Mohammed El-Kurd
speaker
488 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2023
last heard 24 May
Mohammed El-Kurd’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in May 2026 with 1.
Appearances
Zero interest. I don't think Americans, I think Americans, a lot of Americans are concerned with healthcare. A lot of Americans are concerned with clean water in Flint. I don't think they're concerned with funding apartheid in another country. And I think it's a disturbing phenomenon that although public opinion in the United States is shifting, I would argue drastically about Palestine.
People in Washington are yet to catch up. It was only, I think, nine congresspeople who boycotted Herzog's speech in Congress yesterday, and he received standing ovation after standing ovation after standing ovation after standing ovation, and I wonder
if the everyday American is concerned that many of their politicians are Israel-first politicians, are politicians who care more about maintaining a relationship with the Israeli regime than they care about their own districts.
Yeah, I mean, Ghassan Kanafani is a brilliant, brilliant, brilliant writer. And he was prolific. He's authored so much books. Even though he was assassinated in the 70s. But, you know, he was 37, if I'm not mistaken, 35 when he was assassinated. You know, he was an inspiration to me in school. And I remember, like, even...
Even my teachers had qualms about him because he was like a secular person. But I love Ghassan al-Kanafani. He's a beloved figure in the Palestinian community. And I hope to one day be able to achieve a fraction of what he's achieved in the terms of shaping a political consciousness for Palestinians and for people in the region.
He was a writer, but he was also part of the Palestine Liberation Front, PFLP.
Yeah, I don't think he would have thought his words were divorced from other forms of struggle, but I think he recognized the importance of culture and shaping culture and shaping public opinion, both in achieving a shift in global stance and also in achieving an awakening. in the Palestinian generation as well.
There's a very famous interview of his where he's talking to, I believe, a British journalist. And the British journalist is asking him, why don't you have talks with the Israelis? And he means, what do you mean talks? You mean capitulation? You mean talking that you can't have a conversation between the sword and the neck? And I think that really summarizes the kind of values he stood for.
Now to talk about the three things.
Yeah, so in today's terms, the local reactionary leadership is the Palestinian Authority. the regional regimes we're talking about, you know, actually, you know, the normalization deals that have emerged in recent years, the Abrahamic Accords, have been talked about as though they're like groundbreaking, new, um,
But many Arab countries have normalized relations with the Israeli regime since the birth of the state. It's not a new thing. But yes, I think he was talking about Egypt and Jordan at the time. Today we can include... United Arab Emirates, we could include Bahrain, we could include Morocco.
And, you know, these, again, these Abrahamic Accords, they are promoted and marketed and talked about as some kind of like religious thing. reconciliation, which I think is the most disgusting thing ever, because they're not about religious reconciliation. They're about arms deals and economic deals, and they're about, you know, consolidating power in the region.
They're about mutual strategic interests that all of these nations have together. And some people argue that, you know, Palestine is no longer an Arab cause because Arab countries are normalizing, but Most of these governments, if not all, actually all these governments that have normalized, most of them are monarchies, are not elected governments and they do not
represent the will of the people or the desires or the opinions of their peoples.
And the proof to this is places like Jordan and Egypt, even though they've normalized and had peace agreements with Israel for many, many, many, many years, Palestine and the Palestinian cause was still a talking point in the political campaigning of politicians, of Jordanian and Egyptian politicians, and continues to be.
for them to gain popularity because that's where the hearts of the people are. And then, you know, the Zionist regime is quite explanatory. The imperial Zionist regime, I mean, what else do you call a regime that sought help from imperialist powers to depopulate an entire country and build a new one on top of it?
No, no. Obviously, they're going to be marketed as positive. And obviously, they're going to... have this flowery language surrounding them, and the idiots in the room might nod and smile, but anybody with critical thinking skills can know that if people continue to be under occupation, there's nothing positive there. Let's linger a little bit on the mutual interests.
The only way Morocco could normalize relations with the Israeli regime is so that the Israeli regime could recognize Moroccan sovereignty over the Western Sahara, which just happened actually last week and now Morocco, and before that Morocco recognized Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank. It's not like Morocco itself just has no interest in this kind of deal.
Not currently, no.
I don't think there's a body through which I can run for anything. It's completely dysfunctional. And also, I don't want to wear a suit all the time.
Showing 401–420 of 488 · page 21 of 25
← Previous
Next →