WEBVTT - The Latest Peace Deal, Part 2 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:04.880 All Zone Media. 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:08.480 Hello, and welcome back to Katapem. Here. This is Scharen 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:12.600 and today we are continuing our conversation from yesterday where 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:16.280 we talked about the US proposed peace deal for Hamas 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:20.080 in Israel that looks suspiciously like a deal Hamas had 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:22.600 already agreed to just a few weeks before that and 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:26.040 Israel did not agree to. We had ended part one 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:29.760 talking about how the IOF literally killed their own hostages 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:33.200 when they mistakenly thought they were threats, and I ended 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:36.320 saying speaking of threats, and I'm going to continue because 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:40.800 that's what professionals do. So since October seventh, Israel has 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:44.640 described Hamas as an existential threat, saying that it needs 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:47.360 to destroy the group and won't stop the violence in 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:50.479 Gaza until it does so. But I would argue that 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:53.600 most people who are pro Israel or Western Zionists in 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:57.440 general don't actually know anything about Hamas other than thinking 0:00:57.480 --> 0:00:59.920 they're this big, bad evil that has to be eradicated 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:02.880 by the quote only democracy in the Middle East, which 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:05.400 I hope by this point people realize is a sick joke. 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:09.240 Hamas is suddenly being talked about on every news channel 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:12.800 and anything even remotely pro Palestine is now labeled as 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:16.279 pro Hamas when most people in this country, I would argue, 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:19.680 most likely had never even heard of Hamas before October seventh. 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:25.600 Labeling something as pro Hamas truly just means nothing. As 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:28.960 far as Israel is concerned, the UN is Hamas. In May, 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:32.280 Israel's ambassador to the UN, Galad Erdan, said in an 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:35.480 interview with Israel's Army Radio that the UN has quote 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:39.399 turned into a collaborator with Hamas, maybe even more than that, 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:45.240 a terror organization unto itself. Wow, Israeli leadership has just 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:47.680 continued to one up themselves when it comes to saying 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:51.320 the most insane fucking shit. And then, according to Zionists, 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:54.120 the college campus protests that we're calling for a literal 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:58.440 end to genocide are also pro Hamas. Earlier this month, 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:01.520 a lawsuit was filed in Verse by a US law 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:04.560 firm and an Israeli legal group who have teamed up 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:08.840 to suit two organizations involved in recent college campus protests, 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:13.000 the American Muslims for Palestine and National Students for Justice 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:17.520 in Palestine. They accuse these groups of collaborating with Hamas 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:21.079 to serve as their quote propaganda division in the US 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:25.640 arson of Trosky, the CEO of the International Legal Forum, 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:28.720 who was working with this US legal team of Greenberg 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:32.800 Tarig and the National Jewish Advocacy Center. He called the 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:35.720 American Muslims for Palestine and the National Students for Justice 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:39.080 in Palestine, as well as all the protesters supporting Palestine, 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:42.400 most of whom are students as quote the foot soldiers 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:45.840 of Hamas. If I was going to go through everything 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:49.240 that Israel and Zionists have labeled as pro Hamas, this 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:52.240 episode would never end. But I hope it's clear that 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:55.399 this label and accusation isn't based on any real sort 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:58.280 of evidence or proof, and it is only a way 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:02.160 to scare people into blindly supporting Israel in quote defending 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:06.400 itself big quotes there against this growing evil spreading across 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:10.720 the globe and invading our campuses, when in reality, there 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:15.000 would be no Hamas without Israel. Although Hamas eventually grew 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:18.160 into being the most active armed resistance group in Gaza, 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:21.080 it definitely didn't start that way and it wouldn't have 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:23.280 even had the power to grow the way it did 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:26.520 if it weren't for intentional actions by Israeli leadership that 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:30.440 started decades ago. Before we get into a timeline of 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:32.600 the Resa Hamas peace deals that have led to this 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:35.880 very similar deal at the US proposed all deals that 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.480 again Israel has rejected. I want to make sure we 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:42.680 at least have an understanding of what Hamas, even is Hamas, 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:46.160 which is an Arabic acronym for Islamic resistance movement, would 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:49.520 not exist today if it wasn't for Israel. American and 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:53.360 Israeli politicians are always saying the same thing, how dangerous 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:56.960 an evil Hamas is, without mentioning how Israel itself helped 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:01.120 create Hamas. The TLDR of it all is that israelis 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:04.200 helped turn a bunch of fringe Palestinian Islamists in the 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:07.839 late nineteen seventies into one of the world's most notorious 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:11.600 militant groups. Is in a conspiracy theory, It's a confirmed fact. 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:15.560 Former Israeli officials, such as Brigadier General is Sak Sagev, 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:18.200 who was the Israeli military governor in Gaza in the 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:22.679 early nineteen eighties, have openly spoken about this. After his tenure, 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:25.400 Segev told a New York Times reporter that he had 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:29.920 helped finance the Palestinian Islamist movement as a quote counterweight 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:34.400 to secularists and leftists of the Palestine Liberation Organization aka 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:37.240 the PLO, as well as the FATA Party, which was 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:41.200 led by Yaser Arafat. Arafat two referred to HAMAS as 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:45.599 quote a creature of Israel. Hamas was officially founded in 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:48.400 nineteen eighty seven, at the start of the First Palestinian 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:53.279 Intifada or uprising against the Israeli occupation, but its beginnings 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:57.560 actually started much earlier. Hamas founder, sheik ahmedia Sin, was 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:00.440 a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. The brother Hood had 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:03.839 been repressed by Egyptians in Gaza prior to nineteen sixty seven, 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:07.400 but once the Israelis invaded and occupied the Gaza Strip, 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:12.039 they chose to encourage this group of extremist Islamists. The 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:15.160 dominant Palestinian political force in Palestine at the time was 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:18.359 the PLO, and it was deemed a threat to Israel, 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:23.080 and so Israel sought to undermine its power. The PLO 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:26.320 is a nationalist coalition which was centered around the secular 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:31.000 FATA Party led by Yasser Arafat. By empowering y Scene 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:34.080 in the Muslim Brotherhood, Israel thought they could divide the 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:37.719 occupied Palestinian people and eventually rule over them by playing 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:44.240 them against each other secular nationalists versus religious Islamists. In 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:48.760 nineteen seventy eight, Yasin wanted to officially register his Islamic Association, 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:52.719 which was basically the precursor to present day Hamas. The 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:55.920 Israelis jumped on the opportunity to help make this happen. 0:05:56.480 --> 0:06:00.279 Yasin built and grew a network of Islamists social institutions 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:05.200 across Gaza, funded largely by Israel. Avnar Cohen is a 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:08.599 former Israeli religious affairs official who worked in Gaza for 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:11.640 more than two decades. In two thousand and nine, he 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:15.200 told the Wall Street Journal Hamas to my great regret, 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:20.279 is Israel's creation. Back in the mid nineteen eighties, Cohen 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:23.680 even wrote an official report to his superiors warning them 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:26.839 not to play divide and rule in the occupied territories 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:32.039 by backing Palestinian Islamists against the Palestinian secularists. He wrote 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:36.080 in his report, I suggest focusing our efforts on finding 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:39.160 ways to break up this monster before reality jumps in 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:43.279 our face. Clearly, his superiors did not listen to him, 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:47.840 and Hamas was the result. To be clear, Israelis had 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:51.640 helped build up a militant strain of extremist political Islam 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.720 in the form of Hamas and its Muslim brotherhood precursors, 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:57.719 and allowed it free reign in order to quiet any 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:01.239 chance of progress in Palestine, and then when it became 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:05.160 convenient for their desionist narrative, the Israelis tried to bomb, 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:09.840 besiege and blockade it out of existence. David Hashem, a 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:12.920 former Arabs affairs expert in the Israeli military who was 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:16.200 based in President in the nineteen eighties, said the original 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:19.800 sin was Israel's support of ya See in the nineteen seventies. 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:23.280 He said, when I look back at the chain of events, 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:26.120 I think we made a mistake. But at the time 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:32.080 nobody thought about the possible results. Yeah, no shit. The 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:34.800 only American politician that I know of who has ever 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:39.040 referenced how Israel Is responsible for Hamas's creation is Ron Paul. 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:42.080 In two thousand and one on the floor of the House, 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:46.400 Ron Paul said Hamas was encouraged and really started by 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:51.800 Israel because they wanted Hamas to counteract Yaser Arafat. Speaking 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:55.080 of Arafat, not only did he himself tell an Italian 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:58.559 newspaper that Hamas is a creature of Israel. He also 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:02.360 said that the former Israeli PI Prime Minister Yasakrabien admitted 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:06.800 this to him, calling it a quote fatal error. Yaesin 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:09.840 was eventually assassinated by an Israeli air strike in Gaza 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:13.560 on March twenty second, two thousand and four. Sylvan Shalom, 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:17.280 former Israeli Vice prime minister, set after Yasine's death, that 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:21.800 quote Scheh Yassin and his organization Hamas are responsible for 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:25.680 the killings of more than four hundred Israelis, when actually 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:31.320 no Israel is clearly largely responsible. David Long, a former 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:34.600 Middle East expert in the US State Department under Ronald Reagan, 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:38.600 told journalist Robert Dreyfus, I thought the Israelis were playing 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:42.480 with fire. This, of course, is not a unique development, 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:45.720 as there have been dozens of instances of unneeded and 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:49.920 malignant US intervention in other countries for its own gain, 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:54.640 and since then Hamas has killed far more Israelis than 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:59.160 any secular Palestinian militant group. Israel built up Yasine and 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:02.600 Hamas as a rival to Arafat's FATA then they killed 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:05.679 ya scene, and then they doubled down and making Haamas 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:09.920 Israel's worst enemy, an enemy it would use to justify 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:13.240 to the entire world that it was not only okay 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:17.800 but necessary to control and massacre millions of Palestinians. In 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:21.760 the process of destroying this threat, Israel spent more than 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:25.160 twenty years helping build up Hamas and then spent another 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:29.440 twenty years trying to destroy it. All of this is 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:32.560 to say that, aside from the purposeful assistance from Israel 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:35.960 and creating Hamas, that Hamas wouldn't even exist if it 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:39.439 wasn't for the Israeli occupation, there would be no resistance 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:44.120 because without the ethnic cleansing enforced violent occupation, there would 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:57.680 be nothing to resist. In the process of bolstering this 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:01.920 militant group, Hamas also became the main armed force behind 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:05.439 the Palestinian resistance, and many view Hamas as the only 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:08.960 group even attempting to defend Palestinians in the face of 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:14.679 Israeli occupation, and the organization itself has changed over the years, 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:18.360 especially in the last decade, it seems like Hamas was 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:22.240 and is increasingly trying to establish a more favorable status 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:27.400 quo for the Palestinian people. Hamas's leaders were shaped by 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:30.920 the hard realities of a brutal occupation, which was marked 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:35.160 by mass arrests of Palestinians, the expropriation of Palestinian lands 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:38.840 and control of their resources. More than half a million 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:42.959 Palestinians were arrested and tried in Israel's military run courts 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:46.560 between nineteen sixty seven and nineteen eighty seven, and over 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:51.200 fifteen hundred Palestinian homes were demolished and thousands of Palestinians 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:55.920 were forcibly deported aka ethnically cleansed. After Hamas won the 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:59.080 two thousand and six elections in Gaza, its leader Hania 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:01.600 said the group exccept did a state on the nineteen 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:04.679 sixty seven borders, as well as all the decisions taken 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:07.840 by the PA and the PLO, but there were no takers. 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:11.640 HAMAS leaders also backed the two thousand and two Era 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:15.680 Peace Initiative that called for the following the withdrawal of 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:19.920 Israeli forces from territories occupied in nineteen sixty seven, the 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:23.160 right of Palestinian refugees to return to the homes they 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:26.839 had been forcibly displaced from since nineteen forty eight. And 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:31.199 the formation of a sovereign, independent Palestinian state in return 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:36.520 for air recognition of Israel. But Hamas's offers were repeatedly 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:40.680 dismissed by Israel and ignored by Israel's Western allies, including 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:44.319 the US, despite Washington's claims of playing the role of 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:49.160 a quote honest broker in the conflict, Tarek Baconi, author 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:53.280 of Hamas contained the Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance, 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:56.840 told Al Jazeera Hamas has always said that they are 0:11:56.920 --> 0:12:00.000 ready to offer a truce and to stop targeting civilians 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:04.400 if the Israeli occupation or moves its settlers. At least 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:08.120 seven hundred and fifty thousand Israelis live in hundreds of 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:13.120 fortified illegal settlements and outposts across the occupied Palestinian territories 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:16.400 of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the vast majority 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:20.079 of which are again built illegally, either entirely or partially 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:24.560 on private Palestinian land, and thus they violate international law. 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:29.200 One of the more infuriating and frankly incredibly stupid talking 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:31.920 points that Zionists have when it comes to talking about 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:36.080 Hamas is the two thousand and six election where Palestinians 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:40.400 elected Hamas as their appointed leadership. I want to remind 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:43.920 every one of a few things. The Gaza strip has 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:47.920 a very young population. Most of the inhabitants in Gaza 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:53.840 are under fifteen years old. The largest population group in 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:58.559 Gaza are children between the ages of five and nine 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:03.600 years old. This population wasn't even born yet, let alone 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:07.280 old enough to vote in two thousand and six. And furthermore, 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:10.520 leadership does not indicate your right to live a life, 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:14.520 your right to not be killed. If you're in America 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:17.920 and Trump is your elected president and you hate Trump 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:21.280 and maybe other foreign entities hate Trump, do you deserve 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:27.199 to die? No, you don't. The resistance fighters in Hamas 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:30.280 are not the ones who wrote the original charter. They're 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:33.000 not the ones who establish Hamas in the first place. 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:36.679 They're young people that are joining the most active armed 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:42.880 resistance to defend Palestine. It's their only option, and Palestinians 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:47.200 have tried other non violent forms of resistance against this occupation. 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:51.200 In twenty eighteen to twenty nineteen, there was something called 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:54.680 the Great March of Return. It started on March thirtieth, 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:58.160 twenty eighteen, and ended December twenty seventh of twenty nineteen. 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:03.680 Every Friday. For those years, Palestinians in Gaza demonstrated and 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:07.640 protested along the border fence between Israel and Gaza for 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:10.560 a right to return to their homes and to demand 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:15.760 an end to the Israeli blockade in Gaza. During this time, 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:18.720 the Israeli army killed a total of two hundred and 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:23.840 twenty three people. Over thirty six hundred and one thousand people, 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:27.880 including nearly eight thousand and eight hundred children, were injured. 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:32.760 This is after a peaceful attempt at demonstrating, after a 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:36.840 peaceful attempt at trying to resist occupation, they're still shot 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:40.840 and killed. They're shot with the intention to kill. Expecting 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:45.000 Palestinians to be pacifists when it comes to resisting a brutal, 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:48.280 violent occupation that has been now almost a century long 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:55.200 is very small minded and entitled and frankly wrong. Palestinians 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:59.520 have their right to resist. Armed resistance is legal under 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:02.960 international law when it comes to resisting and occupying power. 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:05.960 What does this mean? Maybe you've heard that train of 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:09.240 thought before. Let me explain it to you. Let's go 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:12.360 back in time a little bit. The General Assembly of 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:15.880 the United Nations the UNNGA, which was once described as 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:18.960 the collective conscious of the world, noted the right of 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:23.760 peoples to self determination, independent and human rights. As early 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:27.400 as nineteen seventy four, Resolution three three one four of 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:33.040 the UNGA prohibited states from any military occupation. However temporary 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:36.680 hum curious Israel has been doing that for decades now. 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:40.120 In the relevant part of the resolution, the resolution not 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:43.840 only went on to affirm the right to self determination, freedom, 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:48.240 and dependence of peoples forcibly deprived of that right, and 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:52.320 particularly peoples under colonial and racist regimes or other forms 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:55.680 of alien domination, but it also noted the right of 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:59.560 the occupied to quote struggle and to seek and receive 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:04.160 support in that effort. The term armed struggle was implied 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:08.120 without precise definition in that resolution and many early other 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:11.520 ones that upheld the right of indigenous peoples to evict 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:15.440 an occupier again the right of an indigenous people to 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:20.920 evict their occupier, but the imprecise language was changed on 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:25.320 December third, nineteen eighty two. At that time, the WNNGA 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:30.040 Resolution three seven Slash four three removed any doubt or 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:34.240 debate over the lawful entitlement of occupied people to resist 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:39.400 occupying forces by any and all lawful means. The resolution 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:44.080 reaffirmed quote the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for independence, 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:49.040 territorial integrity, national unity, and liberation from colonial and foreign 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:55.160 domination and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle. 0:16:56.840 --> 0:17:01.760 And although Israel has tried time and time again to 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:06.760 recast this ambiguous intent of this precise resolution, trying to 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:10.320 place its now nearly century long, violent brutal occupation in 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:14.720 the West Bank and Gaza beyond this resolution's application. The 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:19.360 declaration itself proceeds to be very explicit in its language 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:22.800 when it comes to Palestine. Section twenty one of the 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:27.919 resolution strongly condemned quote the expansionist activities of Israel in 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:32.080 the Middle East and the continual bombing of Palestinian civilians, 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:36.320 which constitute a serious obstacle to the realization of self 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:41.880 determination and independence of the Palestinian people. That's what I mean, 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:44.320 and that's what many people mean when they say that 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:47.720 Palestinians have the right to resist and armed resistance is 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:50.800 illegal under international law. I want to bring that up 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:54.760 because even if Hamas does not reflect the viewpoint of 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:59.399 some Palestinians, Hamas is also the main armed resistance group 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:03.959 that has been fighting against the IOF in defending Palestine 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:08.040 Gaza in particular against Israel, and they have a right 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:14.800 to do that clearly, as international law states. Regardless, Let's 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:18.240 go back to talk about the history of Hamas and 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:23.600 how they amended their charter in twenty seventeen. In twenty seventeen, 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:27.880 Hamas formerly amended its original nineteen eighty eight charter. The 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:31.679 new charter holds that armed resistance against an occupying power 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:36.000 is justified under international law. And while the nineteen eighty 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:39.520 eight Hamas Charter has been widely criticized for its anti Semitism, 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:43.040 the two thousand and seven document states that Hamasa's fight 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:46.440 is not with the Jewish people, but with the Zionist project, 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:50.240 and as you should realize by now, anti Zionism is 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:54.280 not anti Semitism. The new charter also announced once again 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:57.040 that it would accept a Palestinian state on the nineteen 0:18:57.160 --> 0:19:01.240 sixty seven borders. This would recognize, in effect, a two 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:04.520 state solution and therefore the existence of Israel as a 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:09.480 legitimate entity. This was proposed even as Israel continued to 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:12.640 insist that it can no longer allow Hamas to exist, 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:17.640 and as Israeli politicians, led by Netanyahu, repeatedly ruled out 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:22.280 a two state solution. Hama's political leader Hahaled Mischal said 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:25.560 at the time, the Hamas thinking from the very start, 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:29.679 was clear we are not facing a religious war. Hamas, 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:33.640 ever since its inception, realizes the nature of the struggle 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:36.680 against the Israeli occupier, that it is not a struggle 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:40.600 because they are Jews, but because they are occupiers. Israeli 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:44.520 officials dismiss the new policy paper as lies. In a 0:19:44.600 --> 0:19:48.400 video Ntennyah, who symbolically and dramatically threw the document into 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:51.639 a trashman, saying it was an attempt to deceive the world. 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:56.239 Through its actions which span across decades, Israel has not 0:19:56.359 --> 0:19:59.840 shown any interest in a political agreement, whether with Hamas 0:19:59.920 --> 0:20:03.680 or or other Palestinian political parties like FATA, which governs 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:08.240 the occupied West Bank. Sary Arabi, a Ramala based political analyst, 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:12.440 told Al Jazeira, the issue is not about Gaza. It's 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:15.520 also not about whether Israel or Hamas started the war. 0:20:16.240 --> 0:20:19.400 There are daily killings and assaults in the occupied West Bank. 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:23.000 There are attacks on the XA Mosque, there are prisoners 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:26.960 and checkpoints. The people in Gaza are refugees, they were 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:30.200 isolated and separated from the rest of the Palestinian people, 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:34.560 and the vast majority of Gaza's population are refugees who 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:37.520 were forcibly expelled from their homes and villages in the 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:42.800 nineteen forty eight Nekba by Zionist militias. Many political analysts 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:46.000 also blame Israel for the failure of the Oscil Accords 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:49.320 signed in nineteen ninety three. In nineteen ninety five between 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:52.600 Israel and the PLO, which was representative of the Palestinian 0:20:52.600 --> 0:20:56.240 people at the time, the agreements led to the formation 0:20:56.320 --> 0:20:59.760 of the PA, an interim five year governing body meant 0:20:59.800 --> 0:21:03.600 to lead to an independent Palestinian state comprising of the 0:21:03.600 --> 0:21:06.600 occupied territory of East Jerusalem and the West Bank and 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:11.240 the Gaza Strip. However, thirty years into its existence, the 0:21:11.280 --> 0:21:14.120 PA has failed to create a state in the face 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:18.240 of Israeli occupation, legal land grabs and settlements, and then 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:21.280 Hamas took control of Gaza from the PA in two 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:25.000 thousand and seven. While there was initial support for the 0:21:25.000 --> 0:21:28.919 OSCO Accords among Palestinians, the failure to reach a final 0:21:28.920 --> 0:21:32.640 peace agreement by nineteen ninety nine and the growing settlement projects, 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:37.520 particularly under Nanyahu, left many disappointed. In a leaked video 0:21:37.520 --> 0:21:41.960 in twenty ten, Nnyaho boasted about how he made sure 0:21:42.080 --> 0:21:46.280 the Oslo Accords did not succeed. The hopes of the 0:21:46.320 --> 0:21:50.840 Osco Accords turned into despair as Israeli policies under successive 0:21:50.880 --> 0:21:56.679 governments continued to undermine the PA and its aspirations. Today, 0:21:56.800 --> 0:22:00.040 the PA has limited administrative rule over pockets of the 0:22:00.080 --> 0:22:04.120 occupied West Bank, while Israeli settlements, which are again considered 0:22:04.119 --> 0:22:09.400 illegal under international law, have grown rapidly. The settler population 0:22:09.560 --> 0:22:12.760 in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem has grown 0:22:12.840 --> 0:22:16.159 from two hundred and fifty thousand Israelis in nineteen ninety 0:22:16.160 --> 0:22:21.040 three to more than seven hundred thousand this year. In 0:22:21.080 --> 0:22:24.880 his talk with El Jazeera, author Tarik Berconi said the 0:22:24.920 --> 0:22:28.960 Israelis wanted Oslo because that's how they maintained their colonization 0:22:29.560 --> 0:22:33.520 by maintaining the facade of a peace process. Hamas was 0:22:33.560 --> 0:22:36.280 showing a mirror to the Israelis to say, if you're 0:22:36.320 --> 0:22:39.880 actually talking about the possibility of ending the occupation, then 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:43.240 end it. That was their offer, instead of the nineteen 0:22:43.320 --> 0:22:47.159 ninety three awesome agreements that they would stop armed resistance 0:22:47.240 --> 0:22:51.440 if Israel let Palestinians be in the eastern side of Jerusalem, 0:22:51.560 --> 0:22:54.959 the West Bank, and Gaza. When we look into the 0:22:55.000 --> 0:22:58.160 history of Hamas, we see that its political leadership has 0:22:58.200 --> 0:23:02.080 over the years proposed newnumerous long term truces or cease 0:23:02.119 --> 0:23:05.560 fires to Israel in exchange for the realization of a sovereign, 0:23:05.640 --> 0:23:11.280 independent Palestinian state. But Israel has rejected those offers, arguing 0:23:11.320 --> 0:23:14.040 that Hamas could not be trusted to adhere to any 0:23:14.119 --> 0:23:17.639 long term ceasefire and insisting that any proposal for a 0:23:17.680 --> 0:23:21.880 short term pause and fighting were insincere and strategically aimed 0:23:22.040 --> 0:23:26.440 only at helping the armed movement regroup from losses. I've 0:23:26.480 --> 0:23:30.200 said this before, but it bears repeating. Every Zionist accusation 0:23:30.400 --> 0:23:33.480 is a confession. The reality is that Israel is the 0:23:33.520 --> 0:23:36.600 one who cannot be trusted to adhere to any long 0:23:36.680 --> 0:23:39.800 term ceasefire, as we have seen time and time again. 0:23:51.000 --> 0:23:53.800 Here is a summarized timeline of the most recent peace 0:23:53.840 --> 0:23:57.600 deal attempts that have been proposed since October seventh, since 0:23:57.640 --> 0:24:01.840 the genocide and Gaza started. In January twenty twenty four, 0:24:02.040 --> 0:24:05.400 the Nyahoo rejected a Hamas proposal to end the war 0:24:05.520 --> 0:24:08.199 and release more than one hundred captives held by the 0:24:08.240 --> 0:24:12.040 group in exchange for a withdrawal of Israeli forces, the 0:24:12.080 --> 0:24:15.879 release of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, and recognition of 0:24:15.880 --> 0:24:20.480 Hamas governance over Gaza. And then, on May sixth, Hamas 0:24:20.520 --> 0:24:23.680 said it accepted a Gaza ceasefire proposal which was put 0:24:23.760 --> 0:24:27.560 forward by Egypt and Katar. This deal would come in 0:24:27.640 --> 0:24:31.000 three stages that would see an initial halt in the fighting, 0:24:31.320 --> 0:24:34.480 leading to lasting calm and the withdrawal of Israeli troops 0:24:34.520 --> 0:24:38.080 from the Palestinian territory. It would also ensure the release 0:24:38.200 --> 0:24:41.360 of Israeli captives in Gaza, as well as an unspecified 0:24:41.440 --> 0:24:45.399 number of Palestinians held in Israeli jails. The framework of 0:24:45.440 --> 0:24:49.040 the agreement in brief is the release of all Israeli 0:24:49.080 --> 0:24:52.800 captives in the Gaza Strip, civilians or military, alive or 0:24:52.840 --> 0:24:56.080 otherwise from all periods, in exchange for a number of 0:24:56.119 --> 0:24:59.919 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel as agreed upon, and a 0:25:00.080 --> 0:25:03.840 return to a sustainable calm that leads to a permanent 0:25:03.840 --> 0:25:07.199 ceasefire and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza 0:25:07.240 --> 0:25:10.240 Strip as well as its reconstruction in the lifting of 0:25:10.280 --> 0:25:10.960 the siege. 0:25:11.960 --> 0:25:12.200 Hmm. 0:25:12.359 --> 0:25:16.880 It seems little familiar, doesn't it. But Israel unsurprisingly did 0:25:16.920 --> 0:25:22.440 not agree to this proposal. Instead, it bombed Rupha, which 0:25:22.480 --> 0:25:26.359 made the Israeli government's message clear there will be no 0:25:26.520 --> 0:25:31.200 permanent ceasefire. Israel's bombing of Rauphah was justified by Israel 0:25:31.240 --> 0:25:34.680 as a way to disband Hamas battalions and seize control 0:25:34.760 --> 0:25:38.320 of the Gaza Egyptian crossing, which Israel accuses Hamas of 0:25:38.440 --> 0:25:42.760 using to smuggle weapons into Gaza, But humanitarian groups were 0:25:42.840 --> 0:25:44.919 quick to point out that a closure of such a 0:25:44.920 --> 0:25:49.119 crossing would only lead to further disastrous consequences for the 0:25:49.160 --> 0:25:52.199 more than one million Palestinians living in the Daphah, the 0:25:52.320 --> 0:25:55.680 majority of them displaced from other areas of Gaza, who 0:25:55.720 --> 0:25:58.320 fled to Daphah after being told by Israel that it 0:25:58.400 --> 0:26:02.080 was a quote unquote say zone. Israel said at the 0:26:02.119 --> 0:26:04.760 time with the terms of the may Haama ceasefire deal 0:26:04.920 --> 0:26:09.080