@@suzyqualcast6269 "In June 2023, Israel quietly approved the development of Gaza Marine, a small offshore gas field near Gaza that will benefit both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas in terms of revenue and energy independence. A second possibility is that this is part of a larger Egyptian/Israeli effort to calm the political situation in Gaza between its warring factions (Hamas vs. Islamic Jihad). There’s also a plan to build a new harbor in Egypt to bring more goods into Gaza and help its economy." Are you sure you know everything going on? of course Hamas killed any chance of this happening now.
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy" --Haaretz, October 2023
I do not understand how people could really expect that the Palestiniañs would be happy to live forever in an apartheid dystem under Israeli tyranny and oppression....really??
This is USAs fault ,they're supplying the weapons and therefore giving the Zionists the power they have.A two state solulution is within the ability of the USA to grant.The Israelis use the four year election rule and hope that by doing nothing they'll get away with their Gaza concentration camp strategy. The Israelis should never be in a position where they can cut off food water and power to a people they hate and want rid of.
I saw an interview with a Christian Palestinian whose family home was destroyed by IDF. Their neighbours received a letter from IDF saying their (the neighbours) house will be targeted. His family wasn't warned, but when the neighbours told them, they decided to get out of their house as well. They were standing in the street when the neighbour's house was hit. A minute later their house was hit as well. They would have died if they had not erred on the side of caution.
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy" -- Haaretz, October 2023
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy" -- Haaretz, October 2023
Let's get something straight here. The only reason some Israelis hate BiBi is not out of sympathy for Palestinians but because of the hostages. They would gladly see the status quo returned.
Is ot not obvious? The mistake was that FORIEGN aid workers were in the cars. Were they Palestinian, they would not be sorry at all. These are clearly their rules of engagement: free for all.
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy" -- Haaretz, October 2023
@@jjohn408 absolutely correct. Bibi has assassinated Fatah rivals to Hamas, funded them and supported them in Gaza for years precisely because that gives him political cover to refuse a two state solution that the whole world demands
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy" -- Haaretz, October 2023
@@UKMedc Yeah... "everything has to be den within the international law". We've heard that. Many times. In 1938, when international law gave Germany half of Czechoslovakia. Or when German authorities closed-off the Warsaw Ghetto, because of an "epidemic". Yeah, 400,000 people inside had to survive each on 500kcal a day, but it was all according to the international law - after all there was a raging epidemic around! Oh, and you would be shot for helping anyone inside. Sorry, but if you do not see the parallels, maybe you need to take your blinkers off.
@@UKMedcWhich bit did he miss out? The bit where Starmer said Israel should observe international law while doing things that are explicitly against international law? Or the bit where Starmer complained he'd been misconstrued, that he had actually been answering a completely different question than the one he had actually been asked?
Why people dont want to understand ,there is an occupation people are oppressed people denied the right to have a state .why is it so difficult to understand this !
@@KimPhilby203 plenty of opportunities to get a bad deal. When you have a US and UK backed entity negotiating with an indigenous population backed by no one, you can tell the deals won’t be favourable to the latter
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy" -- Haaretz, October 2023
No. British Imperialist admirer James would have to admit that Palestinians lives matter, but Britain in their normal imperialistic arrogance promised the Palestinians's lands to another group without their consent in order to make a country from.
Netanyaho wants to stay away from his own courts never mind the international court. The only way for this man to stay away from courts is to keep everyone busy fighting, as it looks.
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy" -Haaretz, October 2023
That caller from Israel "Michael" has helped me to better understand how the average German in the early 1940s could rationalize Hitler's actions as "justified". We have all been given a peek into the darkness of complete indifference to human suffering.
Then we'll hear: 'We are the World's oldest twibe', or 'only We know what suffering is about', never 'why do we always spur the ire of our host?', or 'why can't we get on with our neighbours?' Y, Y, Y ¿?
The sincerity of the Jewish lady who called in should be admired. She genuinely wishes a peaceful future for Israel but I think her understanding of the feelings of the majority Israelis should be questioned. The truth is the majority in Israel support what IDF is doing in Gaza and about 30% think IDF is not doing enough to finish Gaza. She is quite right to believe that the only way Israel can live in a peaceful neighbourhood is to accept that their Palestinian neighbours are also human beings and should enjoy the same rights as those in Israel.
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy" --- Haaretz, October 2023
Yes. Israeli citizens are holding cookouts and parties as they block aid trucks from entering Gaza, just as they held cookouts and parties watching the IDF terrorize Palestinians during Cast Lead. Occupation, supremacist ideology, and entitlement have turned Israel into a sick, depraved society. As the caller said, it is a rogue state, and no, it no longer deserves to exist.
In Canada its the Jewish community leading the charge against the occupation. I'm not saying antisemitism doesn't exist here. I just haven't come across anyone IRL at protests or in groups who blame the Jewish community.
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy" --Haaretz, October 2023
no one thinks in their right mind that all jews are responsible for this, we believe the israeli govt is in charge of this, but this is a fact in israel. they did a poll in late january where 63 pct of the israeli population didnt think the idf was doing enough, they wanted more, i happen to believe that is govt propaganda myself but chilling if its real
Palestinians haven't had an election since 2006. I don't think Israel's much of a democracy. You can get arrested for posting on social media showing sympathy for Gazans.
Some Israeli supporters will say, ‘oh we gave Gaza the chance for independence when Sharon dismantled the Jewish settlements in Gaza. But they voted for Hamas.’ That view ignores the fact that Gaza’s borders were completely blockaded and controlled by the Israeli government, who controlled everything going in and out of Gaza. What freedom is that? Gaza is a big concentration camp. Israel gets so much military support from the west in the name of ‘security’, but what about the security of the Palestinian people, who have had their lands stolen and homes demolished by Israeli government and settlers. There are so many political prisoners, held withou trial.
gaza was free and independent just like the warsaw ghetto was free and independent israel got its just deserts on oct 7th...they created this pressure cooker, they should enjoy its delights
“It’s a consequence, it’s not the intention” This red paint caller, if his own children were in a hospital bed in Gaza, suffering from some illness, denied food, water, medicine, power cut off from life saving equipment, and IDF went in and “unintentionally” deliberately hurt them along with those they were pursuing, his clarity would all of a sudden come back to him like a hard slap in the face. And then you have no journalist from the inside or outside to cover it, because IDF deliberately targets journalists. Not to mention aid workers, medics, basically anyone who would help these civilians. Of whom 50 percent are children.
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy" -- Haaretz, October 2023
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy" -- Haaretz, October 2023
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy" --Haaretz, October 2023
She claimed 60 years of goodwill, what a farce, Hamas are the orphans of Israeli war crimes, she forgets the actual history and just blames 1 person who just followed what the country wanted.
I think it is very easy to understand Netanyahu's motives: he wants the eradication of Palestinians from all territory that he views as being the property of Israel. International law, conventions and pressure held him in check before October 7th, but the Hamas atrocity, and the world's backing for legitimate self-defence, has let him off his leash. He now sees the eradication of Palestinians as being within his grasp and he's going to make sure he achieves this before he's sent to prison.
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy" --- Haaretz, October 2023
The caller from Tel Aviv raised the issue of assumed threat. During the first raid on Al Shifa hospital in Nov, I believe, IGF left 3 babies at the hospital. Each was given their own bed and left to decompose, after Israel forced everyone out of the hospital. Because of the outcry about those preemie babies before they raided the hospital, IGF said that they would be transported to a safe hospital. They never were. They left alone to die. The most very helpless of us all treated with such disrespect ... were they assumed terrorists? Or posed a terrorist risk?
I am sorry this lady is still talking nonsense . If there is a terrorist state it is Israel not Iran. You are. Stressed because you have been found out by the world.
I do enjoy the confident air of affability that Israel supporters call in with, only to get flummoxed by the audacity of being challenged with facts and reality by James. I think its the tonal change of the voice that really does it, from plummy English to a bit more at home in Israel.
Red Paint ? Wow , what an 'analogy'.Jeez. Storming show today.The fantastic young lady refusing to fight in an unjust conflict just left me speechless.
LOVE IT! COPY AND PASTE EVERYONE! Israel has the right to Defund itself Israel has the right to Defund itself Israel has the right to Defund itself Israel has the right to Defund itself Israel has the right to Defund itself Israel has the right to Defund itself
That caller with the spilled paint analogy sounds completely brainwashed. If it was his own children or nieces and nephews he wouldn't dismiss their death as a bit of spilled paint.
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy" -- Haaretz, October 2023
Just wondering how many people have overlooked the fact that starving the population in Gaza and even denying food to Hamas ultimately starves the hostages too. For want of a better word, Hamas hostage takers are still hostage guardians whose duties are to keep them alive as a bargaining chip. More evidence the hostages are not Netanyahu's top priority when his military have killed almost 200 aid workers and even today shot a lone unarmed man attempting to pick up airdropped aid.
Anyone who takes a few minutes would come to that conclusion. However sadly many don't take the time to reach that conclusion and simply devour the propaganda...
Thank you, JaMES, for all you said to the gentleman from Israel justifying "spilling paint" as readily as he feels Bibi is entitled to eliminate Palestinian civilians. I hope Michael reflects on all that you said and about how kindly you said it all despite his ethical obtuseness.
I truly never knew how many evil people there are in the world. To just dismiss babies and children being killed in their thousands and call them collateral damage just makes me believe we are nearing the end of times.
James says it’s AS to say British Jews are loyal to Israel first. I’d like to know How many dual British / Israeli nationals are currently IDF conscripts?
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy" -- Haaretz, October 2023
@@victormeidan1062 “Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy" -- Haaretz, October 2023
@@jjohn408 Haaretz is like the Socialist Worker Newspaper in the UK or a paper of the American Communist Party. It is best for keeping in the toilet for emergency use.
Last week Netanyahu sanctioned the confiscation of 15,000 acres of land in the West Bank. How can there be a two state solution if the Palestinians have no land?
To answer your question the reason is obvious: it was never about getting the hostages out it’s been 6 months,,, it was about razing Gaza … Netanyahu needs to go he is horrible for Israel
These debates sound SO different when you look at them from the Global South. I mean: what makes any of you think that, in the eyes of anyone in the Global South, the British have ever had the remotest grip on moral ground at all?
Yes they left many orphans but I am not sure James is paying attention. They are now starving those orphans either out of the Gaza or into the ground, and I am not talking about tunnels
The tunnels built by Israel when they build the city. Israel has the blueprints of every part of what was Gaza. Just an add on. I recognize what you say. It's obvious to everyone.
I really felt the genuine pain of your lovely British Jewish lady. She is more rational and compassionate than most of our current leaders. i appreciated her humanity
That guy was struggling man I feel bad for him. You could tell how he was trying to justify the actions of the Idf so badly but he knows what the reality is. He has to know, and I don't think he's a bad guy, he's just misled.
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy" --- Haaretz, October 2023
He's a very bad guy if not evil and dillussional . He has damage that country's standing in the world actually they are occupying a foreign land Palestine.
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy" -- Haaretz, October 2023
To say that the state of Israel represents the entire Jewish community and that every Jew must and should support the IDF is in and of itself incredibly antisemitic. There were many prominent pro-Israel pundits that called Jews that opposed the Netanyahu government or what the IDF is doing as “not real Jews”. It’s quite incredible but also dangerous rhetoric.
Sophia (I hope I'm spelling that correctly), Your unwavering convictions are a rare thing. Mohammad Ali didn't shake up the world the world through boxing talent alone. I've always so admired his convictions, too, and you're doing the same thing. The world is a brighter place with you in it.
Maybe James you could do a show on what's happening in the west bank whilst the world's eyes are on gaza.. Israel using this to deflect from the daily abuses going on in the west bank.. And there are no hamas there..
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy" -- Haaretz, October 2023
Poor Michael and his Red Paint analogy - or whatever that was….. Shocking mind set really, and the reality is that there are millions out there just like him…..
@@mohammedmir777 Because they will (likely) cause terror to others for their political gain. But freedom fighters and resistance sounds like another, prettier word for a terrorist. I'm not gonna say it would be completely unjustified, I just wouldn't want them to sink into that state. I know, it won't happen, more terror will continue. But who will cause more terror?
@@nothereandthereanywhereI presume you are unaware that people living under an illegal occupation have every legal right to TAKE UP ARMS to resist the occupying power....According to Terms of Engagement set out in the Geneva Comvention! You can. Fact check that! Facts matter!
@@nothereandthereanywhere “Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy" -- Haaretz, October 2023
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy" -- Haaretz, October 2023
@@jjohn408 As a human being who lives in a free country, I can imagine what they needs , and what their really want in their life is a freedom..free as a sovereign and independent country. Honestly I don't consider them as such..with the morals and example they show, there is no need to argue their personalities with such accusations..
That caller at the 45 minute mark is the biggest problem with the support of what the IDF is doing. They believe they’re getting rid of Hamas but all they’re doing is strengthening their recruiting cause
Israel is often referred to as the only democracy in the Middle East. However like its undemocratic neighbors, it doesn’t recognise international law. We need to make that distinction when talking about Israel.
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy" --Haaretz, October 2023
@@jjohn408 yip, which is why he was in Qatar three month prior to October 7th. Qatar funds Hamas(either through aid or whatever) and Nethanyahu literally went there and asked them to CONTINUE to provide aid to Hamas.
The first caller’s comment that Israel is losing its 60 years of goodwill is laughable. It was just not publicly known what horrors the Palestinians were going through in the pre social media age. If we were still in that age, this carnage would be a blimp in the news cycle.
Not terrorist to the First Lady called, they’ll be the next resistance fighters those children, and it’s not fair for those orphans in Gaza or anywhere else in this civilised world
Israel is happy that aid providers are leaving.This is their plan. The lies and dismissals are getting ridiculous. US and Israel are isolating themselves!
Netanyahu was told by the Rebbe that he would be the one to welcome the messiah. Therefore he thinks he is above the law of man because he has to fulfill his destiny prophesied
43:16 not only is Michael’s analogy incredibly inapt but his own point that Israel was just “clumsy” is inexcusable. We’re talking about innocent lives and the IDF is just “clumsy”. 🤬
Did you just get arrested or also charged, fined, or convicted. Police can make arrests to preserve public order, and some Police personnel might hear the chant "from the river to the sea" and interpret it as inflammatory. Which it as a slogan is. It isn't really helpful to bring your point across. I don't think you should have been arrested, but your phrasing wasn't really helping either. I also don't know what you telling that anecdote is supposed to show other than getting you some attention.
I choose to say "from the River to the Sea" because when I say ISRAEL, Zionist play this semantic game of, "there is no Apartheid in Israel... 15% of Israelis are arab..." I also think it's helpful for people who are unfamiliar with the conflict to ask, What river? Which Sea?
@calj2090 Well, it depends on the context. That is why I asked for clarification. Were you temporarily arrested on a demonstration? Or were you picked up at home one afternoon? Were you charged or even convicted? There is a lot left to peoples imagination in your original comment. It could be a quite "routine" arrest during a protest, or it could be an authoritarian security state coming after you for something you uttered privately.
My wife is Palestinian. We are now both French citizens, As is our adopted Palestinian daughter. My wife Aude has lost at least 5 family members in Gaza in the last 4 months. Her two nieces were 9 and 12 years old killed in a missile strike. I have spent a long time working in Gaza. I listen to the callers to LBC, I read the comments and I realise that nobody on either side of the popular views has the slightest idea OF WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT ! Your communal lack of insight is sickening, your opinions are simply projections of your own deep rooted prejudices !
yes, continuing to describe Palestinians as "future terrorist" is not only reductive of their valid fight for justice but also dehumanizing. its gross.
Orphans and survivor's are not even allowed to feel anger and hatred..absurd world we living in. Not only have you lost your family but you then get labelled as a terrorist.
I'll say this again. It's not about the hostages. It's about the real estate.
And the identified $$mill/bills of barrels of oil identified below the surface of Gaza, that they want to pull for FREE.
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@@suzyqualcast6269 "In June 2023, Israel quietly approved the development of Gaza Marine, a small offshore gas field near Gaza that will benefit both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas in terms of revenue and energy independence.
A second possibility is that this is part of a larger Egyptian/Israeli effort to calm the political situation in Gaza between its warring factions (Hamas vs. Islamic Jihad).
There’s also a plan to build a new harbor in Egypt to bring more goods into Gaza and help its economy."
Are you sure you know everything going on? of course Hamas killed any chance of this happening now.
☝🏽you are not lying.
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy"
--Haaretz, October 2023
I do not understand how people could really expect that the Palestiniañs would be happy to live forever in an apartheid dystem under Israeli tyranny and oppression....really??
Blows my mind too. We want these poor ppl to accept living conditions no sane person would.
Where are they support to go??? Theyre imprissoned
Stop arming Israel for a start
Totally agree. Palestine should have a separate state.
This is USAs fault ,they're supplying the weapons and therefore giving the Zionists the power they have.A two state solulution is within the ability of the USA to grant.The Israelis use the four year election rule and hope that by doing nothing they'll get away with their Gaza concentration camp strategy. The Israelis should never be in a position where they can cut off food water and power to a people they hate and want rid of.
I saw an interview with a Christian Palestinian whose family home was destroyed by IDF. Their neighbours received a letter from IDF saying their (the neighbours) house will be targeted. His family wasn't warned, but when the neighbours told them, they decided to get out of their house as well. They were standing in the street when the neighbour's house was hit. A minute later their house was hit as well. They would have died if they had not erred on the side of caution.
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy"
-- Haaretz, October 2023
Because they don't want dead Christians. That doesn't play well in the US
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They killed Jesus, what makes you think the IDF won't actively target Christians
Terrible what HAMAS has caused isnt it...
Israel has not only protected Hamas, it supported and backed it to win the 2006 Gaza election
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy"
-- Haaretz, October 2023
Yes...and therein lies the strategy.
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Let's get something straight here. The only reason some Israelis hate BiBi is not out of sympathy for Palestinians but because of the hostages. They would gladly see the status quo returned.
💯 - they dislike him but not his views. Israhelis are extreme to say the least.
100%
Partners in crime too much double talk and deceptions! They will only wake up from this delusions if the west stops feeding them!
Is ot not obvious? The mistake was that FORIEGN aid workers were in the cars. Were they Palestinian, they would not be sorry at all. These are clearly their rules of engagement: free for all.
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy"
-- Haaretz, October 2023
Were they sorry? Haven't seen that.
@@jjohn408 absolutely correct. Bibi has assassinated Fatah rivals to Hamas, funded them and supported them in Gaza for years precisely because that gives him political cover to refuse a two state solution that the whole world demands
Maybe bring up Starmer's 'Israel has the right to cut off food and water' next time you have a cosy hour long interview with him
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“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy"
-- Haaretz, October 2023
Talk about selecting out a tiny bit of a sentence and miss out the rest of it..
@@UKMedc Yeah... "everything has to be den within the international law". We've heard that. Many times. In 1938, when international law gave Germany half of Czechoslovakia. Or when German authorities closed-off the Warsaw Ghetto, because of an "epidemic". Yeah, 400,000 people inside had to survive each on 500kcal a day, but it was all according to the international law - after all there was a raging epidemic around! Oh, and you would be shot for helping anyone inside.
Sorry, but if you do not see the parallels, maybe you need to take your blinkers off.
@@UKMedcWhich bit did he miss out? The bit where Starmer said Israel should observe international law while doing things that are explicitly against international law? Or the bit where Starmer complained he'd been misconstrued, that he had actually been answering a completely different question than the one he had actually been asked?
Why people dont want to understand ,there is an occupation people are oppressed people denied the right to have a state .why is it so difficult to understand this !
They've had plenty of opportunities to form a state..They want an end to Israel and nothing less...hense the endless cycle
people do understand
its the zios that don't listen
@@KimPhilby203 plenty of opportunities to get a bad deal. When you have a US and UK backed entity negotiating with an indigenous population backed by no one, you can tell the deals won’t be favourable to the latter
Because the occupiers and oppressors are primarily from Europe… aka proximity to whiteness lessens the atrocities for the western world.
Palestines already have Two states.
Sofia, you are a beautiful soul! I hope the future of Israel looks like you! Thank you for showing humanity and hope for a peaceful future.
Wonder if James is going to reverse his totally bad faith criticisms of Jeremy Corbin over the obviously fabricated allegations of antisemitism.
He is too infatuated with kid starver to do that...
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy"
-- Haaretz, October 2023
No. British Imperialist admirer James would have to admit that Palestinians lives matter, but Britain in their normal imperialistic arrogance promised the Palestinians's lands to another group without their consent in order to make a country from.
100%!
Netanyaho wants to stay away from his own courts never mind the international court. The only way for this man to stay away from courts is to keep everyone busy fighting, as it looks.
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Netanyahu is innocent. The 3 Judges on his trial have stated as much in legal language.
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy"
-Haaretz, October 2023
@@jjohn408
All three judges in the Israeli trial have strongly hinted, in legal language, that the case against Netanyahu has disintegrated.
Exactly 100 percent right.
That caller from Israel "Michael" has helped me to better understand how the average German in the early 1940s could rationalize Hitler's actions as "justified". We have all been given a peek into the darkness of complete indifference to human suffering.
Yes, Michael is a Naatsees Wannabbee
He's obviously not a wannabe. He is indoctrinated and can't see it himself. @victormeidan1062
Yet he is probably the same guy who talks about 'immigrants' calling the shots in his homeland of England!
@@therewdy4038 Right and all of those people ignore the mass displacement of people caused by our own governments.
“Michael” sleeps well at night.. that’s the problem
30,000+ dead, mainly innocent women and children at the hands of this monster.
18,354 total 12789 being Hamas
The mantra of God's chosen children needs to be torn away
Yup. It;s appalling that anyone could still believe that now.
@@signed_BewilderedBiden and evangelical Americans and Brits still do, that's the problem
Probably these are not the chosen people but imposters
Well the coming of crist did that but no one wants to bring that up .even so called Christians seem to be quite on that.
Then we'll hear: 'We are the World's oldest twibe', or 'only We know what suffering is about', never 'why do we always spur the ire of our host?', or 'why can't we get on with our neighbours?' Y, Y, Y ¿?
The sincerity of the Jewish lady who called in should be admired. She genuinely wishes a peaceful future for Israel but I think her understanding of the feelings of the majority Israelis should be questioned. The truth is the majority in Israel support what IDF is doing in Gaza and about 30% think IDF is not doing enough to finish Gaza. She is quite right to believe that the only way Israel can live in a peaceful neighbourhood is to accept that their Palestinian neighbours are also human beings and should enjoy the same rights as those in Israel.
The Idsraelis want the OIL below Gaza for FREE. Simples.
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy"
--- Haaretz, October 2023
Yes. Israeli citizens are holding cookouts and parties as they block aid trucks from entering Gaza, just as they held cookouts and parties watching the IDF terrorize Palestinians during Cast Lead. Occupation, supremacist ideology, and entitlement have turned Israel into a sick, depraved society. As the caller said, it is a rogue state, and no, it no longer deserves to exist.
She was also delusional for believing the goodwill of Israel which has got decades of illegal siege and occupation
In Canada its the Jewish community leading the charge against the occupation. I'm not saying antisemitism doesn't exist here. I just haven't come across anyone IRL at protests or in groups who blame the Jewish community.
Remember a few weeks' back Synagogues were being used as locales to sell stolen land from the West Bank.
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy"
--Haaretz, October 2023
I think that Netanyahu and Putin are probably very similar in temperament and the way they think
no one thinks in their right mind that all jews are responsible for this, we believe the israeli govt is in charge of this, but this is a fact in israel. they did a poll in late january where 63 pct of the israeli population didnt think the idf was doing enough, they wanted more, i happen to believe that is govt propaganda myself but chilling if its real
Well, not all. Recently, Illegal Palestinian West Bank lands were on sale at a Canadian synagogue.
Norman Finkelstein inspires my path towards unbiased intellectualism.
How is Isreal the only democracy when people always say the Palestine’s voted Hamas into power so are they a democracy?
Who cares?
@Go-lova your mum?
Palestinians haven't had an election since 2006. I don't think Israel's much of a democracy. You can get arrested for posting on social media showing sympathy for Gazans.
Dude read a book the last election in Gaza was in 2006
@@QUINTUSMAXIMUS Israel..an apartheid regime .... is definitely not a democracy
I agree with the caller who said, "asking a bully to stop does nothing, there has to be consequences"
Some Israeli supporters will say, ‘oh we gave Gaza the chance for independence when Sharon dismantled the Jewish settlements in Gaza. But they voted for Hamas.’ That view ignores the fact that Gaza’s borders were completely blockaded and controlled by the Israeli government, who controlled everything going in and out of Gaza. What freedom is that? Gaza is a big concentration camp.
Israel gets so much military support from the west in the name of ‘security’, but what about the security of the Palestinian people, who have had their lands stolen and homes demolished by Israeli government and settlers. There are so many political prisoners, held withou trial.
gaza was free and independent just like the warsaw ghetto was free and independent
israel got its just deserts on oct 7th...they created this pressure cooker, they should enjoy its delights
Who gave them the land of Israel
Still spouting that lie, there is a border with Egypt.
@@kwanchan6745
Life in expectancy in WG = 4 months
Life Expectancy in Gaza = 73 years.
No comparison.
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“It’s a consequence, it’s not the intention”
This red paint caller, if his own children were in a hospital bed in Gaza, suffering from some illness, denied food, water, medicine, power cut off from life saving equipment, and IDF went in and “unintentionally” deliberately hurt them along with those they were pursuing, his clarity would all of a sudden come back to him like a hard slap in the face.
And then you have no journalist from the inside or outside to cover it, because IDF deliberately targets journalists. Not to mention aid workers, medics, basically anyone who would help these civilians. Of whom 50 percent are children.
You made everything cristal clear. Thanks, James O'brien.
The west and Israel spent years calling African countries as banana republic! These days we Africans are like LOL!
And today Africa is doing the world proud, standing up to this horror where all the 'cultured' western nations have embarrassingly failed.
One right doesn't erase everything wrong.
@@nothereandthereanywhere come again?
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy"
-- Haaretz, October 2023
@@jjohn408stop spamming this comment is about Africa taking it's power back and decolonizing which is such Fantastic news in these times. ✊💪
I regard myself a humanist, egalitarian. I'm proud to stand on the same path as James O'Brien.
He's still too wishy washy for me regarding the palestinian issue.
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy"
-- Haaretz, October 2023
@@dawnatkinson7704 Eventually when her thinks it through he'll accept Jeremy Corbyn's view.
But I'm not betting on that one.
Why did he not call out his guest who did not tell the truth on her CV. Although he is better than most he seems to preen with those on his own side
BTW I was referring to his book the other week who had a book to plug and endorses newspeak
Netanyahu should be charged with war crimes
Biden, too.
@@SnarkyMarx mabey we should charge all those who pay taxes as its the peoples taxes who pay for WAR
But not HAMAS??
@@davidgreen6490 is Hamas intentionally starving over a million innocent people right now?
@@davidgreen6490 is Hamas intentionally starving over a million innocent people right now?
@James O'Brien,.So it took 7 Aid workers to make you all angry. Everyone else didn't matter.
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy"
--Haaretz, October 2023
@@jjohn408 that plan is being played out. Investigate Oct 7. Hamas was only after kidnapping to free Palestinian hostages.
But remember! It's not racism!
Exactly, everyone forgets Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, etc ...
brave israeli woman, refusing to commit war crimes in the IDF
She claimed 60 years of goodwill, what a farce, Hamas are the orphans of Israeli war crimes, she forgets the actual history and just blames 1 person who just followed what the country wanted.
I think it is very easy to understand Netanyahu's motives: he wants the eradication of Palestinians from all territory that he views as being the property of Israel. International law, conventions and pressure held him in check before October 7th, but the Hamas atrocity, and the world's backing for legitimate self-defence, has let him off his leash. He now sees the eradication of Palestinians as being within his grasp and he's going to make sure he achieves this before he's sent to prison.
so thaaaats why he ignored the warnings.......
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“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy"
--- Haaretz, October 2023
To se ne smije dozvoliti
The caller from Tel Aviv raised the issue of assumed threat.
During the first raid on Al Shifa hospital in Nov, I believe, IGF left 3 babies at the hospital. Each was given their own bed and left to decompose, after Israel forced everyone out of the hospital.
Because of the outcry about those preemie babies before they raided the hospital, IGF said that they would be transported to a safe hospital. They never were. They left alone to die. The most very helpless of us all treated with such disrespect ... were they assumed terrorists? Or posed a terrorist risk?
Love from Baltimore in America. James is by far my favorite host.
I am sorry this lady is still talking nonsense . If there is a terrorist state it is Israel not Iran. You are. Stressed because you have been found out by the world.
How come Netanyahu's two ADUKT SONS are not fighting his WAR like the rest of the young men?
How about that.
I do enjoy the confident air of affability that Israel supporters call in with, only to get flummoxed by the audacity of being challenged with facts and reality by James.
I think its the tonal change of the voice that really does it, from plummy English to a bit more at home in Israel.
Don`t spill any paint, priceless... 🤣🤣🤣
Thank you James for exposing them.
Red Paint ? Wow , what an 'analogy'.Jeez.
Storming show today.The fantastic young lady refusing to fight in an unjust conflict just left me speechless.
Israel has the right to Defund itself
😂 I like that one much better
😂 I like that one much better
America has created a monster now it’s getting off its leash and they’re upset about it
LOVE IT!
COPY AND PASTE EVERYONE!
Israel has the right to Defund itself
Israel has the right to Defund itself
Israel has the right to Defund itself
Israel has the right to Defund itself
Israel has the right to Defund itself
Israel has the right to Defund itself
How can an oppressor claim self defence can you please explain.
That caller with the spilled paint analogy sounds completely brainwashed. If it was his own children or nieces and nephews he wouldn't dismiss their death as a bit of spilled paint.
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy"
-- Haaretz, October 2023
It’s shocking
The more I listen to Sofia, the more I want to cry - you give me hope Sofia ❤❤❤
Please keep safe
Praying for you
Thanku James for calmly asking the right questions!
And remember children, never be a "Michael"
Michael is the new Karen 😂
It’s hard to instinctively 1:09:15 trust a country that won’t allow independent journalists to report from Gaza.
James and his intellect 👌
What a brave enlightened young lady!
That Micheal guy was insane need any other hints people?
Just wondering how many people have overlooked the fact that starving the population in Gaza and even denying food to Hamas ultimately starves the hostages too.
For want of a better word, Hamas hostage takers are still hostage guardians whose duties are to keep them alive as a bargaining chip.
More evidence the hostages are not Netanyahu's top priority when his military have killed almost 200 aid workers and even today shot a lone unarmed man attempting to pick up airdropped aid.
Netanyahu has not cared about the hostages since day 1
Anyone who takes a few minutes would come to that conclusion.
However sadly many don't take the time to reach that conclusion and simply devour the propaganda...
Thank you, JaMES, for all you said to the gentleman from Israel justifying "spilling paint" as readily as he feels Bibi is entitled to eliminate Palestinian civilians. I hope Michael reflects on all that you said and about how kindly you said it all despite his ethical obtuseness.
I truly never knew how many evil people there are in the world. To just dismiss babies and children being killed in their thousands and call them collateral damage just makes me believe we are nearing the end of times.
James says it’s AS to say British Jews are loyal to Israel first. I’d like to know How many dual British / Israeli nationals are currently IDF conscripts?
See how they turned on James once he stopped saying they were in the right. Oh hasbara ;/
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“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy"
-- Haaretz, October 2023
@@victormeidan1062 “Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy"
-- Haaretz, October 2023
@@jjohn408
Haaretz is like the Socialist Worker Newspaper in the UK or a paper of the American Communist Party. It is best for keeping in the toilet for emergency use.
They are now in fear of what they have brought on their self. They will start WWIII before they stop!
At some point, James should talk about how we apply the term "terrorist".
Last week Netanyahu sanctioned the confiscation of 15,000 acres of land in the West Bank. How can there be a two state solution if the Palestinians have no land?
To answer your question the reason is obvious: it was never about getting the hostages out it’s been 6 months,,, it was about razing Gaza … Netanyahu needs to go he is horrible for Israel
These debates sound SO different when you look at them from the Global South. I mean: what makes any of you think that, in the eyes of anyone in the Global South, the British have ever had the remotest grip on moral ground at all?
cf. Malvinas Conflict ???
Right!!
Yes they left many orphans but I am not sure James is paying attention. They are now starving those orphans either out of the Gaza or into the ground, and I am not talking about tunnels
The tunnels built by Israel when they build the city. Israel has the blueprints of every part of what was Gaza. Just an add on. I recognize what you say. It's obvious to everyone.
Netanyahu is not stopping, because his ego has taken an almighty battering
James you're a LEGEND mate.
I really felt the genuine pain of your lovely British Jewish lady. She is more rational and compassionate than most of our current leaders. i appreciated her humanity
That guy was struggling man I feel bad for him. You could tell how he was trying to justify the actions of the Idf so badly but he knows what the reality is. He has to know, and I don't think he's a bad guy, he's just misled.
nah he just doesn't see palestinians as real people the way he does israelis it's really that simple. he just knew he couldn't say it out loud.
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy"
--- Haaretz, October 2023
@@benzolobsterYeah that could be the case.
If he had power and means he would spill paint everywhere.
He's a very bad guy if not evil and dillussional . He has damage that country's standing in the world actually they are occupying a foreign land Palestine.
Proportionality is not even the only or biggest issue, discrimination is.
Brave women has morals at young age❤
If the allies did not plead with Natanly to stop. what would he do ?? Dreadful
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy"
-- Haaretz, October 2023
To say that the state of Israel represents the entire Jewish community and that every Jew must and should support the IDF is in and of itself incredibly antisemitic. There were many prominent pro-Israel pundits that called Jews that opposed the Netanyahu government or what the IDF is doing as “not real Jews”. It’s quite incredible but also dangerous rhetoric.
Sophia (I hope I'm spelling that correctly),
Your unwavering convictions are a rare thing. Mohammad Ali didn't shake up the world the world through boxing talent alone. I've always so admired his convictions, too, and you're doing the same thing. The world is a brighter place with you in it.
Maybe James you could do a show on what's happening in the west bank whilst the world's eyes are on gaza.. Israel using this to deflect from the daily abuses going on in the west bank.. And there are no hamas there..
pleading with him to stop ? now plead, a garden snake turned anaconda , ?
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“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy"
-- Haaretz, October 2023
Poor Michael and his Red Paint analogy - or whatever that was….. Shocking mind set really, and the reality is that there are millions out there just like him…..
That guest who refused to serve in the IDF is a remarkable young woman
I wish I could send her strength through my phone
You let that lady rattle on without fact checking her.
She said that the children of dead Palestinian will turn into terrorist. Why didn't she said resistance or freedom fighters.
@@mohammedmir777 Because they will (likely) cause terror to others for their political gain. But freedom fighters and resistance sounds like another, prettier word for a terrorist.
I'm not gonna say it would be completely unjustified, I just wouldn't want them to sink into that state. I know, it won't happen, more terror will continue. But who will cause more terror?
@@nothereandthereanywhereI presume you are unaware that people living under an illegal occupation have every legal right to TAKE UP ARMS to resist the occupying power....According to Terms of Engagement set out in the Geneva Comvention! You can. Fact check that! Facts matter!
@@nothereandthereanywhereisrael will obviously
@@nothereandthereanywhere “Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy"
-- Haaretz, October 2023
If you repeat a lie often enough , eventually it will become IDF.
If you condem people who said everybody jews is antisemitic,You should agree to condem the perspective that everybody muslim is a terorist..
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy"
-- Haaretz, October 2023
@@jjohn408 As a human being who lives in a free country, I can imagine what they needs , and what their really want in their life is a freedom..free as a sovereign and independent country. Honestly I don't consider them as such..with the morals and example they show, there is no need to argue their personalities with such accusations..
That caller at the 45 minute mark is the biggest problem with the support of what the IDF is doing. They believe they’re getting rid of Hamas but all they’re doing is strengthening their recruiting cause
At what point does Israel (the Netanyahu faction) become a terrorist group, or does the term terrorist apply exclusively to non-European groups?
No, Netanyahu is an Israeli war hero.
More brains in a Netanyahu fingernail than in 1000 Jeremy Corbyn's.
Very well said.
Right is doesn't apply to our governments the biggest terrorist groups in the world. It's not violence if you are wearing a uniform.
I see what you did there 😉👏
It is not important who is or is not a terrorist
The key question who is a primitive, 7th century Jihadist ?
well said young lady
James is brilliant
Let's be quite clear about this he should stand trial as a war criminal !!!
That's one brave ypung lady. All the power to her.
Netanyahu wants to pull Iran in to deflect the blame from him to the region. I hope Iran stays put, although the region has the support of the people
Israel is often referred to as the only democracy in the Middle East. However like its undemocratic neighbors, it doesn’t recognise international law.
We need to make that distinction when talking about Israel.
40:54 James logical, critical and objective approach and his demeanour has garnered my respect.
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy"
--Haaretz, October 2023
@@jjohn408 yip, which is why he was in Qatar three month prior to October 7th.
Qatar funds Hamas(either through aid or whatever) and Nethanyahu literally went there and asked them to CONTINUE to provide aid to Hamas.
The first caller’s comment that Israel is losing its 60 years of goodwill is laughable.
It was just not publicly known what horrors the Palestinians were going through in the pre social media age. If we were still in that age, this carnage would be a blimp in the news cycle.
Ive heard this caller so many times its pathetic. Micheal red paint , is this the walking around the room bloke
Imagine trying to paint the room walls but fully painting the floor and only spilling some paint on walls.
Not terrorist to the First Lady called, they’ll be the next resistance fighters those children, and it’s not fair for those orphans in Gaza or anywhere else in this civilised world
Israel is happy that aid providers are leaving.This is their plan. The lies and dismissals are getting ridiculous. US and Israel are isolating themselves!
Bravermen should stay in Israel
What a remarkable lady, in the midst of all the hatred. If only we were all as brave in our convictions as she is
Netanyahu was told by the Rebbe that he would be the one to welcome the messiah. Therefore he thinks he is above the law of man because he has to fulfill his destiny prophesied
Yes October 7th is bad. What about the last 75 years. Any sane human being will question this.
salute to all isreali courage youths refused to take part in Idf....
Hi from Mauritius from Mauritius. e listen to you even from far James.
43:16 not only is Michael’s analogy incredibly inapt but his own point that Israel was just “clumsy” is inexcusable. We’re talking about innocent lives and the IDF is just “clumsy”. 🤬
You're the best James. Godspeed
Braverman is evil
Capitalism is inseparable from settler colonialism. IT'S ABOUT LAND AND RESOURCES, NOT HOSTAGES
JUST IMAGINE MICHAEL BEING A JUDGE SITTING ON YOUR CASE!!!!!!!
I can’t wrap my head around some of these explanations…smh
😂 i was arrested in Germany for saying " End Apartheid, from the River to the Sea"
Did you just get arrested or also charged, fined, or convicted.
Police can make arrests to preserve public order, and some Police personnel might hear the chant "from the river to the sea" and interpret it as inflammatory. Which it as a slogan is. It isn't really helpful to bring your point across.
I don't think you should have been arrested, but your phrasing wasn't really helping either.
I also don't know what you telling that anecdote is supposed to show other than getting you some attention.
so were you charged
@@carpediem5232 James mentioned that you can be dismissed from the Labour party for saying basically that , is why I brought it up...
I choose to say "from the River to the Sea" because when I say ISRAEL, Zionist play this semantic game of, "there is no Apartheid in Israel... 15% of Israelis are arab..."
I also think it's helpful for people who are unfamiliar with the conflict to ask, What river? Which Sea?
@calj2090 Well, it depends on the context. That is why I asked for clarification. Were you temporarily arrested on a demonstration? Or were you picked up at home one afternoon? Were you charged or even convicted?
There is a lot left to peoples imagination in your original comment.
It could be a quite "routine" arrest during a protest, or it could be an authoritarian security state coming after you for something you uttered privately.
There is an existential threat to Gaza!
My wife is Palestinian. We are now both French citizens, As is our adopted Palestinian daughter. My wife Aude has lost at least 5 family members in Gaza in the last 4 months. Her two nieces were 9 and 12 years old killed in a missile strike. I have spent a long time working in Gaza. I listen to the callers to LBC, I read the comments and I realise that nobody on either side of the popular views has the slightest idea OF WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT ! Your communal lack of insight is sickening, your opinions are simply projections of your own deep rooted prejudices !
Love from Ireland 💚
@@dmurphy3202
Thank you Mr Murphy and all Irish people who "May" wish for freedom !
??.. I don't understand your comment... There ate lots of comments of people who condem Israels attrocities, warcrimes, devilish behaviour...
yes, continuing to describe Palestinians as "future terrorist" is not only reductive of their valid fight for justice but also dehumanizing. its gross.
Orphans and survivor's are not even allowed to feel anger and hatred..absurd world we living in. Not only have you lost your family but you then get labelled as a terrorist.
James O'Brien and owen jones are two of a very small group of English people that remind me that they aren't all bad