“I’m Jewish, and I’ve Covered Wars. I Know War Crimes When I See Them”: Reporter Peter Maass on Gaza

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    We speak with veteran journalist Peter Maass about the Israeli war on Gaza and his new opinion piece for The Washington Post headlined “I’m Jewish, and I’ve covered wars. I know war crimes when I see them.” Maass, who was a senior editor at The Intercept until earlier this year, has spent decades covering wars, including the Bosnian genocide in the 1990s that killed about 100,000 people over nearly four years. He says many of the same war crimes he reported then are part of Israel’s current assault, including sniper attacks on civilians, bombing of civilian infrastructure, attacks on bread lines and besieging whole populations by preventing food and other aid from entering. “What seems to be unfolding in Gaza is even worse than what I saw in Bosnia,” says Maass.
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  • @RWROW
    @RWROW 13 днів тому +13

    Killing unarmed civilians from a distance with a rifle under the guise of fighting a war is so cowardly and despicable.

  • @ellekewilms6891
    @ellekewilms6891 18 днів тому +875

    I am not Jewish and I have not covered wars, but I know war crimes when I see them!

    • @srsmopar3808
      @srsmopar3808 18 днів тому +21

      "I am not Jewish and I have not covered wars, but I know war crimes who I see them!" Yes that crime was October 6th.

    • @morasoussif4168
      @morasoussif4168 18 днів тому +45

      @@srsmopar3808 Je ne suis pas juif et je n'ai pas couvert les guerres, mais je connais les crimes de guerre qui je les vois !" Oui, ce crime a eu lieu depuis 1948 à 2024

    • @srsmopar3808
      @srsmopar3808 18 днів тому +8

      @@morasoussif4168 Durka durka snakbar

    • @kam70111
      @kam70111 18 днів тому +5

      @@morasoussif4168 et ça continue encore et encore.

    • @napchill
      @napchill 18 днів тому

      ​@@srsmopar3808Zionist sc*m

  • @sambaxrock
    @sambaxrock 18 днів тому +568

    My Polish refugees grandparents are rolling on their graves in disgust to this genocidal state. They believe that EVERY human being should be protected and free and NO ONE should rule over anyone else.

    • @user-en4db3eq6t
      @user-en4db3eq6t 17 днів тому +74

      They were right and that is why the majority of holocaust survivors didn’t go to Palestine, they thought it was wrong, Norman Finklestiens parents also felt the same.

    • @coderamen666
      @coderamen666 17 днів тому +78

      @@user-en4db3eq6t In 1949, a Polish Holocaust survivor named Genya Kowalski was offered a Palestinian house in Haifa. She refused, saying: "I don’t want to live [in a house] of people who were thrown out...a human being is a human being.” We can be her heirs today

    • @watching99134
      @watching99134 17 днів тому +32

      @@user-en4db3eq6t So did Albert Einstein.

    • @BillyBowlster
      @BillyBowlster 17 днів тому

      @@coderamen666 If the zionists didn't want an ethnostate in Israel the land would be flourishing as it had for 1000 of years between arabs and jews.

    • @srsmopar3808
      @srsmopar3808 17 днів тому

      "They believe that EVERY human being should be protected and free and NO ONE should rule over anyone else." LOL, well both combatants don't see it the way your dead grandparents do. Maybe you should go to gaza (wearing a rainbow shirt) and convince both sides to stop. Surely they will listen to you.

  • @dzacqline
    @dzacqline 18 днів тому +611

    I went through the genocide in Bosnia and when I came to America I found Peter's book "Love Thy Neighbor" about what happened in Bosnia and it is 100% accurate. What is happening in Gaza is 1000% worse than what happened to my people.

    • @hellohumans175
      @hellohumans175 17 днів тому +38

      greetings from fellow Bosnian - pozdrav

    • @fakename3608
      @fakename3608 17 днів тому +14

      🙏

    • @frankjames4743
      @frankjames4743 17 днів тому +12

      My gosh

    • @srsmopar3808
      @srsmopar3808 17 днів тому +12

      Blah Blah Balh...Perhaps hamas shouldn't have started this latest ill-advised war?

    • @lindaminor00
      @lindaminor00 17 днів тому +9

      Thank you for your voice. Respect

  • @helengabr5743
    @helengabr5743 18 днів тому +516

    I have a new appreciation of journalism since Gaza. Journalists are SO crucial and put their lives on the line. 👍👏👏👏🇯🇴✌️

    • @fidelcatsro6948
      @fidelcatsro6948 18 днів тому +16

      We also have smartphone that record videos and stream on internet today as things happen..

    • @g1fcg
      @g1fcg 18 днів тому

      The one's who tell the truth are at risk! All the mainstream ones talk crap!

    • @paladro
      @paladro 17 днів тому

      now you know why some forces seek to both capture the 'media' and silence it.

    • @srsmopar3808
      @srsmopar3808 17 днів тому +4

      "I have a new appreciation of journalism" LOL!

    • @user-en4db3eq6t
      @user-en4db3eq6t 17 днів тому +8

      Agree, heroes 💗

  • @breathnstop
    @breathnstop 18 днів тому +158

    Everything his great grandfather feared came true.

    • @Bluemoon98-2
      @Bluemoon98-2 11 днів тому

      Yes and this time her grandchild help the Nazi can you believe it

  • @t.dmytryshyn2615
    @t.dmytryshyn2615 18 днів тому +547

    Genocide looks the same it just happens in different countries. And yet as Israel is committing Genocide they continue to play the victim and I find that deplorable.

    • @ritakruger2304
      @ritakruger2304 18 днів тому +1

      Israel did NOT GENOCIDE!!!!!!...get it....its hamas stop cover hamas

    • @HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings
      @HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings 18 днів тому +19

      Mind Begs the Question:
      - If a Semitic People
      - Engage in Apartheid/Occupation
      - To speak,act against it
      - Is Anti Semitic or Pro Freedom?

    • @BradloRaul
      @BradloRaul 17 днів тому

      @@HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings why not; if one Semitic group is ethnically cleansing another Semitic people…

    • @spiderjeranimo4992
      @spiderjeranimo4992 17 днів тому

      You don't understand what a genocide is, you've just been told(by Hamas) that Israel is commiting one.
      The IDF are not randomly killing civilians, they are targeting Hamas soldiers(that hide behind civilians like the cowards they are).

    • @lynnfinch2184
      @lynnfinch2184 17 днів тому +17

      This is unique narcissistic behavior. True gaslighting.

  • @fokthewef
    @fokthewef 15 днів тому +9

    Every Jewish person who speaks out against the genocide taking place needs to be protected. We share the same love and respect for every human beings, no matter their race or religion. God bless them.

  • @janetdonald9801
    @janetdonald9801 17 днів тому +54

    I’m grateful for Jews speaking against Israel.

    • @srsmopar3808
      @srsmopar3808 17 днів тому

      Do you only root for Jewish traitors?

    • @anointedone4775
      @anointedone4775 13 днів тому

      This man is European not Jewish enough, stop it with the lies it's becoming pathetic.

    • @King_DavidSolomon
      @King_DavidSolomon 12 днів тому

      and that's why the Jews are weak

    • @Bluemoon98-2
      @Bluemoon98-2 11 днів тому

      I am grateful tht not all human are slow and vile like you and this Jew

    • @gerrydejong3430
      @gerrydejong3430 11 днів тому +1

      janetdonald You are a traitor ................

  • @ElectricCult
    @ElectricCult 18 днів тому +199

    A G-cide (yes even that cant be typed here) in real time, right before your eyes and the US govt is complicit.

    • @Sylvia-ps8tg
      @Sylvia-ps8tg 17 днів тому +13

      Deleted, blocked 5 times, shadow banning. 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️

    • @charshill2978
      @charshill2978 17 днів тому +15

      Turn the G into a J
      J words are carefully controlled too mind

    • @semsemeini7905
      @semsemeini7905 17 днів тому

      Definition of Genocide? Read the Hamas Charter which is the same as Mein Kampf.

    • @marioncarroll8994
      @marioncarroll8994 17 днів тому +8

      Yes, we should all come together to make sure those buddies of “Jenn oh side” are held accountable asap.

    • @gdr55
      @gdr55 14 днів тому

      Good idea. I was threatened with block because I said ews were controlling America. For those who dont learn from their past, they are doomed to repeat it!

  • @jamesnicoll8415
    @jamesnicoll8415 18 днів тому +137

    War crimes are war crimes no matter who the perpetrators are!

    • @fowlerja
      @fowlerja 18 днів тому +4

      Yes, very little coverage of what is happening in Ukraine.

    • @Sylvia-ps8tg
      @Sylvia-ps8tg 17 днів тому +7

      @@fowlerjaperhaps look into other chanels. We‘re here for palestine.

    • @fowlerja
      @fowlerja 17 днів тому +3

      @@Sylvia-ps8tg Not what their mission statement says: On Democracy Now!, you’ll hear a diversity of voices speaking for themselves, providing a unique and sometimes provocative perspective on global events.

    • @Sylvia-ps8tg
      @Sylvia-ps8tg 17 днів тому +4

      @@fowlerja ok. Then you should search for the interests. Not comment here.

    • @Sylvia-ps8tg
      @Sylvia-ps8tg 17 днів тому +5

      @@fowlerja there already are so many bots spamming on this.

  • @ChrisAlbertH47
    @ChrisAlbertH47 18 днів тому +145

    Not everyone may know what a war crime is or looks like, but most people on a fundamental level have an innate understanding of what could be a crime against humanity. And that's because all they need to do is put themselves in the position of the victim. That's why Izrael's actions in Gaza has been so emotionally affecting to many, because many feel the inherent inhumanity of it.

    • @srsmopar3808
      @srsmopar3808 18 днів тому +7

      LOL, hamas does not believe in 'humanity'

    • @irieify9334
      @irieify9334 18 днів тому +7

      Best comment 💯

    • @DarrenRafferty-hi1xo
      @DarrenRafferty-hi1xo 18 днів тому +21

      ​@srsmopar3808
      Hamas haven't murdered at least 14 000 children.

    • @srsmopar3808
      @srsmopar3808 17 днів тому

      @@DarrenRafferty-hi1xo Hamas is responsible because they started this latest war. The gazans are responsible because they voted in the criminal totalitarians who turned all of gaza into a terror base.

    • @Sylvia-ps8tg
      @Sylvia-ps8tg 17 днів тому

      @@srsmopar3808just another cockroach

  • @Titus9508
    @Titus9508 18 днів тому +190

    Just as you think real Journalism has disappeared, what a breath of fresh air.

    • @Tiasung
      @Tiasung 17 днів тому +6

      Well it still exists. But you wont find it watching MSM or propaganda channels like this.

    • @ramongonzalezdiaz9511
      @ramongonzalezdiaz9511 17 днів тому +5

      The truth must be none and the guilty punished like in the Nuremberg trials...

    • @srsmopar3808
      @srsmopar3808 17 днів тому

      @@ramongonzalezdiaz9511 LOL good luck with that.

    • @final1fantasy919
      @final1fantasy919 17 днів тому

      @@Tiasung You wish. Meanwhile you're here going through the comments.🤣😊 Trying to control the naritive. Hitler thought he could go around the world, silence people and control everyone. 1 + 1= 2 But, the spirit of the universe is the wild card that evildoers forget or under estimates.

    • @SA-dt2cd
      @SA-dt2cd 15 днів тому

      I know right! Almost 95 percent is controlled by AIPAC and Zionists

  • @oscarh9546
    @oscarh9546 18 днів тому +238

    Mr. Maass, is very honorable man. thanks for sharing your knowledge

    • @eternity2444
      @eternity2444 17 днів тому +2

      If he was truly honorable he would call Gaza by the g word, but he does not dare.

    • @marioncarroll8994
      @marioncarroll8994 17 днів тому +3

      @@eternity2444 I think Utube demonetises videos that use that word so people don’t use it out of respect to the Utuber

    • @havardrivansson7902
      @havardrivansson7902 14 днів тому

      In 2005, Forbes magazine called Maass the "Dunce of the Week" for his inaccurate New York Times reporting.

  • @stevenewton7787
    @stevenewton7787 17 днів тому +30

    I forget people under 30 have no knowledge of previous genocides, I'm 38 and can clearly remember The Yugo wars and Rwanda, it was on the news every night.
    The film Behind Enermy Lines is it set in the first one, and it's plot starts with pilots gavering evidence of mass graves. It's a pretty good film although very Ameri-Centric.
    Keep researching people, and if you have an uneasy feeling about what you are being told, don't think you are going mad, it's just your gut brain letting you know something isn't right, whether it be lies or morally corrupt actions.

    • @Rey-it3sg
      @Rey-it3sg 13 днів тому

      I'm 24, from Texas. The only geno/cide ever taught to us was the holocaust and that they aren't common or rarely happen. The problem is that our schools refuse to teach us about it and what it is and how it happens. That's why GenZ are so mad about this because people are trying to hide this and tell us it isn't happening when we see with our own eyes it is. There is an agenda to hide this and keep people from learning about it. Older people may have been out of school for a long time and do not realize how much our school systems are failing us because there are people trying to make that happen.

    • @Rey-it3sg
      @Rey-it3sg 13 днів тому +1

      Everyone under 30 grew up in school systems which never taught about either- and that Gsides are rare or never happen. Repubs have been trying to erase that Gsides ever happened, and wouldn't teach about the Hcost if they could without backlash. Repubs made the US education system fail and are surprised that people are still trying educate themselves despite their efforts. We want to know more but the people who were supposed to teach us failed at teaching. And it wasn't the teachers, it was the principles and school boards who want to teach there is no such thing as Rsism, Gside, Hphobia, etc. They made us uneducated on purpose, but that doesn't mean we're stupid.

    • @peterfreeman1585
      @peterfreeman1585 13 днів тому

      ​@@Rey-it3sg
      Bitter racism, Genocide and Homophobia still exist around the world. It is virulent.

  • @fadius17
    @fadius17 18 днів тому +178

    Honest and transparent journalism. Thank you Mr. maass

  • @christianmccann9400
    @christianmccann9400 17 днів тому +145

    Greetings from Ireland .. BDS apartheid Israel .. Free Palestine!

    • @JacobHecht
      @JacobHecht 16 днів тому +5

      Your boycott has no effect. Israel doesn't need your business. We are a strong nation

    • @aliragab2748
      @aliragab2748 16 днів тому

      ​@JacobHecht
      Some day you will regret being such a criminal racist.

    • @Golubp-br2ou
      @Golubp-br2ou 16 днів тому

      @@JacobHecht The Nazis were also "strong"

    • @nadiaennab8896
      @nadiaennab8896 15 днів тому +12

      @@JacobHecht no youre not youre literally a welfare state

    • @beebeebee7000
      @beebeebee7000 14 днів тому

      @@nadiaennab8896cry about it… jewlous much?

  • @sashalalaa
    @sashalalaa 18 днів тому +44

    Thank you Mr Peter. Extraordinary work and courage. The world needs more Jews like him, like his great grandfather.

    • @heartland3897
      @heartland3897 3 дні тому

      Have you been to the Gaza envelope following Oct 7?

  • @harbinger6562
    @harbinger6562 17 днів тому +14

    So in 🇺🇲 being blind to 🇮🇱 atrocities is semitic but saying what We see is anti 🤨

    • @donnavorce8856
      @donnavorce8856 13 днів тому

      💯

    • @matan9577
      @matan9577 11 днів тому

      Any idea why Gaza people decided to attack its neighbor without any preparations to put their own people out of battle? can you see the lack of accountability there?

  • @cb-db5kh
    @cb-db5kh 17 днів тому +6

    Democracy Now! needs to go long format. "We have 15 seconds, Peter!" as he makes his most important point is unacceptable for modern journalism.

  • @faridacasmally1978
    @faridacasmally1978 17 днів тому +23

    What is there to say when an honest Jewish journalist like Peter Maass write about wars crimes being committed at a larger scales than what he witnessed during his time in Bosnia, the genocide convention groups will say he is being paid by Hamas

  • @DineshMandal-kd9jp
    @DineshMandal-kd9jp 13 днів тому +6

    Stop the genocide

    • @PAL669
      @PAL669 10 днів тому

      The only war crimes have been and are committed by Hamas from 2007 through to October 7 2023. These include the bombing and killing civilians and then the indiscriminate murder, rape, burning and the taking of civilians as hostages on Oct. 7. Using civilian institutions e.g. hospitals, schools, aid facilities as military bases to launch their attacks, make these fair targets in war. Hamas terrorists do not wear uniforms but hide among civilians using women and children as shields. Their ideology is the same as the n@azis as they do not want peace, they do not want a two state solution, only to kill Jews. Gaza has plenty of food and no one is starving. Whoever heard of the Allies sending food to Germany and Japan in WWII? The ratio of terrorist to civilian deaths is the lowest ever seen in urban conflicts, (even if one believes the fictitious numbers from the Gaza Ministry of Health aka Hamas) just compare to Afghanistan and Iraq. No country has done more to limit non-combatant casualties as has Israel. Remember that Hamas still holds 133 hostages which is a war crime and they will be defeated. Note the help Israel received from its Sunni neighbors i.e. Jordan and Saudi Arabia in response to the Iranian war crimes.
      Reply

  • @anwarabro6025
    @anwarabro6025 18 днів тому +15

    Mr Peter maass we are saluting your honest witness reporting for criminal war sir lot's salute good journalist thank you
    Free free free Palestine 🇵🇰🇵🇸

  • @berniediedricks5681
    @berniediedricks5681 17 днів тому +81

    🇿🇦South Africa 30yrs democracy free from Apartheid ❤

    • @annedroid8316
      @annedroid8316 10 днів тому

      Yeah, while you are genociding white farmers, right?

  • @sanelapasagic8477
    @sanelapasagic8477 17 днів тому +17

    As a survivor of the Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina, I find the atrocities committed by Serbian military and paramilitary groups and their supporters shockingly similar to the behavior of the IDF, Zionist supporters, and their actions in Palestine.

    • @robshirewood5060
      @robshirewood5060 13 днів тому

      The other sides did as much to the Serbs, in ww1 ww2 and in the later conflicts, all stirred up by the Germans, USA and other vested parties in the destruction of Jugoslavia

    • @mansooralikc
      @mansooralikc 12 днів тому

      All around the world Genocide looks the same. Some people use that as marketing tool, others live with it. Many genocides are not even talked about. Why we cannot live as humans

  • @muddin4950
    @muddin4950 16 днів тому +11

    Respect for your humanity.

  • @abdishariff5967
    @abdishariff5967 18 днів тому +141

    We stand with Palestine

  • @zizo37
    @zizo37 17 днів тому +21

    The genocide in Bosnia was horrific by all means and i thought that was the worst i could see in my lifetime, until the genocide now in Gaza. The difference is, in Bosnia 100K dies in 3 years where around 60% military and 40% civilians, in Gaza more than 95% are civilians. Also the mass destruction of hospitals, schools, universities, refugee camps, holy places, graves, shops and other entities in Gaza never been seen before.
    I believe the Bosnian genocide was one of the worst, but at the time the west countries and UN had the conscience to prevent it, but now the west is complicated and funding the genocide.
    I wish people understand that the next generations will ask us what we did to prevent this horror? how could we sleep knowing the kids in Gaza dies everyday of bombs or hunger?

    • @srsmopar3808
      @srsmopar3808 17 днів тому

      "Gaza more than 95% are civilians" LOL if this were true who is shooting at IDF solders? Grandmas in burkas?

    • @ashley-fk6dp
      @ashley-fk6dp 14 днів тому +1

      comparing the two is an insult to Bosnia

    • @matan9577
      @matan9577 11 днів тому

      If 95% are civilians, where are all the dead Hamas operatives? Are you aware that the Hamas way of fighting is a war crime by definition of their charter and in practice as well? are you aware that holy places are used for storage of deadly weapons and hospitals used as military headquarters for over a decade, abusing western standards of not hitting those places because they are supposed to be civilian places, something that Hamas laughs about? This is so one-sided ...

    • @PAL669
      @PAL669 10 днів тому

      You need to get the facts. Hamas terrorists do not wear uniforms but hide among civilians using women and children as shields. Even the Gaza "Ministry of Health" aka Hamas report that 20% are combatants. Since they double their "statistics" it is assumes that at least 40% are combatants and it's probably higher. Kids in Gaza lived very nicely until October 6, so send your questions to Hamas and don't embarrass yourself by spewing obvious nonsense.

    • @bosnianlady10
      @bosnianlady10 10 днів тому

      @@ashley-fk6dp no it is not. We suffered, we still do. This is on another level. To be honest I spend my nights just keeping up with the news. My parents and my grandparents would do this after they escaped. I did not understand why until now. As war victims we can’t look away, even if we are helpless to make a difference. I was, I am every child I see crying in Gaza.

  • @unathimichaelmxaku8105
    @unathimichaelmxaku8105 18 днів тому +61

    Mr Maass is agreeing this is a genocide in Gaza.

    • @ritakruger2304
      @ritakruger2304 18 днів тому +1

      Hamas did the genocide...they started that war get it stop sleeping

    • @Sylvia-ps8tg
      @Sylvia-ps8tg 17 днів тому +4

      Every sane human being knows that.

    • @semsemeini7905
      @semsemeini7905 17 днів тому

      And......................everyone has a different opinion.

    • @unathimichaelmxaku8105
      @unathimichaelmxaku8105 17 днів тому +1

      @@semsemeini7905 about what excatly?

    • @1940ruth
      @1940ruth 17 днів тому

      International law requires member nations to prohibit genocide, even if it weren’t already genocide!

  • @animatorsinc1690
    @animatorsinc1690 18 днів тому +194

    Free Palestine

    • @kennyzraht5804
      @kennyzraht5804 18 днів тому

      In a sea of Arab nations, NOT ONE wants to take in your refugees. WHY?! What is about you that Egypt has to build such fortified border?! You share a language, religion. Why don't they want you, but had to reluctantly allow you to trickle through following international pressure?

    • @jediTempleGuard
      @jediTempleGuard 18 днів тому +6

      ​@@kennyzraht5804Why? Because it is their land.

    • @srsmopar3808
      @srsmopar3808 18 днів тому +5

      "Free Palestine" from hamas.

    • @1940ruth
      @1940ruth 17 днів тому +10

      @@srsmopar3808 Hamas is a political party. Occupied people have a right to try to free themselves from occupation. Occupying nations have obligations to see the the occupied civilians have the necessities of life! Israel has been breaking international law for so long (and getting away with it via U.S. vetoed) for so long that they feel entitled to do it!

    • @orbiteflow8909
      @orbiteflow8909 17 днів тому

      ​@@srsmopar3808Free from Israel

  • @MegaDavyk
    @MegaDavyk 11 днів тому +4

    They have been doing this for 80 years, why are we only now allowed to see what these monsters are doing.

  • @johnlivanos5411
    @johnlivanos5411 18 днів тому +82

    The good times are over for Israel , from now it is downhill all the way .

    • @srsmopar3808
      @srsmopar3808 18 днів тому +4

      LOL, been hearing this stuff for 75 years.

    • @oliveoil5789
      @oliveoil5789 18 днів тому +5

      It may be about to get interesting. Just finished a great talk with Garland Nixon and Laiuf Marouth. Very interesting conversation about Iran, its counter strike and where that leaves Israel.

    • @fowlerja
      @fowlerja 18 днів тому +1

      So you can see the future, good for you.

    • @BradloRaul
      @BradloRaul 17 днів тому +9

      Honestly, I hope to see a bright future for Israel; one in which they’ve grown past this current bs to see how these vile actions are self defeating and learn to live with their indigenous population. But, like South Africa in the 1980s, that probably won’t happen without a lot of outside pressure.
      Protest! Contact your representatives! BDS!
      Who knows what might work?

    • @fowlerja
      @fowlerja 17 днів тому +4

      @@BradloRaul Brad, I concur. Jim

  • @piku5637
    @piku5637 18 днів тому +198

    Defund Ïsræl🌸Ⓐ🇵🇸

    • @ChrisAlbertH47
      @ChrisAlbertH47 18 днів тому

      Yes, global BDS movement on steroids, along with exclusions from any international events, whether they be sports, entertainment, arts, or other forms of collective activity.

    • @ichbinking1784
      @ichbinking1784 18 днів тому +1

      I just google it, google search give me this get the f out of here there is no sucha shitrael 😂😂😂😂

    • @fowlerja
      @fowlerja 18 днів тому

      Defund IRAN, "The Father of Terrorism" in the Middle East"

    • @HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings
      @HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings 18 днів тому +7

      Mind Begs the Question:
      - If a States policies are
      - Starvation,Death Camps,Pogroms,Gas Chambers/White Phosphorus,Ethnic Cleansing,etc
      - Has the right to exist?

    • @ChrisAlbertH47
      @ChrisAlbertH47 17 днів тому +8

      UA-cam just deleted my comment for saying that they should be not only hit with BDS, but also excluded from international events. I swear this algorithms .. 🤦‍♂

  • @fatimaameur1162
    @fatimaameur1162 16 днів тому +5

    Thank you for telling the facts with honesty and transparency 🙏 We need the Truth

  • @markteslacar
    @markteslacar 17 днів тому +8

    I find it so mind boggling that there is any question of the genocide in Palestine, it could not be any clearer. Anyone who says this is not a genocide is insulting the intelligence of the listeners

    • @ginnymoo7628
      @ginnymoo7628 12 днів тому

      There is no Genocide.
      Look up the definition of genocide.
      Populations need to decrease dramatically to be a genocide.
      Casualties in a war are not a genocide.
      Palestine has already replaced their inflated death numbers.
      180 babies born in Gaza a day.
      The population has exploded.
      They shoot little Martyrs out of their vaginas like missiles.
      The term genocide was coined to describe the horror of more than 6 million Jews who were massacred during WW2.
      The Jewish population still has not recovered from their genocide 80 years ago.
      There is no genocide unless population numbers go down.
      That's what the word genocide describes.
      Stop misappropriating words to play victim and cause Antisemitic hatred.
      Hamas have not done one thing to protect their own children.
      They use them as pawns in their war games and to exploit their suffering for sympathy propaganda.
      Palestine is blackmailing the world's morality by attacking and then hiding behind their own civilians.
      It's the despicable behaviour of sociopaths.

  • @azizdridah9467
    @azizdridah9467 17 днів тому +24

    Bless you Peter for your courage and honesty!

  • @MimiVerbana
    @MimiVerbana 18 днів тому +8

    I think he was cut off too soon. I appreciate Peter Mass and others od the Jewish community speaking up...
    I don't understand why we don't hear more from the Israelis. Are they under censorship? If there are no reporters, why don't they speak up on UA-cam...or is that illegal. If they are so censored...how to they feel about living in their own glorified prison?

  • @user-wy5fo9mu5t
    @user-wy5fo9mu5t 17 днів тому +11

    Thank you for your great journalism

  • @MA-sk4fg
    @MA-sk4fg 17 днів тому +7

    « Love Thy Neighbour » what a powerful title!

  • @leesadenton6177
    @leesadenton6177 14 днів тому +5

    Thank you Peter.

  • @Majickcharm
    @Majickcharm 18 днів тому +7

    I am appalled at not just Israel but the whole world about the Palestine suffrage.

  • @SASG277
    @SASG277 17 днів тому +5

    The Jewish and Muslims have been living together in peace and harmony even during world war 2. When sioniste came to Palestine the have spoiled the harmony and peace between the two communities.

    • @matan9577
      @matan9577 11 днів тому

      History flash: Jews came to Israel much before WW2, but by and large they were not accepted there blindly like Europe and the West have been accepting Muslim refugees and muslims from all over the world over the last half century to the point of granting them more than local citizens do, excessive protections and first-class benefits and integration. Despite them being refugees from a bloddy-deadly antisemitic Europe long predating WW2. That's except for those living their throughout history, which were a minority indeed, and other than a minority of friendly inviting Arab villages.
      More specificaly, sadly, already before WW2, 1936-1939, the Arabs consistently attacked Jews in Israel indiscriminantly in an organized manner, but this chapter is not popular in Arab history textbooks, since the British did their best to protect and curb that, as it was also aimed at British facilities and personnel. This led to the British encouraging or allowing the Jewish community to organize their own protections, most of which were following what you'd call modern concepts of ethics, and only the fringes being terrorist, which unlike with Hamas were not supported by the majority (and at one period the main Jewish establishment hunted them down under moral grounds). So much of that context that you present in that saying is kind of falsy.
      As part of the wider context, the political Arab leader of Jerusalem at the time of WW2, the mufti, formerly an Otoman regional ruler or something like that, struck a close cooperation with Adolf Hitler approaching and during that time of WW2.
      You are misaccurate to the point of quite misleading. Also in Arab countries, the non-Muslim was always treated better (no tax to pay for being not muslim, allowed to practice worship in public and so on), and the last time that a Muslim country took in Jewish refugees to the best of my limited knowledge was when Turkey (not sure how it called itself back then) gladly took in much of the Jewish population exiled from Spain in one batch.
      In what is modern Israel, 2 million muslims live with full electoral and other rights, many of which serve in the army out of personal choice. They are represented in parliament and everything. It's better to have a two state (many-state, since Jordan is the same ethnic group mostly) and a regional peace than promoting a genocidal settlement which Hamas are. While dismantling Israeli settlements outside of its defined border at that time. If the region is ready, not when it is run by the war crime ideology of Hamas and the Qataris.

  • @mayasonmez7757
    @mayasonmez7757 17 днів тому +9

    Neden , neden, neden bu can almanlar , dunya yeterince buyuk ,herkesin hayatini sonuna kadar yasamak icin 😢😢

  • @hatersburnlovercarryon4541
    @hatersburnlovercarryon4541 17 днів тому +11

    This is just devastating 😢 oh my god i csnt this is happening in 2024 and most country's governments are just turning a blind eye its such a shame the world has no good leaders i feel just unsecured like the gazans even though i live in uk there is no law for sone people but only the chosen ones 💔

  • @kevinwilliams1768
    @kevinwilliams1768 18 днів тому +23

    blessing to you Peter Mass excellent interview & very insightful . Continue the good work

  • @lejlam.
    @lejlam. 17 днів тому +2

    Thank you Mr. Maass and thank you Democracy Now for your relentless pursuit of the truth. Much love from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and free Palestine! ❤️🇵🇸✌️✊

  • @kele22
    @kele22 17 днів тому +6

    I really hate it when people being interviewed are cut off for reasons of 'time.' Really? As if they can't edit the interview later or some such or convey time in a different way.

  • @mikahist4155
    @mikahist4155 18 днів тому +27

    Thank you Peter and Democracy Now!

  • @khalilbonjol8711
    @khalilbonjol8711 18 днів тому +24

    À true journaĺist

  • @zacharynjuguna8709
    @zacharynjuguna8709 17 днів тому +20

    Western democracy in Afghanistan Iraq Syria rybia Lebanon Sudan Somalia Ethiopian Congo Gaza etc..😢

  • @arat3807
    @arat3807 17 днів тому +12

    I wish it was a longer interview.

    • @fowlerja
      @fowlerja 17 днів тому +1

      Ask the man back.

  • @damali-karlawhittaker6462
    @damali-karlawhittaker6462 18 днів тому +51

    😮😮😮💯👌🏿 True reporting from Mr. Maas!

  • @GerardVaughan-qe7ml
    @GerardVaughan-qe7ml 18 днів тому +6

    How did he know the nationality of the Sniper ? In Gaza I0F have snipers covering Churches and hospitals. Two women going into the church together were both shot dead.
    Back in the days I had Serbia as the "Bad guys" because all the media showed was Serbia shelling a Primary school, but since have learned that there is more to this.

    • @Amy-vu9eu
      @Amy-vu9eu 18 днів тому +7

      It's well documented. In Mostar, it was Croats destroying Bosniaks. But overall, Serbia's war against Bosniaks was not just military but media driven. And it continues today.

  • @IDF_Child_Eraser
    @IDF_Child_Eraser 17 днів тому +14

    If Democracy Now keeps this up I will be out of work which is fantastic thing. Keep it up Democracy Now and may the algorithm bless you

  • @hiramabiff2017
    @hiramabiff2017 14 днів тому +2

    If she says this is a war crime, then god knows what she has got to say about the victims of Oct 7th.

  • @roxannamarinak3156
    @roxannamarinak3156 18 днів тому +26

    Thank you Peter Mass for speaking Truth to Power !❤ Blessings to you.

  • @australiaprisonisland9156
    @australiaprisonisland9156 16 днів тому +9

    I like Peter Maass. I read his 'Love thy neighbour' novel on the war in Bosnia. Completely changed my perceptions on many things. He bought a lot of horrors to light. Great man and a great piece work. A must read.

  • @bendyrland7213
    @bendyrland7213 17 днів тому +14

    Thank you Mr Maass for your dedication to informing us all.

  • @user-bz7ul7mg9k
    @user-bz7ul7mg9k 17 днів тому +9

    The war in Gaza has been handled so poorly on humanitarian grounds, with innocent children and civilians being murdered and their homes deliberately and viciously destroyed on a large scale, directly or indirectly by so-called civilized or democratic governments. This not only causes horrible long-term mental damage to the future generations of Palastinians, but also deeply affects decent and conscientious people around the world. For the past few months, here 6,000 miles away, I have been haunted by nightmares and sleeplessness just imagining what is happening in Gaza. October 7 was bad, but this is a hundred times worse. Even animals, after killing, take a pause for rest.

  • @user-pf7tf3rf1u
    @user-pf7tf3rf1u 17 днів тому +4

    Thanks Amy. Excellent people and good interviewing.

  • @himood
    @himood 17 днів тому +22

    Very informative! Good job exposing those crimes. ✌🏼🍉🇵🇸

  • @steve7236
    @steve7236 18 днів тому +25

    Thank you for speaking out Peter! You're article is very important!

  • @carolcollins3108
    @carolcollins3108 18 днів тому +19

    Interesting report, Thank you for all the detailed information.

  • @majd_shoots
    @majd_shoots 17 днів тому +4

    Thank you Peter

  • @lynngoldman5435
    @lynngoldman5435 17 днів тому +7

    Why on earth didn't you give this reporter a much longer segment? Everything he had to say was valuable and needs to be heard. I hadn't thought to compare the slaughter in Bosnia with that in Gaza. Please bring him back for a much longer piece. Thank yoiu

    • @DickGrayson-rq8xs
      @DickGrayson-rq8xs 17 днів тому

      Hello 👋 friend how are you doing today 😃 hope am not bothering you??❤

  • @emmanuelk.tambwe2628
    @emmanuelk.tambwe2628 18 днів тому +5

    I can't begin to imagine how will the great judgement of the nations.

    • @semsemeini7905
      @semsemeini7905 17 днів тому

      The Nations have been against the Israelis since 2,000 years. It's a miracle they survived as a people since over 3,000 years.

  • @vicenthuerta8477
    @vicenthuerta8477 17 днів тому +2

    Their might have been normalize relations between the U.S and Iran if NETANYAHU and the fachist republican party had not undermined the negotiations. It could have been a completely different middle east.

  • @renakmans3521
    @renakmans3521 17 днів тому +3

    Thank You, Peter!!

  • @moecolione2852
    @moecolione2852 18 днів тому +20

    Jew-ish, ish is a suffix meaning pertaining to NOT!!! Not the biblical israelites

    • @moecolione2852
      @moecolione2852 18 днів тому

      @irieify9334 the so called negroes Latinos and native Americans are the biblical israelites, not israelis

    • @BradloRaul
      @BradloRaul 17 днів тому +3

      Meh, it’s irrelevant anyhow.
      20 years ago I lived in an apartment. I have pictures and paperwork proving that was my home. If I went back there today with a gun and told the family living there now that it’s mine now- I’d be arrested. If I said “god said it belongs to me”, I’d be facing a psych evaluation.

    • @semsemeini7905
      @semsemeini7905 17 днів тому

      The Jews are called Jews because they originate in JU dea. In Egypt Jewish Birth Certificates listed their religion as Israel ites as they originate from Israel. In Italy since 2,000 years Jews are called Hebrei / Hebrews as they speak Hebrew; a Semitic language that is written like Arabic from right to left with the First pages in the back. The Roman historian Flavius Josephus clearly documents the arrival of the Jews in France, Germany and Spain with the Romans.

    • @moecolione2852
      @moecolione2852 17 днів тому +1

      @semsemeini7905 wrong, jew is a derivative of Judah, the southern kingdom of Isreal which included judah,Benjamin and Levi. Three nations of Isreal

    • @1940ruth
      @1940ruth 17 днів тому

      @@moecolione2852 Israel wasn’t a place before 1948. Israelites referred to descendants of the man in the buybull stories named Israel.

  • @Sundance304
    @Sundance304 16 днів тому +1

    Breaks my heart to hear these stories, both in Gaza and Bosnia. But Gaza was real time, shown on tv, one saw the atrocities being committed. It was brutu.

  • @tanyaedwards4574
    @tanyaedwards4574 18 днів тому +12

    Yes please link his piece- I don't see it? I'm so disgusted about what's happening and how politicians and some media outlets are trying to gaslight the world- I hope enough people have opened their eyes. 🙏🙏

  • @jermainesnyder2375
    @jermainesnyder2375 17 днів тому +3

    Amy, STOP YELLING AT PEOPLE ABOUT THE TIME! The show isn’t going to explode!

  • @carlrosenbaum3754
    @carlrosenbaum3754 12 днів тому +5

    Hamas wasn't thinking about love thy neighbor when they attacked Israel and started killing them and taking them hostage either was Hezbollah or iran now were they.

    • @username9615
      @username9615 12 днів тому +1

      Nice fallacy there. Are you using it to justify the Palestinian Holocaust that has been happening since 1948?

    • @lennardchurch8483
      @lennardchurch8483 11 днів тому

      @@username9615 You're a liar. Israel never committed a "holocaust" against the Arabs in the land. Israel never even instigated a military conflict between said Arabs and the state of Israel. Every single military confrontation was started by the Islamist Arab militants attacking Israelis, and then falling back to use other Arabs as human shields so they could pretend to be victims when Israel retaliates against the militants.

    • @PAL669
      @PAL669 10 днів тому

      @@username9615 Don't use the word Holocaust and Palestinian in the same sentence! If the Palestinians wanted to live in peace, they could have been since 1948. But as they don't want to share the land, they have chosen war. Their population has grown tremendously since 1948 so where is the Holocaust?? Know your facts before you spew your hate.

    • @petardetar5191
      @petardetar5191 9 днів тому

      @@PAL669
      Did maybe Israel shrink a size of land that was given to Palestinians at the beginning...and do it all the times till today ?! And not doing it by peace but by use of extreme repression ?!

    • @petardetar5191
      @petardetar5191 9 днів тому

      @@PAL669 They are doing(Israel) ethnic cleaning of (Palestinian)areas and installing new settlers all the time without slowing :)

  • @cristinarossel9753
    @cristinarossel9753 14 днів тому

    Thank you for your honest journalism. After hearing Maass, I cried. From Perú I can only say: STOP GENOCIDE....!!!

  • @mariacrouch7109
    @mariacrouch7109 17 днів тому +2

    WELL SAID PETER MAASS 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

  • @alyanton2157
    @alyanton2157 18 днів тому +13

    Feeding baby babies 👶🍼 BEEN label 🏷ANTI-SOMATIC 🗣🙊🙉🙈💸

  • @user-xu4ju8wc7m
    @user-xu4ju8wc7m 18 днів тому +3

    And let's not forget the religion part of it, which the religious Jews of Israel and around the world believe, is that Jews will not receive Israel until the Messiah comes to deliver it to them.

    • @1940ruth
      @1940ruth 17 днів тому +1

      It’s my understanding that they think that their god will bring it when it’s time, but wrong for people to try to hurry it. Christian Zionism is older, and current ones support Israel because they believe that the Jews will take over Palestine before the second coming of Christ, at which time the Jews will convert or die! They’re the worst!

  • @ReadWell572
    @ReadWell572 17 днів тому +2

    it is very interesting how sensitive the media is to certain sufferings.

  • @muddin4950
    @muddin4950 16 днів тому +2

    If you have any shred of humanity regardless of your belief and ideology you would seriously condemn this brutal genocide being committed by the extremists right wing government of Israel.

  • @mehrdadyektaparast1368
    @mehrdadyektaparast1368 17 днів тому +15

    Great reporting. Poor Palestinians.
    It’s so clear as To why human rights group calls Israel apartheid and raciest.

    • @beebeebee7000
      @beebeebee7000 14 днів тому

      “Poor palestinians”? Are you serious? Please explain to us all, how there are 50+ muslim countries and not a single one wants to help them? They must all know something right? I’ll wait for your answer…

    • @fortheinternet8766
      @fortheinternet8766 14 днів тому +1

      Keep waiting...you are not worth nor deserve an answer 😂 troll 😂

    • @IdunilBandara-rj9uf
      @IdunilBandara-rj9uf 14 днів тому

      ​u occupy and want others to help while occupier is digging himself in?

    • @fortheinternet8766
      @fortheinternet8766 14 днів тому

      @@IdunilBandara-rj9uf why do you even bother....trolling is the only thing that they have left. Dont give them the satisfaction...

    • @IdunilBandara-rj9uf
      @IdunilBandara-rj9uf 14 днів тому

      True

  • @inkedwisdom5098
    @inkedwisdom5098 17 днів тому +14

    This is journalism!

  • @arthurballs9632
    @arthurballs9632 14 днів тому +1

    He starts off by referring to the little known second Haavara agreement, the Warburg Plan. The pact between the Nazis and non-Zionist Jews.

  • @andynewfriends
    @andynewfriends 14 днів тому +1

    There is one BIG difference in this conflict. Weapons are provided by the West, so there is no ""HERO"" country to intervene. Also, no one would be hunted down for war crimes like it was done after WWII or after the Bosnia war as he mentioned

  • @foodlover2236
    @foodlover2236 17 днів тому +3

    Thank you

  • @DrXtoph
    @DrXtoph 17 днів тому +3

    Thank you.

  • @fjordhellas4077
    @fjordhellas4077 17 днів тому +20

    Amy and Juan and the team of Democracy Now, you are wonderful Humanists! Thank you for exposing the truth ! Greetings from a Jew who stands by the People of Palestine!

  • @kaynine31
    @kaynine31 12 днів тому +1

    If you stand on a snake and it bites you, sometimes you can die.
    The same thing if you poke a bear...... Or you play with fire.... or if you stand on a land mine. Be careful where you cast your shadow.

  • @joeh682
    @joeh682 17 днів тому +2

    As one father said, " thanks, Israel for showing the world who you are and what you do

  • @basabissov
    @basabissov 17 днів тому +13

    Thank U Democracy now.

  • @lauralafauve5520
    @lauralafauve5520 16 днів тому +4

    Excellent piece.

  • @BashoStrikes
    @BashoStrikes 14 днів тому +1

    War crimes always happen during war because war is a crime. Everything returns to the One.

  • @alfonsogutierrez1392
    @alfonsogutierrez1392 16 днів тому +1

    The intervention of western powers in Bosnia was necessary, yet, there's people that criticize this.

  • @sharlagardner
    @sharlagardner 18 днів тому +7

    Crappy story, Amy. Your question was nearly as long as his answer. Get out of the way and let the guest share his knowledge of war crimes.

  • @SajidHussain-lj5mr
    @SajidHussain-lj5mr 18 днів тому +6

    What about Israel’s war crimes ?

    • @fowlerja
      @fowlerja 18 днів тому +2

      What about Russia's war crimes in Ukraine?

    • @TessTearoe-zp5xv
      @TessTearoe-zp5xv 17 днів тому

      Whataboutism, got to love it. Ukraine has an army/ Russia has an army. Israel has an army/navy airforce/ Palestinians have guns and Adidas tracksuits. Who is the fish in the barrel

    • @martinoneill5804
      @martinoneill5804 17 днів тому

      @@fowlerjaThey are no good guys.All countries have skeletons in their cupboards, big Imperial powers have graveyards.

    • @wheres_bears1378
      @wheres_bears1378 17 днів тому

      @@fowlerjadoes that make it ok or something? 😂

    • @fowlerja
      @fowlerja 17 днів тому

      @@wheres_bears1378 The UN should be looking at all war crimes.

  • @judithmackay7158
    @judithmackay7158 15 днів тому +1

    Correction, Yugoslavia did not fall apart it was broken apart by western interests to serve the purpose of western interests, just as Ukraine is being broken by western interests now.

  • @user-pv2yh2ph8v
    @user-pv2yh2ph8v 11 днів тому +1

    No kid should die !!
    but comparing Bosnian population in the 90s kid's were a much smaller portion . Then 50% in today's gaza .

  • @ShakaZuluX
    @ShakaZuluX 15 днів тому +4

    Funny that when he stopped talking about Bosnia gynocide and said " what I am seeing in Gaza is worst". Suddenly the journalist said " WE HAVE LESS THAN A MINUTE LEFT!!!!!! (if that is not bias censorship I don't know what it is)

  • @user-ev8xg2on9v
    @user-ev8xg2on9v 17 днів тому +7

    Thanks to you..
    Everyone must be against IDF,s atrocities and war crime in Gaza.

  • @havardrivansson7902
    @havardrivansson7902 14 днів тому +1

    Over 150,000 civilians have been killed in Yemen as the direct result of the armed conflict against them by the Saudi-led Coalition, and far more have died due to hunger and disease as a result of the humanitarian crisis. The number of Iraqi civilians killed in the Iraq war was approximately 200,000. More than 232,000 civilians were killed in the fighting in Afghanistan. That's a total of 432,000 innocent Iraqi and Afghani civilians killed by US forces in those two conflicts. The Mukaradeeb wedding party massacre (Arabic: مجزرة حفلة عرس مكر الذيب) refers to the U.S. military's attack on a wedding party in Mukaradeeb, a small village in Anbar Province, Iraq near the border with Syria, on 19 May 2004. The attack killed 42 civilians and wounded many others.

  • @buixote
    @buixote 15 днів тому +1

    Germany played a role in instigating the War in Yugoslavia by recognizing Croation Independence. Like with Ukraine, Croatia has its own "fascist problem", which should not be ignored.