WEBVTT - The Latest Peace Deal, Part 1 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:03.640 All Zone media. 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:07.120 Hello, and welcome to it could happen here. This is 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:09.920 Sharene and today we are going to be talking about 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:12.680 the current quote unquote peace plan that was presented by 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:15.440 the US and what they say is their attempt to 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:18.720 end the genocide in Rasee. They call it a war, 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:21.560 and I call it what it is, which is a genocide. 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:24.680 Earlier this month, Joe Biden announced what he claimed was 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:27.960 an Israeli peace plan to bring about an eventual ceasefire 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:31.480 in Jsee. But according to journalists and anyone with eyes, 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:35.360 the new plan is almost indistinguishable from previous plans proposed 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:38.199 by Hamas. We're going to get into the details of 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:40.479 the US plan in a little bit, but first I 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:43.800 want to address the immense loss of Palestinian life that 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:47.200 has led up to this plan, because if the plan 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:50.320 is successful, it would usher in a ceasefire to a 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:54.280 genocide that has killed more than thirty seven thousand Palestinians, 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:57.280 which is a very low estimate, and the majority of 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:01.840 these deaths are women and children. Only have Palestinian children 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:05.679 been brutally slaughtered for months, but Rauzza now has the 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:10.360 largest population of child amputees in the world. In November, 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:13.679 Children and RAZDA hosted a press conference in English to 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:18.160 beg the world for life. It's June now, and all 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:21.960 we've seen since then is massacre after massacre. And while 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:24.160 I think drawing attention to the children and the women 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:27.640 who have been slaughtered is immensely necessary and important, I 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:31.160 also want to emphasize that Palestinian men are not expendable, 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:33.920 and not mentioning the immense loss that we have suffered 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:37.279 across the board with men included, implies to the world 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:40.280 that Arab men are not worth mourning, not worth saving 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:43.720 nor protecting, that they are all terrorists or terrorists to 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:47.120 be who are simply killed as casualties in the quote 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:50.840 fog of war. I also think that the mention of 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:53.840 children is specifically used as a way to at least 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:57.680 try to make the world empathize and fucking feel something 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:01.200 about the lives that have been stolen. Parents literally hold 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:05.200 up the limp and decapitated bodies of their babies in 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:09.799 its broadcasts worldwide. And yet the dehumanization of Arabs runs 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:13.919 so deep that such graphic displays of horror and death 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:18.720 are considered normal. No one bats an eye. It is 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:22.360 insane that two hundred and seventy four Palestinians were slaughtered 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:24.680 for four prisoners of war who could have been released 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:28.360 in a prisoner exchange exchanges and deals that Israel has 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:32.200 repeatedly rejected. We will get into this more in this episode. 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:36.000 And people are celebrating this shameful military operation which US 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:39.080 troops were a part of, and ignoring the Palestinians that 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:43.000 were killed and murdered in the process, further emphasizing that 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:47.200 Palestinian life is not as important as Israeli life by 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:50.600 a huge margin. In in case you didn't hear the 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:53.640 details about this operation that I'm talking about, US and 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:58.320 Israeli troops infiltrated a refugee camp in trucks disguised as 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:03.239 humanitarian aid to trojan horse their way into further massacreing 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:08.079 and maiming people who were already being forcibly starved. Are 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:12.520 you hearing this one more time? They infiltrated a refugee 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:18.720 camp and trucks disguised as humanitarian aid. Israeli special forces 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:22.480 were also disguised as Palestinian refugees looking for a place 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:25.239 to live. When they entered the buildings where they thought 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:29.160 the hostages were being held. Remember in January when there 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:31.840 was also video evidence of the IOF pretending to be 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:34.880 medical staff in a hospital and then shooting and killing 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:38.120 unarmed doctors, nurses, and patients. Oh and then there was 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:42.240 the discovery of at least three mass graves at Elshiffa Hospital, 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:46.160 where bodies, including many wearing scrubs, were found zip tied 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:49.800 and buried in piles. Israel has been doing this for 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:52.960 months and years and decades, and they've been getting away 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:57.400 with it for months and years and decades. No one 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:00.240 is hiding how they feel anymore. They are out here 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:03.800 showing us with their actions. It's not ambiguous, it is 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:07.680 not confusing. They are making it very simple. They are 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:12.160 making it crystal clear. Palestinians do not matter, and Israel's 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:16.520 intention is to continue their ethnic cleansing of Palestine. What's 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:19.400 happening in Lza is not about the hostages, and it 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:22.640 has never been about the hostages. If that isn't clear 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:25.040 to you by now, you have not been paying attention. 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:30.880 A few things about the hostages. Hamas has repeatedly offered 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:34.120 since last year to release all hostages in exchange for 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:39.000 Israel releasing all Palestinian prisoners. As of November first. According 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:43.599 to Human Rights Watch, Israel held nearly seven thousand Palestinians 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:46.320 in its prisons, and many of those held captive by 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:50.320 Israel are not convicted of any crime. At least three 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:53.359 thousand and six hundred and sixty Palestinians being held in 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:58.800 Israel are under what is called administrative detention. An administrative 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:02.560 detainee is somewhat held in prison without charge nor trial 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:07.440 without charge, no crime committed. I want to take a 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:10.279 moment to bring up a report that came out recently 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:13.919 that's not getting nearly enough attention. It's truly horrific, and 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:16.040 I don't know how people are just glossing over it. 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:20.680 But New York Times recently reported that Palestinians are being 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:24.480 tortured and abused in Israeli prisons. Two journalists from the 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:27.880 New York Times spent three months interviewing Israeli soldiers as 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:30.880 well as Palestinians who were detained at one particular prison. 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:33.479 I'm not going to pretend I know how to pronounce it. 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:38.719 It's spelled sde space Tei m An said Teman. I'm 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:41.400 just going to go with that. But essentially, Israel is 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:45.200 carrying out a policy of systematic torture in this army base, 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:48.160 and this army base has been used as a detention 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:51.480 camp for Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. This was all 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:55.239 confirmed by a New York Times investigation. Reports of abuse 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:57.880 at this site had already emerged in both Israeli and 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:01.279 Arab media, and this was followed by outcries from local 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:05.920 and international rights groups about the horrific conditions there. Apparently, 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:09.400 it was mainly used as a quote, makeshift interrogation center, 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:12.279 but now it has become a major focus for the 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:16.680 accusations that the Israeli military has mistreated its detainees, including 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:19.800 people who were later determined to have no ties to 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:23.800 Hamas or any other armed groups. The investigation revealed that 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:26.760 at least twelve hundred Palestinian civilians were detained at this 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:30.480 site in quote demeaning conditions, without the ability to plead 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:33.440 their cases to adjudge for up to seventy five days 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:36.839 and additionally denied access to lawyers for up to ninety days. 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:41.040 Eight former detainees, all of whom the military confirmed were 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:44.240 held at the site and spoke on the record, said 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:47.880 they had been punched, kicked, and beaten with batons rifle 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:51.040 butts and a handheld metal detector while they were in custody. 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:53.919 Others said that they had been forced to wear a 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:57.760 diaper while being interrogated, and that they had received electric 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:01.839 shocks during their interrogation. According to The New York Times, 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:05.400 most of these testimonies were corroborated by interviews conducted by 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:09.840 officials from the unr WA, the UN Agency for Palistine Refugees. 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:15.000 The agency interviewed hundreds of returning detainees who reported widespread 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:18.760 abuse at this site, as well as other Israeli detention facilities, 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:22.440 including the beatings and the use of an electric probe. 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:25.960 An Israeli soldier who served at this site also disclosed 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.640 to The New York Times that his fellow soldiers often 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:32.600 bragged about beating detainees, and he observed many instances of 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:36.320 such treatment. He was speaking on condition of anonymity to 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:39.480 avoid prosecution, but he said a detainee had been taking 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:42.720 for treatment at the site's makeshift field hospital with a 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:46.080 bone that had been broken during his detention, while another 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:49.520 person was briefly taken out of sight and then returned 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:53.040 with bleeding around his rib cage. I strongly urge you 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:55.760 to read the New York Times piece in full. It 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:59.080 details the most horrific things I've read in recent memory. 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:02.760 I would be remiss to not mention at least a 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:05.640 few of them, just you understand the severity. But this 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:10.600 report essentially proves that Palestinians are experiencing sexual violence and 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:16.120 have experienced sexual violence in Israeli prisons. This is one example. 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:21.160 Mister l Hemlowie, a senior nurse, said a female officer 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:24.440 had ordered two soldiers to lift him up and press 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:27.880 his rectum against a metal stick that was fixed to 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:31.640 the ground. He said the stick penetrated his rectum for 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:34.880 roughly five seconds, causing it to bleed and leaving him 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:39.560 in unbearable pain. A leaked draft of the UNRWA report 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:43.480 detailed at interview that gave a similar account. It cited 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:46.600 a forty one year old detainee who said that interrogators 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:49.120 made him sit on something like a hot metal stick 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:52.680 that felt like fire, and he said that another detainee 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:56.200 died after they put the electric stick up his anus. 0:08:56.920 --> 0:09:00.120 Doctor l Hemloui also recalled being forced to sit in 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:03.440 a chair wired with electricity. He said he was shocked 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:08.200 so often that after initially urinating uncontrollably. He then stopped 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:12.160 urinating for several days. He said that he too had 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:14.720 been forced to wear nothing but a diaper to stop 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:19.160 him from soiling the floor. Ibrahim Shaheen, thirty eight, a 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:22.200 truck driver, He said he was shocked roughly half a 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:25.920 dozen times while sitting in a chair. Officers had accused 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:29.280 him of concealing information about the location of dead hostages, 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:31.880 which ended up having no connection to him at all. 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:35.440 Another man, mister Beckett, said that he was also forces 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:38.480 to in a chair wired with electricity, sending a current 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:42.520 pulsing through his body that made him pass out. Mister 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:46.120 Beckett also said, along with other detainees that corroborated this, 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:50.360 he only received roughly three meager snacks on most days, 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:54.960 mostly bred with small quantities of cheese or jam or tuna. 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.440 The military said the food provisions had been approved by 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:01.440 an authorized nutritionist in in order to maintain their health, 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:05.400 but according to several of these detainees, that's not nearly enough, 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:10.200 and they lost more than forty pounds during their detention. Again, 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:13.400 I urge you to read the report in full. It 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:16.840 needs more attention than it is getting, but it is 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:22.640 horrific and this is proof of the vile mistreatment of Palestinians. 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:25.360 And it's from the New York Times. If you need 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:27.440 a source that you quote unquote trust more than an 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:29.880 El Jazeera or something which makes no sense. But for 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:44.360 those who do there it is. Now let's go back 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:46.840 to the topic at hand. We were talking about the 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.760 hostages and how Hamas had offered many times in the 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:53.280 past to release all the hostages in exchange for releasing 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:58.160 Palestinian prisoners, and despite Hamasa's offers, Israel has never agreed 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:02.400 to any deal which involved the release of all Israeli hostages. 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:07.640 On October ninth, two days after October seventh, Hamas offered 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:11.080 to release all the civilian hostages in exchange for the 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:16.440 IOF not entering the Gaza Strip, but Israel rejected that offer, 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:20.080 and many hostages have died since then, which could have 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:25.400 been avoided if Israel cared. A few stats. One hundred 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:28.760 and five Israeli hostages were freed via a temporary ceasefire 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:32.320 in November of last year. Four other hostages were released 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:36.560 by Hamas. Three hostages were killed by IOWF quote friendly 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:40.000 fire because the IOF considered them a threat as they 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:44.800 were waving white flags. During four Israeli quote rescue missions, 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:49.320 one hostage was killed one soldier was saved in what 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:53.240 Israel called Operation Golden Hand. On February twelfth of this year, 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:57.440 two hostages were saved and at least ninety four Palestinians 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:00.760 were killed. And then on June eighth, what is now 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:05.120 being called Operation are Non, four Israeli hostages were rescued 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:08.920 and at least two hundred and seventy four Palestinians were killed. 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:13.360 In a statement released after the attack, Hamas said, in 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:17.200 exchange for them the four Israeli hostages, your own army 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:20.240 killed three of your own captives in the same attack, 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:24.880 one of them holding a US citizenship. And it must 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:27.760 be mentioned that the Israeli attacks on Leis have also 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:31.400 killed an unknown number of hostages in hamas captivity, as 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:34.680 well as the at least thirty seven thousand Palestinians killed 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:38.880 since October seventh. Relentlessly bombing a tiny strip of land 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:42.960 or Israel knows its hostages are located doesn't really indicate 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:46.160 that Israel gives a shit about the lives of the hostages. 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:50.959 The hostages are pawns being used in a disgusting political game. 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:55.920 And I have seen several unhinged and deranged comments about 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:59.079 this latest operation, which again killed two undred seventy four 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:03.400 Palestinians in including children, in the process of saving four hostages. 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:07.560 The comments range in severity and psychopathy, but a lot 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:10.120 of them are basically saying how else were they supposed 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:13.120 to get the hostages back? And Israel must rescue its 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:15.760 people by any means necessary, and that this is what 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:19.040 you get when you mess with Israel. But after reading 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:22.440 the previous numbers, it is an absolute fact that the 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:25.800 only mass release of hostages has come through ceasefire and 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:29.960 prisoner exchanges. More hostages have been killed by the Israeli 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:34.199 army than rescued by them. A ceasefire deal means freed 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:38.240 hostages without mass death. And so if Israel really cared 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:42.040 about the lives of these hostages, why on earth wouldn't 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:45.200 they agree to a deal that can guarantee their safety. 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:48.000 I want to take a quick tangent only to mention 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:50.800 that the number of Palestinians killed in Raze is most 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:55.120 likely far, far greater than the reported number, because the 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:58.079 infrastructure that was used to document the death toll has 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:02.400 been decimated along with nearly everything else in Lesse. The 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:05.719 number thirty seven thousand also does not include the thousands 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:09.680 and thousands of Palestinians buried underneath rubble who are unable 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:13.880 to be found nor retrieved. The Health Ministry's director of 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:18.440 International Cooperation in the West Bank, doctor Yassir Bozzia, says 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:21.960 he works closely with Ministry colleagues in Rose. When he 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:25.160 spoke with NPR in late January from his office in Ramalla, 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:28.480 he said and estimated ten thousand people were missing and 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:32.280 presumed dead under the rubble in razz But even that 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:35.880 number was low. It's like a snowball, he said. It's 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:39.920 only an estimation. The actual number is much much higher. 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:43.680 Bozzia and doctors Andrez say the death count published by 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:47.040 the Health Ministry also largely excludes people who have died 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:50.840 from a lack of adequate treatment, disease, and other impacts 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:54.520 from the war, like hunger. The death toll only includes 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:59.160 people killed by the occupation bombardment, he said. The Health 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:04.960 Ministry described its casualty figures as those resulting from Israeli aggression. Bozzias, 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:07.280 as a colleague in Graze told him that the only 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:09.880 way to really know how many people have died is 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:12.800 to count the number of people still alive compared with 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:16.640 the population of Raze before October seventh. He said that 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:20.440 because of the continued brutal genocide going on in Raze, 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:23.800 it is impossible to have the real number. It will 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:28.120 only be revealed after the violence has stopped. The death 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:30.920 toll also does not make clear how many militants are 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:34.480 among the dead. Israel says its forces have killed more 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:37.800 than ten thousand fighters in Razze, but Israel has also 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:41.000 not provided any sort of evidence or detailed information to 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:45.040 back up its estimate. In every interview, every Israeli correspondent 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:48.040 or spokesperson has given They always given number for the 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:51.480 estimated fighters or terrorists killed in Razze, but they're very 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:54.880 unsure about how many civilians have been killed. And now 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:56.840 to go back to the US peace plan that is 0:15:56.880 --> 0:16:00.760 basically identical to previous peace plans proposed by and agree 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:05.280 to buy Hamas. What does this US plan propose? This 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:09.440 plan has three stages. The first stage proposes to involve 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:12.680 a six week ceasefire, during which the Israeli army will 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:16.680 withdraw from the populated areas of Razze, hostages including the 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:21.160 elderly and women, would be exchanged for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:25.120 Civilians would also return to all of Braze, with six 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:29.800 hundred trucks carrying humanitarian aid flooding the enclaved daily. Biden 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:33.840 said the second phase would see Hamas and Israel negotiate 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:38.480 terms for a permanent end to hostilities. Biden said the 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:43.800 ceasefire will still continue as long as negotiations continue. In 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:47.600 the third phase, a permanent ceasefire would follow, facilitating the 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:53.600 reconstruction of the Resids Strip, including sixty percent of clinics, schools, universities, 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:58.320 and religious buildings damaged or destroyed by Israeli forces. This 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:02.040 plan is nearly identical to a previous plan that Hamas 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:04.920 had already agreed to on May sixth, a deal which 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:08.280 Israel ended up rejecting. We will talk more about that 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:11.000 deal later on, but for now, let's focus on the 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:14.639 US's plagiarized version of this plan and who supports it. 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:17.720 But first, let's take an head break and we'll be 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:31.840 right back, Okay, And we are back so soon after 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:34.639 the announcement of the US deal, Hamas said that it 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:38.880 views the proposals in this deal positively. This week, US 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:43.280 Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln tool arrived in the Middle 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:45.639 East on his latest trip to the region, which he 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:49.320 said will focus on Washington's Gaza truce proposal and the 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:53.480 future of the Palestinian territory. B Lincoln met Egyptian President 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:57.400 ELCSI and Cairo on Monday, repeating US calls for Hamas 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:01.600 to accept the truce deal. Speaking to reporters before leaving Egypt, 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:06.320 b Lincoln squarely blamed Haamas for prolonging the quote unquote war, 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:09.639 saying that Hamas is an outlier in the region for 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:14.080 not agreeing to the US deal. He told reporters, my 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:17.679 message to governments throughout the region, to people throughout the region, 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:21.280 if you want to cease fire, press Hamas to say yes. 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:25.800 Blincoln arrived in Israel later on that same day and 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:28.800 met with nan Yahu. He will further hold talks in 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:32.640 Cutthoud and Jordan this week. The State Department said Blincoln 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:37.440 reaffirmed the quote ironclad US commitment to Israel's security during 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:41.240 his meeting with Nannyahu. A curious note is that while 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:45.200 blincn portrayed the truce plan as Biden's proposal, when Biden 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:47.720 made the deal public. Initially, he said it was an 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:51.359 Israeli plan. This could be just a little slip because 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:54.320 Biden is very old, or it could be a slip 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:56.439 that just confirms what we've all known to be the 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:59.560 case all along, that the US and Israel are one 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:02.160 and the same, especially when it comes to their political 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:06.560 interests in military power. And while US officials have insisted 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:10.800 that Israel agreed to this proposal, various Israeli officials, including 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:14.280 the n YAHOO, have vowed to continue fighting until the 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:19.480 elimination of Hamas. Just days before Biden announced his initiative, 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:22.879 a top Israeli officials said the military would fight in 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:27.479 Jjsee until at least the end of the year. On 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:29.800 the other hand, Hamas has said that it will only 0:19:29.800 --> 0:19:32.080 agree to a deal that would lead to a lasting 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:34.800 end to the war and the full withdrawal of Israeli 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:39.160 troops from Rasee. Hamas reiterated its position on Monday after 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:42.359 its political chief Ismael Hanie, met with officials from the 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:48.000 Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a smaller armed group in Duha. Hamas 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:52.440 said in a statement. The two delegations discussed the indirect 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:56.280 negotiations and efforts to end the war, stressing that any 0:19:56.320 --> 0:20:00.880 agreement must include a permanent ceasefire, comple leet withdrawal from 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:05.560 the Gaza Strip, reconstruction, ending the siege, and a serious 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:10.400 prisoner's exchange. Hamas previously called for a explicit commitment from 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:14.760 Israel to a lasting ceasefire, and despite the lack of 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:19.439 clarity in the Israeli position, Biden administration officials have repeatedly 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:22.879 said that Hamas is the only hurdle to ending the 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:26.879 war in Gaza. The US blaming Hamas for prolonging what 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:29.160 it calls a quote unquote war again not a war, 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:34.040 a genocide is ridiculous. Hamas has accepted previous peace deals. 0:20:34.280 --> 0:20:37.639 It has offered previous peace deals. Israel has been the 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:40.879 one to reject them, and then the US comes along 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:44.520 and just repackages one of these previously agreed on deals 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:47.760 that Hamas had endorsed and has the audacity to then 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:52.960 blame Hamas for obstructing peace. Give me a break. Additionally, 0:20:53.080 --> 0:20:56.000 the US truce plan does not outline plans for the 0:20:56.000 --> 0:20:59.159 future of Gaza after the war, but the US government 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:01.439 has said that it would not accept Hama's rule in 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:05.600 the territory The Biden administration says it wants a quote 0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:10.560 reformed Palestinian Authority aka the PA to eventually govern Gaza, 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:14.520 but the Israeli government has ruled out allowing the occupied 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:19.000 West Bank based PA to govern Huzze, with Natanyahu like 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:22.680 inning FATA, the dominant faction in the PA to Hamas. 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:27.880 Other support for the plan has come from some Israeli politicians, 0:21:27.920 --> 0:21:30.040 as well as the families of the hostages and the 0:21:30.040 --> 0:21:35.320 international community. Benny Gantz, a centrist member of Israel's three 0:21:35.400 --> 0:21:39.639 man war Cabinet and Prime Minister Benjamin and Yahu's principal rival, 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:43.520 spoke positively of the proposal and asked his two colleagues 0:21:43.520 --> 0:21:46.960 in the war cabinet, Nan Yahoo and Defense Minister Yov Galant, 0:21:47.320 --> 0:21:51.200 to convene to discuss the quote next steps. Gance had 0:21:51.200 --> 0:21:54.200 previously threatened to leave the cabinet by June eighth if 0:21:54.240 --> 0:21:56.960 no plan for Gaza beyond the war had been agreed on, 0:21:57.560 --> 0:22:03.560 and on Sunday, June ninthly announced his resignation. Gans's resignation 0:22:03.640 --> 0:22:06.680 does not immediately pose a threat to Naanyahu, who still 0:22:06.680 --> 0:22:10.360 controls a majority coalition in parliament, but it does mean 0:22:10.400 --> 0:22:13.439 that the Israeli leader becomes more heavily reliant on his 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:17.240 far right allies. Ganz said that the Enyaho was making 0:22:17.440 --> 0:22:20.879 quote total victory impossible and that the government needs to 0:22:20.920 --> 0:22:23.760 put a return of the hostages seized on October seventh 0:22:23.800 --> 0:22:28.520 by Hamas above political survival. Gans is a popular former 0:22:28.560 --> 0:22:31.880 military chief, and he joined the Nyahu's government shortly after 0:22:31.920 --> 0:22:35.400 the Hamas attack in a show of unity. His presence 0:22:35.440 --> 0:22:39.959 also boosted Israel's credibility with its international partners. Gans has 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:44.000 good working relations with US officials. Ganz canceled a planned 0:22:44.000 --> 0:22:46.679 news conference the night of June eighth, after the for 0:22:46.840 --> 0:22:49.520 Israeli hostages were rescued from Gaza earlier in the day, 0:22:50.119 --> 0:22:54.960 which again was Israel's largest operations since October. Another reminder 0:22:55.400 --> 0:22:58.240 that two hundred and seventy four palest Indians, including children, 0:22:58.280 --> 0:23:02.080 were killed in the assault. Another Israeli politician who supported 0:23:02.080 --> 0:23:05.480 the US peace plan was opposition leader Yard Lipid, who 0:23:05.520 --> 0:23:08.560 also promised to support the plan, pledging support of his 0:23:08.640 --> 0:23:12.359 party yesh Atid, which translates from Hebrew to there is 0:23:12.400 --> 0:23:16.200 a future if those from ultranationalists and far right parties 0:23:16.320 --> 0:23:22.359 withdraw support. United Nations Secretary General Antonia Gutierrez also endorsed 0:23:22.359 --> 0:23:25.840 the plan, as have many of Israel's political allies, including 0:23:25.880 --> 0:23:29.560 the UK and Germany. So who doesn't like the plan. 0:23:30.359 --> 0:23:32.840 Much of the opposition to the peace Plan has come 0:23:32.880 --> 0:23:37.400 from within the Israeli cabinet. N Yahoo said any initiative 0:23:37.440 --> 0:23:41.320 that did not include a quote elimination of Hamas's capacity 0:23:41.359 --> 0:23:45.000 to govern and make war was a non starter. In 0:23:45.000 --> 0:23:48.119 his announcement on Friday May thirty first, Biden seemed to 0:23:48.160 --> 0:23:51.520 indicate that he regarded Hamas's presence within Gaza to have 0:23:51.560 --> 0:23:55.640 been so downgraded that a repeat of October seventh was impossible. 0:23:56.480 --> 0:24:00.280 As expected, the ultranationalists and extreme right members of Na 0:24:00.359 --> 0:24:04.159 Nyahu's right wing coalition, which includes it Tamar Bengavie and 0:24:04.200 --> 0:24:08.240 Bezileel Simotric, threaten to withdraw from the government and cause 0:24:08.280 --> 0:24:12.720 its collapse if the proposals were accepted. So as far 0:24:12.760 --> 0:24:16.080 as Israel's politics are concerned, it seems like the outcome 0:24:16.280 --> 0:24:19.320 may end up depending on what El Jazeira describes as 0:24:19.640 --> 0:24:25.560 quote parliamentary arithmetic. The far right in ultranationalist parties hold 0:24:25.640 --> 0:24:29.639 fourteen seats, while Gansa's block only has eight seats, meaning 0:24:29.680 --> 0:24:32.320 the far right has far more influence on a prime 0:24:32.359 --> 0:24:36.520 minister who wants to stay in power. As for Lapid, 0:24:36.720 --> 0:24:40.000 his seventeen seats are offered as support only in what 0:24:40.119 --> 0:24:44.520 pertains to the peace proposals. This leaves that in Yahoo 0:24:44.560 --> 0:24:48.080 reliant on the far right block. As far as the 0:24:48.080 --> 0:24:51.879 deal being accepted, that is still not clear. Despite what 0:24:51.920 --> 0:24:55.720 the US says, the families of Israeli hostages are putting 0:24:55.760 --> 0:24:58.439 pressure on the government to accept the deal, as are 0:24:58.520 --> 0:25:02.679 some parts of Israel's political class, but pressures to reject 0:25:02.720 --> 0:25:05.280 the deal are just as strong, and it will remain 0:25:05.320 --> 0:25:08.240 to be seen whether Ntan Yahoo chooses his own survival 0:25:08.520 --> 0:25:11.520