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Speaker 1: All Zone media.

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Speaker 2: Hello, and welcome to it could happen here. This is

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Speaker 2: Sharene and today we are going to be talking about

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Speaker 2: the current quote unquote peace plan that was presented by

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Speaker 2: the US and what they say is their attempt to

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Speaker 2: end the genocide in Rasee. They call it a war,

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Speaker 2: and I call it what it is, which is a genocide.

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Speaker 2: Earlier this month, Joe Biden announced what he claimed was

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Speaker 2: an Israeli peace plan to bring about an eventual ceasefire

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Speaker 2: in Jsee. But according to journalists and anyone with eyes,

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Speaker 2: the new plan is almost indistinguishable from previous plans proposed

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Speaker 2: by Hamas. We're going to get into the details of

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Speaker 2: the US plan in a little bit, but first I

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Speaker 2: want to address the immense loss of Palestinian life that

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Speaker 2: has led up to this plan, because if the plan

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Speaker 2: is successful, it would usher in a ceasefire to a

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Speaker 2: genocide that has killed more than thirty seven thousand Palestinians,

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Speaker 2: which is a very low estimate, and the majority of

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Speaker 2: these deaths are women and children. Only have Palestinian children

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Speaker 2: been brutally slaughtered for months, but Rauzza now has the

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Speaker 2: largest population of child amputees in the world. In November,

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Speaker 2: Children and RAZDA hosted a press conference in English to

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Speaker 2: beg the world for life. It's June now, and all

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Speaker 2: we've seen since then is massacre after massacre. And while

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Speaker 2: I think drawing attention to the children and the women

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Speaker 2: who have been slaughtered is immensely necessary and important, I

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Speaker 2: also want to emphasize that Palestinian men are not expendable,

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Speaker 2: and not mentioning the immense loss that we have suffered

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Speaker 2: across the board with men included, implies to the world

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Speaker 2: that Arab men are not worth mourning, not worth saving

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Speaker 2: nor protecting, that they are all terrorists or terrorists to

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Speaker 2: be who are simply killed as casualties in the quote

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Speaker 2: fog of war. I also think that the mention of

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Speaker 2: children is specifically used as a way to at least

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Speaker 2: try to make the world empathize and fucking feel something

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Speaker 2: about the lives that have been stolen. Parents literally hold

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Speaker 2: up the limp and decapitated bodies of their babies in

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Speaker 2: its broadcasts worldwide. And yet the dehumanization of Arabs runs

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Speaker 2: so deep that such graphic displays of horror and death

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Speaker 2: are considered normal. No one bats an eye. It is

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Speaker 2: insane that two hundred and seventy four Palestinians were slaughtered

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Speaker 2: for four prisoners of war who could have been released

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Speaker 2: in a prisoner exchange exchanges and deals that Israel has

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Speaker 2: repeatedly rejected. We will get into this more in this episode.

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Speaker 2: And people are celebrating this shameful military operation which US

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Speaker 2: were killed and murdered in the process, further emphasizing that

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Speaker 2: Palestinian life is not as important as Israeli life by

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Speaker 2: a huge margin. In in case you didn't hear the

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Speaker 2: details about this operation that I'm talking about, US and

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Speaker 2: Israeli troops infiltrated a refugee camp in trucks disguised as

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Speaker 2: humanitarian aid to trojan horse their way into further massacreing

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Speaker 2: and maiming people who were already being forcibly starved. Are

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Speaker 2: you hearing this one more time? They infiltrated a refugee

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Speaker 2: camp and trucks disguised as humanitarian aid. Israeli special forces

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Speaker 2: were also disguised as Palestinian refugees looking for a place

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Speaker 2: to live. When they entered the buildings where they thought

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Speaker 2: the hostages were being held. Remember in January when there

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Speaker 2: was also video evidence of the IOF pretending to be

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Speaker 2: medical staff in a hospital and then shooting and killing

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Speaker 2: the discovery of at least three mass graves at Elshiffa Hospital,

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Speaker 2: where bodies, including many wearing scrubs, were found zip tied

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Speaker 2: and buried in piles. Israel has been doing this for

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Speaker 2: months and years and decades, and they've been getting away

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Speaker 2: with it for months and years and decades. No one

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Speaker 2: is hiding how they feel anymore. They are out here

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Speaker 2: showing us with their actions. It's not ambiguous, it is

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Speaker 2: not confusing. They are making it very simple. They are

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Speaker 2: making it crystal clear. Palestinians do not matter, and Israel's

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Speaker 2: intention is to continue their ethnic cleansing of Palestine. What's

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Speaker 2: happening in Lza is not about the hostages, and it

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Speaker 2: has never been about the hostages. If that isn't clear

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Speaker 2: to you by now, you have not been paying attention.

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Speaker 2: A few things about the hostages. Hamas has repeatedly offered

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Speaker 2: since last year to release all hostages in exchange for

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Speaker 2: Israel releasing all Palestinian prisoners. As of November first. According

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Speaker 2: to Human Rights Watch, Israel held nearly seven thousand Palestinians

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Speaker 2: Israel are under what is called administrative detention. An administrative

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Speaker 2: But New York Times recently reported that Palestinians are being

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Speaker 2: tortured and abused in Israeli prisons. Two journalists from the

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to pretend I know how to pronounce it.

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Speaker 2: It's spelled sde space Tei m An said Teman. I'm

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Speaker 2: just going to go with that. But essentially, Israel is

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Speaker 2: carrying out a policy of systematic torture in this army base,

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Speaker 2: and this army base has been used as a detention

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Speaker 2: camp for Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. This was all

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Speaker 2: confirmed by a New York Times investigation. Reports of abuse

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Speaker 2: Arab media, and this was followed by outcries from local

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Speaker 2: it was mainly used as a quote, makeshift interrogation center,

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Speaker 2: but now it has become a major focus for the

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Speaker 2: accusations that the Israeli military has mistreated its detainees, including

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Speaker 2: people who were later determined to have no ties to

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Speaker 2: Hamas or any other armed groups. The investigation revealed that

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Speaker 2: at least twelve hundred Palestinian civilians were detained at this

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Speaker 2: site in quote demeaning conditions, without the ability to plead

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Speaker 2: their cases to adjudge for up to seventy five days

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Speaker 2: Eight former detainees, all of whom the military confirmed were

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Speaker 2: they had been punched, kicked, and beaten with batons rifle

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Speaker 2: Others said that they had been forced to wear a

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Speaker 2: officials from the unr WA, the UN Agency for Palistine Refugees.

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Speaker 2: The agency interviewed hundreds of returning detainees who reported widespread

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Speaker 2: abuse at this site, as well as other Israeli detention facilities,

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Speaker 2: including the beatings and the use of an electric probe.

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Speaker 2: An Israeli soldier who served at this site also disclosed

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Speaker 2: have experienced sexual violence in Israeli prisons. This is one example.

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Speaker 2: Mister l Hemlowie, a senior nurse, said a female officer

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Speaker 2: in unbearable pain. A leaked draft of the UNRWA report

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Speaker 2: detailed at interview that gave a similar account. It cited

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Speaker 2: a forty one year old detainee who said that interrogators

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Speaker 2: Doctor l Hemloui also recalled being forced to sit in

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Speaker 2: urinating for several days. He said that he too had

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Speaker 2: truck driver, He said he was shocked roughly half a

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Speaker 2: Another man, mister Beckett, said that he was also forces

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Speaker 2: Beckett also said, along with other detainees that corroborated this,

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Speaker 2: The military said the food provisions had been approved by

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Speaker 2: but according to several of these detainees, that's not nearly enough,

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Speaker 2: and they lost more than forty pounds during their detention. Again,

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Speaker 2: And it's from the New York Times. If you need

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Speaker 2: to the topic at hand. We were talking about the

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Speaker 2: to any deal which involved the release of all Israeli hostages.

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Speaker 2: On October ninth, two days after October seventh, Hamas offered

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Speaker 2: been avoided if Israel cared. A few stats. One hundred

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Speaker 2: and five Israeli hostages were freed via a temporary ceasefire

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Speaker 2: in November of last year. Four other hostages were released

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Speaker 2: by Hamas. Three hostages were killed by IOWF quote friendly

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Speaker 2: one hostage was killed one soldier was saved in what

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Speaker 2: Israel called Operation Golden Hand. On February twelfth of this year,

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Speaker 2: being called Operation are Non, four Israeli hostages were rescued

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Speaker 2: and at least two hundred and seventy four Palestinians were killed.

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Speaker 2: In a statement released after the attack, Hamas said, in

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Speaker 2: exchange for them the four Israeli hostages, your own army

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Speaker 2: killed three of your own captives in the same attack,

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Speaker 2: one of them holding a US citizenship. And it must

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Speaker 2: be mentioned that the Israeli attacks on Leis have also

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Speaker 2: killed an unknown number of hostages in hamas captivity, as

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Speaker 2: well as the at least thirty seven thousand Palestinians killed

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Speaker 2: since October seventh. Relentlessly bombing a tiny strip of land

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Speaker 2: or Israel knows its hostages are located doesn't really indicate

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Speaker 2: that Israel gives a shit about the lives of the hostages.

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Speaker 2: The hostages are pawns being used in a disgusting political game.

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Speaker 2: And I have seen several unhinged and deranged comments about

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Speaker 2: this latest operation, which again killed two undred seventy four

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Speaker 2: The comments range in severity and psychopathy, but a lot

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Speaker 2: to get the hostages back? And Israel must rescue its

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Speaker 2: Other support for the plan has come from some Israeli politicians,

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Speaker 2: And may I remind you that the IOWEF have already

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