Bassem Youssef
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3 series
first heard Apr 2024
last heard 5 Jun
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Of the cousins and the uncles already lost their homes. So this was too much. So I wanted to say something for those people. Because I know that, you know, I made one of the jokes that I made about like, oh, you know, it's Hassan, her cousin. He's a loser. He's a doctor. He's a doctor. And every time a hospital was bombed, we were worried about him.
So I wanted to say that because I felt that this is a family that I have never seen in my life. She actually hardly saw an uncle or two because, you know, they cannot live. But I said, like, I need to speak. At least I do something for those extended family that I have never known. But also because...
When Piers Morgan team called me a couple of times, said, okay, let's see what's going on in the show. And I just watched the stuff and the lies and the one-sided reporting that made my blood boil. And then I thought like, what am I afraid of? I'm afraid of, if I say something, I can lose my career. It's like, wait a minute. But that was the reason why I left Egypt. I said, wait, I left Egypt.
I came to United States.
And I understand. I understand the connection of like how sensitive it is when you speak about Israel and all of the ready-made accusations. But as an Arab, as a Muslim, I don't react the same when you talk about Saudi Arabia, or Iran, or Egypt, or any of them. It's like, hey, you wanna diss some of these countries?
I'll do that with you, because I have strong opinions about what happened, and I already been expressing them. But when I talk, and that's why I speak, and there's a lot of Jewish people who come to my show, and they understand that. They understand that the separation,
But that kind of a grouping of blackmailing people and saying and not saying what they have in their mind, it is that kind of like one of the things that kind of like push me to go on the show.
Both. Because there are lies, which is usually in the media, but there was the total disregard of humanity. You talk a lot in your show about human suffering. And I felt that here the human suffering was not equal. I felt that's why I came up with this, like, what's the exchange rate today?
Of course, it's terrible to see anybody die, but I feel that like, isn't our life not worth anything?
He lied to us because I have to believe. This is the one thing. It's also one of the things like how it was said. It was stuff that I've been hearing. I don't know what turned on in my head, but it's stuff that I've been hearing all my life from the media. Israel warns civilians before bombing them, and that's okay, but that's not okay.
Israel is trying to minimize the civilians, but killing them anyway, and that's okay, but that's not okay. So it is kind of like the indoctrination that we've been hearing as if it is okay, and then suddenly it's not.
Oh, I would definitely hear him out. That was like, wait a minute. That's material. That's material. That's material, man. I was like, so Netanyahu called me. I was sitting with my family. I have my phone ready. Like, oh, Netanyahu.
To answer this question, we need to understand how Israel thinks. There is an incredible speech given by Gideon Levy, the famous Israeli reporter in Haertz. And he describes a situation where he was in the West Bank and there was a checkpoint. And in that checkpoint, there was an ambulance with a Palestinian patient. And it was there sitting for an hour and a half, not moving.
And then he went to talk to the soldiers, like, guys, why are you not letting them go? It's like, ah, let them go. And then he told them, imagine if he was your father. And the soldiers stood up. It's like, what? These are pigs. These are not humans.
So when you tell me what would you do if Israel would do, it really needs to, we need to ask how does Israel look at the Palestinian and view the Palestinians because they do look at them less than human. And there is an incredible talk by Mehor Meyer.
He was a Holocaust survivor and he said, I learned in Auschwitz when I was there in the concentration camp that in order for a group, a dominant group of people to dehumanize another group, they need first to dehumanize themselves. And Israel looks at Palestinians as lesser people, as lesser beings, as some people who are dispensable.
And the way that they treat them is that they don't really care about like, that's why the exchange rate thing. So for me, if I am Israel, it will be like, what would you do if you're the United States in the time of the Native Americans? They were killing people with the millions. When you dehumanize a group of people, you really don't care.
So if I was Israel, I would do exactly what Israel is doing right now because there's no one is holding me accountable. There's no one stopping me. And I can get whatever I want throughout my history through violence.
The people having power. But as much as like, of course, I mean the people in power, because when I speak about, even when I speak about America, I speak about people in power. When I speak about Egypt, I speak the people in power, because like, you can't really talk about the 100 million people in Egypt. Or the 11 million people in Israel.
Of course, there are people who go in and they demonstrate against Netanyahu and they want him out of the government. But we have to admit that the Israeli society as a whole have moved quite a bit to the right and has been many extremes. And you know what happens when you go to the right Or you go to the most extreme, the other person go to the most extreme. And extremism breeds extremism.
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