Ep. 418 - The Biden Administration Openly Supports Apartheid in Palestine
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Let me be clear - only dictators and guilty monsters oppose human rights investigations. The International Criminal Court is one of the most respected bodies in the world and the Biden administration just announced not that they oppose charges of war crimes, but that they even oppose an investigation into human rights violations. It's a despicable thing. Today, on @TheBreakdown - I unpack and explain it all.
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| 0:00.0 | Last night on Twitter, which nothing can ever happen good last night on Twitter. |
| 0:06.4 | Last night on Twitter, the United States Secretary of State, |
| 0:10.7 | who most of us, most Americans, would know him if they passed him in the street or saw him out |
| 0:15.7 | in about Antony Blinken. |
| 0:18.1 | I thought it was Anthony, his name is Antony Blinken. |
| 0:22.6 | He's a longtime friend of Joe Biden. |
| 0:24.5 | He's been in government a long time. |
| 0:26.6 | Super experienced guy, you know, for whatever that matters. |
| 0:30.3 | But he said something that I found despicable about Palestine, |
| 0:35.4 | about the United States, and about Israel. |
| 0:38.6 | And it unnerves me in a way, because it wasn't even necessary to say. |
| 0:45.8 | But clearly, someone pressured him to say such a thing. |
| 0:51.3 | And I want to unpack what he said, why he said it, |
| 0:55.4 | and why we have to always stand with Palestinians |
| 0:58.8 | who are the oppressed and marginalized people in this conversation. |
| 1:04.6 | Let me unpack and explain it. |
| 1:06.2 | This is Sean Kane. |
| 1:07.6 | You are listening to The Breakdown. |
| 1:31.2 | Now mental health isn't always the easiest thing to talk about. |
| 1:34.6 | But I believe everybody should have a therapist. |
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| 1:40.8 | But it can be hard to know where to get started |
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