What is the real death toll in Gaza? | Les Roberts | The Big Picture S4E13
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- In 2004, Les Roberts smuggled himself into Iraq as his own government was in the midst of bombing and occupying the country.
His mission was to find out how many civilians had been killed in the devastating US-led invasion, because Western media was refusing to cover it.
When he published his findings in the Lancet Report, that between 100,000 and 600,000 people had been killed - it was dismissed and scorned. Years later, his estimate has been accepted as true.
Inside Iraq, Roberts witnessed the horrors of America’s indiscriminate bombing campaign, and the terror it inflicted on the people of Iraq, and Iraqi children in particular.
Today, he watches as a similar horror is unleashed on children in Gaza.
More than 37,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli airstrikes since October 7, including more than 15,000 children.
Many health officials, including Roberts, believe that number is likely conservative, as it doesn’t account for thousands missing or trapped beneath the rubble of their homes, nor those who have died from the spread of disease and famine.
This week on The Big Picture Podcast, we speak with Dr Les Roberts, an epidemiologist and Professor Emeritus at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
Dr Roberts spent his career documenting death and disease in conflict zones - including in Rwanda, the Congo and Iraq.
You can read his opinion piece on the accuracy of the death toll in Gaza for Time Magazine here: time.com/69096...
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We owe it also to our shared humanity to protests until this atrocious injustice is put to and end!
Never again for anyone
They gave us fictional evolution nonsense so no one can say earth's Creator who is Omnipotent and Eternal by His Spirit has promised to intervene. All was foretold by the Prophets about these days. When the mass murderers are requited in the way they have made other people suffer we who see it will know justice has been implemented and no one can say it wasn't deserved.
@simonsteen-andersen3181 You are a HUMAN BEING not THE DEMONS FROM THE PIT OF HELL WHICH ARE BRINIGING THEIR HELL TO EARTH AND GENOCIDING THE POOR POOR PALESTINIAN PEOPLE. 😢 💔
My colleague was born in Hanoi while the usa were bombing overhead. Many millions of people globally have experienced being bombed by the usa while they were children
Yes but your colleague is alive, unlike the starved ones in Gaza.
The Vietnamese have put them behind and have moved forward either in their own country or as descendants of immigrants in other countries.
Why then so many Abdulzzz migrated to 🇺🇸?
Children dying of fright is nauseating.
As a 63 year old Grandmother who has been through ALOT in life...this is something l wish l had never heard was real and terrifies and will haunt me as an American, with our governments total participation... 👶🏻👶🏽👶🏾Babies, children ,how l wish l c take you all in my arms. You are in my heart and duas. 😢
Something like that makes me lose hope in humanity
It has been happening in Gaza for months. When children don't have proper nutrition, and the hygiene situation is so bad that disease is spreading rapidly, their little bodies don't have the capacity to recover from the shock of something like a nearby air strike. They get scared, and their hearts stop. It's such a tragedy.
@@hloa12no it’s been happening there for over 100 years…..
@christopherkucia1071 thanks for the reminder. It's hard to comprehend it all
Great work Les Roberts, having dedicated so much to understand how violent and ruthless the empire is.
"All Great Empires Must Fall"...this one took a good fall on its face which will never be forgotten or forgiven
excellent episode, thank you. Dr Roberts is among many unsung heroes in these catastrophes.
There is no condition that should restrict a man from feeding a child.
There’s only one condition, a pathological condition called Zionism.
The condition is entirely made by satanic ideations.
It is so true...when you are out in the field working, you see, hear, smell, touch, ..........it is such a contrast to TV or radio. When you see the human family suffering, especially the children, it changes your brain waves completely and realize the enormous magnitude of world injustice, government corruption, lack of equality and equity.
I thought in the 1st month of bombings in Gaza, it was over the top, 9 months on, I can't imagine why the world can't stop the killing or get aid to the survivors, why people are complicit, I have followed everyday with sadness, empathy & frustration when most people I know have remained silent.
I guess because Israel is extremely belligerent government. UN is useless. ICJ has no enforcement power. As Prof. Mearsheimer says, there is no authority to refrain or punish an heavely armed (by the USA), ruthless and bloodthirsty government. There would be hope if the USA stopped supporting them. But I'm not optimistic at all.
Note it's the White Governments, Anglo-Saxon Governments that are the evil government in the world. I thing these Governments are a cult. You will note that in every war in the past two plus decades the Anglo-Saxon countries were always very active. Afganistan, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen etc These are most Evil Governments in the world.
I feel same exactly!
The same 😢
first thing I think of when I wake up and last thing I think of when I fall asleep.. I can not comprehend how any human being supports this Psychopathic regime..
We have lost our humanity!
It's only Western Europe, America, Australia and Canada who have lost their humanity...They have become Rogue Terrorist Regimes bathing in the blood of innocent people...👹💀☠️
We really have 😢
Our governments never had any humanity to begin with. And neither do the people still defending any of this in any way. They are not human.
You lost it long time ago. Remember Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yugoslavia and so on...
“We” is too inclusive. Many of us have not lost our humanity. The U.S. corporate media (part of the plutocracy that runs the U.S.) wants us to believe we’ve lost it. I was in the Army, infantry in the U.S. war against the people of Viet Nam. It was ugly. But I still retain my belief in the majority of the people. We need valid, complete information. That’s something the US plutocracy tries to stop
Thank you for bringing us this important conversation.
So much discussion. Just STOP the war.
A war ends when one side admits defeat.
@@andyd568are you in support of starvation? Is rayl is doomed as is USA impunity.
It is astonishing that Joe Biden could have ended the war on Gaza months ago by just saying to Israel No More Money. But he won't do that. His administration stands around wringing their hands and knitting their brow like, OMG! What can we do?? It's theater and it is utterly disgusting.
@@andyd568or when a violent depraved perpetrator is identified and disarmed
Powerful People DO NOT WANT TO END THE WAR/CONFLICTS.
You can not be that naive.
Oh my dear Lord. It just gets more and more awful.
BDS and more for Israel.
BDS for Hamas too.
Probably would not have chosen it from the title, but by lucky choice, just happening to hear this interview gave me respect and insight for investigators like Les Roberts and the work they somehow manage to accomplish.
What cannot be disputed is that food and water privation is being used as a weapon, whatever you wish to call it.
World's biggest open air gulag. For about 100 years now
Did you mention the numbers of churches, mosque elementary and middle schools, the number of museums, libraries and universities?
Truly acts of evil and selfishness!
One can literally say "ALL" 😢😢😢
98 health buildings buildings had been wiped out or severly damaged at the end of *March*. Around 200 religious sites. And over 500 schools, according to a research by Le Monde (French main stream newspaper).
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And hospitals... 😢
Great interview
It's absurd to have quibbling about whether it's a genocide. Yes, it IS a genocide. Who says not? The country committing it, and the countries helping to commit it ,by sending bombs and funds- in short, the mass murderers and co mass murderers.
It is absurd to argue about the numbers of deaths, too. It's a distraction from the fact that the US is responsible for the genocide of a helpless, unarmed, trapped, innocent people. Our government/media has a fit if 3 Americans are taken hostage or killed in another country, yet when we are responsible for the deaths of 20,000, which is really 36,000 innocents, there is silence, distraction and denial. This is heinous.
I am disgusted and ashamed of my government.
There is no genocide in Gaza based on definition because the Palestinian birth rate is high and civilians are not being targeted.
DON'T LET ANYONE
CONVINCE YOU IT STARTED ON
October 7th:
Haifa massacre - March 6, 1937
Jerusalem massacre - Dec 6, 1937
Haifa massacre - March 27, 1938
Haifa massacre - July 6, 1938
Jerusalem massacre - July 13, 1938
Jerusalem massacre - July 15, 1938
Haifa massacre - July 25, 1938
Jerusalem massacre - July 26, 1938
Balad al-Sheikh massacre - June 12, 1939
Haifa massacre - June 19, 1939
Haifa massacre - June 20, 1947
Jaffa massacre - Dec 12, 1947
Abbasiya massacre - Dec 13, 1947
Al-Khasas massacre - Dec 18, 1947
Bab al-Amud massacre - Dec 29, 1947
Jerusalem massacre - Dec 30, 1947
Balad al-Sheikh massacre - Dec 31, 1947
Deir Yassin massacre - April 9, 1948
Abu Shusha village massacre - May 9, 1948
Tantura massacre - May 22, 1948
Lydda massacre - July 1948
Qibya massacre - Oct 14, 1953
Al-Dawayima massacre - Oct 29, 1948
Kafr Qasem massacre - Oct 29, 1956
Khan Yunis massacre - Nov 3, 1956
Rafah massacre - Nov 12, 1956
Abu Zaabal factory bombing - Feb 13, 1970
Sabra and Shatila massacre - Sept 16, 1982
Al-Aqsa Mosque massacre - Oct 8, 1990
Ibrahimi Mosque massacre - Feb 25, 1994
Qana massacre - April 18, 1996
Jenin massacre - April 3, 2002
Qana massacre - July 30, 2006
Gaza Strip massacre - August 5, 2022
Jenin massacre - January 26, 2023
Jenin massacre - July 3, 2023
Gaza Genocide - Still ongoing.
The US sent thousands of pounds ds of Humanitarian aid to Gaza and a small amount of weapons to Isreal per the Pac they have between countries. The US is not the reason for the continued war. They have stopped weapons until a cease fire is agreed on . Isreal is non compliant. Don't blame the US .. we have our own shit to worry about . We don't have and won't have boots on the ground over there.
Also people like Raz Segal who is an Isreali born holocaust and genocide scholar said this back in November 2023. He said it was textbook genocide.
@@adriennefried5368that is a sociopathic point of view
Stay strong , support humanity , truth and integrity
I was in a high risk pregnancy when the US military invasion started in 2003, and I remember feeling really sad for women in Iraq who were in the same situation and who would lose their pregnancies due to interrupted care, unlike me.
And before that war, they lived under sanctions from 1990. Devastating.
Did you know that Bush was persuaded to go into Iraq by 1sreal. Scary listening to the PM conveying this to Bush. Fascism is alive and well in 15real
Is there any reporting about the aid truck drivers? How are they surviving? Which countries are they from?
Breaks my heart ❤️
Children dying of fright . . and the US plutocracy doesn’t give a rip. The U.S. Constitution allows the people to form a new government when the existing one is disfunctional. . .
The truth will set us all free
Inspiring person :)
Thanks for this greatly informative interview. ❤❤❤🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
What great DOCTOR who really cares.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Breaks my heart! 😢 The children dieing like that. .may Almighty God have Mercy on us all for our wickedness upon humanity.
Maybe thete parents shouldn't have started a war, it's their fault for allowing Hamas to govern and build a military war machine in Gaza.
@@adriennefried5368. are you for real?????
@@adriennefried5368. Zio-ghoul!
I'm heartbroken that our government is complicit in these atrocities.
U S of IsraLIE! We’ve been conquered from within. History repeating itself with these ghouls
What are you doing to get it stopped?
Excellent interview. What an admirable human being. Thank you.
Thanks for this important interview in which Dr. Roberts explains the very precise methods used for counting the death tolls in ear zones. He shows how, if anything there is an under count. Excellent information.
We are despised around the world and for good reason.
We KNOW it is PEOPLE in high places.❤
@@pausereflect5911 Arabs are for their deceitful ways infiltration into our society will not bring about Obamas revolution...
How can anyone stand with a country directly committing such horrendous crimes against humanity? It boggles my mind.
Money power corruption money power corruption…
@@tobiashardy1620 That's why for some, but for most that doesn't apply. It's the so-called Christians who stand with that country, thinking it is God's will. Their theology is totally f'ed. It's so bad that they can't see such blatant evil. Proverbs 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil. Jesus: You shall know them by their fruits. Talmud: very terrible things.
Arabs tribes have been killing g each other for centuries Suni vs Shia
People like Dr Les Roberts restore my faith in humanity.
Great Les Roberts, great program!
I hope to live long enough to see this world be more compassionate. 😢
What a great human being - we need more of you in this world!
Wow what a guy. Probably one of the best, if not the best, interviews MEE has done in relation to Gaza.
Thanks for explaining how war death happens and especially the horrible impact of bombs on young kids. Very Sad and unbearable. Makes me think the leaders of USA are heartless for selfish reasons.
War is about stealing by murdering.
A much bigger thing going on here who all involved I don't know dam sides being taken chosen ? Bigger players here I know it but don't forget Ukraine here ❤ really good killers we have become let's work on that come on world ? Are we all animals ?
Thank you for this interview
I think colonialism, racism, and capitalism have a lot to do with the lack of care for starving children in other nations. also distributing food to our neighbors within our country isn't always welcomed, there are lots of folks who see that as bad, who think certain people are just destined to suffering and an early death.
I think about Hind Rajab and i know exactly what is happening. Indiscriminate killing. Find that pattern.
Me too. I followed her story closely and was devastated when she had been found. I think of her often. Justice for Hind. Justice for Palestine.
@@jessicamarkham-brink6009 Good ridence...
Great guest, very educational
How can people be so heartless? What is this world coming to? Vicious animals?
The Palestinian Hamas terrorists and complicit Palestinians are.
Animals are not psychopaths and don't commit gen0c1de. They are superior beings, compared to humans.
Gaza was dependent on the aid coming through Rafah which almost completely stopped by the Israelites. The other point there is no way there is any food stores left as the bombing is so relentless that it’s flatten cities. So I believe it’s famine
That’s why thoroughly investigation is so critical which Israel never agrees to.
“Under what conditions do I owe a starving child food and when don’t I?”
-Les Roberts
What a powerful reflection on the conditionality of ethics, responsibility, and compassion.
I believe Mr. Roberts makes a great case that the concept of “nationality” is a root cause of many global problems. How many children die while held captive at the US border in Texas? When so many families leave their country of origin because the US funded and armed coup d’etats all across the Americas, it’s plainly evident that the US cares nothing for non-American people, especially children.
They don't believe in god but they believe he promised them Palestine.
We in North America took out millions based on the manifest destiny myth.
Thank you
Very informative.
Read the protocols of the elders of zion
HIGH PROBABILITY COUNTING IS WAY UNDER THE ACTUAL COUNT
Thank you Dr. Roberts! Your words and experiences are so important, the world needs to listen learn and stop this horrendous massacres !
Thank you for such an informative discussion. May the Almighty bless you with His Protection, His love and His Power. Amen.❤
I think the reason that Gaza is on the minds of young people and not S. Sudan is because Gaza has been in the news daily since Oct. 7. The world's attention was on the victims of Oct. 7, but then the response was so horrific that fair minded people could not support it. That the US is sending military aid for the genocide in Gaza is another major factor.
They were Liars Then and Liars Now .
EXPROPRIATION has always been the plan. It's never been a secret. We in the West have deluded ourselves. The z io s have been consistent in the aim.
@@johnnybegood3855 oh of course you mean the Islamic Muslims Teqyya
Les restores our faith in humanity. He's a wonderful human being
Majority ordinary people care,
The powers that be don’t.
Today its them,
Tomorrow it may be us.
0:31 Revelation!
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Thank you for this insight on wars…it is heartbreaking and there is no need to have them to solve problems…there are better ways, if the effort is put into study and application.
I am sick of the US and it’s celebrated war attitude!
Israel is treating Palestinians as Amaleks. Now I am think the Amaleks were unjustly accused in Samuel 15:3.
Thank you for this interview.
What is a credible avenue where I can give?
I gave to Doctors without Borders and the one that advertised here and one other.
I am commenting so that this video shows up in more peoples algorithm. Thanks you for this interview. It was really wonderful. A few more sentences. Then im going to hit the “comment” button. Now.
600,000! My God!
Best interview with genuine wisdom on the net today about global compassion, empathy, understanding, accountability and connection! Thank you! Well done@
as a Christian, husband, father, grandfather i despair for the future of humanity.
I weep because of the inhumanity of brothers towards brothers.
Empathy, I believe is crucial towards spiritual enlightenment but it seems empathy
is replaced by evil intent.
when asked was the reported murder of half a million kids in Iraq worth the invasion
of Iraq?
Someone said yes...
An easy internet search, make your own judgement.
I weep for Humanity, its dying
What a beautiful man, this doctor who risked his life to witness what was happening in Iraq and try to bring a modicum of accountability. We are so unconscious as a species that we politicize and justify so many civilian deaths. The line from the old Bob Dylan song comes to mind. "How many times can a man turn his head and pretend that he just doesn't see?"
Thank God for the people willing to risk their lives to help others. Thank God for those unwilling to turn their heads.
The Jon Anderson song where he says "I've seen all good people turn their heads each day, so satisfied. . . "
@@Parallax982 Foolish person
Thank you Palestine 🇵🇸 You are changing the world 🌎 !!!!
Very interesting prospective
Great, although I almost quit listening because of the (background) music. Good thing that stopped after a while.
Beautiful person!!!!
Thx for the insight. This alliance of brutality and death has completely destroy their credibility and standing in the world. Can modern man stop this slaughter? Who will bear the burden of peace and listen to the bell that tolls for us all?
Thanx for this show 👏 Every episode helps me gain more perspective
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BDS, BDS, BDS
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An incredible interview about the true heartbreak of war. Thank you.
Theirs over two thousands missing children in Palestine . Were are they.
under the rubble
Thanks!
When the host described the places that he covered he forgot to mention Bosnia. Bosnia is almost always forgotten- I blame the liberals and leftists
Did you mention the 150 journalist and their families targeted with AI?
The weird graphic design choices in this video are detracting from the gravity of the message
If Wikileaks did expose the atrocities by Americans the world would not have known about Iraq
The things addicts will do for more power and money and prestige. They'll literally do anything
Fantastic show, loved what your guest had to say. His is a voice that needs to be heard. Really appreciated this new (for me) perspective. He was super informative but so very human. Thank you!
What would be the ratio or percyof compassionate people such as this insanely wonderful man . And if we could double the percentage of people who really care enough to do things to really make changes to the children of Africa or Gaza or .. what can we do ? I'm an old man in Canada and I can't watch these interviews without, a , bawling my eyes out and b, feeling sick in my stomach because I am on a very fixed income, I'm on disability and barely eat enough on a monthly basis but if I know..knew of a very trustworthy place where I can send Fifty dollars a month, please where could I send money and would it get where it's needed ?
Look at charity navigator for ideas. Me? It's doctors with out borders, and world food program.
Thank you mr. Roberts for the work you have done and sharing this information, great respect to you.
It always astonished me when people finally know the truth about Palestine. What took you so long? Always verify and research any info instead of taking it at face value esp those from news article, politicians, governments and mainstream media.
I caught on about 15 years ago. It's truly an amazing day when the truth enters the heart and soul
What a lovely person Les Roberts is
'' Cycles of combat '' expression used by this dude , although generous and bold person , just shows the extent of propaganda of cobeing a Genocide in news , and his lack of understanding that this is NO WAR , NOR COMBAT , against innocent population without an army and without arms faced BY A GENOCIDE of Imperialist armed to teeth and bombs and bullets and schelles to just carry out a Genocide of unarmed populations in WEST ASIA and starve them by lack of food lack of water and electricity , medicines and vital else ! What is avoided totally is to point out Kaddaffi who denied doing anymore terrorist supports or aids , was condemned to pay 10 million dollars for each person dead in Lockerby ceash , so Israel plus USA and The G7 plus The West now have certainly to pay the same to famillies and nations put to genocide per person dead , plus material Damages plus anguishes of war and famine and a Big Fines of war crimes plus ONE TRILLION Dollars per Hospital and other social sensetive services destroyed or bombed , 100 million dollars per building bombed and per reporters killed , 50 Million dollars per reporter or civil services killed or Doctors and senior government official dead or government officials killed ! The international community and the UN General Assembly should vote and establish condemnations along with courts and other reports of all details , with votes of Vetos abolished for genocide cases !
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This doctor is a great human being!! God bless him!
Thank you SO much, that was incredibly interesting!
Incredible interview!!!!
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Great episode
kanye was right ⬆☦✝☪🕉✝☦
Well statistical & media manipulation reach new heights. Be & stay Blessed Truth Israel safety & security.. kdagPlymouthUK
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