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Speaker 1: and today it's just me. It's me and I am alone,

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Speaker 1: So that means I am probably going to tell you

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Speaker 1: which is exactly what I'm about to do. I just

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Speaker 1: and today I think we're due for an update on Palestine.

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Speaker 1: Israel continues to do humanize Palestinians daily and blatantly, and

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Speaker 1: it's not just through murdering them. Last year, under new

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Speaker 1: Israeli restrictions on foreign entry into the West Bank, foreigners

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Speaker 1: all that's happened in just these first few months of

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Speaker 1: In particular, the one tomorrow will be more broad. I'm

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Speaker 1: It was created after attacks occurred by Palestinians against Israeli

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Speaker 1: In spite of this, because Israel does whatever the fuck

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Speaker 1: Most of the Palestinian deaths occurred during Israeli military raids

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Speaker 1: killed last year were also US citizens El Jazeero, journalists

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Speaker 1: fire unintentionally, and that was that. The world moved on.

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Speaker 1: I did an episode last year about Sharin Abuachhm and

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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty two, in a statement to The Washington Post,

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Speaker 1: no thing and no one is helping them. A total

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Speaker 1: The government has made explicit the coalition's party's long standing

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Speaker 1: intent to further entrench Jewish supremacy in Palestinian repression throughout

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Speaker 1: a two tiered system of governance on all levels. The

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Speaker 1: new government's approach to the occupied West Bank revolves around

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Speaker 1: the illegal annexation of Palestinian land. The government plans to

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Speaker 1: and the likely result of that is Palestinians being stripped

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Speaker 1: violence and the hardships they're already enduring. The Israeli Rights

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Speaker 1: Organization of the LUG goes on to say that these

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Speaker 1: changes to the judicial system and bestowing ministers like Symatric

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Speaker 1: individual rights in Israel, but it is mainly going to

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Speaker 1: be a big, big issue against the national minority. The

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Speaker 1: and most severely damaged by those changes. And clearly the

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Speaker 1: Israeli government even before all of this, but now it

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Speaker 1: is clearly stated it has all the components of fascism.

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Speaker 1: And yet the US still appears to beholding out hope

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Speaker 1: all a scam. Everyone fucking sucks. Israel has been violating

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Speaker 1: Palestinians human rights with impunity for decades, but this new

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Speaker 1: government again just illustrates the most brutal intentions with greater clarity.

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Speaker 1: Bits Salem, another human rights group, said the hypocrisy is

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Speaker 1: denying that Palestinians have already been living for many years

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Speaker 1: under extreme, organized criminal Israeli state violence underwritten by the US,

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Speaker 1: and the lack of accountability and the acquiescence of the

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Speaker 1: international community is to a great stent responsible for driving this.

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Speaker 1: And as we mentioned in this episode, last year twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two was the most deadly year for Palestinians living

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Speaker 1: in the occupied West Bank since the UN began recording

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Speaker 1: the deaths in two thousand and five, it was also

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Speaker 1: the year that the most Palestinians have been held in

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Speaker 1: administrative detention, and the attacks on Palestinians throughout the center

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Speaker 1: right government leading up to all of this, the governments

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Speaker 1: of Ya Lapide and Nefatali Benett cannot be understated. It's

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Speaker 1: always been bad. That it's just extremely bad. And in sharpie,

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Speaker 1: the US has a role here too, because it continues

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Speaker 1: Yahoo's new political allies. An analyst covering Israel and Palestine

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Speaker 1: for International Crisis Group said, there's no way that the

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Speaker 1: n Yahoo, as desperate as he is, would have gone

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Speaker 1: to form this kind of coalition if it wasn't for

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Speaker 1: years and years of US abdication of responsibility for what

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Speaker 1: happens here. He just wouldn't have felt that he could

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Speaker 1: do it. It would have been too outlandish. And all

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Speaker 1: of this brings us to twenty twenty three, which we

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Speaker 1: will talk about tomorrow because I like short episodes, so

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Speaker 1: I'll see you there. It could happen here as a

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