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🗓️ 22 May 2025
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Headlines for May 22, 2025; “Nothing Can Justify It”: Journalist Gideon Levy Reacts to Killing of Israeli Embassy Staffers in D.C.; “The Worst It’s Ever Been”: U.K. Surgeon in Gaza Warns Kids Are Bearing Brunt as Israel Widens Assault; U.K. MP Jeremy Corbyn & EU MP Lynn Boylan on Europe Pressuring Israel to Halt Atrocities in Gaza; Trump Repeats “White Genocide” Falsehoods in Meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa
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0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
0:17.0 | We believe the shooting was committed by a single suspect who is now in custody. |
0:23.3 | The suspect chanted free, free Palestine while in custody. |
0:29.0 | Two staffers at the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. were shot dead last night outside |
0:35.4 | the Capitol Jewish Museum by a man who shouted free Palestine while |
0:40.0 | being detained will get response from the Israeli journalist Gidun Levy in Tel Aviv. |
0:46.8 | Then to a doctor in Gaza as Israel kills another 51 Palestinians so far today. |
0:53.4 | So if NASA is evacuated, we really are looking at the element death of hundreds of patients |
1:02.0 | because we won't be able to take them anywhere. |
1:05.0 | So it's probably all we're worrying about at the moment and just praying and hoping that the IDF don't get any |
1:12.8 | closer to us. |
1:14.1 | Plus, we look at how criticism of Israel is growing in Europe as the UK pauses trade talks |
1:20.9 | with Israel and the EU reviews its relationship with the country. |
1:25.4 | And we go to South Africa a day after South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, meets with |
1:31.1 | President Trump in the Oval Office, calmly rejecting Trump's false claims about a white genocide |
1:37.3 | in South Africa. |
1:39.1 | I would say if there was Afrikaner Farmer genocide, I can bet you these three gentlemen would not be here, |
1:47.5 | including my minister of agriculture. They would not be with me. |
1:53.1 | President Ramaphoso also joked about not having a plane to give President Trump, |
1:58.9 | referring to the $400 million luxury plane that the Pentagon has just |
2:04.3 | accepted as a gift from Qatar for Trump. |
2:08.4 | All that and more coming up. |
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