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The Owen Jones Podcast

Ed Balls Flips When I Challenge Media Complicity In Gaza War Crimes

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Government, News, News & Politics, Politics

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

This morning, I went on Good Morning Britain to challenge media complicity in Israel's murderous onslaught against Gaza. Ed Balls - George Osborne's business partner - detonated. Listen for yourself.

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0:00.0

We're now over five weeks since a way Western backed Israeli onslaught against Gaza, which

0:04.7

has killed many, many thousands of innocent civilians.

0:07.4

We don't know how many anymore, it's not possible to count the dead.

0:10.6

The last estimate I saw last week, including those dead in the rubble, is upwards of 14,000

0:16.7

men, women and indeed thousands of children, apocalyptic scenes, one of the great crimes

0:21.8

of our age, and most of our political and media elites are actively supporting this.

0:27.2

That's a fact.

0:28.2

It is a truly unforgivable chapter.

0:31.0

Everyone, I'm never going to forgive it.

0:32.8

And frankly, as Gaza is driven into the abyss, I've just pretty much had enough of this.

0:38.2

We've had weeks now of our government and its media allies trying to deflect from the

0:42.3

moral obscenity that they are involved in, which is to repeat the active support or denial

0:48.4

of war crimes.

0:49.4

And they do that by trying to smear those opposed to this mass slaughter, as the real dangerous

0:53.8

hateful extremists and an effort to turn the world upside down.

0:57.4

The consequences of this deliberate strategy.

1:00.1

Well, we saw this weekend, the whipping up of a far right mob, which stormed the Senataf

1:04.7

and then went round London, racially abusing peace protesters.

1:09.4

This is the context in which I went on Good Morning Britain, today, presented by Susanna

1:13.2

Reid, who I greatly respect, I do love going on the show, they're a great team, by

1:17.0

the way.

1:18.0

So, I don't know, do I feel guilty when it all goes, boah, at the end of the day, how

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