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Okay, calm down.

I wanted to just really quickly talk

about the journalists who were have been

murdered. Katie, I mean, especially Anna

Al Sharief. 28 years old. 28 years old,

you know? I mean, to think of how young

that is and how horrific it is that

Israel smeared this young man as a Hamas

operative. And even if he was, nothing

justifies extrajudicial murder.

That's what courts are for. Okay, so all

of this is sick. Even if you're running

on the premise that someone equals Hamas

equals justified murder, that is sick.

But let's just look at Annal Sharif.

What a long con, right? Because this man

graduated from Gaza City's Alaka

University with a mass communication

degree. He specialized in radio and

television in college. Then he

volunteered for a media network. And

then he won best young journalist in

Gaza in 2018 for his amazing diligent

reporting on the ground. This was a man

who dedicated his entire adult life to

investigative journalism and reporting

even before he got the job with Alazer.

So you know and it's the same with

Ismile Oul. I mean, he obtained a

bachelor's degree in journalism at the

Islamic University of Gaza. And then he

studied media and journalism. He was 27.

27 years old. I mean, just wrap your

mind around that. Ham Shabbat was 23.

23.

23 years old. I mean, it's just sick.

It's sick that you could have press

outlets repeating,

regurgitating IDF press releases about

these young heroic men being Hamas

operatives.

How dare you? How dare you? Where is the

outrage? Where is the outcry? You know,

these Western journalists will never

even fathom what heroism is, what

selflessness is, because journalists in

Gaza are the bravest human beings alive.

They know that their work is a death

sentence because Israel openly hunts

them and threatens to kill them. But

they do it out of duty to their people.

Not only out of duty to their people,

but out of defiance to the world that

ignores their suffering, gaslights them,

denies their reality, right?

And they do it regardless. And that's

something that I don't think anyone can

really wrap their mind around. It's

unfathomable. It's incomprehensible. And

so if people like Clarissa Ward who

leave that Tik Tok and just think, "Yep,

I did my part, checked a box,"

right,

you will never understand.

Years into it, years into it,

years into it.

Yeah. Um, you know, uh, it is also the

the rank hypocrisy of, um, like imagine

someone from a Muslim country calling,

um, BBC journalists mouthpieces for

state terror and then accusing them of

being bankrolled by terrorists, then

beginning to murder these journalists.

Like, do you think that the the media,

Western media would be okay with that?

I mean, it's the whole framework of the

the people who work for my enemy are

deemed enemy combatants. I mean, the

fact that, you know, people like me and

Chris Hedges and Lee Camp, we were all

considered people who could have their

entire body of work removed from the

internet because we were unsaavory

characters working for Russian media. I

mean, it's

so funny. That's exactly what they'd say

like the Russians are the communist, you

know, they're literally disappearing

people from the internets.

Yeah. Disappearing people from the

internet. And I hate to even compare

that to what's going on in Palestine.

Obviously, there's no comparison at all,

but it's just the idea that Al Jazer

employs people and those people are

journalists and they are our colleagues,

but because it's Al Jazer. I mean, let's

not for let's not forget what even the

CIA and State Department did after 911.

They paid tens of millions, potentially

more than that, to decipher the the

Cryions and lower thirds of Alazer

because they were so concerned that it

was terrorist messaging. I mean, this is

how cartoonish it's become. Look at

France 24, BBC, Voice of America. Those

are all arguably, you know, all the

journalists working for those outlets,

not only are they statef funded and you

know, they could be called agents of the

state according to the same logic. But

those states are actually genocide. I

mean, these are the states committing

genocide, colonialism, imperialism, war,

right? So, I mean, just by the same

logic, it is just absolutely insane and

horrific that anyone can co-sign to

this, you know? I mean, like two years

into this and the silence, the

egregious, deafening silence from all of

the journalists in the world about the

systematic slaughter of Palestinians who

work in media.

I can't wrap my mind around it, Katie.

The only thing I can rationalize is that

they don't think Palestinians are human,

right?

They are bigots and racists and they are

so comfortable with their status that

they don't want to lose their job. You

know, times are tough, Katie. So, that

that letter sent out by the BBC with 200

200 BBC employees, I was very pleasantly

surprised. I just thought finally almost

two years into this, we finally have a

mass letter by BBC journalists signing

about how horrific it is that their

network is co-signing all this horrific

genocide propaganda. Well, consider my

shock when I opened the letter and it

was 200 anonymous anonymouses. I was

like,

"Yeah, wow. Really brave."

Wow. Really brave, guys. Really brave.

And look at the New York Times. The day

after five five reporters were bombed in

a journalist tent outside Alshiba

hospital. What did the what did the New

York Times say? They published an

article that said, "What is Al Jazzer?

What is this this network that Israel

keeps targeting as a terrorist

mouthpiece? Let's find out." Well, the

network denies it, but let's really dig

in here. I mean, this is complicity.

Yeah, of course. manufacturing consent

for the systematic slaughter of your

colleagues,

right? Yeah. And Reuters putting in

Hamas, you know, uh, killed a

journalist, uh, Israel said was Hamas

operative. Like, you put that in the

headline. Like, don't you aren't

shouldn't you be better at being like

state synographers? Like, don't there's

an art to it. You want to be a little

subtle. You don't want to be that

obvious.

Well, Reuters and AP are supposed to be

like press wires. It's like, "Okay, we

get it, but you're not just supposed to

literally reprint the IDF press release,

Reuters." Like, use some goddamn

discernment.

Yeah. Um, there's actually one a clip I

wanted to show um that features, I

think, a framing that we never see

before. I was actually really shocked

that CNN let this uh clip remain on air.

So, it's it's foreign Press Association

President Ian Williams being asked about

um the killing of Anasal Sharif and

whether he's Hamas. Um, and let's let's

take a listen.

Association says it's outraged by the

targeted killings of journalists in

Gaza. Let's bring in Ian Williams, the

president of the association. Ian,

welcome to the program. As we've noted,

we've seen repeated calls uh for Western

journalists to be allowed into Gaza as

the war approaches its 2-year mark. Um

just talk about to tell our viewers why

that is so important to have Western

journalists there uh to observe what is

going on on the ground throughout the

war and what the reaction has been and

the justification when you reach out to

the Israeli government demanding as

much.

Well, the one of the points is we should

trust Palestinian journalists as well,

but there's, you know, profound sort of

racism and the Israeli government has

basically said if you're Palestinian,

you're not to be trusted. Whereas I

think the foreign press, the press in

general are now beginning to learn that

whatever the Israeli government says has

to be taken with a 100 weight of salt

because there's, you know, it what they

say bears no relation to reality. And

they use key words like, you know, the

Hamas Ministry of Defense. Hamas

controls the place. And I mean the

Ministry of Health, uh, Hamas controls

the place. journalists. Uh, frankly, I

don't care whether Asharif was in Hamas

or not. We don't kill journalists for

being Republicans or Democrats or in

Britain Labor Party. Uh, Hamas is a

political organization as well as a

terrorist organization perhaps, but it's

not permissible to go killing people.

And this was the distinct uh change now

is the IDF actually boasted that this

was a targeted killing. And the reason

they're doing that is they're not

letting foreign journalists in. So

Palestinian journalists are the only

ones who are there, the only ones who

can tell what's happening there. And

what they're saying completely

contradicts what's coming from Israeli

spokesman in Israel and across the

world. Uh you know, it's quite clear.

They've documented the ongoing massacres

and it's the Israelis don't like it.

What do you mean by not caring whether

Anasal Sheriff was part of Hamas?

Because the Israelis uh have produced

what they say is evidence and have

long-standing

uh uh statements where they say he was

not only part of Hamas, but he was

leading a Hamas cell. In your view, that

doesn't make him fair game for Israeli

targets.

Well, first of all, I don't believe it.

He's been working 24 hours on

journalism. He doesn't have going He

doesn't have time to work in a cell on

the side. Second point is I basically

don't believe anything the Israeli

government says about this. They've lied

and lied and lied. They buried a whole

medical team. I mean, by the way, before

I'm going to keep playing this, but um

this woman, her name is um Banna

Goladraga, and she uh has pushed the uh

Hamas rape hoax a lot.

Um you know, people could say that she

has blood on her hands.

Well, what what longstanding documents?

She said they produce longstanding

documents.

Yeah. Yeah. What? Yeah. Can she I would

love to see that lady. This long st What

does that even mean? Longstanding.

Longstanding documents. herbara talking

points are like fried in her brain. She

can't even like reach for the good has

borrowed talking points. So disgusting.

They've lied and lied and lied. They

buried a whole medical team after

denying it. They went and destroyed the

evidence. They bombed hospitals claiming

the Hamas facilities underneath which

weren't there. And the only way to con

conclusively disprove them was to let

foreign journalists in. and they won't

do that. So now they're basically saying

if foreign journalists are allowed in

now, I would I would make sure they

compose their wills before they go.

These are two separate the IDF has no

compunction.

The these are two separate issues you

raise. I think the majority of

journalists around the world and I would

imagine a lot of our viewers would

support uh allowing Western journal

journalists into Gaza to see

Wow, that is so big of you. What a what

a a principled person that you think

that they should allow Western

journalists in that is so brave. Wow.

You must have gone to journalism school

to to understand the power of journalism

so well because what an amazing thing to

say for themselves and report for

themselves what is happening in this

war. But when you say you don't believe

a word Israel is saying, you know,

there's been a lot of uh accusation

thrown at Israel for not producing

evidence to uh to confirm some of the

claims they've made. If they then

produce evidence and you say, "I don't

believe it." Where does that leave

things?

Well, also, what evidence are you

talking about? Like, it is absolutely

the right thing to do to assume Israel

lies by default. like you should never

believe it until not only should they

produce evidence but like it needs to be

cross-cheed because I don't believe

anything.

That's again an inverse of reality. It's

like you should the dubiousness is on

Hamas instead of Israel. The notorious

pathologically lying nuclear armed state

committing genocide. Yeah, great

journalism.

Yeah,

I don't believe it. Where does that

leave things? Also, poor Israel. They've

been accused of not having evidence.

Come on. How can you you're going to

accuse of not having evidence about the

slaughtering 200 plus journalists and

their families. Yeah.

Yeah. They're really in a bind. It's

really hard for them.

Well, it leaves things. We work on the

balance of proof. Our job is to

challenge authority. The authority here

is denying access to independent

witnesses. Nobody else is allowed to go

into Gaza. International organizations

aren't allowed into Gaza. Journalists

aren't allowed into Gaza. Reuters, AP,

CNN, BBC are not allowed into Gaza. Now,

what does that give a sort of more than

a little hint that things are going on

there that the Israeli government

doesn't want you to know about or

doesn't want you to witness? What other

conclusion are you going to give? You

know, there's a presumption in favor of

Israel in a lot of this which is totally

unjustified after recent experience, I

think. Um, and

they they've targeted journalists before

in the West Bank as well. By the way,

we're looking at Gaza, but uh,

journalists have been assaulted and

killed in in the West Bank as well for

witnessing what the settlers are doing,

let alone what the IDF is doing. So, I I

think we're really, you know, it's not

it it doesn't do Israel any great favors

for basically making everything they say

totally questionable.

All right, Ian Williams will have to

leave it there. Thank you so much for

the time. Uh, president of the Foreign

Press Association.

I bet she like cried after that or threw

up.

Wow, that was really heavy. That was

really heavy because it's just in the

face of nothing. The grasping at straws.

I mean, I just wish that he could have

just said, "What was the evidence?" Him

posing

posing with Sinoir.

Yeah. because there's a long list of

Israelis that have hung out with

Netanyahu and worked for Netanyahu and

interviewed Netanyahu and all the lunik

I mean it is so horrific. So all of

those journalists are completely fair

game

to be extrajudicially assassinated along

with their families and hey you know if

you kill 500 people in the apartment

building but hey you were trying to get

that journalist who interviewed

Netanyahu one time. I mean where does

this end? I don't think that uh Biana

would be cool with that. Something tells

me

it's so disgusting.