Jeremy Scahill and Eyad Amawi from the Gaza Relief Committees discuss the recent Israeli massacres, the humanitarian catastrophe on the ground, and the latest developments in negotiations.
The idea that the US and Israel are involved in negotiations in the continued genocide of Gaza and the West Bank is completely absurd! On top of that, Europe expresses its deep concern by demanding that it stop within 12 months. 12 months!! Then there is the pathetic actions of the UN! Except for the brilliant work of Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur. It’s disgusting how the warped colonial history of the US and Europe is clearly revealed in their leader’s cowardice and hypocrisy. The US and Israel are both War Criminals! They have no right or credibility to decide the future of Gaza, the West Bank, or the Palestinian People! THEY ARE WAR CRIMINALS!!
Even the UN has questioned the reliability of the casualty figures broadcast by Hamas' Ministry of Health. Statiscians have noted that the often-repeated "most of the dead are women and children" implies that there is a severe shortage of adult males in Gaza. And, while the Ministry does admit that it does not distinguish between combatant and non-combatant deaths, the Ministry never mentions that its figures list anyone under 19 years of age as a "child" (hoping the reader will picture an innocent baby despite the fact that Hamas runs summer camps where teenagers are given weapons and taught to use them). Nor does the Ministry admit that Palestinian cartoon programs encourage kindergarten children to attack and kill Jews.
Military expert's (West Point's Major John Spencer and the UK's Colonel Richard Kemp) have praised the IDF's efforts (and success in) minimizing harm to Gaza civilians under extremely diffiucult circumstances (urban fighting in a densely populated area in which terror tunnels are connected to and built under schools, hospitals, mosques, businesses, and residences deliberately making it likely that some civilians will be harmed in any Israeli response to Hamas' deliberately targeting civilians in Israel. I refer the reader to articles by Khaled Abu Toameh in which he notes that, in its campaign to destroy Israel, Hamas is actually sacrificing Gazans,
Israel is a fake place, its land stolen from the Palestinians by foreign invaders from various countries in 1948. Hamas are freedom fighters trying to get their land back.
After millennia of mistreatment and expulsions, Jews realized they needed a home (a place that, when they needed to go there, they could not be refused entry). When Zionists began returning to the Jews' ancestral homeland in the mid- to late- nineteenth century, they found that Zion had become Palestine, a sparsely populated, underdeveloped backwater in the Ottoman Empire. The Zionists bought land and improved its productivity, built schools and hospitals, established civil defense units and lobbied world leaders for their cause. The Ottoman Empire collapsed after entering World War I on the losing side. When the defunct Empire's land was being divided into modern states, the Zionists had a de facto government ready to run a country. The State of Israel spent the first three decades of its existence fulfilling its promise -- absorbing and uplifting 800,000 Mizrachi Jews driven from their homes in the Muslim countries of the Middle East and North Africa, while also rehabilitating survivors of the Holocaust. The descendants of the Mizrachi Jews comprise the majority of Israel's current Jewish population. Every position in Israel's government, except PM, had been filled at one time or another by someone with roots in the Mizrachi communities.
In contrast, the descendants of fewer than 700,000 Arabs who fled or were displaced from Palestine in the 1940's have grown into 6,000,000 "Palestine refugees" on UNRWA rolls -- demanding a right to "return" to Israel despite the fact that they have grown up seeing Arabs honored and rewarded for killing Jews. The Palestinian goal is not a state of their own. The goal is the destruction of the Jewish state.
The idea that the US and Israel are involved in negotiations in the continued genocide of Gaza and the West Bank is completely absurd! On top of that, Europe expresses its deep concern by demanding that it stop within 12 months. 12 months!! Then there is the pathetic actions of the UN! Except for the brilliant work of Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur. It’s disgusting how the warped colonial history of the US and Europe is clearly revealed in their leader’s cowardice and hypocrisy. The US and Israel are both War Criminals! They have no right or credibility to decide the future of Gaza, the West Bank, or the Palestinian People! THEY ARE WAR CRIMINALS!!
Thank you Jeremy for bringing the voices from Gaza. I value your powerful interviews and the humility with which you conduct each interview.
Thank you for these perspectives that break down the situation from the inside of Gaza. 🙏
Excellent reporting
Even the UN has questioned the reliability of the casualty figures broadcast by Hamas' Ministry of Health. Statiscians have noted that the often-repeated "most of the dead are women and children" implies that there is a severe shortage of adult males in Gaza. And, while the Ministry does admit that it does not distinguish between combatant and non-combatant deaths, the Ministry never mentions that its figures list anyone under 19 years of age as a "child" (hoping the reader will picture an innocent baby despite the fact that Hamas runs summer camps where teenagers are given weapons and taught to use them). Nor does the Ministry admit that Palestinian cartoon programs encourage kindergarten children to attack and kill Jews.
Military expert's (West Point's Major John Spencer and the UK's Colonel Richard Kemp) have praised the IDF's efforts (and success in) minimizing harm to Gaza civilians under extremely diffiucult circumstances (urban fighting in a densely populated area in which terror tunnels are connected to and built under schools, hospitals, mosques, businesses, and residences deliberately making it likely that some civilians will be harmed in any Israeli response to Hamas' deliberately targeting civilians in Israel. I refer the reader to articles by Khaled Abu Toameh in which he notes that, in its campaign to destroy Israel, Hamas is actually sacrificing Gazans,
Israel is a fake place, its land stolen from the Palestinians by foreign invaders from various countries in 1948. Hamas are freedom fighters trying to get their land back.
After millennia of mistreatment and expulsions, Jews realized they needed a home (a place that, when they needed to go there, they could not be refused entry). When Zionists began returning to the Jews' ancestral homeland in the mid- to late- nineteenth century, they found that Zion had become Palestine, a sparsely populated, underdeveloped backwater in the Ottoman Empire. The Zionists bought land and improved its productivity, built schools and hospitals, established civil defense units and lobbied world leaders for their cause. The Ottoman Empire collapsed after entering World War I on the losing side. When the defunct Empire's land was being divided into modern states, the Zionists had a de facto government ready to run a country. The State of Israel spent the first three decades of its existence fulfilling its promise -- absorbing and uplifting 800,000 Mizrachi Jews driven from their homes in the Muslim countries of the Middle East and North Africa, while also rehabilitating survivors of the Holocaust. The descendants of the Mizrachi Jews comprise the majority of Israel's current Jewish population. Every position in Israel's government, except PM, had been filled at one time or another by someone with roots in the Mizrachi communities.
In contrast, the descendants of fewer than 700,000 Arabs who fled or were displaced from Palestine in the 1940's have grown into 6,000,000 "Palestine refugees" on UNRWA rolls -- demanding a right to "return" to Israel despite the fact that they have grown up seeing Arabs honored and rewarded for killing Jews. The Palestinian goal is not a state of their own. The goal is the destruction of the Jewish state.