Bassem Youssef
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3 series
first heard Apr 2024
last heard 5 Jun
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So it's kind of like, it's not just like about swearing. It's about like, there's a lot of philosophical pathways in this. Yeah, there's profanity and people have fun, whatever. But like, it is about like, how do we treat our language? And I tell them, we speak Arabic as Arabs, but it's not the same Arabic. Crazy, right? And you're doing the show in America also, which is another level of upset.
Oh, yeah. Actually, the Arab diaspora in America is some of the best audiences I have. they are like wonderful, and they come from, and I did it also in the Middle East, and maybe I'll do like an Arab tour in the Middle East in the fall.
Jordan, Lebanon, I'm doing UAE, I'm doing Kuwait, Egypt, Bahrain, Egypt, I don't think so. I don't think so.
Well, I have the American citizenship right now. So I am relatively safe. There's a block. Honestly, there's a block. There's so much that happened. And I know never bad mouth Egypt. It is my country. It has all of my memories, 40 years of my life I lived there. But when you get hurt so much, instead of trying to kind of, I don't wanna take revenge, I don't wanna like that, I just want to avoid.
Because Egypt gave me so much fame and so much love and so much hate and so much rejection. It was a very tumulus relationship, very, very difficult. And a lot of people tell me, well, don't you miss Egypt? And I tell them every time, the Egypt that I miss is not there anymore. It's not bad or good. It's not worse or better.
It's just, I'm different and the places are different and the people are different and the circumstances are different. Whatever image that you have of what you love is not there anymore. That's why a lot of immigrants, especially Arab immigrants, they live here, but they're there.
Yeah. That's why, like, for example, people from Iran, I remember quite well the World Cup that was made in the United States. And the Iranian team will play in America. And there were people, people,
And this is the whole thing. You can actually love the country and you not have to agree with the regime.
Because if I go there, I have to go to the Israeli checkpoints and I don't want to go through this. I don't want to have an Israeli soldier telling me what to do.
Yeah, yeah. I mean, I have so many Palestinian friends with an American passport, U.S. passport, living here. They are born here. And they talk about the humiliation and the intimidation and the harassment that they go in. It's like, do you want me to try?
A little bit. Yeah.
Yeah, and resentment.
I have a friend of mine. He is from Palestine, from the West Bank. He's American here. He was born here. And we talk about, you know, we have, of course, all of this discussion about what happened, and he tells me, you know, in October 11th, in the West Bank, and there was a village called Kosra.
And on that village, like, the settlers went in around the village, and they sent a message on Facebook, it's like, you rats, get out of your sewers, and we're gonna be waiting for you. Intimidation through technology.
and then they went uh the the it is because we have like another uh settlement next to it called the eshkodesh eshkodesh they have people there who were training something called mishmriti isha which is basically the guardians of isha and it's like a paramilitary group that trains other settlers on military combat give them weapons and do like military drills
And they went there like militarized and went there. And it was actually co-founded by a Jew from Brooklyn, not even, and like an Israeli. And he is like one of the disciples of Meir Kahane. I'm sure that you know who Meir Kahane is. He was the Jewish defense lead, the people who assassinated Alex Oda here in the United States. And they were there with their weapons outside, intimidating people.
This story carries everything that is wrong with the situation. You have people from Brooklyn, from outside, just because they're Jewish, they can't come and they can't claim the land from the people there. Anybody from Poland, just because he's Jewish, he can come and take the land from other people. They're using technology to intimidate Palestinians. They have unchecked military power.
These are not IDF soldiers. These are settlers and they have free reign in order to intimidate and to kill the people. And you understand, this is the daily life of Palestinians.
Here's the thing, I wanna talk to the people of Israel. What is Israel doing right now is not just unfair to the Palestinians, it's unfair to the Jewish people in Israel. No, it is unfair to the Jewish people around the world. Because the way that Israel links itself to Judaism, At a certain point, you know, remember like ISIS and Qaeda when everybody hated Muslims?
You know, sometimes humans are simple. They cannot have the nuances to separate. So anybody who with a Muslim name, with a Muslim face, with a beard, who looks Muslim, he would do it because of that actions of those atrocities. You have the power as a person to separate yourself from an abusive power, a horrible power, and be yourself.
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