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The Owen Jones Podcast

This Palestinian Is Fighting Genocide. We Can Help Him.

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Please: support Ahmed Mater and his family, living in unimaginable conditions in Gaza: https://gofund.me/01563539

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0:00.0

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0:13.0

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0:24.3

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0:27.7

This is so important.

0:33.6

Israel's genocide against the Palestinian people relies above all else on their

0:38.4

dehumanization that we don't think of those who are being bombed and

0:42.1

shot and starved and displaced and traumatized as

0:46.3

fellow human beings like us who love, feel pain, who have hopes, dreams, ambitions, fears, anxieties. Their deaths become numbers, statistics,

0:58.6

rather than each one being a unique human imprint on the world scrubbed away forever.

1:05.1

And that's why I want to talk to you about a brilliant young Palestinian man in Gaza who

1:10.4

I've been corresponding with.

1:12.2

His name is Ahmed Matter and I'm asking you to

1:14.8

support him and I've included the link for his go fund me in the video

1:20.0

description on YouTube on Twitter in the description, and on my Instagram in the bio, the

1:26.6

links there. Now this will help him pay for the living costs for him and his

1:32.4

family in the impossible conditions of a Gaza which is being bombed

1:36.9

and besieged by the Israeli army with the support and complicity and facilitation of our governments in the West, as well as helping

1:46.2

them to get out when the border crossing with Egypt is reopened so that they can have safety from this unimaginable violence. I want to tell you

1:55.8

about it. Please listen to this. He's 27 years old. His father was killed by the

2:01.9

Israeli army in 2003 when he was just six years old

2:06.6

A reminder as ever that this did not all begin on the 7th of October that the Palestinian people have suffered endless atrocities

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