Bassem Youssef
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1,048 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2024
last heard 5 Jun
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Yes, well, everybody's talking about the two-state solution, but Israel has said many times on Netanyahu and Bennett, there is going to be no state solution. In the past, even Naftali Bennett, he came in on hard talk. It's like, yeah, maybe in the past we wanted two-state solutions, but look, every time we give them land, they kill us, so no state solutions. And they are openly saying it.
That's perhaps rhetoric. Rhetoric that is supported by action. Because look at what they're doing in the West Bank that you said. They are cutting it, illegal settlement, piecemealing it. So if you have an intention at all to give them anything, why would you keep doing this? And you've called it a bunch of little Gazas.
It's a nice little picture of what's happening. Piecemealing it, dum, dum, dum. Because what happened in the past four months, the Palestinians have been microdosing on it for a very long time. little by little, little by little. And we would shout every time when it gets too much, and then we shut down and then little by little. But this time it was hard.
It was hard to see the blatant oppression. And the word said, maybe the Hamas Ministry of Health are giving us the bad numbers. Maybe it's just human shields. And I laugh, there's 13,000 babies killed. Does that mean that there are 13,000 military targets hiding in their diapers?
But you know what happens? When you hear so many numbers, numbers become numbers. And you become so desensitized. And this is why there's a difference between saying, 13,000 Palestinian kids dead. It's like Mila Cohen, an Israeli baby, 10 months old. She was killed in her crib. And this is what we hear from CNN. We never hear a story about a Palestinian kid.
That's why, thank you for giving me the space for saying the names of the Palestinian children that were killed just for four weeks. Because humans needs context, they need depth. They need like a 3D look at what they can look at. But if you just give them numbers, they don't mean anything.
That's an interesting question. But, I mean, let's admit something. The Arab regimes in the area have actually used the problem of Palestine in order to stay in power, in order to get excuses, like have this enemy. And Israel, the Israeli government has used that too, and maybe the Palestinians. But... But my problem with when going into discussion, this is that the two sides are not equal.
They're not equal in power, they're not equal in influence, and they're not equal in international support, especially with the United States. So Palestinians can, the people who have made changes in history were the people with power. that people would have the ability to change things. And the Palestinians cannot really change it. What can they change?
Some money to their leaders? Does that make any difference? I mean, and also when you say Palestinian Authority, which authority are you talking about, Hamas? Or the Palestinian Authority who has been kind of a domesticated kind of like, a puppy for the Palestinian who basically had been an informant on their own people.
And this is the thing also that kind of like really pissed me off when I was hearing the thing about these things. Like Hamas, Hamas, Hamas, Hamas. Like we have Netanyahu on tape confessing that he supported Hamas, gave him money in order to cause factions between the Palestinians.
And to which degree does Hamas represent the Palestinian people? None of these represent it, but who have the power in order to make the decisions? It really comes down to that. Well, who does have the power?
Yeah.
So before Hamas even got to control 2006 Gaza, there was Ariel Sharon in 2000. And we all know what happened. And Ariel Sharon kind of like had, they came up with this amazing policy of like breaking people's, kids' bones in the Intifada. So, Baraki was also like, I mean, which one is moderate? I mean, I think Hamas is a product of what happened. I mean, we can,
If there was no apartheid in South Africa, there would be no NFC. There would be no Nelson Mandela. If there were no Nazis in Paris, there would be no French resistance. And I'm not saying, and again, I'm not, I don't want to be put in a position to defend Hamas or anybody because you know what that entails, but Hamas, again, not defending them, they went into Qutub al-Safiq.
Why did they did that? Like release our hostages, the people in prison. Because if you're talking about people who were kidnapped, Israel kidnaps people every single day. And when they had the first exchange in November 4th, Israel released 400 people, three quarters of them were women and children. Why are those people in prison?
There's one in four kids that are imprisoned that stay in solitary confinement, which is by international law, a form of torture. And you're putting kids through that.
through diplomacy, enforce a solution? It's a very, very ideal solution, but you know, and I know, that the Arab States don't really have the power. All of the powers are in the hands of America. They have the power.
Definitely, but what is the core of the problem here? Is it the Arab states using the suffering or actually the suffering itself? And the suffering comes from people being displaced. Their homes were taken away. There are 7 million Palestinians in diaspora. 7 million. 7 million went out there and now they're living in Canada and America and Europe. They had homes there.
They cannot go back to them. 1.7 million people of the people in Gaza don't belong in Gaza. They were pushed from other places. The piecemeal thing of people are being, you know, in Germany, I'm going to shift gear a little bit. It's going to be a little bit of fun. There is a book that I bought the rights to, and I want to turn it into a movie.
And I bought, I optioned the right for two years in March of last year, before October 7th. After October 7th, I bought the permanent right. That book is called The Muslim and the Jew. And it is written by an author called Ronen Steinke. I read an article about this book in 2016, and I chased that book for rights for seven years. I didn't have that much money, but I wanted that book.
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