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Reframing the Narrative: 5 Key Points to Understand the Palestine-Israel Crisis
00:00 Introduction
02:51 Refuting two false arguments
03:23 Refuting argument 1: "Hamas must be condemned" (with no condemnation of Israel's crimes)
04:38 Refuting argument 2: "Israel has a right to defend itself"
06:20 Summarising the 5 key points
08:45 Key point 1: Israel's apartheid, illegal occupation and murder for over 70 years
12:39 Thought experiment: The French occupation of London
20:24 Key point 2: Over 130 Palestinian children were killed between 2021 and 2023 prior to October 7, where was the outrage?
24:17 Key point 3: Gaza has been an open air prison and has been described as "unliveable", "degrading" and "peverse"
27:52 Key point 4: Notwithstanding Hamas and Islamic Jihad as procribed groups other factions have legal justification to resist occupation
30:44 Key point 5: Israel's response is not proportionate
30:58 Thought experiment: Your neighbour occupying your village and killing your family
32:51 Conclusion
References and further reading:
Filiu, J-P. (2014). The Twelve Wars on Gaza. Journal of Palestinian Studies, 44(1), pp. 52-60.
Defence for Children International. (February 2012). Recruitment and Use of Palestinian Children in Armed Conflict. Defence for Children International Palestine Section.
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Loewenstein, A. (2023). The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the technology of Occupation around the World. London: Verso.
Mearsheimer, John J.; Stephen M Walt. The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy (Kindle Locations 7012-15240). Penguin Books Ltd. Kindle Edition.
www.savethechildren.net/news/...
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Dugard, J. & Reynolds, J. (2013). Apartheid, International Law, and the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The European Journal of International Law, 24(3).
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www.hrw.org/news/2023/08/28/w...
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Selby, J., Daoust, G., & Hofmann, C. (2022). Divided Environments: An International Political Ecology of Climate Change, Water and Security. Cambridge University Press.
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• Apartheid Apologists: ...
Pappe, I. (2006) The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. One World: Oxford.
Masalha, N. (2018) Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History. Zed Books.
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