman they became the arsonists and that's the meaning of the opening of the embassy and used the resentment like establishing
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a new settlement outposts and there are three and then the message from israel ok we have the next steps here and look at what we're doing we're massacring palestinians and then in the united nations there are two israeli ambassadors one named and one member haley and we will blame the palestinians. we'll blame the palestinians will export fear and so on and i don't think that enter national community has any on and their forehead saying stupid because the lack of free action of the international community is as little a threat is that any threat to the stability and security of all nations extreme blood will be brutal brutal will breed blood violence will breed violence this petition will lead to disparate apts and what israel is doing now and destroying a palestinian life social life economic life making people hopeless what will the
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it would be creating i'm a father of four a grandfather of seven i don't want them to be suicide bombers i want them to be allowed to your children in russia like their children as we didn't like the children and they're not states i want them to be a normal people with such massacres which at which such a crimes and israel getting away with it what you're doing is is totally behaving the way of for gets of help to open in this region mr erekat let me stop you there we have to take a very short break but we'll be back in just a few moments. in twenty four you know bloody revolution to the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is
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always spontaneous or is it just no lawyer here i mean your list book video. is out of the new school in the middle of the fall the ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty four g. and. those who took part in this shit over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy evil in front ation let it be an arms race based on often spearing dramatic developments only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and.
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