Hello, hello, hello. As the war crimes escalate in Gaza with a military assault led by Israel,

which may imminently be a ground assault backed instinctively by the US and UK governments,

what's become critically important is to elevate the voices who are completely often,

not ignored, but often sidelined by so much of the media. And one of the most compelling voices

that I've myself been reading throughout this whole crisis is Omar Bada, who was a Palestinian

American analyst who was based in Washington, DC. Omar, great to see you, how you doing?

Doing all right, Owen, good to be with you. Firstly, you know, throughout Russia's invasion of

Ukraine, there's been a huge amount of, I would say, more grandstanding, by the way,

I'm not saying that in the sense that those war crimes being committed aren't real, but there was

always a critique in terms of the role of the West and its own hypocrisies on human rights.

But I'm just wondering, from your perspective of a Palestinian American, having heard for so many

months, this often very angry talk about the role of Vladimir Putin in Russia, and then watching

a, according to the international law, what are crime, war crimes, United Nations, a humanitarian

disaster caused by things like forceful displacement, which is the self of war crime. I mean,

what's your take on that just being based in Washington, DC itself?

Yeah, it's, it's, you get a front row seat for the hypocrisy by living in Washington when

you look at the situation. As you mentioned, the contrast could not be sharper. We have, in the case

of Vladimir Putin, there was a period in which he cut off water and electricity from certain parts

of Ukraine, and the denunciations from, from the Biden administration about how brutal and monstrous

this was. In contrast to now endorsing Israel cutting off food, water, and electricity to all of

Gaza, where half the population is children, is, is an example of just, it's, honestly, it's kind

of difficult to believe that they're able to have an about face, and that extreme without anybody ever

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