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"Take the worst thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians."
Gemini (Google's AI) says "this is a genuine quote from Dr. Gabor Maté, a Hungarian-Canadian physician and Holocaust survivor".
If he were to repeat that remark in the United Kingdom he would be looking at up to fourteen years in prison.
I found that whike googling Aaron Mathé, who it turns out is Gabor's son and whom I just heard in a recording here on Judging Freedom. I quote these two things.
"They [the IDF] have been murdering children for crossing over the so-called yellow line. But even children who haven't crossed over anywhere and are just sheltering in their tents they've been murdered too. And that's the sad reality of the so-called ceasefire. The aim of it really, it's very obvious now, was just to push the issue of Gaza off of the front pages. And so under the guise of a fake ceasefire, Israel can continue [killing] Palestinians but with less global attention. And so far, that's succeeding.""And I talked to Basem Naim of Hamas about this in my interview. Even before October 7th, Hamas moderated its position. They essentially accepted the global consensus of a two-state solution in which Palestinians essentially surrender and accepted a state in just 22% of their stolen homeland. The West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem. And even for Israel and the US, that wasn't enough. Even that massive Palestinian surrender was too much for Israel because Israel doesn't want to have any recognition of Palestinian self-determination because their entire existence as an Israeli state is predicated on denying Palestinian existence and stealing their land."
Arabs and their allies don’t get too enraged about former Syrian President Assad wiping out hundreds of thousands of Syrian Arabs (some estimates run as high as 1 million), then leaving for a comfortable life in Russia where he is welcomed and shielded by Vladimir Putin. They do mind when Israel kills Arabs, though.
ReplyDeletePalestine has always suffered from terrible leadership and from a refusal to admit that their longtime “war” is lost.
GFY, creep.
Delete“I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived. My grandparents were killed in Auschwitz and most of my extended family were killed. I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Auschwitz being replaced by the boundaries of a Jewish state with a powerful army…and then I found out that it wasn’t exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population.
Delete“There’s no way you could have ever created a Jewish state without oppressing and expelling the local population. Jewish Israeli historians have shown without a doubt that the expulsion of Palestinians was persistent, pervasive, cruel, murderous and with deliberate intent – that’s what’s called the ‘Nakba’ in Arabic; the ‘disaster’ or the ‘catastrophe’. There’s a law that you cannot deny the Holocaust, but in Israel you’re not allowed to mention the Nakba, even though it’s at the very basis of the foundation of Israel.
“I visited the Occupied Territories (West Bank) during the first intifada. I cried every day for two weeks at what I saw; the brutality of the occupation, the petty harassment, the murderousness of it, the cutting down of Palestinian olive groves, the denial of water rights, the humiliations…and this went on, and now it’s much worse than it was then.
“It’s the longest ethnic cleansing operation in the 20th and 21st century. I could land in Tel Aviv tomorrow and demand citizenship but my Palestinian friend in Vancouver, who was born in Jerusalem, can’t even visit!
“So then you have these miserable people packed into this, horrible…people call it an ‘outdoor prison’, which is what it is. You don’t have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights, that’s a complete falsity. You think the worse thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians."
Dr. Gabor Maté
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdPdslOTwJU