Mohammed El-Kurd
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488 appearances
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2 series
first heard Jul 2023
last heard 24 May
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And I don't think it's fair that I'm gonna have to travel to another country to visit my cousin who's married in Nazareth, for example. And beyond that, it's just not possible.
I do believe that whatever you want to call it, one state, two states, 48 states, 29 states, whatever you want to call it, refugees need to return, land needs to be given back, wealth needs to be redistributed, and a recognition of the Nakba needs to happen. That is the only way we could move forward. And you know, regarding whether this is like a possible situation,
for two people to live side by side. Let's ask two questions. Let's say you lived in a house with a person, your roommate, you just had a roommate who constantly beat the shit out of you. I wonder if you'd want to continue to live with them. That's one. And let's try another scenario. Let's say you live in a house with a roommate who you just absolutely hate.
absolutely oppose their existence as a people. You don't even give him a key to your apartment. Let's say now you're like equal partners in the apartment. Would you want to live with him? I don't know. We'll see. We'll see. Time will tell. But I don't think they want to live with us. Israelis are quite good, especially Israeli diplomats, they're quite good at using...
flowery language about peace and coexistence and so on and so forth. And they're good with making us seem insane or radical or full of hate and so on and so forth. But the policies speak for themselves. The actions on the ground speak for themselves. And I truly, I mean, every time there's an uptick, many of them leave.
And I wonder, I would like to see, I wonder what would happen in a one-state solution.
I don't know, by not shooting a journalist doing her job in the Jenin refugee camp, by not killing a 14-year-old standing in his front yard.
This whole talk about security and security fence and the whole propaganda of the Israeli defense forces and this whole iron wall ideology in which somehow they're always defending themselves, even though they're... You know, Netanyahu and the Israeli government
continue to talk about an existential threat, about Iran being an existential threat, even though the Israeli government is the only body that holds nuclear weapons in the region. They're the most sophisticated army in the region, and yet they continue hiding behind their fingers and talking about an existential threat and talking about how they're insecure and so on and so forth.
I came here on the bus. I live in a house where everybody in the world can easily Google it and get its address. And anybody can just walk into my house. And I'm lucky and privileged as a Palestinian journalist. There are many Palestinian journalists who lose their lives.
That's real insecurity, but we don't even have time to whine about it because there's real shit going on on the ground that we're preoccupied with and reporting on all the time that we don't even have the time to talk about how limited is our institutional backing, how limited is our cyber security, how limited is our even healthcare, all of these things.
we don't even have time to complain about. But the real-life things that formulate an insecure population that Israel certainly does not suffer from.
But who has the nukes?
Yeah, but we're talking about this faraway monster that we're scared of. It's fear-mongering. What do you mean? Who has the nukes?
I don't think it's true. I don't think it's true. I think Israelis are obsessed with genocide because they have enacted genocide against us. Even when we talk about a future, a liberation of Palestine, when we're talking about... They constantly jump to saying things like, oh, they want to throw us into the sea. They want to kill all Jews. What kind of hyperbolic bullshit is that?
To say that if I am chanting and marching for my home not to be taken away from me by some kind of settler court, I am somehow demanding the murder of all Jews across the world. That is hyperbolic. And the fact that we coddle it is insane to me. So no, I don't think as things stand right now, as the power balance stands right now, I don't think there's an existential threat to Israel.
And also let's redefine what existential threat. Do we think Israel, the Israeli regime, the Zionist regime should continue to exist in its forms, subjugating people and acting the crime of apartheid according to a bajillion people? human rights organizations? Do we think that it should continue keeping people in a cage?
If that's what people are fighting to save, then that says a lot about the people who are feeling this existential threat, not me.
But what does it mean for Israel to be gone?
Yeah, but is that a bad thing for these borders to be like, for the occupation to end, for the land to be given back? Is that a bad thing?
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