Trump Promises US Genocide Against Gaza - Western Media Normalises It
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🗓️ 17 February 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Right now, there is a basic test for journalists and for politicians, and it is a litmus test, |
| 0:05.9 | the litmus test of our time. Donald Trump, the president of the United States, has committed |
| 0:11.0 | his country to commit an abominable crime. He's committed the US to annexing Gaza and ethnically |
| 0:18.0 | cleansing its entire population. This is a grave and indisputable crime. |
| 0:24.1 | The bare minimum right now is just to state the facts. |
| 0:27.5 | That what Donald Trump has proposed is ethnic cleansing, a fact, that's number one, |
| 0:32.6 | and that this is an objective violation of international law. |
| 0:36.8 | That's number two. |
| 0:39.7 | Well, we have seen how our journalists and our politicians have failed, disastrously failed from the very beginning over and over again, |
| 0:45.4 | and how they have helped to facilitate genocide. Let's start with Donald Trump's comments. |
| 0:50.7 | Let's listen to what he said before the press conference with Benjamin Net |
| 0:54.5 | and Yahoo, the Prime Minister of Israel unwanted man by virtue of the arrest warrants issued |
| 0:59.9 | by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity, which again, |
| 1:04.7 | incidentally, journalists should be telling their audiences as a bare minimum. |
| 1:09.1 | Do you continue to press for this idea that Jordan and Egypt take Palestinians from Gaza? |
| 1:13.6 | Yeah, I would like to see Jordan. |
| 1:15.1 | I'd like to see Egypt take some look. |
| 1:18.8 | The Gaza thing has not worked. |
| 1:21.0 | It's never worked. |
| 1:22.9 | And I feel very differently about Gaza than a lot of people. |
| 1:26.4 | I think they should get a good, fresh, beautiful piece of land. |
| 1:30.3 | And we get some people to put up the money to build it and make it nice and make it |
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