CZM Rewind: Discussing Palestine and Israel w/ Deevee Kashi

welcome to it could happen here. This is Sharene and I am so happy to be joined by my guest today. I've been so excited to speak to him. I am joined by dB Kashi. He is a pro policy and activist from New York and Israel, and there's just a lot of stuff I want to talk to you about.

to Tel Aviv for the first time. And you know, obviously I was very familiar with it, like visit every summer, and you know, grew up in our grandparents' house, both of whom were Iraqi Jews who immigrated to Israel in the early fifties. And so yeah, so when I moved there in eighth grade, I was completely pretty much a shock in terms of what I was used to in New York. Obviously, I had friends from many different walks

of life, many different backgrounds here. I was very used to that, right, I didn't grew up in you know, a very staunch Jewish community. I had Jewish friends, but I didn't solely have Jewish friends. And so that's what I loved, That's what I embraced, but when I moved to Israel, it was very jarring. You know, I had studied in Hebrew for the first time, and you know, everything that we studied in school was pertaining to the

Jewish identity. So every kind of history class, you know, you'd study about the Roman Empire and the Jewish people. You'd study about, you know, ancient Greece and the Jewish people.

And that's okay to learn about Jewish identity, but intertwining it with every aspect of the school curriculum and really thinking about the persecure really kind of hammering home this notion of persecution, really kind of understanding how you know, And again, I think it's important to understand your history and history in general, but I think that kind of introducing this notion of persecution as a tactic to retraumatize

people that aren't directly experiencing the trauma. Right, So everyone in the world learns about the Holocaust, but did you know that in Israel, Holocaust Remembrance Day isn't on the same day as the rest of the world's Holocaust Remembrance Day because they want to own their own kind of

version of the Holocaust Remembrance Day. Right. And so you know, when you think about the Holocaust, you think about other holocausts, other genocides that have happened, and Israel's failure to recognize those genocides, like the Armenian genocide, right, and the fact that you know, many people don't know, but you know, throughout history Israel has armed genocidal forces with Israeli made weapons to you know, support imperialist motives and colonialist powers

around the world. So you know, even even now with what's happening in Armenia with the Iserbaijani's right, Israel is on the wrong side of that equation, right, And so it's never been about standing with the side of the oppressed for Israel, It's never been about, you know, ensuring that what happens when they say never again, actually never again, never happens again to anyone around the world. Right. Think about their policy is the racist policies around refugees, right.

I think people don't understand, right. I have a very unique perspective because I understand kind of the minds of

the colonizers. I can humanize the colonizers. I think there's a dangerous kind of maybe thinking about things from a bit of a different angle than kind of people are used to, and also bringing it back to the events of the last ten days or eleven days at this point, I think, you know, I've always kind of looked at and identified with the Palestinian struggle, right, And I've always seen it as human rights struggle, right, and you know, as such, and as many well regarded activists and thinkers

and intellectuals have always talked about the unification of all the struggles of the oppress, and that's always always arrived at the identification with this struggle for the Palestinian people. I've also felt, you know, by virtue of this se this imposed identity of you know, Israeli, I've always felt directly responsible for the oppression of the Palestinian people, even though I've never done anything myself to champion or perpetuate

that oppression. I've always worked against it from a very very young age. Now people always ask me, you know, kind of annoying questions like, you know, why do you care so much about the Palestinians when so many people in the world are suffering. And the answer to that

question is I care about all suffering. But this is something that the government that supposedly represents me, that the entity that supposedly represents me is directly perpetrating and frankly, after going to many protests in New York and in Israel itself, I've realized that this is the most important human rights struggle of our generation for sure, but of modern times because it stands for all of it's essentially the last beacon of direct colonialism. Right. We all know

how kind of neocolonialism works. I mean, maybe we do when we don't, but neo colonialism, through you know, different coupitalist structures, right, America has been able to perpetrate neocolonialism without actually having to occupy other people, you know, save for Iraq for almost twenty years, but or fifteen years or whatever, it was a very long time. But Israel is directly and physically occupying in other people, and they have been for the last seventy five years, right officially

for the last seventy five years. And that's been a constant, Right, It's not, hey, you know, here's a country and let's you know fight, let's continue our kind of battle in that way. It's been it's always been. If you're a scholar of Israeli history of Zionist history, you always you start understanding that the goal was to take over all of Judaea and Samara, right, And that's kind of how the settler government that Netanyahu has in power has been

speaking for years. Right. I'm really upset and really kind of frustrated by the way that the Western media has been portraying what's happening over the last eleven days, because even Israeli media Halitz, which is an Israeli newspaper, which is very prominent one right, isn't portraying it the way that the Western media is portraying it. Right, they're criticizing the Netanyahu. There's so many people in Israel that are scared, right,

All the leftists are scared. They're being persecuted. They're signal groups doxing friends of mine, people literally fighting for human rights. They're doxing them. Israelfrai, he's an Orthodox reporter that's been staunchly pro Palestinian and he's a very prominent member of the press. Angry mob of right wing extremists try to knock down his door the other day and he had to escape from the back door and run away. So they don't, you know, potentially kill him, right, and so

these voices are being silenced in Israel. No one is talking about that. Everyone in the West is beating the drums of war. The media is supporting that. We've seen on the kind of a micro but tragic level, what happened to that six year old kid that was stobbed to death by someone just because of the anti Islamic, anti Palestinian rhetoric that's being perpetrated, And so everyone's kind of losing their shit as all of a sudden, everyone's saying the same thing because everyone is being pushed to

justify this war. But people are starting to wake up, right, the UN's woken up and very very slowly start to wake up because they're seeing that genocide is actually being committed and so you can't throw your full weight behind genocide. But they're walking it back too slowly. And the people that I'm disappointed by are people that are supposedly smart, spewing complete nonsense rhetoric about two sides. Right. I struggled, Right, this is important. I struggled. I know people who were

killed in the Hamas attack personally and intimately know them. Right. You know, my ex girlfriend's best friend was killed. Right, She's We've hung out many, many, many times. She was a very sweet, very kind person. We know an activist who was literally because people don't understand. And this is for a lot of the kind of pro Palestinians that that that And I completely empathize, and I understand why

people believe what they believe. Believe me, but this is for a lot of the pro Palestinians that you know immediately called all of them settlers, right, And I think it's important to distinguish because if there's ever going to be a path forward this mess, we have to offer a new rhetoric that deconstructs the nationalist ideologies. Okay, I don't put the Palestinian flag or say free Palestine, which

I do as a nationalist ideology. I say that as a deconstruction of nationalism, as as a call to freedom for all, right, though oppressed as well as the oppressor. Right. If you actually read everyone's quoting, everyone's quoting Phenonen, right, everyone's quoting all these revolutionaries, if you actually read the material that they said. Chae Gavari even said the true revolutionary is guided by deep with deep feelings of love in their heart, and he said this at the risk

of sounding absurd. He said that direct quote the people perpetuating in Israel. I can say this from a first hand account. I know very good people that are guided by nationalist and fascist idea. However, they've been manipulated, They've been lied to, They've they're fed propaganda twenty four to seven through the news and the sentiment in Israel right now, and I can tell you this, I'm getting messages from people. They think everyone is trying to kill Jews. That's what

they believe, That's what they've been told. They think this is armageddon for the Jewish people. That's what the media narrative is in Israel. Okay, in spite of the fact that there are many people that are against what's happening, there are many people that directly blame Netanyahu for this, but they're being scared to believe that they're being going to be attacked on all fronts, and they have to do everything they can to neutralize your threats. Okay, that

is the survival kind of That is a fact. Does that mean that every single person in Israel is a terrible human being as evil as some people say, No, that is not true at all. Right. And my point is, and what a lot of the revolutionaries said, right. Palo Freer in the Pedagogy the Oppressed said, in the process of dehumanization, the oppressor dehumanizes himself. Putting that aside, though, I think that you know, for me, I see I know people that died, it was very difficult for me

the post in the first two days. I think there were some problematic justifications for the massacre that didn't sit well with me because I'm a humanist. But in the same token, right, I think that I understand the context. I think it behooves us to understand the context. Right.

There's a really famous quote. I forget who said it, but if you started the clock or started looking at kind of the colonization in America from when the Native Americans started shooting the arrows, you think that the Native Americans were the aggressives. Right. If you started looking at, you know, the colonization of Algeria, when the Alga when the local population started rebelling, you think that they were the aggressives. Right. And that's not to say in the

same breath that terrible things happen to amazing people there. Right, What people don't know and a lot of the Propolst movement doesn't know is that many of the people living in the area on Gazas are actually activists, like very anti zionists, activists right that many of the testimonies of the families of the of those activists are saying to stop the genocide, that it's not going to bring back

their friends, their family members. Those are the people that were a lot of whom were killed in the attacks, because that's where they live, they work with, you know, organizations at Gaza like acknowledge that, right, understand the complexity saying, hey, you guys are all settlers. That's just dumb. It's not factually true. Their grandparents were, their great grandparents were one

hundred percent. But now their generations and generations of people, right, just like in America, their generations and generations of people that descended, Are they to be held accountable for the actions of their ancestors. Doesn't make any sense. They should be held accountable for actions that they take now for sure, right, holding your government accountable, you know, thinking about an actual solution to this terrible situation that one hundred percent people

should be held accountable for. But to call them settlers as a justification for their deaths is something that I will never do, right, and I don't think it helps the struggle, right. I think it's important to say, and then simultaneously also say, did you guys know that Israel played a very major role in establishing the commas? Like don't be stupid, open a history books, see what happened, right, Understand, don't just be quick to call and quick to say

both sides. It's not a both side situation. Even though the aggression was terrible, those are those two things can be true. It's a devastating, tragic event, right, and I know many great people that were killed in it, But in the same breath, we have to remember what caused it.

right now isamal Bengvil and Smotrich are two settlers. They literally are settlers, like in according to the national law, they're considered settlers, okay, illegal settlers. And there the second and third most powerful people in Israel. Okay, I don't think people understand or know, but those two guys. There's a there's a famous rabbi, okay, Andrew. He's an extremist, fundamentalist rabbi, Jewish fundamentalist rabbi. What he's been calling for

for a long time, sadaka Is Kahana was right. He was a very fascist rabbi that was basically calling for the extermination of all Arabs. And they're basically they're called kahanistem and that's it's basically what the left in Israel used to call this government. Manchash Khanistem means government of Kahanists. Okay, that is what that's who's running the country. And this

rabbi has been calling for in a biblical sense. And we all know when people have an utmost you know, devotion to religion, that guides them, right, not our world. Our world does not guide them. The religious texts and the religious leaders are the ones who tell them what is right and what is wrong right religious in religious fundamentalism, and so what this rabbi has been calling for for years has been a war to end all wars. Okay, that is what he's been telling them. That is what

they've been operating under. Okay, their allegiances are to him, not to the Israeli people like literally to that ideology. And so they're in the government right now. Over the last year, they've been essentially adding illegal settlements at a rapid rate, emboldening and empowering settlers to commit violence that we haven't seen in many many years, levels of violence we haven't been seen in many many years, even before this latest aggression I'm talking about over the last twelve months.

And the biggest most annoying thing that I hear from Westerners that think they understand right, they're like, oh, yeah, we really care about Palestinians. But Hamas has to go two things to that. One, the fact that there are Palestinians on the West Bank and the Palestinians in Gaza doesn't mean they're not the same people. They're Palestinians in forty eight as well. They feel deep feelings of solidarity

because they're all oppressed in different ways. Right, it's solidarity under this got under this Grand Zionist oppression that they experienced. And so I think that it's a fallacy that it was an unprovoked attack. It's a fallacy, right, It's not the case the fact that Aleksa kept getting bombarded by settlers on purpose, on purpose, I don't put it back like they did this to get a provocation. They've been provoking to get the retaliation for Hamas. They've been doing

this for years. This is nothing new, Right. Every time Ramas shot rockets over the last five years is because Israel was attacking Elecxa right right after Ramadan if you remember, or during Ramadan. Sorry, And so every time a barage of rockets came in right after that barrage of rockets because Hamas wanted to show that someone is sticking up

for them. But I'm just saying you have to understand the context when you're in a blockade, when you're living in a concentration camp, worse than a concentration camp, frankly, Right, every electricity is controlled, water is controlled, food is controlled. You're not able to leave, right, You're not able to freaking leave when you want. You're not able to come when you want, not able to. A sixty kilometer strip of land is the most densely populated strip of land

in the entire world. Depression is the the highest rates of depression. I think the highest rates of child suicide are in Gaza, Okay, when you're living under those conditions, I have no idea how you don't. I have no idea what that would feel like. So how can I judge anyone any response to that? Right in the same breath, I can also say it's a tragic thing that innocent people died, and they're innocent people, and I think it's important to hold that complexity. Also for the Palestinian cause.

I think it's important to not lose sight of our humanity in criticizing the grave injustices that Israel has committed and putting the blame squarely on Israel's shoulders. That Hamas exists.

other choice. And I mean for Palestinians, I think, like, what's the biggest context that's missing is like they've tried everything. It's not their first choice to kill people that didn't deserve it. It's I think I think that's what's been really annoying with the the people that have chosen to spoke

to speak out that have never spoken out before. They are so narrow in their view of this that it's so damaging because they have so many follow werds, or they're talking about the wrong things, and all of those things like kind of perpetuate a really dangerous environment where like a six year old kid can get stabbed to death. Or I don't know. I agree with everything you said, and I really appreciate you saying all those things before I forget. We're going to take our first break, so

don't go anywhere and we're back. Something you mentioned early on that I have been thinking about and getting really angry about is why people are surprised or like unexpecting you to speak out about Palestinians if you are not a Palestinian. I am not a Palestinian. I'm Syrian, and I am extremely vocal about the Palestinian cause and the Palestinian I've always been one hundred perc free Palestine till I die. And it's almost like surprising to people, like

why are you so worked up? Like why aren't you so worked up like that? That's what really gets me is your humanity and care. It shouldn't be contingent on your identity if you actually give a shit. And I think that's what I really want to like relate to people, is this is not the Palestinian's struggle solely for themselves, Like this is a struggle for all. Like if this

genocide obliterates the Palestinian people, that's on humanity shoulders. That's not like that that is so indicative of how depraved humans have become. It's just so upsetting. It's just a complete obliteration. There has been videos of settlers saying they want to flatten the whole thing, make it a parking lot. I mean, I don't even have to tell you what like actual media and like politicians have been saying because

it's like atrocious. But I think that's what I want to relate to people, is like, if you're not if you don't care, examine that because that is troubling to me, if you don't care about actual genocide. And maybe that word has been used too much to make people give a shit, but it really makes me question people's humanity when they are able to kind of just like shrug it off and continue about their day.

that posted the right thing. Yeah, I'm also seeing many people that I'm I'm seeing many people that I wasn't surprised by posting the wrong thing. Yeah, frankly, but I'm also seeing many people white people, you know, black people, right, like people of all kinds that are disconnected, you know, from an identity perspective, to the Postinian people doing so

much showing up. I went to the I was I saw images from the protest in uh the other day and there, and I'm not talking about the Jewish protest, which was amazing, right. What JVP did with if not now in front of truck Schumer's house was incredible. Right. That's that's solidarity. That's that's that's real, right, That's that's that's that's humanity, right, that's what humanity should be. That's

real solidarity. I'm talking about the protests though, that was Palestinian lad in the midtown, and I saw tons of Jews there m hm. And I'm not talking about the sut Mar anti Zionist, you know Hasidic Jews, those are great, right,

and they're they're helpful. I'm talking about like regular regular ass Jews, right, like me, Like people like not even wearing amaicas, like people with you know, small yamicas that aren't like you know, Hasidic or anything, holding up signs to help liberate the Pestinian people in spite of the Hamas, in spite of everything that happened, they showed up, they were not scared. A Pastinian flag doesn't scare them, right,

it shouldn't. It shouldn't. But again, I want to be I want to I want to maintain my my I

guess I want to maintain the view of objectivity. I think again, you know, Devil's advocate, I think when when And again this is not not me blaming, right, it's more so offering kind of a perspective to question how to kind of move forward when people Israeli's Jews whoever, right, are indoctrinated to believe that Palestine means no place for me, okay, and then you couple that with the anger anguish that the oppressed people are feeling and saying, yeah, fu fuck that,

like we couldn't want you here, right, like you look what you're doing to us. I think that they view the Palestinian flag as a replacement of, you know, the flag of Israel, which many people actually kind of not

many people, some people view it that way. And I think that the way I see it and the way many people I know see it, it's a flag that represents liberation from oppression, liberation of the Palestinian people who are being actively oppressed by Zionism, right, an ideology, right, you know, perpetuated and executed by people, but it's still an ideology.

matter where your your feelings lie. But there is you know, there's a new president. You know, every four years of a president is termed, right, you can't be you can't be a president for more than two terms. Right. These are real things, right, these are real protections. You have three different branches of government, right, you have local level,

local government. You have so many different checks and balances that are you know, corrupted and corupted in certain ways, you know, through lobbyists and you know, corporate interests, et cetera. I'm aware, but at least you have that system. In Israel, that system doesn't exist, okay, there's no constitution and a

prime minister can't be termed. And so now bib Nintanello has been in power and figured out how to survive attempts on his throne many times over through building coalitions with the right wing extremists, which frankly are against his interests. Like he wanted to kind of perpetuate status quo and just kind of be in power. Like this is kind of made it difficult for him to just be the guy who kind of, you know, makes it makes everything

okay for Israelis. Right now, Israelis are scared shitless and so. But but putting that aside and going back to your point, the knock Aba was never even discussed until recent history. Like it was not like no one even knew what that word means. Right, We celebrated it as Jomat's Mote Independence Day. So the Israeli Independence Day is the Palestinian's knockbat, which means the great tragedy for those who don't know,

and the catastrophe. Yes and so. But but what's interesting and very sad is that in recent years, because of the world actually and when Israelis tell you don't know what you're talking about, don't comment on things you don't talk about that you don't know about. You most likely if you've done any any literally any if you read one book on Palistine, if you read on Palestine by Noam Chomsky and Elan Pape, like, you know more than

Israelis know about their own situation. And I say that wholeheartedly because I know what they study, right, They omit the large swaths of information in order to form the psyche through the narrative that they perpetuate. And so. But because of recent external and global pressure, because of the fact that the world's the new generation of young people have educated themselves on Palestine, you know, catalyze a lot

of them, catalyzed by the social justice movement. Right, the Angela Davis is the Chomskis of the world who always, since the sixties, I've been talking about Black liberation is incomplete without the liberation of Palestinians unifying struggles. They know more about history of Israel and Palestine then Israeli's neue. Okay. I've always been super impressed, not like not to say that people are dumb. I actually think people are very smart,

right if they're willing to look. But every Palestinian friend of mine, every single one, knows so much about Zionism and zion Is history, right, there's scholars of Zionist history, right, But Israeli there's no idea about Palestinians and Palestinian history.

I mean, at the same time, they say, like history is written by the people that are in power, right or the people that like win the war, quote unquote, and they're very capable of convincing a big amount of people that like like that they were never here.

it's also important. I keep saying, the Palestinian struggle is the people's movement all over the world, right, and we're seeing that it's not me, I'm nobody, but we're seeing that people understand that. Right. Like I said, people are smart, Right, you don't have to go to you know, an Ivy League school to be intelligent, right, Palafreier talked about banking

and intelligence. Right, when you just consume information from a teacher, perpetuating the perpetuating the injustices, and maintaining the system of oppression, right, you can be as educated as you want in that form of education and not understand the world and understand

the inequalities around you. Right, But if you feel those inequalities, if you have that empathy, if you're able to expand your consciousness a little bit to also include those that you may not identify with or as, or you know that that maybe are not tangible, their experience is not as tangible to you, then then you're able to understand situations pretty clearly and easily. And I think the world is showing up because they understand that. Right. Sure, the

air world is showing up. And that's incredible, right because they understand. Right, this is like what I always say is Palestine is the last kind of like I said earlier, the last direct colonialist project that exists in the world direct, right, in terms of direct and active about that colonials project

that exists in the world and the air world. You know, if you read Edwards Aid and Orientalism, you understand how the West basically created and othered kind of they are a world in order to create that separation and division, in order to create, you know, a world that serves interest in visualism versus kind of communitarianism and of the

kind of East. And so when you when you think about in that context, you start understanding that you know, this is and this is a struggle against kind of Western imperialism, right, this is a struggle to free all oppressed people, because that's what that's what Zionism Israel currently

stands for. And everyone who perpetuates it, and people that talk about intersectionality and anti racism and all of that, and they still say and they still don't understand that this is literally a real time manifestation of the ship that they've been reading in history book, right, and we're seeing it and it's jarring, and resistance is fucking jarring, right, Like it was darring to me. I could barely watch it.

I had people crying, you know, and this is I didn't say this earlier, but I had you know, family members that didn't want to speak to me, and like, you know, people cursing at me, and like friends from you know, middle school sending me heate messages. My mom is receiving death threats, right, Like, this is real shit, right, and so like this isn't like an abstract like and and so you know that's what that's what people don't necessarily understand when they just approach it academically. And I

commend them. And I think it's important to like understand the intellectual context of things, like I've done the work, I've read the books, but I think it's also important to kind of take a step back and contextualize things all around, right, and and only through that contextualization can we rehumanize, you know, both the the oppressed and the oppressor are in order to actually have a path forward that's inclusive of all that doesn't that doesn't pit people

against each other. Right, Jews lived on that land for many years before Zionism, if.

seeing in their world today. Right, compounded by the introduction of a European ideology into the region that served European interests, is what is what we're seeing to this very day, and the Palestinians bear the biggest brunt of it. I wouldn't say like I would say, like in recent years, there's tragedies all around due to Western imperialism and Western intervention, right, I take that back, right, Like I don't want to compare tragedies, but the tragedy of the Palestinian people that

there's no one really advocating on their behalf. Yea. I was going to add a wrinkle that probably ninety nine point nine percent of the population doesn't know, including Pustinians and Arabs, because it was actively erased. But up until Psykes Pico, up until Western imperialism, Arab Jews were an integral part of Arabic culture. Okay, any my grandparents from Iraq, right,

Iraq wasn't The Iraqi Jews were not Zionists. There were hundreds of thousands of Jews in Iraq that lived there since Babylonian times.

And they are many Arab friends that do know this, and they they're like, yeah, like it's the biggest, the biggest, one of the biggest tragedies is kind of the betrayal of the Arab jew right, And they understand, right, like when at this point in time, and this is not only iraqis was Egypt and you know Yemen and Morocco. There's a huge community, right, like these these people live there. The Nazism is not an Arabic concept. They're trying to paint Arabs as Nazis.

is in those communities. And I think, I mean, this is obvious for people that are reading about all of this, but the media and Zionism in Israel, they're purposely conflating what's happening with religion to make it more complicated for people, to make it this like ancient battle of all time, when it's not about any kind of Muslim versus Jewish versus Arab versus whatever. It's it's really so simple, to

the point where it's kind of silly. And I think they make it so complicated for people to be scared to talk about it. They're they're not informed enough. They don't know about religion, they don't know about the history. You don't have to know about any of that to know that oppression is wrong and genocide is wrong.

became the idea, the idea exactly. The three militias that that formed the idea if once Israel was given statehood were considered terrorist organizations, the IRA terrorist organization. Right, Melson Mandela was on the US Terrorists Watchless until two thousand and eight. These are real things. These are all facts. But I'm saying even if you're thinking about it from the perspective of attacking civilians, Okay, wrong my opinion, But when you don't have if you look at actually ere

another another fact. Right, look at what the Chbella is doing. Okay, they were considered terrorist organization. Their armed to the teeth. Israel scared shitless of the Isabella threat. I'm hearing it from people on the ground, right, they're attacking military targets. They're showing the world that they can't because they can. They used to not be able to, Now they can.

So they are When a population is oppressed, suppressed to the level that the Gossins are, what military do they have Do they have F sixteen fighter jets that they can go and bomb? I don't know the Kiriyah? Did you guys know that the biggest military base in Israel is in the middle of the Tel Aviv.

So I always tell them, guys, like, we have to be smart. We have to make sure that you know, again, I like, it's it's trauma that I can't you know, I feel in my bones, But but it's not, it's not directly happening to me, and and and so I can't. I'm not It's not from a place of judgment, It's from a pragmatic perspective. We have to understand that that's the trap that they're setting for us. The Kamas enacted.

The Kamas did exactly what the right wing government wanted them to do in order to justify the plan that they had all along. I'm not going to go so far as to start perpetuating conspiracy theories because it's not my place. So I'm not going to say that they planned this and it was, you know, an inside job. I'm not going to say that. But what I will say is it served the interests of the right wing government.

And the one thing I wanted to say, because I keep going off on tangents and I apologize, But to your point about the Knakaba, I said, in the last ten years, it's pretty crazy to see the narrative shift. Israel has so been so emboldened. They feel so invincible because of the international support that they have. Now they acknowledge the Knokaba. Now they acknowledge a enough, but we

know how they acknowledge it. They say, yeah, the knuck happened, Let's do a second one, yep, right, And so now they're now all of a sudden the knock by existed, right, and they're basically saying, hey, let's do a second one. All the like, all the right wing govern of government officials were saying, second knock, But let's do it now, let's let's that's what they're trying to do. Yeah, I mean they're trying to do in Gaza. The humanitarian it.

a biblical, fervent, ideological idea. They don't freaking know what they're doing. They don't want to go to the don't want to go to war with Iran. They're scared of the like these are real things, these are real threats, Like Israel hasn't fought a real opponent since the seventies and the pool war. That's what I'm trying to say, Like this showed how vulnerable they are and they're scared. I'm telling you, Like I know the sentiment on the ground,

like people are scared out of their minds. They don't think. They're not very confident in Israel's military, right, Like that's why they're bombing the shit, and like that's why they haven't invaded. They said they're going to invade, babes talking this big game. They haven't done yet because they're scared.

survival mode. Everyone's posting everyone, it's like you have to eradicate come us. They're not even eradicating comas what are they doing, They're just emboldening come us. Like this happens all the time. It's just happening on a much bigger scale.

Right now, any hamas leader that the thing I was basically looking for like a big like a major hamas leadership, you know, attack and once they're able to neutralize, you know, in their words numerous high ranking officials, I think they'll declare victory, even though they're not going to be victorious. They're not going to bring back the fourteen hundred people.

I didn't I didn't know. I didn't know. In Israel, there are many people, not even ideologically that want to bring the hostages back and don't understand why Israel is doing what it's doing before and not even talking to them about the hostages.

military failure on behalf of Israel. And that happened because over the last six to nine months since the right wing government took place, took power, they've been using the IDF to support, empower, embolden and protect settlers in the West Bank. And that's why settler attacks have increased. That's why settlements have increased, that's why they're more settlers than ever before. And what they were doing on that very

day people don't already know. I hope they do. But if they don't already know, the IDF was in the West Bank on Suquot, which is a Jewish holiday, and they were protecting settlers in building a sukkah structure that people sit in in the middle of Juara, a Palestinian village, and they were protecting them and chaper owning them. So that they can break into Palestinian village to build a suka in order to antagonize Testinians. That's say what you may about anything else, the fact that that is the

priority of the government. You know you're doing the oppression. You're already committing the oppression. You're already subjugating the Tastinian people. You know that Haman is Cobabs. You're going to remove the security forces from the border to embolden and empower settlers instead.

That's not right. I was just sent this tweet apparently yesterday, the twitter for Israeli Prime Minister at Israel PM said this is a struggle between the children of light and the children of darkness, between humanity and the law of the jungle. Are you fucking kidding me? That's like Nazi Hitler shit, are you? There are so many lives I've already been lost, and the ones that have not been lost are never going to recover. They've lost so much

other than their life. There are so many terrifying and horrific videos that I've seen that no one should have to go through. And not only are they going through it, they're getting funded and encouraged by most of the world. I cannot accept that. I sorry, I don't want to cry, but I might.

to you, and it's like pleading for their lives. I just this can't be how we end up as a people.

so you can look at the description for that. I think what's very important that people maybe aren't taking too seriously is how important social media and like spreading awareness has been, because the only reason and the resistance has come this far is because of that. Because more people are aware about what's going on, people aren't accepting that Israel is doing this. So I think we just can't stop. Like as much as they want the world to forget

that Palestines were even there, we cannot forget Palestinians. And I'm not going to stop talking about it, and you shouldn't either.

by the definition of terroist organizations are terrorist organizations. So even if that's what we believe, and let's just say that that's you know, we accept and agreed that that's what Hamas is. I think it's important to understand that terrorist organizations have become political organisations time and time again, and I think that it's also important to understand historically, the Hamas as an entity. Again, I remind you was created and partially created and funded by the State of Israel,

emboldened by the State of Israel. Because I want to be very clear, up until the nineties, right Alslo accord to the peace process. People say, oh, the Palestinians didn't want peace. To your point earlier, the Palestinians were willing to take almost anything. At that point, Arafat, who was considered a terrorist before he became a statesman, right, was on the table with Robin had an agreement in place. Okay, and then people don't know. If you're not a scholar

and you don't know, you should know. Oh Goldstein, an Israeli terrorist, came in to a mosque. I believe it was in Hebron, I don't remember exactly, and he killed more than thirty people during prayer in discriminately shot innocent people in a monsque. So the biggest, one of the

biggest tragedies. Right, and then he was he was not only did they the response, you know, Raben's response to that was it was locking down Hebron Palestinians in Hebron, so because he was fearful of what the Palestinians would do in retaliation. The immediate response by Rabine was locking down the people of Hebron, okay, instead of going and doing something about the settlers that committed the crime or that emboldened the person committing the crime. That's number one.

Number two, that sparked the retaliation because when people don't have justice, they take justice in their own hands. So that sparked this series of attacks in Israel, right, devastating attacks in Israel. But it was that that did that, And it was his He could have he could have handled that differently, but he and right and and and that was what sparked the response. Then in turn, okay again who putting that aside? Right? And and sorry, little tidbit.

His grave m HM Cochtain's grave is guarded by the IDF as some and many many many consider him a national hero. Yeah.

they assassinated the Israeli Prime minister. And ever since then, Right then you had Ariel's your own and whatever that tried to continue a peace process and you know, some capacity. But ever since then, for the last twenty three years, no one has been talking about a peace process. They blamed, they blamed the Palestinians for every act of resistance. They

don't listen. They believe that they talk the way that politicians discussed the Palestinian kind of oppression is managing the occupation, okay, managing oppomission. No one's talking about peace, not left left, pseudo left, whatever you want to call it, not liberal Zionis left or center or right. No one is talking about peace. No one is talking about any semblance of Pea. I find it very particular, right, and this is my this is why I'm saying we live in the twilight zone.

That Donald Trump's four years in office, Okay, he had Kushner that say, what all the bad things right about his about his behavior. He was trying to through normalization deals with their world, trying to get a deal for the Palestinian people, albeit the most absurd sort of deal if you ever read what the Abraham Accords actually entailed, right like weird like highways and weird, right like not a deal that anyone should have accepted. But putting that aside,

he was talking about it. There was discussion, there was Palestinian like the word Palestinian was being said by the Office of the President. In the last four years that Biden was in office. No one said anything, no one did anything to advanced piece. No one even brought a bogus deal like darreed Kushner to the table. Don't make it make sense. I don't understand. They basically bought into the Zionist idea that we can just live, continue living

while millions of people are being oppressed and occupied. This is the Democratic Party, and that's why we see the media now the way it is because they're controlling the media narrative too, right, So open your eyes, see it for what it is, right, don't get cloud don't let

your judgment get clouded by this. Two side bs aspect hold space for the killing of innocent civilians, including the killing of Israeli innocent civilians, while simultaneously understanding that this is all because of the aggression of colonialism and specifically the perpetuation of the Zionist project as a colonialist, nationalist ethno state. And that is what I ask of you guys to do, right, Yeah, thank.

there's a reason they cut electricity to Gaza. They don't want anything coming out of there. They want them to die in a blackout and two they are literally arresting people for following Palestinian accounts. Now yeah, so I mean, if that's not totalitarianism, like what the fuck is? I don't But anyway, so that's it for today. I can't. I don't think it can do anymore. But again, I'll put some sources in the description to donate to to

keep raising awareness. If you have people in your circles that are still hesitant about having a stance on this, like, have conversations. It shouldn't be complicated. It really shouldn't, because it's not. And that's all. That's all I have.