The health system in Gaza has been completely obliterated and the right to health has been decimated at every level. The attacks, the harassment, the killings of many of my own colleagues, the health care workers, the destruction of health facilities and the destruction of humanitarian aid [00:00:18] organizations continue to catapult to proportions yet to be fully quantified, if at all possible. What you just saw there was some of what the UN is alleging is a systematic attempt to dismantle and destroy the health care industry inside of Gaza, [00:00:37] and the system there has been strained and gradually destroyed since very early on in this conflict. Bear in mind that prior to the conflict, it's not as though the health care system of Gaza was allowed, thanks to the blockade, to be anything other than bare bones. [00:00:53] And so that was the situation going into the conflict in which it has been utterly destroyed. And the UN is now announcing in this inquiry that they believe that this amounts to war crimes specifically targeting aid workers, hospitals, [00:01:09] hospitals, the infrastructure and medics. And we want to give you all the details. Bear in mind, if it was not clear already that this is going to be very dark stuff. I mean, we're going to be giving you what doctors have said about their experience on the ground, some of the most horrendous acts you can imagine. [00:01:26] And we're going to start off with a statement by former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, accused Israel of, quote, relentless and deliberate attacks on medical personnel and facilities in the war, saying that children in particular have borne the brunt of these attacks, suffering both directly and indirectly from the collapse of the health system, [00:01:45] and one of the case studies that they talked about during this announcement was about Hind Rajab, a five year old Palestinian girl who at one point was trapped in a car with her dead family members. They had been killed. She was now trapped in there. [00:02:01] Could not escape. Paramedics. Paramedics arrived at the scene to help her. They were then fired at by the IDF. The ambulance that had come to help the parish family members and the five year old was hit by a tank shell while within just 50m of the family. [00:02:20] Despite the fact that its route had been deliberately coordinated with the IDF prior to going on this mission, and it was only two weeks later that the remains of the paramedics were able to be recovered along with the bodies of the family, [00:02:35] and at that point, the body of the five year old, who was never rescued from that situation because anyone who went to rescue them were killed as well. And that's devastating. And and it's not a it's not a single case like that. [00:02:52] Doctors who have served in Gaza are reporting one in particular said they saw Gazan children who had been shot in the head every single day that they were there. There was not a day until they left that went by without seeing that. [00:03:08] And there's a lot of other details and I'll provide them. But that's a lot, and it's very difficult. Apologies. But that's the situation that's happening there. Yeah. So yesterday I said Israel is creating crimes against humanity. So that's as strong a statement as you can make. [00:03:24] It's one of the worst things that any country can do literally in the history of humanity. And and today the UN concluded that's exactly what they're doing crimes against humanity. There's also sexual violence. There's torture, by the way. They also condemned Hamas for sexual violence and torture. [00:03:41] That's why we're withdrawing the $26 billion we're sending to help. All right. We're not sending anything to Hamas except bombs on top of their heads. But Israel, that is committing the same sexual violence and torture and adding the destruction of the health care system of an entire area with 2.2 [00:03:57] million people in it and shooting medics. ET cetera. They are getting $26 billion from us. And so it's completely outrageous. Look, guys, there's a couple of things here that make you realize that this is all the talking points are dead. So any talk of, like, the right to defend yourself is just garbage. [00:04:15] It's what every aggressive imperial power says before they invade and take land. We were just defending ourselves. So if you want me to say Germans, I'll say Germans, because it's absolutely true. That's what they did do when they attacked their neighbors in the 1930s. [00:04:31] But it's not just the Germans. It's every ethnicity that's ever had more power than their neighbors. They attacked their neighbors and then they say, oh, we were just defending ourselves. That's what Russia said about Ukraine. Literally every single imperial power says it every single time. [00:04:48] Nobody ever says, oh yeah, we're the bad guys and we're evil, and we're going to go take your land and kill almost all your people and destroy your health care system. No, they say we're just defending ourselves. What could we do? And that October 7th, the fact that IDF knew about it. Then we see how sophisticated they are and blowing up pagers, [00:05:05] walkie talkies and everything else. And now you're telling me the IDF is a bunch of bungling clowns that accidentally let October 7th happen? Or, hey, look at that, an imperial power that has an excuse to go attack all of its neighbors and take their land. So they're in southern and southern Lebanon right now, [00:05:21] as we reported yesterday, they're pushing back the peacekeepers. They shot a bunch of peacekeepers. They're using them as human shields. Again, according to the United Nations, they're firing from behind the peacekeepers. I mean, it's they're doing every single thing that they said they despise [00:05:38] and they accuse their opponents of. But the thing I want to concentrate on here is, as John just mentioned, Rajab. So if you don't know, the Israelis get notice. Oh, you guys killed her entire family. But she's a five year old and she's in the car. [00:05:53] She's alive. We're going to send an ambulance to go. Just rescue her. Just an ambulance. Just her. Okay. They go. Thank you so much for letting us know. They pull up a tank and they shoot at and of course, kill everybody inside the ambulance with the tank from 55 yards away. [00:06:10] So. And then they murdered the five year old. So it's not like they didn't know they killed her whole family. Then they murdered her and they murdered the people who were coming to help her. But that ambulance is not an exception. It's the rule. They've already killed over a thousand medics in Palestine. [00:06:26] So when you're systematically murdering the health care workers, by the way, also the journalist and then us doctors come home and write a letter to Joe Biden, new York Times confirmed it, where they say an extraordinary percentage of headshots on children. [00:06:43] There's some chance that you're the bad guys and you've lost sight of reality, and you've become blinded by your rage and your sense of victimhood, and that you think your trauma from, however many years ago justifies you [00:06:58] doing the same thing to other people. And it doesn't. It's a crime against humanity, and the fact that Israel is doing it should break the hearts of every Israeli supporter in the world. You going and defending crimes against humanity is the most perversely [00:07:15] ironic thing I have ever seen. - Ramesh. - Amen. Amen. I mean, we're talking about state backed terror you're talking about. I mean, you know, in the Lebanon Lebanon case with, you know, wiring up, cell phones and pagers. [00:07:32] I mean, this is straight up what terror, what terrorist networks do. Right. So that they exploded and committed mass murder as a result. Israel is engaging in a in a state based terror project, and it's we could consider it a colonial project, [00:07:48] but I would say it's the most sort of vicious forms of colonialism, which are direct murders and genocides. And so we're talking about here, not just the devastating onslaught of violence and murder toward women and children, but also, per your story, per the per this story, [00:08:06] the health system, hospitals, schools, poets and artists and journalists. You know, yesterday I was reading I was reading a story about an Al Jazeera photojournalist. I work with Al Jazeera quite a bit myself, more often on there [00:08:22] than any other network, actually. And this camera person was being directly followed, or a hole Al Jazeera crew was being directly followed by a drone that was basically shooting at them, and ended up murdering at least one of them. Others are injured. [00:08:37] The thing that just keeps sitting with me now, over the past year, every single time I join you all, which is almost every month, is that sense of helplessness and that kind of nauseating feeling that I felt when the war, our so-called BS war on terror with the [00:08:54] war toward Iraq and Afghanistan occurred. That feeling of helplessness, you know. Now the UN has. The UN has been wringing its hands for months and months, but the UN has no sovereignty. The real question is, how can we stop this? How can this end? [00:09:10] And at the end of the day, that gets back to something that's deeply shameful for me as a Buddhist, as a spiritual being, as a US citizen and as an educator and as a person from another part of the world. [00:09:25] It's it's a it's a racist project that involves white settler, settler, colonial Jews engaging in an Israeli set of actions that I believe are actually anti-Semitic. I actually believe that Israel's actions are devastating for many of my Jewish [00:09:40] brothers and sisters who are against this. And it really shows how the UN just doesn't have any sovereignty at all. Why? Because of us. Because of us. And yes, I'm supportive of the vice president. My distant third cousin, by the way. [00:09:58] Is that right? I didn't know that. But I have I have absolute shame in supporting any any politician, any so-called leader that is open to the mass murder of people in the Middle East. And that's exactly what this is. Yeah. So let me address what Ramesh said. [00:10:13] There a couple of things. So first of all, guys, again, if you've lost touch with morality and reality and you think that Israel's the most bungling, you know, military in the world, and they accidentally killed over 100 journalists and more journalists [00:10:31] than every other nation, including Russia and all of the awful nations that have done invasions. All of them combined. All of them combined. Oh, it was collateral damage. It was an act. You're making excuse after excuse. And guess what? A lot of the journalists who were killed. [00:10:48] Headshots, including the American journalist that was killed. Headshot. The other American killed in the West Bank headshot. So snipers firing from hundreds of yards away and hitting them in the head. So you can say that was all an accident and they meant to hit a goat or whatever excuse. [00:11:04] It makes you feel better, but the rest of the world sees it, and it's driving anti-Semitism through the roof, not people talking about it, Israel doing it. They're not making it up. Israel actually is doing it. Look, you can live in your fantasy world where, oh my God, Israel is the moral. [00:11:23] It's immoral to shoot five year olds in the head. And the only reason why you don't think it's moral is because the whole world is anti-Semitic. We're the only good guys and everyone else is evil in the world. Okay, you could think that, but you sound crazy. [00:11:40] Totally detached from reality if you believe that. And it's hurting our Jewish families and friends. For Israel to go. Yes. You're supposed to kill the journalist. You're supposed to kill the health care workers. Oh, we did it by accident. None of this nonsense. Total nonsense. [00:11:57] So what can we do? We have no choice here to address what you're saying. Because Kamala Harris is for the genocide. And in fact, today, talking to apparently. Or yesterday talking to Jewish American supporters in a closed door meeting. But it leaked through Axios. [00:12:14] She said, oh, Iran, everything is on the table. She's like, I mean, I'd like to do it through diplomacy, but oh yeah, if we have to. What now we're the neocons. We didn't learn anything from Iraq. And now and then Trump says, oh, do it already. Just start the war already. He's saying bomb the nuclear facilities. Make it worse. [00:12:31] Both sides say they absolutely, positively will serve Israel, no matter how many crimes against humanity they come in. As long as the checks keep coming in. And if you don't think that hundreds of millions of dollars from donors matters to some politicians, you're nuts. [00:12:48] And that's what the deranged lunatics. Who are the reporters in Washington, DC? Reporters? Oh, I don't know. AIPAC doesn't affect it. Miriam Adelson doesn't affect it at all because Donald Trump is such a saint. He wouldn't be affected by the $300 million that the Adelson [00:13:04] family has given him over three elections. Kamala Harris is such a saint, she wouldn't care about 5 million. She's gotten from AIPAC. Joe Biden wouldn't care about 11 million. Mike Johnson, the speaker of the House for the Republicans, wouldn't care that apex's top donor. Only the dumbest, dumbest, or most dishonest person [00:13:19] in the world would say that. So what can we do since our reporters won't help you at all? They will not report the truth about our morally heinous politicians who'll do anything for money. And since our politicians are the worst of the worst, anyone who agrees [00:13:36] to what Netanyahu is doing is Netanyahu. So our only options are twofold. One is obvious economic boycott. Any like I remember when people say, oh, BDS. Oh, that's anti-Semitic. Are you kidding me? [00:13:52] Occupying for 57 years, 5.5 million people is not bigoted. Saying, well, they're violent savages. You can't trust them with sovereignty. They can't govern themselves. They're Muslim savages. That's not bigoted. And you think saying there should be an economic boycott of Israel for [00:14:09] occupying them, slaughtering them, etc. Is bigoted? No, no. You've lost any supporter of Israel that's still, after this brutal 12 months of endless slaughter, is still supporting Israel and pretending it's defending itself is comical, ridiculous. You look total. You look nuts to the rest of us. [00:14:27] Totally deranged. So no economic boycott. Definitely don't don't buy a single product from Israel. Besides which, it might blow up on you, you know. So the story again today. They did it in the 90s too, in Lebanon, where they dropped things and oh, all of a sudden they look benign and then they blow up. [00:14:44] Okay, so no, buying Israeli products is saying, yeah, oh, I love what Israel is doing. Oh, Israel's slaughtering all these people. Crimes against humanity. It's like, would you have bought from. All right. Anyway, I don't want to get into analogies because everybody gets so triggered. No, no, we are the pure moral ones as we slaughter and slaughter [00:15:02] and slaughter and occupy and imprison and denigrate and humiliate these people. The second thing is, yeah, shame if you're still supporting Israel with this aggressive imperialist wars that they have where they will not stop killing people. [00:15:19] Headshots, they will not stop killing children. And now another report out that, yes, back to starving in Gaza. They've cut the supplies again. And now babies are starting to die. Not just from headshots, but from starvation. If you starve a whole set of people that you have in giant concentration [00:15:39] camps, you are not the good guys. It doesn't mean permanently. It's a government. It's not about a people. It's not about an ethnicity, it's about a government. That government is filled with terrorists. If Hamas had all of Israel imprisoned in an open air concentration camp and they [00:16:00] were doing headshots of Jewish children, what wouldn't we do to make them stop? What wouldn't we do to make them stop? But no, our government says, oh, it's Palestinian children, Muslim Arab children. Just shoot them in the head. Here's $26 billion. So f our government. [00:16:16] Our government is totally responsible. Don't buy a single thing from Israel. And yes, if you're an Israeli supporter, you should be deeply ashamed. You should carry that immorality with you in your heart until you turn around and go, this isn't what Israel was supposed to be. [00:16:34] Israel was supposed to be a safe haven for Jews, not some weirdo imperial power that is known throughout the world for oppression and crimes against humanity. That's what you set up Israel for. Have you lost your mind? And until you turn around, if you're still supporting this government, you really. [00:16:55] You're a deeply immoral person who has lost any sense of morality or decency. And all you can think is tribe, tribe, tribe, my tribe. Not the other tribes. The other tribes are guilty. Let's kill them. Who do you sound like? Who do you look like? Wake up! [00:17:11] Wake up! And. No, I'm not going to stop shaming you until you wake up. And if that hurts your feelings, it hurts my feelings a lot more that there's a hundreds of kids with headshots with bullets in their heads from one of the most immoral armies on the planet, [00:17:26] IDF, calling that a moral army is a sick, sick joke. The IDF is deeply immoral. I can't like all right. Anyways, maybe that's why they put my name on one of their bombs. Because, oh, God forbid you should say anything against Israel. [00:17:41] If you're anywhere near the region, you'll get a bullet in the head as other American journalists have. Or maybe they'll send you something and murder you. And America will celebrate. Yeah. Bravo. Can we send more money? Can we send more money to the terrorist state? Outrageous! I can't stand it. [00:17:58] I promised myself today that I wouldn't get loud. I can't help it. Who can live with this? Who can live with this indecency? Yeah, yeah. I mean, I just want to say, like, I appreciate your heart and your conviction [00:18:13] and your integrity in being about this. And what I want to say to both of you and everyone who's watching this is outside of whether you identify as Jewish or Muslim or atheist or what have you, a really strong moral compass, a spiritual compass, a political compass [00:18:30] could just be about being against the murder of innocent life. Right? And so look at who's being murdered and who isn't right now, and look at who is innocent and who isn't. That's being murdered. And I just want to say also this very quick comment, because I've had people come to me, as I'm sure even more to both of you saying, oh, Trump would [00:18:48] be much better about this than Biden. Harris. Trump literally uses the term Palestinian as a dehumanizing term. Trump is explicitly dehumanizing and does not believe in the in the value of Palestinian lives. Harris and Biden are full of you know what? [00:19:04] But they rhetorically attempt to humanize. But their actions are ones of continued dehumanization. And then last quick thing to what you said, what actually took down the South African apartheid state, which is perhaps in many ways the Israeli apartheid state at this point is worse, [00:19:23] in many ways worse. But let's not even compare them. Was economic divestment. Global economic divestment is what crippled them. Not, unfortunately, great leaders like Mandela, who fortunately did come back to power. So, you know, I know we're all getting shamed for speaking about the protection [00:19:43] and the sacredness of life. But at the end of the day, the actions of the Israeli state have made life much, much more dangerous in my mind for my Jewish friends. And, you know, I'm close. I'm I have family members that are Jewish, many students who were in our encampment [00:19:58] on campus, part of Jewish Voices for peace, who were brutalized, beaten up, treated like savages. And they're Jewish people who are standing for peace. So we know what this is all about. And I just hope everybody knows what what it's all about. And we need real leaders who can remove this moral and spiritual stain. [00:20:17] I know I keep using the word spiritual. I was in caves in the Himalayas the last couple of months. But this, this, this sort of stain on all of us, you know, and I think that that guilt and that nausea and this thing that's just gnawing at all of us is it really gnaws at me. It just makes me feel really troubled as a human being and as an American citizen. [00:20:36] - Moreover. - Yeah. And I'll echo your earlier point of, you know, when when you don't avoid this news And when you talk about this news and everything, you really do end up feeling very, very helpless knowing that there's apparently [00:20:51] nobody in a position of power in American government that's going to even try. Try and fail, perhaps to do something about it. It's possible that if Harris took Jencks advice 100%, she would try to pressure Netanyahu and she would fail. I don't think that's likely, but maybe she would. [00:21:06] But at least then we wouldn't be a part of it, and that would be an improvement. And instead, you know, you good. Reporter 60 minutes or whatever. Lasker. You know, like, could we, like, maybe pressure the government and she'll just she'll just talk about nonsense and maybe think this is the only point I'll make. We almost did a story. [00:21:22] JD Vance again was asked by a reporter like five separate times. Did Trump lose the election? And he refuses to answer it. But the reporter keeps asking because reporters in American media, who generally don't like asking follow up questions to powerful people on this topic, have been given license to do that. [00:21:39] So do that with the question about what would it take for us to withdraw the funds. Withdraw the weapons? Like what could Netanyahu order? What could the IDF do that would cross the line? Because we got a whole lot of things that feel like they should have [00:21:55] crossed anyone's line, you know, eight months ago, ten months ago. So is there literally anything and she'll say something, blah, blah, blah, got to give the weapons to defend blah, blah, blah. And then you ask again and you ask it again and you ask again. They should be ashamed when they do shameful things, and there's no. Such thing as a line. Now it seems like, and there used to be lines that somehow would be crossed [00:22:14] where they did far fewer devastating and murderous things, they being the state of Israel, that we were able to shut them down and stop them. And, you know, the fact that there is no line here being crossed despite them crossing, I mean, there are numerous lines being crossed. There is no line that they won't cross. Right? [00:22:30] So like like there, there seems to be no end in sight to what would actually stop us from continuing to arm and provide diplomatic and political cover, including with the shameful lack of sovereignty that the UN has. [00:22:45] There is no line. There is no line. And that's why I'm so, like, perplexed about it all and just grossed out. Honestly, I'm just grossed out by it all. Yeah. I mean, guys, to add, unfortunately, fuel to that fire. Remember after they did months and months of slaughter in Gaza, [00:23:06] at that point, already tens of thousands of women and children had been murdered. We gave them a reward of $26 billion. That 26 billion didn't come in the beginning, right after October 7th when they were attacked. That came what that came pretty recently, a couple of months ago. [00:23:23] So what about eight, nine months into the conflict, after most of the people in Gaza that were, you know, that are currently dead had already been killed? The big percentage and the US, we were forced as taxpayers to send them a reward for killing all those kids. [00:23:40] And women. Oh, congratulations. Nice job. Normally we give you 4 billion. Now we're going to up it all the way to 26 billion. So what is the message that Israeli leaders hear? The more Muslims I kill, the more crimes against humanity I do. [00:23:56] The bigger reward America gives me. Yeah, I mean, it's if that doesn't break your heart, I'm not sure you got one left. So, and to your point about the journalist, John, is a single journalist ever going to ask about the donors? [00:24:12] I mean, are we going to ignore the 800 pound gorilla in the room? Like, why do we not negotiate drug prices in America? Because of the big drug company donors. If you don't know that you literally don't know anything about politics. Go retire. Become a dentist. What are you wasting your life doing as a marketing executive for donors, [00:24:31] pretending you're a reporter? And on this issue, if you think AIPAC and the Adelsons, etc. Are not affecting the decisions of the politicians. It's I mean, it's so embarrassing. Please, please, to retire immediately. [00:24:46] Because you're humiliating yourself every day by not asking the most obvious question in the world. And then finally to, you know, they object again to, BDS, you know, boycotting and divesting and sanctions of Israel, etc. [00:25:03] And they say it's anti-Semitic to threaten our profits. Come on. And remember when the Palestinians went to the UN and asked for a state just like Israel? Now Israel says you can't resist the occupation, ever. [00:25:19] You must just become an obedient servant of the Israelis. You can't, because if you resist it violently, obviously you're a terrorist. If you resist it through sanctions, you're an anti-Semite, and you should be have your contracts taken away from you. Several states in this country, we had a member write in yesterday, several states [00:25:35] say that if you ever criticize Israel, we'll pull your government contracts. Okay. You can criticize America. You can criticize any country you want. Canada? No problem. But if you criticize Israel, we're going to pull your contracts. Because how dare you be so anti-Semitic as to even criticize Israel? Right. So now we can't do economic, we can't do, obviously violence. [00:25:53] I am against we can't even. But we can't even use words. We can't use words. So. And then when they went through diplomacy, it doesn't get any less terrorist than diplomacy. And can I just get the same exact treatment that Israel got declared Palestine a state. [00:26:09] Guess what Israel said. Terrorists. Well, if diplomacy is terrorism, then you made a mockery of the English language. So, so listening to Netanyahu and these right wing, literal terrorist leaders inside Israel. Ben-Gvir convicted of aiding and abetting terrorism. [00:26:25] So literal terrorists inside the Israeli cabinet and and criticizing them as the bad guys know, if you support them, you are very literally supporting crimes against humanity. So look yourself in the mirror and see if you're comfortable with that.