How The Trumps Screwed Palestine

Deconstructed

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🗓️ 18 May 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Two Palestinians join Mehdi Hasan to discuss U.S. coverage of Jerusalem and how to get prominent Democratic politicians to take the Palestinian struggle for freedom seriously. Rula Jebreal was raised in East Jerusalem and is an academic and foreign policy analyst. Linda Sarsour, whose parents immigrated to the U.S. from the Occupied West Bank, is the co-chair of the Women’s March and the former director of the Arab American Association of New York.

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0:00.0	Silence is complicity.
0:02.0	Palestine is going to be an issue that's going to come up in the presidential elections.
0:05.5	If you want to run for president of the United States of America,
0:07.5	you better come up with an opinion about this,
0:09.5	and it better be an opinion that centers the human rights of the Palestinian people.
0:18.0	I'm Mary Hussain, and welcome to Deconstructed.
0:20.5	Today I want to talk about Gaza, Jerusalem, Palestine, Israel,
0:25.0	and I want to do something very weird, very odd.
0:27.5	I want to talk about all those issues with two Palestinian guests,
0:31.5	Roology Braille and Linda Sassort.
0:33.5	Yeah, Palestinians.
0:34.5	Why would you want to talk to Palestinians about Palestine?
0:37.5	Madness, right?
0:38.5	The failure of US media to cover this in unbiased manner
0:43.5	will come back to hunt American media and American politics and Americans around the globe.
0:49.5	On Monday, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, and other members of this hideous administration,
0:58.5	was celebrating the opening of a new US Embassy in Jerusalem.
1:02.5	While presidents before him have backed down from their pledge to move the American Embassy once in office,
1:09.5	this president delivered.
1:10.5	While at that same time, a few miles away, hundreds of unarmed Palestinian protesters in Gaza
1:15.5	were being shot at by Israeli snipers, more than 60 were killed in a single day, including kids.
1:26.5	Yet the vast majority of US media outlets,
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