Palestine Wins Victories - Is Tide Turning?
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 30 July 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Are there glimmers of hope?
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| 0:00.0 | Discussing victories or wins for Palestine right now might seem delusional, insensitive even. |
| 0:05.6 | After all, Israel spent nearly 10 months on a genocide of rampage which has killed tens of thousands of |
| 0:12.0 | Palestinians all facilitated and armed by the |
| 0:15.0 | US and other Western governments including of course the British government. |
| 0:19.7 | Now according to an open letter signed by 45 American physicians, surgeons, nurses who worked in Gaza |
| 0:26.4 | over the last 10 months, signed last week, it is likely that the death toll is already greater than 92,000. That is 4.2% of Gaza's population or about 1 in 24 |
| 0:40.2 | Palestinians in Gaza killed so far. |
| 0:44.5 | But the scale of the horror and the role of Palestinian journalists at such cost |
| 0:50.3 | suffering the worst slaughter of journalists ever recorded in armed conflict in history |
| 0:56.0 | and the shift in public opinion in states which arm and back Israel and the political consequences of that, well, that is having an impact. |
| 1:07.0 | Now, in no way am I going to let off the British Labour government, as I go on to explain, and the bar really is on the floor here what's going on |
| 1:15.2 | because what we're discussing here is in many ways the bare minimum but when we're |
| 1:19.8 | discussing genocide the bare minimum matters. |
| 1:23.3 | And as I'll discuss, this is testament |
| 1:26.2 | to the role played by citizens using their voices in however flawed a democracy this happens to be to affect change. |
| 1:36.3 | Now back in May the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Carl |
| 1:41.0 | C. C. C. A British, and indeed the brother of a former Conservative |
| 1:45.0 | Member of Parliament, issued requests for arrest warrants for Israeli |
| 1:48.8 | Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defence Minister Yov-Galan with proposed charges of war crimes and crimes |
| 1:56.6 | against humanity. |
| 1:58.4 | Now those requests must be approved by judges in a pre-trial chamber. |
| 2:02.9 | Before the last general election, |
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