SIO396: "This Didn't Happen In A Vacuum"

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Thomas Smith

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🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

That's what the UN's top official Secretary General António Guterres said recently. Israel completely blew a fuse over that sentence, and demanded he resign or be removed. They canceled UN Visas. They canceled diplomatic meetings. They say his statement "justifies terrorism." But is he right? I've collected some elements of the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict you might not be aware of, and my contention is that this situation is far from a "vacuum."

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Series Inquiries Only, this is episode 396, I'm Thomas Smith and
0:20.8	yes my voice still sounds like this for now.
0:24.0	Thank you so much for listening.
0:25.8	This is part 2, if your podcast player is weird and you miss part 1, go back one episode
0:30.9	please.
0:32.0	This is part 2 about the current Israel Hamas war and you've seen the title, this doesn't
0:38.4	happen in a vacuum.
0:40.0	I wonder what your reaction to that is.
0:42.0	I think it's nothing I didn't already express in part 1, so I suppose if you're here, that
0:47.1	means you didn't overact too much that statement, this doesn't happen in a vacuum.
0:52.7	The reason I ask is the UN Secretary General said this did not happen in a vacuum and
1:01.2	a lot of people lost their fucking minds, Israel accused the UN Chief of Justifying Terrorism
1:07.2	Foreign Minister Eli Cohen canceled a scheduled meeting with Gutera as a result of this, saying
1:12.6	I will not meet with the UN Secretary General after the October 7th massacre, there's
1:17.1	no place for a balanced approach, Hamas must be erased off the face of the planet.
1:23.3	Israel's envoy to the UN Gillard Erden called for Gutera's resignation, saying Israel
1:29.1	must rethink its relations with the world body.
1:31.8	Quote, we will refuse to grant visas to UN representatives, we have already refused
1:37.0	to give one to Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths, Erden
1:42.4	told Army Radio, accusing Gutera's of justifying a slaughter, it's time to teach them a lesson.
1:48.7	Again, this is all for saying this did not happen in a vacuum, that's it.
1:54.2	So did this happen in a vacuum?
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