José Andrés
speaker
675 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 11 Feb
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An idea of everybody is welcome. We have the standards. We have the systems. We don't plan. We adapt. We don't sit down in a big room where everybody is used to Emailing? You cannot email a plate of food. You have to be with boots on the ground. That's the only emergency. Emergency is when you are next to the people that require your aid. People in those moments need us next to them.
And that's what World Central Kitchen does. That's why we are in Ukraine. That's why we are in Gaza. We are in Israel as we speak, feeding people because there's big fires around Jerusalem. We are in Lebanon. We are in Myanmar. We are in Thailand after the big earthquake. Ball Central Kitchen is used as a group, obviously chefs, but there's so much more than that. Sometimes we use restaurants.
Sometimes we use catering. Sometimes we use food trucks. Sometimes we open our own kitchens. Sometimes our own food trucks. Sometimes our own bakeries like the one we have in Gaza that unfortunately stopped working yesterday because we ran out of flour. The situation in Gaza is really very bad. There's almost no food left. And people are going to go hungry. And it's a very simple solution.
Unfortunately, those hostages, they deserve to be released. They should be free. What happened in October 7th is something like we can never forget. That's why World Central Kitchen was there in Israel on day one with next to the Israeli chefs feeding all the people in the kibbutz. Why? Because that was the right thing to do.
And I had people telling me, why are you there in Israel when they are now the ones? Because the people of Israel needed our help. At the same time, we were in Gaza. Why? Because the people of Gaza and Palestine needed our help. What is wrong with these two simple ideas? That when people are in need, we all must be next to them.
And hopefully this will be an opportunity of bringing peace and bringing longer tables. Food can never be a weapon of war by anybody, ever. Obviously what Hamas did is terrible and can never happen again. But we have also to make sure that the deeds of the very few don't end punishing the many who are innocents. And that's what's going on right now.
Yeah, it's a complicated, complicated situation. You know, the amazing moments were when I had Israeli friends that also they some of them even lost friends or family members in the October 7th attack. That because some of them even had two passports that they said, I would love to go to help the people of Gaza to feed themselves. Like, there's no way we're going to be bringing you in there.
And I had a Palestinian woman that said, you know, we feel for those people. I wish I was given the permission to go there to show them that we don't hate them. But sometimes what you read is only that it's hate, people that hate each other. Maybe those are the few. The vast majority of the people are not hateful. The vast majority of the people want peace.
The vast majority of the people don't want you to be shooting at them. That's what I see in emergencies, even in the worst moments like Warsaw. I remember in Ukraine, this older woman in the north, in Kharkiv and in Chernihiv, a woman that didn't speak Ukrainian, speak Russian. And she was like, they are our brothers. Why are they killing us? They are our brothers.
Why our Russian brothers are bombing us? When an older person tells you that with that simple sincerity, speaking from the heart, why are they attacking us? Why Russia is attacking Ukraine? It doesn't make any sense at all. Ukraine is a beautiful country, beautiful people. They've been under attack unnecessarily, and this war is lasting too long.
I wish that peace will be reached in the right terms. for Ukraine, and that hopefully also it'll be a ceasefire in Gaza. The hostages will be released immediately. And hopefully there can be a certain beginning the rebuild of Gaza and giving the people of Palestine the future they deserve in peace and prosperity, equally as what the people of Israel deserve, living in peace and prosperity.
without being afraid of a terrorist attack every other day of their lives. What is good for Israel must be good for Palestine too and vice versa. And that's something like I believe everybody agrees on. Yes. What I want for you, I want for me. Yes. And I'm saying this. It seems so simple. With my hand in my heart. Yes. And I do believe that that's the vast majority of the people, Joe.
I think you're right. We need to make sure that that is also what our leaders do. To bring the best angels in all of us, not to bring our worst demons. We need to be asking our leadership, putting aside parties, political parties, to bring the best in all of us. Bring us together. Build longer tables. Don't break us apart. Don't break us apart.
Here, here. Let's wrap it up with that. Thank you, sir. Appreciate you very much. You're a beautiful person. You really are.
I love you, Joe. Thank you for having me in your house.
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