In this enlightening video Yanis Varoufakis provides a detailed analysis of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the broader situation in Palestine. Varoufakis details the on-going genocide in Gaza, combined with Israel's actions in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. This analysis challenges viewers to reflect on the global response to these events and the responsibility of the international community.
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00:00 Genocide is happening now in Gaza in tandem with Israel's
00:04 opportunistic ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in East Jerusalem and the West Bank
00:09 We are here because our humanity is being tested
00:12 Because future generations are going to censure us for having allowed the death count to exceed 10,000 mostly women and children
00:19 We're here because when our grandchildren ask us where were you in 2023 during the mass murder of Palestinians
00:26 There will be no hiding behind excuses such as I didn't know we do know our governments
00:33 No, everyone knows because the Israeli government
00:36 Proudly proclaims its genocidal intent was it not Israel's prime minister who quoted biblical scripture?
00:44 to justify the wiping out of Gazan Palestinians our key ministers in the Israeli government not run by
00:51 fundamentalist extremists peddling what can only be described as messianic visions of a land from the river to the sea in the hand solely
00:59 of settlers cleansed of Palestinians. No, no one can feign ignorance anymore
01:05 This is why we're here
01:07 We're here to tell our rulers enough put an end to the slaughter or the slaughter will haunt you in your sleep at the end
01:13 Of your days your nights too. Enough
01:16 We shall never let you forget how you are aiding and abetting crimes against humanity
01:20 Even if the International Criminal Court disgraces itself by not moving a finger but friends to be on humanism's right side
01:27 We must be very clear on who the enemy of humanism is
01:30 It is not the people of Israel for they suffer too
01:34 It is not the Jews outside of Israel in the same way
01:38 that the atrocities of the British Empire
01:41 Against the people of Kenya of India of other colonies could never be blamed to the majority of Britons who were also the victims of
01:49 appropriation humiliation and exploitation by the same British authorities in precisely the same way that our friends and comrades in Israel today are
01:56 suffocating under the apparatus of Israeli apartheid
02:00 To drive this point home
02:01 Allow me a personal note
02:03 Back in 2015 while fighting the International Financial Oligarchy as Greece's finance minister
02:09 A Greek oligarchy newspaper thought they diminished me by depicting me in a cartoon as a Shylock like figure
02:16 What these idiots did not realize was that trying to tarnish my image by depicting me as a Jew was a badge of honor
02:23 Whenever an anti-semite bundles me together with the people who have suffered racism for so long and so very bravely
02:31 I feel deeply flattered as long as a single Jew feels threatened by
02:37 anti-semitism and anti-semites
02:39 I shall carry the Star of David
02:41 Eager and ready to be counted as a Jew at the same time as long as a single Palestinian is terrorized
02:47 deprived of water bombed maimed or killed
02:51 I shall wear the Palestinian flag as a symbol of solidarity with people living under a system of apartheid
02:58 built by reactionary Israelis thus damaging my Jewish and Arab brothers and sisters and
03:03 Stoking the fires of racism which by the way always
03:07 Reliably forge a stillier form of anti-semitism. Here is a question to well-meaning people who think that the centuries of pogroms
03:15 against the Jewish people
03:17 culminating in the uniquely evil Holocaust make it incumbent upon us to defend the State of Israel
03:23 Come what may how far must Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians proceed before our utterly justified
03:31 Collective guilt over the Holocaust no longer prevents us from confronting Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians
03:38 Until the last Palestinian is killed or exiled
03:42 Is this the kind of legacy we want to leave behind those of us who are opposing anti-semitism in its every variety
03:49 Or form does anyone think that our?
03:52 Justified collective guilt over the Holocaust can be washed clean with Palestinian blood
03:58 I don't believe so and now a message for those who believe that Hamas atrocities
04:02 Justify all and each of the atrocities upon Palestinian people with the West's full and unconditional support
04:09 Have we not learned the lessons of recent history the undisputed fact that Saddam Qaddafi and the Taliban were bloodthirsty
04:16 Tyrants was a terrible reason to invade and to bomb to smithereens the people of Libya of Iraq and Afghanistan
04:23 Consider also this what if Hamas never existed what would be happening now in Gaza and elsewhere?
04:29 There's no need to speculate or to imagine
04:31 Just look at the West Bank and East Jerusalem where there is hardly any Hamas and the Palestinian Authority has laid down its arms and
04:38 Is cooperating with Israel what we see is mass murders evictions collective humiliation
04:45 Apartheid methods and of course the ethnic cleansing of all Palestinians in the West Bank in East Jerusalem
04:51 Clearly focusing on Hamas atrocities is a very cheap trick for ignoring the true causes of this
04:56 one-sided never-ending war against the people of Palestine meanwhile our established parties government and
05:04 The main opposition will tell you if pressed that their main idea for sorting out this mess is the two-state solution
05:12 They are lying
05:13 They know perfectly well that the Taniyahu's life dream and project was the destruction of any possibility of a two-state solution
05:20 an aim that the European Union Britain the United States the West in general have allowed Netanyahu to
05:29 Fulfill which of course was a great gift to Hamas who use the Palestinians ongoing ethnic cleansing to justify their own atrocities
05:37 Which of course gives the Taniyahu a further excuse for even greater atrocities against the Palestinians at that point the West comes in
05:45 condemns Hamas and gives a carte blanche to Netanyahu to continue with his project of
05:50 destroying the two-state solution that the West claims to want and that's how Netanyahu and the
05:57 religious fundamentalists in his governing bloc are destroying any
06:02 possibility of the two-state solution and wrecking whatever
06:06 Credibility Western governments have so this is why we're here because our Western rulers are a clear and present
06:14 Danger for world peace. What should happen now four things to begin with first an immediate ceasefire
06:21 secondly the release of all hostages by Hamas and of all the hostages that Israel keeps the thousands of them in Israeli prisons thirdly the
06:31 immediate recognition symbolic but crucial of a Palestinian state across the land occupied since
06:37 1967 and fourth a genuine peace process under the United Nations that safeguards equal
06:44 political and civil rights to everyone from the river to the sea the end of
06:48 Apartheid and the beginning of a new peaceful era our rulers will not push for any of this
06:54 This is why we're here. This is why you are here because when the rulers fail history
06:59 It is the people who must make history