Nov 8, 2023
Obama Says What's Happening To Palestinians Is 'Unbearable,' Tlaib Gets SANCTIONED For Speaking Out
Obama Says What's Happening To Palestinians Is 'Unbearable,' Tlaib Gets SANCTIONED For Speaking Out
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President Barack Obama says, what's
happening to the Palestinians, unbearable.
And then, well, members of Congress
basically being sanctioned.
I know they use the word censored,
sanctioned for
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speaking truth about
humanitarian dynamics.
It's a hell of a thing.
Here's President Obama's comment first.
>> Speaker 2: If there's
any chance of us being able
to act constructively to do something,
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it will require an admission
of complexity, and
maintaining what on the surface
may seem contradictory ideas,
that what Hamas did was horrific and
there's no justification for it.
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And what is also true is
that the occupation and
what's happening to
Palestinians is unbearable.
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And what is also true is
that there is a history
of the Jewish people that may be
dismissed unless your grandparents,
or your great-grandparents, or your uncle,
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or your aunt, tell you stories
about the madness of antisemitism.
And what is true is that
there are people right now
who are dying who have nothing
to do with what Hamas did.
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>> Speaker 1: That part,
let's pause on this moment,
because Netanyahu is
utilizing Hamas as a proxy
in order to make a case
against the Palestinians.
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It's kinda like what America did when
the American government
utilized the terrorist attack,
911, as a proxy to go invade Iraq,
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saying they were harbors
of known terrorists.
And then they said, no, no,
no they have weapons of mass destruction.
Remember, the proximity was what?
911, terrorist attack.
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Do you understand the play here?
The blueprint has been laid out and
done before.
Hamas is not Palestine.
And the reality is, when students walked
out of colleges all across this country,
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pro-Jewish student organizations
walked hand-in-hand
with pro-Palestinian student
organizations as well.
Understanding the humanitarian
dynamic associated with this.
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And for those of you who would
proclaim that Netanyahu had no choice,
has no choice but
to kill innocent individuals because
of the horrific acts of Hamas,
I want to remind you of something.
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Hamas, according to the narrative,
did their extreme deed against
the Israeli people and
went back to Palestine.
And so Netanyahu says,
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I have to go there in
order to defend Israel.
And if there's, well,
considerable collateral damage and
death of innocent civilians, so be it.
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We have no choice, according to them.
Now, that's contrary to the vast
majority of what people
in Israel would like to see.
That is, obviously, adversarial
to what we in this country would
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like our political leaders to agree with.
But Netanyahu is lying,
let me tell you why he's lying.
If Hamas did what they did and
hid inside of Israel,
do you think he would have
the same narrative of,
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we have to destroy Hamas
by killing Israelis.
We have to destroy Hamas regardless of
the collateral damage of Israeli citizens.
Of course, he would never do that.
He would operate with precision.
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He would operate with
exacting precision in order
to eliminate the threat
that has threatened them.
You see, the entire protocol,
blueprint, plan,
execution would be different if they
were looking for Hamas inside of Israel.
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They would care about collateral damage.
Do you see my point?
Humanitarian elements have been brushed
aside not only by Netanyahu, but
unfortunately, by this very government
known as the United States of America.
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How are we, the only nation, part of
the permanent security force for the UN,
one of the votes that could basically
eliminate everybody else's vote,
how do we vote against
humanitarian efforts?
How does that happen?
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How do we evolve so much that we are the
lone vote against the ceasefire in order
to make sure innocent civilians are able
to have basic things like food and water.
They have nothing to do with the war.
Once again, Netanyahu is utilizing
Hamas as a proxy to make a case against
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Palestinians who have
nothing to do with this.
Hamas's October 7 killing spree in
southern Israel was horrific and
unjustifiable, but what is also
true is that the occupation and
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what's happening in Palestine
to Palestinians is unbearable.
Once again, the quote from President,
former President Barack Obama.
This was published on Saturday.
The remarks came after Obama earlier
warned that an Israeli ground operation
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in Gaza could backfire, arguing that while
Israel had the right to defend itself,
any civilian death would increase
support for extremism and
harm the country's long term security.
In this latest intervention,
the former president argued for
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all sides of the debate over Israel and
Palestine to acknowledge the complexity of
the conflict and
all parties valid grievances.
There is a history of the Jewish people
that may be dismissed unless your
grandparents or
your great grandparents or your uncle or
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your aunt tell you stories about
the madness of antisemitism, Obama said.
And what is true is that there
are people right now who are dying
who have nothing to do with
what Hamas did, end quote.
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The comments came in an interview
with Pod Save America,
a podcast hosted by multiple former
White House aides to President Obama.
In an excerpt that was published recently.
Now, Representative Rashida Talib,
I want you to understand
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some dynamics that are associated
with our hypocrisy in America.
We are literally looking at a Congress who
has decided to sanction
a person who has stood up for
innocent life being killed,
okay, here's her response.
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>> Speaker 3: I can't believe
I have to say this, but
Palestinian people are not disposable.
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We are human beings just like anyone else.
My sifty, my grandmother,
like all Palestinians,
just wants to live her life with freedom
and human dignity we all deserve.
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Speaking up to save lives, Mr.
Chair no matter faith,
no matter ethnicity should not be
controversial in this chamber.
The cries of the Palestinian and
Israeli children sound no different to me.
Why?
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What I don't understand is
why the cries of Palestinians
sound different to you all.
71% of Michigan Democrats
support a ceasefire.
So you can try to censor me, but
you can't silence their voices.
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I urge my colleagues to join with
the majority of Americans and
support a ceasefire now to save
as many lives as possible.
President Biden must listen to and
represent all of us, not just some of us.
I urge the president to have
the courage to call for
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a ceasefire in the end of killings.
>> Speaker 1: Biden is
an institutionalist.
He's not going to budge on this,
in my opinion.
Let's count the ways here.
The representative is correct.
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I can't believe you have
to say this either.
Human life is human life.
I'm going to get criticized for
this, and I'm fine with it.
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Just a few months ago, we were here and
I was talking about how
Kanye lost his damn mind.
I was talking about the white supremacist
coming after Jewish individuals.
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I brought on a dear friend who happens
to be a Jewish man to talk about it.
And I stood against the hate that was
verbally launched against Jewish people.
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Now I'm coming against the hate
that is being launched against
the Palestinian people because
I give a damn about the people.
Now, Representative Omar
had some words as well.
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Here's her reaction.
>> Speaker 4: Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
It is glaring hypocrisy when
you have Republicans on
the other side of the aisle
trying to create definitions and
say, Rashida wants to annihilate people.
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When Max Miller himself went on TV and
said,
we're turning Gaza into a parking lot and
we wanna annihilate Palestinians,
nobody condemned him on
that side of the aisle.
What is true here is that every single
one of them has not acknowledged
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the fact that Palestinians are dying
in the tens of thousands, but
will continue to say, it is us who
are not acknowledging humanity.
Rashida will stand strong.
>> Gentle lady time has expired.
>> And
the palestinian movement will continue for
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liberation until every single Palestinian,
>> Speaker 2: Gentle lady time
has expired.
>> Speaker 2: Has the right
to live in liberty.
>> Gentleman from Maryland is recognized.
>> Speaker 1: Representative Omar,
great leader.
I've had her on my radio show a few times.
Remarkable insight,
Representative you're casting
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your pearls before swine,
as scripture would say.
The individuals that you are talking to,
they don't care about this country,
much less another one.
The House of Representatives
voted to censor
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Democratic Representative Rashida Talib.
This happened to us tonight,
despite her emotionally defending
herself as Republicans or
some members of her own party voted for
resolution that claimed she had been,
quote, promoting false narratives
regarding October 7, 2023.
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Hamas attack on Israel, and
for calling the destruction or
the destruction of the state of Israel,
which she never did.
The tally was 234 yes votes, 188 no votes.
Remember, some Democrats actually
voted to censor her as well.
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Now, let's be very clear.
They said she promoted a false
narrative about October 7, 2023.
What about the Republicans who supported
a false narrative of January 6?
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A false narrative of someone stole
the election from Donald Trump.
A false narrative that
permeates until this day about
the terrorist who attempted
to overthrow democracy.
Democrats, to you.
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I need you all to sanction
some folks your damn self.
There's more,
Representative Omar could barely contain
herself when speaking out in favor
of truth on the House floor.
At issue was whether Representative Talib
should be formally censored,
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as proposed by
Representative Rich McCormick,
Republican out of Georgia, for
promoting false narratives.
It was Representative Margie Tiller Green
who first decided to make the resolution.
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She doesn't have the weight to
pull it all the way through, so
they told her to take a backseat
to the other rep who did.
It is insane.
These are human beings.
These are people.
We are still, at least now,
at least for now, we are still inside
of a representative form of government.
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The vast majority of Americans disagree
with the current president on this.
The vast majority of Americans are for
a ceasefire and humanitarian aid.
The vast majority of Israelis are against
how Netanyahu has utilized, has utilized
Hamas as a proxy to do whatever he
wants to do to the people of Palestine.
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The vast majority of people
are decent on this planet.
It's our leaders who are effed up.
Mr. Mayor, your thoughts?
>> Speaker 5: I think you
were spot on in your analogy.
I need to say in full disclosure that both
Talib and also Omar are close friends.
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We broke bread together, so
I'm not speaking to your audience in
a space where I'm unbiased in this issue.
And even if I wasn't in close proximity,
intimate relationship with these sisters,
I still would say the same thing.
What I'm about to say is that America's
reaction to what Israeli's government,
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right now, Netanyahu's government
is doing to Palestine,
is a continuation of how America see
black and brown bodies and the long
suffering of these people does not upset
the stomach of American population.
If you replace the cries from Rashida
Tlaib's speech and put black in there,
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none of it would be improper.
None of it will be anti American because
it is how this country shows up.
And you brought up something
that is extremely important.
America allowing what happened on
911 to be proxy to go into Iraq and
destroy that nation looks exactly
like how Gaza looked right now.
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The destruction in Gaza,
the casual killing of kids,
that 10,000 number people cannot forget
a vast majority of them are children.
So when people say that it is wrong
to defend Palestinians to the only
American Palestinian in Congress,
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it is wrong to stand up to them,
what are we saying?
We're saying that life, brown life
does not matter to this country.
And we will censor you regardless of
what white people have done in the past
in this country and are currently doing.
Talking about the Republicans standing
with January Sixers and Donald Trump's big
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lie, that's not enough to get censored,
but standing up against their interests or
anything they believe they deem holy
will get you censored in this manner.
The good thing about it is,
censure in America is only based on if
Rashida Tlaib's district is gonna
kick her out because this Congress,
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what's supposed to be a holy space,
a sacred space, has censored you.
But everybody looking,
watching on, knows there's no damn
way we can call this Congress.
This Congress has put us through what
we've been through, wholly sacred or
anything other than corrupt.
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We're watching the end of America's
democracy right now, in real time.
>> Damn near.
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