Reframing the Narrative: 5 Key Points to Understand the Palestine-Israel Crisis

00:00 Introduction
02:51 Refuting two false arguments
03:23 Refuting argument 1: "Hamas must be condemned" (with no condemnation of Israel's crimes)
04:38 Refuting argument 2: "Israel has a right to defend itself"
06:20 Summarising the 5 key points
08:45 Key point 1: Israel's apartheid, illegal occupation and murder for over 70 years
12:39 Thought experiment: The French occupation of London
20:24 Key point 2: Over 130 Palestinian children were killed between 2021 and 2023 prior to October 7, where was the outrage?
24:17 Key point 3: Gaza has been an open air prison and has been described as "unliveable", "degrading" and "peverse"
27:52 Key point 4: Notwithstanding Hamas and Islamic Jihad as procribed groups other factions have legal justification to resist occupation
30:44 Key point 5: Israel's response is not proportionate
30:58 Thought experiment: Your neighbour occupying your village and killing your family
32:51 Conclusion

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https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/....08/28/west-bank-spik

https://www.hrw.org/report/202....1/04/27/threshold-cr

https://press.un.org/en/2016/sc12657.doc.htm

Loewenstein, A. (2023). The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the technology of Occupation around the World. London: Verso.

Mearsheimer, John J.; Stephen M Walt. The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy (Kindle Locations 7012-15240). Penguin Books Ltd. Kindle Edition.

https://www.savethechildren.ne....t/news/2023-marks-de

https://reliefweb.int/report/o....ccupied-palestinian-

Dugard, J. & Reynolds, J. (2013). Apartheid, International Law, and the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The European Journal of International Law, 24(3).

https://www.aljazeera.com/news..../2023/7/10/palestini

https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/....08/28/west-bank-spik

https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/....06/14/gaza-israels-o

https://law4palestine.org/do-p....alestinians-have-the

https://treaties.un.org/doc/so....urce/docs/A_RES_2625

https://digitallibrary.un.org/....record/40572?ln=en#r

https://treaties.un.org/doc/pu....blication/unts/volum

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https://www.amnesty.org/en/doc....uments/pol10/5670/20

https://youtu.be/HMPxmG0-gNM?feature=shared

Pappe, I. (2006) The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. One World: Oxford.

Masalha, N. (2018) Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History. Zed Books.

https://www.islam21c.com/opini....on/uncovering-the-un