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The Owen Jones Podcast

Israel Shoots Dead US Activist: Biden's Hypocrisy Exposed

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

This exposes the utter hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy of US complicity in Israeli crimes.

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0:00.0

Let me start by reading this statement from US President Joe Biden from February seven months ago now,

0:06.7

when three American soldiers were killed by a drone attack blamed on Iran-backed militia groups. He told the world, if you harm an American, we will respond.

0:18.0

So how will he respond after Israeli soldiers shot dead, asena Aigi, a 26-year-old US citizen who came to the West Bank as a peaceful

0:29.4

human rights activist, joining a campaign to protect Palestinian farmers who are being violently

0:36.0

victimized by an illegal Israeli occupation which is illegally stealing

0:40.0

Palestinian land, illegally driving Palestinians from their homes in favour of illegal Israeli settlements.

0:48.0

She was shot on the head by Israeli troops, executed or rather murdered in cold blood.

0:57.0

Now firstly let's think of a loved ones who like countless Palestinian families

1:01.0

are mourning the violent butchery of someone they loved at the hands of the Israeli military.

1:08.0

Let's remember that she was clearly someone driven by a sense of humanity, by a sense of taking on injustice and

1:16.8

oppression.

1:18.3

Let me also say this because anyone knows anything about activists who commit to standing in solidarity with

1:23.9

Palestinians will know that this is something she will surely have believed.

1:27.6

She will of course receive far more attention than many Palestinians the vast

1:31.7

majority who have been previously killed.

1:33.4

Here I am making a video about her.

1:36.1

And I say this not to belittle the horror of what's happened to her, but because this video focuses

1:40.7

on exposing a hideous double standard of the US support for

1:44.9

Israel's genocide up to and including standing back while US citizens are

1:50.5

murdered by the ally that it arms and supports and facilitates.

1:55.8

Now the US State Department's spokesperson Matthew Filler who has spent the last few months

2:00.1

filling the airways with propaganda on behalf of the Israeli states ever

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