The Argument Against A Ceasefire Torn Apart
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
An interview with a Hamas official promising to repeat the 7th October atrocities has gone viral amongst opponents of a ceasefire. It shows, they say, that Israel's onslaught must continue, with an endless death toll. Here's why this argument is bankrupt on moral and practical grounds - and will unleash an even greater catastrophe.
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| 0:20.0 | Those politicians and commentators in countries such as my own, |
| 0:23.2 | who oppose the ceasefire, who therefore support Israel's onslaught against Gaza, |
| 0:27.7 | which they must know will end in the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people. |
| 0:32.0 | They are suddenly in a grimly triumphant mood. |
| 0:35.1 | They are, many of them, deep down aware of the moral obscenity that they are cheering on. |
| 0:40.4 | They are aware of the approaching 10,000 Palestinians who've been killed in less than a month, |
| 0:45.7 | including 3,760 children. |
| 0:48.5 | More than the total annual number of children killed in all conflicts in the last five years. |
| 0:54.6 | In the space of a month, a death toll that will stand around quarter of the total civilian death |
| 0:59.3 | toll in the Bosnian War, the 1990s which took place over three years. |
| 1:03.6 | In bare in mind, Bosnia had twice the pre-war population of Gaza. |
| 1:08.6 | They know that the claims Israel is circulating, that they are avoiding targeting civilians, |
| 1:13.8 | are an absurd and frankly disgusting nonsense, |
| 1:17.2 | belied by what Israel's leaders themselves are saying in public, which are common to. |
| 1:21.3 | But suffice it to say they can hardly be less subtle, |
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