'If Russia, Why Not Israel?': Jordanian Queen Tears Into West Over Ukraine & Gaza Double standards
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00:00Yet, what is the Global South supposed to think when they see the West stand up for the people of Ukraine
00:06while leaving innocent civilians in Gaza to unprecedented collective punishment?
00:13What are they to think when global leaders express outrage at airstrikes on foreign humanitarian workers,
00:19but not on the desperate Palestinians those same aid workers are trying to support?
00:30What are they to think when global leaders express outrage at airstrikes on foreign humanitarian workers,
00:35but not on the desperate Palestinians those same aid workers are trying to support?
01:00What are they to think when global leaders express outrage at airstrikes on foreign humanitarian workers,
01:05but not on the desperate Palestinians those same aid workers are trying to support?
01:31The last time millions of people were targeted and trapped based on their identity,
01:35The last time millions of people were targeted and trapped based on their identity,
01:38the world said, never again.
01:41What is the world saying now?
01:44I ask you, would any Western population be expected to tolerate decades of occupation, oppression and violence?
01:53Yet in Palestine, this injustice has been rationalized and allowed to go on in full view of the global community.
02:02Is the world saying that Israel's security is more important than anyone else's
02:07and therefore nothing is off limits in its pursuit?
02:11That no level of Palestinian suffering is too high a price to pay?
02:16This devaluation of life must be called out what it is,
02:20anti-Palestinian racism.
02:23And if never again singles out some based on identity,
02:27then that promise has been broken.
02:30This failure cannot stand.
02:33The international community must ask and answer, what next?
02:37And then it must act.
02:40The bloodshed must stop, but that's not enough.
02:44We must blaze a better path, one wide enough for everyone to walk.
02:49And I call on our friends here in Europe to play a prominent active role,
02:54to weigh their responses to this conflict against long espoused European values.
02:59For years, Europe has positioned itself as a champion of international law and human rights,
03:06earning a goodwill, respect and soft power around the world.
03:10Yet, what is the global South supposed to think
03:14when they see the West stand up for the people of Ukraine
03:17while leaving innocent civilians in Gaza to unprecedented collective punishment?
03:23What are they to think when global leaders express outrage
03:27at airstrikes on foreign humanitarian workers,
03:30but not on the desperate Palestinians those same aid workers are trying to support?
03:35What are they to think when the ICJ's advisory opinion
03:40that Israel's occupation is illegal is ignored by some and dismissed by others?
03:46Even as Gaza's displaced children are being bombed in tents
03:50or killed by Israeli bullets to the head.
03:53What conclusions are people to draw about who matters, who doesn't and why?
04:00More than hypocritical, the double standard is dehumanising.
04:05It is cruel. And if it isn't racist, I don't know what is.
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