Palestinian Ambassador Husam Zomlot & Ex Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak

Piers Morgan Uncensored

Sports, News, Society & Culture

3.7 • 651 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Piers Morgan has made a point of amplifying both Palestinian and Israeli voices, on a devastating conflict that many believe is entirely black and white. Today’s discussion is no different. Firstly, Piers talks to Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, who recounts his heartbreaking upbringing in a refugee camp, and the horrors visited upon his family. According to Zomlot, the Palestinian people have been made to feel like “children of a lesser god” at the hands of the state of Israel. Piers then turns to Israeli Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, a man who personally strove to protect his nation when it was surrounded and attacked in their 1948 war. For him, the moral responsibility for Palestinian suffering lies squarely on the shoulders of the nations that wanted to destroy Israel. He reminds Piers of the multiple missed opportunities for peace, the ‘causal chain’ of violence and that the Jewish people of Israel cannot be held responsible. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	That's sog came out and said there is no distinction between Hamas and the Palestinian people.
0:05.1	So at that moment, I had to sit here in front of you and defend our people against Israeli genocidal mindset and genocidal aggression.
0:14.0	You talk about genocide.
0:15.7	Do you accept that the language Hamas uses about Israel is clearly indisputably genocidal? I don't know what language you're talking about. Yes, you do. But Hamas, come on. Ambassador, you do. I don't, I don't. I am here to speak on behalf of Palestine. I want you to put your finger on what hurts the most. That in some reason, our blood has a different color.
0:40.3	That we are a lesser, you know, we have a lesser of a... Something of a sword.
0:41.3	That we are the children of a lesser guard.
0:43.3	You're not lesser people to me.
0:45.3	It is a terrorization of the people on the West Bank.
0:48.3	This is a state-sponsored terrorism.
0:50.3	Do you see a future for Hamas in any political role after them?
0:58.8	Israel's invasion of Lebanon and the chilling prospect of an all-out war with Iran
1:02.9	have dominated news coverage for weeks.
1:05.1	It can be easy for us to forget that the war in Gaza still rages on.
1:09.4	The Palestinian death tolls since October the 7th is now 42,000,
1:13.1	according to the Hamas-controlled health ministry. As far as we know, there's no Israeli exit strategy
1:18.7	and opinions on who should control Gaza after the war remain deeply divided on all sides.
1:24.8	Ambassador Hussein Zomlitt was born in a refugee camp in Rafa. He's now the head of the Palestinian mission to the UK and previously held the same post in the United States. It's been a year since our first interview, and I'm delighted to say he joins me in the studio now. Ambassador, great to see you again. Good to be back. What a year it's been. I just wanted to start by ask you what it's been like for you.
1:45.9	I mean, you're a, you're Palestinian, you were born in Rafa. I know you've lost family members
1:51.6	in this dreadful war in the last year. You've also had to be the Palestinian ambassador to a
1:57.2	major country through this period. What's this been like for you?
2:02.4	Nightmare.
2:03.2	And until this moment, there is a feeling in me
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