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The Owen Jones Podcast

Palestinian Journalist Destroys Western Media's Complicity In Genocide: His Devastating Speech

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Government, News, News & Politics, Politics

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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0:00.0

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seas, visit edfenergy.com forward slash R-hyphen power. They will never be forgiven. By they,

0:34.6

I mean the Western governments who have armed and facilitated Israel's genocide for 465 days as I speak, knowing full well the horrors being inflicted every single day.

0:45.3

By they, I mean the Western media outlets who have legitimized Israel's war crimes, who have failed to frame their coverage around the explicitly and repeatedly stated

0:55.5

genocidal intent of Israeli leaders and officials who have airbrushed atrocities,

1:01.0

failed to hold their governments to account for their criminal complicity,

1:04.0

and failed to even show a modicum of solidarity.

1:08.0

For the Palestinian journalists who have suffered the biggest slaughter of media workers

1:12.1

in the history of human civilization as they risk their lives every single day to bring the

1:19.8

world the depraved, hideous truth of what Israel is doing to the Palestinian people. Which brings

1:26.1

me to this devastating speech. It is a speech by the

1:29.9

Palestinian journalist Abu Bakr Abba Ahmed, who was from Der Al-Bala in Gaza. He's only 22 years old.

1:37.2

And he has already done more important work than countless Western journalists combined

1:41.4

will ever do in their whole careers and he has done so while

1:44.9

risking his life every single day every single hour every single minute it's a press

1:52.0

conference and it's addressed to the Western media please listen and listen

1:56.3

carefully these are not my words but the words of every single one here.

2:06.3

Standing here, after 459 days of the most well-documented in first life-esteem genocide in history.

2:26.3

For these days, we've been reporting tirelessly, extensively and thoroughly on this genocide. It's indeed a genocide against us, which we've been documented in makeshift tinted camps and workplaces.

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