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We're going to get started here.

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Before we bring Dalia up, I wanted to say I have Cheryl over here on the left.

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She's got a list if you'd like to get signed up for an email group along this conference.

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If you want to get on another list, please.

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That's our best hope is everybody get on the list.

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So she'll be passing that around.

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Please put your name in your email.

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Do you need a phone number too or just?

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Email and address.

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Thanks, guys.

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All right, folks.

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I'm going to introduce the speaker and she's going to do her presentation and we're going to have a lunch break.

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We're going to run into that a little bit, but I think it's still plenty of time.

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And what you're going to hear is a person that has some skin in the game.

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And when she talks to you, she's got a unique perspective that very few people probably have.

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When they always talk about, you know, 10,000 killed here and 100,000 there, you're like, wow, that's a big number.

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But it doesn't strike me in any personal way because it's a number.

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And what Dalia will be able to do is put a face to that, put a human interest to it.

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So you'll be able to probably empathize more than you normally do.

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And she's beyond reproach.

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You know, she can't be called an anti-Semite.

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She can't be called a racist.

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And, you know, what are you going to say to a woman like this?

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When Israel had to defend itself in 2006 in the summer against Lebanon for throwing rocks at them,

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I had a good friend, a fellow Texan who was one of the bravest people I've ever known named Dar Jamal.

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And he's a Lebanese descent from Houston, Texas.

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They've been in Houston for over 100 years, probably.

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And he was so brave and he was an unembedded journalist.

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He was in Iraq for the second fall of Fallujah when they were outright targeting, you know, media for death and destruction.

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And when that happened in Lebanon in 2006, Dar was there.

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And I had him on sat phone a lot of the time.

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And he was like, I'm in Beirut and then we're going to try to go into the Baka'a Valley.

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I'm going to run up to Damascus.

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And I'm like, you are crazy.

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Get out of there.

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You know, they're putting smart bombs through the tops of ambulances.

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They're using the Red Cross as a target.

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And, you know, as far as the use of white phosphorus, I have an aircraft that I own with my brother.

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And it's a Ford air controller from Korea and Vietnam called a Bird Dog.

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And they carried white phosphorus, Willie Pete rockets on them.

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And they would mark targets with them.

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And you would come in, you're talking to the ground forces, you'd hit the target with a white smoke.

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And then you'd get back and you'd call in your fighter bombers and you could orchestrate an air battle.

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And white phosphorus is what they use to mark those targets.

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It creates a lot of smoke, very visible, and it burns at 3,000 plus degrees.

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But now they've found a new twist for white phosphorus.

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They, if you've seen any of the footage from Fallujah,

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they had Westland links helicopters shooting these rockets into the population centers, but they would air burst.

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They would explode in the air and the phosphorus would descend down onto the people.

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And it would react with a moisture in their skin and start a fire within these people.

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And you could see the bodies of these people with perfectly preserved clothing, but they look like mummies.

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This is happening not just to enemy combatants, it's happening to everyone.

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And I remember we were scrambling around and trying to get somebody to cover what was happening.

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And I got Daniel Ellsberg to come on the show.

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And he, boy, he said a lot of things and things he thought would just evaporate into the air after he said them, but they didn't.

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He went on to say that the Bush administration would probably set off a nuke in this country to blame on Iran and then go after them.

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And about a week after, it got too hot for me, he wanted to remove the story.

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And I told him, you know, Mr. Ellsberg, it doesn't work like that.

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It's out. It's gone viral.

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And at the time also, we were interviewing some gentlemen, and one in particular was the founder of the Israeli Refuseniks.

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And his name was Yoatan Shapira.

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And he was an Air Force, Israeli Air Force pilot.

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And he said, I can't do this anymore. No way.

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I can't, you know, roll off, take off, tuck my gear and roll on a target in the middle of a center, a population center, and drop weapons.

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And so the bravery of a guy like that in the face of the Israeli military to say, no more, no more for me.

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And that's what we look for.

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We look for people with skin in the game, people that have, you know, a lot of investment and you can't criticize or call them on anything.

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So that's what we've got in Dr. Dalia Wasafi.

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Wasafi? No, Wasf.

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Wasfie. Sorry. I'm a stupid Texan.

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But Dalia, I met in Valley Forge in March at a Trees in America conference.

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And it was the same time, this little weekend conference, it wasn't, you know, maybe 500, 700 people there.

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But it was the same weekend that the shooter shot up the Pentagon and was killed.

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You know, dead men tell no tales.

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It was the same weekend that Ahmadinejad issued a statement saying, you know, you Americans, there's tons of millionaires in your country.

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Why aren't you funding real investigations into this?

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Nightline came in to do a hit piece and they got Dylan and Cory from Loose Change to do an interview with them.

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And before they even started the interview, there was, you know, a dozen high-def cameras around the interviewers.

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And the one-minute hit piece they did on them out of about an eight-minute segment, it's about a 25-minute long interview.

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And before they even left the building, it was already streaming on YouTube.

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And you could watch the way these two young men handled themselves and just pantsed these phony media mouthpieces.

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And we had so many. We had Michael Springman there. We had Richard Gage.

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We had Colleen Rowley. And Dylan's response always was, you want a sound bite. You want a sound bite.

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You're going to use it against me. Why don't you go ask the people in the room right there?

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They're the experts. I'm just a young kid that made a film that blew up.

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I didn't know it was going to get like it was. And we just met Dahlia that weekend.

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And when she did her presentation, you know, Zionist expansion from the Nile to the Euphrates, we just were blown away.

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And Dahlia is an M.D. or you're a gas passer, aren't you, an anesthesiologist.

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So she's a very, very bright young woman. And, you know, she was born here in America.

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She graduated from Swarthmore. She went and got her medical degree at University of Pennsylvania in 07.

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And she's been a pretty prolific speaker on the world stage about the Iraqi occupation.

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She's been back a couple different times since the occupation and has firsthand knowledge like no one else.

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And she will put a human touch to this story that I don't know of anybody else in this room could.

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So, folks, please give a big round of applause to Dahlia Wasaf Wasfi. Sorry, Wasfi, I got it.

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Anyway, thanks so much. You're going to appreciate this.

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Am I standing in the right place?

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Well, quite literally and figuratively, I'm very small here at this conference.

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And I think it was a week ago today that I got word from Gabriel and Jason asking if I could possibly fill in for a speaker who could not be here.

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And I was like, well, Gabriel, let me think about it. Yes.

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Knowing what the lineup was and not knowing what the reason was, I said, I thought to myself, please don't let it be anything serious.

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And please don't let it be Cynthia McKinney.

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And not to detract from any of the other speakers here, by the way, I will be stealing this poster from the front of the podium before the end of the weekend.

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But for me personally, she's probably the one on the list of speakers who I've been most familiar with for the longest period of time.

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So I am by no means filling her shoes, but it's a tremendous honor for me to be here.

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And I'm very humbled to have the opportunity to be with you today.

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Kevin really just gave most of my talk on Fallujah.

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So are there any questions? Just kidding.

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So basically, I thank you for the lovely introduction, because really the reason why I'm here is my family.

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And I have family in Iraq. I have family in the United States, my blood relatives.

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But my family is bigger than that.

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And I like to think of us here in this room today as a family.

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And hopefully you'll walk away feeling that you too have family in Iraq.

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And I want our family, you know, we even including the CIA operatives who are here undercover.

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Welcome.

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Maybe you will learn something today.

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Consider this an intervention.

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It will be broadcast on the A&E network, not architects and engineers, arts and entertainment.

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And you will be extraordinarily rendered to group therapy and some deep internal examination.

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And then you will take the lead of the whistleblowers and move on to using your skills for good.

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But thank you.

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And I'll move on to my topic.

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But I also want to give a very big thank you.

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If we could have a round of applause for the AV people in the back.

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They are like the band on Dancing with the Stars.

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They're behind the scenes, but nothing happens without them being here.

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So huge thank you to them.

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I one more thing to say, which I'm trying to get into the habit of saying it,

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because I will be talking about stolen land and ethnic cleansing and displacement today to remark that I am standing here on land that was taken without permission or authority.

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And if we're going to heal, we got to acknowledge everything that's in our past and then we can move forward from there.

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So thank you.

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And this is I'll move on now or we'll be into the next speaker's time.

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This is a picture of me when I was four years old.

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This is our backyard in Basra, Iraq.

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And I will tell you the story of how we how I ended up there.

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Just to note, I am not responsible for hair or wardrobe in this photo.

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But if you can see, this is the typical yellow brick architecture that is throughout Iraq.

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And we would often see on in pictures and news from Iraq.

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I don't know if it's an APC, but a military American military vehicle smashing through this walls.

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But this is the standard architecture.

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So it doesn't mean that there's WMDs behind the walls.

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That means that that's the fence basically that they have.

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And just to note, here's one of our cats up here.

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Now, in the thirty four years since this photo was taken, there's been a lot of ups and downs in my life.

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But I have been fortunate to have the support of my nuclear family.

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But unfortunately, this little one no longer has that.

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This is a little girl growing up in Afghanistan whose parents we killed in December 2008.

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And if she is still alive today, her future is grim.

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But this is the this is the image that I hope we can keep in mind as we continue our aggressions.

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Who are the good guys and who are the bad guys for us?

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It changes a lot like professional wrestling.

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But let's just examine a couple of situations with good guys and bad guys, because it really depends who's doing the spin.

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Back in 1980, the Summer Olympics were held in Moscow in what was then still the Soviet Union.

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And President Jimmy Carter announced that there would be a boycott because in December of 1979,

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the Soviets had invaded Afghanistan and we actually led a 61 nation boycott.

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Now, fast forward 30 years, the Winter Olympics are held in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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United States and Canadian forces are occupying Afghanistan.

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And not only is there no boycott, but Bob Costas is doing a live feed from Camp Eggers in Kabul.

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Who are the good guys? Who are the bad guys?

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Let's look at another scenario of how the spin might go down.

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And this is an image, very famous image of George Washington crossing the Delaware.

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At this time in the winter of 1776, the Americans had retreated across the Delaware River into Pennsylvania from New Jersey.

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And the British in New Jersey had entered their winter quarters and they're like, whew, we we defeated them.

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We defeated them. We're done for the winter season.

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And, you know, it was Christmas. They assumed victory.

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But in the middle of the night, George Washington came on the boats back across the Delaware River.

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Now, from this perspective, as the founding, from the perspective of looking at the founding fathers,

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we might remember ourselves as America.

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We risked our lives to gain our independence.

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But if we looked in the British papers at that time, how would they have remembered it?

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America, we will kill you in your sleep on Christmas.

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So it depends on who's delivering the message, what angle you have on it.

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But if we stand back, and I know I'm preaching to the choir, and we take a look, we follow the money,

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we will see that there are some facts there and some genuine sense of justice that needs to be respected.

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Who are the good guys? Who are the bad guys?

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Well, here's another topic where it gets really murky.

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And I'm going to try to give you the information today.

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And it's really, what I deliver today is an encouragement.

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It's very easy for me with this audience that's obviously very motivated and already very well informed on what our government is doing.

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But you go out there in the world and then come to your own conclusions with what you hear today.

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America, Israel, and Iraq, it might not be what you think.

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This is, of course, the Israeli flag.

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This is the Iraqi flag before the invasion.

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This was the proposed Iraqi flag for after the invasion.

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One of these things is not like the others.

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You can draw your own conclusion, but Iraqis rejected it hands down.

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So my take-home messages from today, which hopefully I will begin to establish a foundation of,

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is that the occupation of Iraq is an extension of the occupation of Palestine.

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So it's not just Iraq is here, Palestine's there.

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Oh, Syria's all the way over.

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Oh, wait, I've got to look at my map.

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Syria, it's all not all disconnected.

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We're all in the same region.

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We've got Iran, and then there's Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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It's all connected.

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And I will introduce this theory today.

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Also, there are joint American-Israeli operations, which are keeping both, well, the grand occupation of Iraq and Palestine going.

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So we are responsible for what's happening.

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That the Zionist influence, among others, that is guiding U.S. foreign policy, is against our interest.

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In no way is this in our interest, except for the handful of people who are making money off of it.

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And so if we want to move forward, not only bring an end to the so-called war on terror,

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but we're going to have to end the entire occupation and let justice be served.

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But enough about deep politics.

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Let's talk about me.

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So these are my parents, my dad, originally from Basra, Iraq.

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Actually, I do have those pictures also that Barry was mentioning to you,

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because that's the city where my father's from in terms of the undercover operations there.

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My dad, born and raised there, went to Baghdad University College of Education

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and did well enough to earn a government scholarship to do his graduate studies overseas.

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So in 1963, he came to the U.S., was studying at Georgetown University,

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and lived at the International Student House, where he met another graduate student, a nice Jewish girl from New York.

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Now, I know.

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Now, with an Arab father and Jewish mother, although to be clear, though,

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we tend to think of those as distinct, unrelated entities.

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There are many Arab Jews when you take Arab as an ethnicity and Jewish as the religion.

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But my mom, her parents are Ashkenazi, so that's the European Jewry.

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So with an Arab father and Jewish mother, I am 100% Semite.

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What that means is that you can insult either side of my family, and that would be anti-Semitic.

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But if we can save that for the panel tomorrow, we can discuss that later.

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The other point, thank you, the other point is that with an Arab father and Jewish mother,

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I'm going to be in therapy for a long, long time.

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So let's move on.

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I do apologize for those of you who heard my talk at Valley Forge.

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The jokes are the same. I got no new material.

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Okay, so my parents got married in 1968, had my sister in 1969,

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and then their lives dramatically improved in 1971, when I was born.

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Now, we may have a difference of opinion on some things,

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but I think we can all come together as one in realizing that this is a picture of a very cute baby right here.

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Excellent, let's build on this unity.

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Now, I show you this picture, not only because I like it,

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but this is when I'm six months old in June 1972 in our backyard in Basra.

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After my father finished his PhD in 71, he had to pay back that government scholarship that he was on

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back in Iraq for the same amount of time that he was in the U.S.

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So for the first five years, 71, well, he went back early to 77, he had to teach there.

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So the first five years of my life, I was born in December of 71,

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it was back and forth between Iraq and the U.S.

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And when you're a kid, you think everybody does that, but apparently that's not the case.

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But anyway, for any of us, the memories that we have from before the time

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that our brains could make memories are from the pictures.

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So you talk to me about Iraq, I think of this.

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Unfortunately, if you don't have that personal connection and you live in this country,

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you've been trained to think of this.

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And that's where the problem is. It's easy to hate this.

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Also from a very racist dehumanization of Arab Muslim men in general.

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But he ultimately was executed, but he did not suffer under his policies.

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It was the Iraqi people. You take any country in the world, it is made up of families, any country.

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And it is those families who either reap the benefits of what their government does,

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or they pay the price. And 26 million Iraqis are paying the price.

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And families here are paying the price.

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This is an Iraqi family. There's my dad, my sister, and me.

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My sister got my dad's green eyes, but I think you can see here I'm a cuter baby than my sister.

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But anyway, this is an Iraqi family. And now this is an American family.

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There's my dad, my sister, and me. See, we all look alike. Thank you. Thank you very much.

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Oh, you're with me. This is an educated audience.

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My dad, well, I was born in New York. My sister was born in D.C.

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and my dad became an American citizen in the 1980s.

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So when you talk to me and when the buildup was happening to shock and awe of Iraq,

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it might as well have been the shock and awe of Yonkers, New York.

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To me, it was the same thing. And I had family there I was worried about.

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These were my mom's parents. They're both gone now, but they were Ashkenazi Jews from Austria.

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They left their homeland. They fled their homeland during Hitler's Anschluss.

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And they made it to New York to start a new life. And my mom was born in New York.

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So unfortunately, now I have genocide on both sides of my family.

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So it's for both sides that I do what I do today.

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And I hope that will come through in the information that I present.

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Now, just to make a clarification at the beginning, the criticism of states' policies,

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because here's where we get lost in a lot of emotion.

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It is important to note that the criticism of the policies of the Third Reich is not anti-German.

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That's anti-racist policies. Criticism of apartheid South Africa is not anti-Dutch.

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It's not anti-white. That was criticism of a racist form of government.

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Criticism of SB 1070 in Arizona is not anti-American or anti-white.

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That is against a racist policy in Arizona.

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And criticism of the state-sponsored terrorism that is affected by Israel is not anti-Semitic.

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That is accurate condemnation of illegal policies.

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Now, even though I have the background I do, that gives me the confidence to say what I just said.

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I look like I do, and people think something different of me.

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But it's enough to throw out that label of anti-Semitism to cover up the crimes that are happening today.

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So I hope that if you see me with a big mouth, then you too can have a big mouth about it.

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All right. My first topic, occupation of Iraq, is an extension of the occupation of Palestine.

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And the first thing we have to do is look very, very briefly.

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Everything today is just skimming the surface.

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But at least it's a start. We have to look at what happened in Palestine.

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David Ben-Gurion, who now has an airport, was listed as one of three significant leaders of early Zionism.

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If it won't mess up the lighting here, if the front lights could go down, I don't know if that's possible,

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but I just put that out just so it's easier to see what's up here.

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Along with Chaim Weitzman and Theodor Herzl, one of the three significant leaders of early Zionism.

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And Zionism is a political movement. It doesn't have to do with religion.

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But it's a political movement for creation of a Jewish state.

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So there's inherent discrimination in the Zionist movement when it's exclusively for Jews.

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And this is what was planned. This is a very important image here.

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This is what was planned to be the Jewish state.

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And as was described by David Ben-Gurion, to the north, the Latani River, which is southern Lebanon,

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to the northeast, the Wadi Aouja. I don't speak Arabic, so my pronunciation is horrible. Thank you so much.

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And the southern border will be mobile. Who has mobile borders?

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But this is the point, is that the decision to establish a Jewish state,

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first they were going to do it in Latin America, they were looking at Uganda,

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they finally honed in on the Holy Land in Palestine.

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And although these are all states created by the empires carved out of the sand,

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the problem is that this is other people's territories, all of Palestine, part of Egypt, part of Jordan,

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part of Syria, part of Lebanon. And the year that this was proposed by the World Zionist Organization was 1918.

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This is long before the Holocaust of the 1940s.

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This is a famous saying for the Zionist movement, and it has been above, I don't know if it's still there,

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but it has been above the doors to the Knesset, the Israeli Congress,

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our land Israel, from the Nile to the Euphrates.

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You've got some other people living there that are going to have a problem with that.

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And this is basically, in a nutshell, what the problem is.

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The problem is that in 1946, the green is the distribution of Palestinian-owned land,

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and the white is the distribution of Jewish-owned land.

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In 1947, the UN Partition Plan proposed giving the majority of the land to the Jewish population,

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the minority of the people. Deal or no deal?

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That's a bad deal if you're Palestinian. So, no deal.

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The Arabs said no.

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And following that, and today is the big day, on May 15, 1948,

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the Zionists declared their state of Israel.

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And what was left after a process of ethnic cleansing and massacres,

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that this became the white, still Jewish territory, and this was Palestinian territory.

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Now, this is what's happened since then, which is what makes things so difficult today,

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is the same thing that happened in South Africa, the establishment of what they called,

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Bantustans, these independent areas that are completely under Israeli control.

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And so, when you hear the phrase being wiped off the map, this is what I hope you'll think of.

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Historic Palestine, in 1948, today marks, in the Western world, the birth of the state of Israel,

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today marks Al-Nakba for the Arab world, and that is the catastrophe.

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Over 700,000 Palestinians were driven out.

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That is why, to this day, Palestinians are the largest refugee population,

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and now numbering 7 million.

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And the way they were driven out was through terror campaigns by groups like the Ergun and the Stern Gang.

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For example, the first agenda for the Zionists was to get the British out of Palestine.

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They had a mandate there.

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And once the British were kicked out, they moved on to removing the indigenous people.

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But one of the ways they pushed the British out was to bomb their headquarters at the King David Hotel in 1946.

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That strike was led by Menachem Begin, who would become Israel's Prime Minister down the road in the 70s.

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And it's important to note, for what our government is doing, that Rahm Emanuel, the White House Chief of Staff under Obama,

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his father was in the Ergun.

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Israel is our colonial outpost in order to exert influence in that part of the world,

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which is rich with resources that we want to control.

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The Middle East is actually a colonial term.

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The Middle East, the Far East, that's relative to colonial powers.

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That's relative to the West.

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What's more accurate is the term Western Asia.

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And what the Middle East is, really, is the Arab world plus the colonial imposition of the state of Israel,

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and I think Iran counts as part of the Middle East also, but that's a separate ethnicity.

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That's a different lineage that's not Arab.

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What we have to understand is that Israel, an apartheid state which has different rules,

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depending on your religion or ethnicity, it survives only with our tax dollars,

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only with American military, economic, and political support that is in violation of international law.

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What we have to see, understanding that history, that the root of the ethnic cleansing began in 1948,

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you have to put everything that's happened since then in that context.

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Israel invaded and occupied historic Palestine.

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The British, the French, and the Israelis attacked Egypt in 1956.

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They invaded and occupied the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt in 1967, eventually having to give it back.

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They invaded and occupied the Golan Heights of Syria in 1967.

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They still occupy the Golan Heights.

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They've invaded and occupied southern Lebanon.

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Again, they want to get, you remember the picture, they want to get to the Latani River.

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This is the desert.

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Water as a resource is critically important, so they want the water resources.

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And so they invaded and occupied southern Lebanon in 1982.

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That occupation lasted until 2000.

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They assaulted again in 2006, as Kevin referenced.

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It's important to note that the response to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 was the emergence of Hezbollah.

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Action, reaction.

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We are creating what's happening there.

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Now, there are a number of UN resolutions condemning Israeli actions from the period 1947 through 2004.

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I'm not going to read you all of them, but this is what is going on behind the scenes.

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This is what consistently the international community has a problem with.

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Consistently.

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And the only cover that Israel has is our superpower Security Council vote that usually vetoes resolutions.

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One of those resolutions was condemning the actions of the Israelis on June 7, 1991, when they bombed a nuclear facility near Baghdad.

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This was the, it was under construction.

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Iraq was far from having nuclear capabilities.

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But it was bombed by the IDF.

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Now, why would Iraq be seeking nuclear technology?

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Why would Iran be seeking nuclear technology?

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Why would any state in that part of the world be seeking nuclear technology?

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Because Israel has between 250 and 400 nuclear warheads, and they've invaded their neighbors.

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They have a reason to be concerned.

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My mom has coined this.

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She's the first one I heard it from.

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But the American policy on Israeli nuclear weapons, don't ask, don't tell.

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So with the events of September 11, 2001, which we need a new investigation for or an initial credible investigation, why do they hate us?

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Well, I think people in this room know it's not because they hate our freedoms.

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It's because we've been killing innocent people for a long time,

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whether it's in the Arab world or whether it's in Southeast Asia or historically what we've done to basically colonial rape and pillage throughout those continents that are far away from us.

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We've given people reason.

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And to most of the world, we are the terrorists.

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Number one, most dangerous threats to global security, international poll, United States and Israel.

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Yeah, that's oh, that's not and that's a the poll that was done.

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So that's not just me saying it.

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So, again, with that brief background, I will argue that the occupation of Iraq is an extension of the occupation of Palestine to control those resources and to look at who was excited and who drew up the plans to invade Iraq.

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Let's look at the big factors.

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First of all, Operation Iraqi Freedom.

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The actually the original name was Operation Iraqi Liberation.

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But the acronym was oil.

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That was bad PR.

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I'm not kidding.

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It totally happened.

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And so they changed it.

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And for yeah, because it's and now it's working out so much better for everybody.

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But now that I call it a perfect storm of special interests.

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On the one hand, you had an M by no means is this exclusive, but these are the major players.

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Oil interests, of course, Bush family, long history in the oil industry.

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Dick Cheney, we all know his connection to Halliburton.

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Condoleezza Rice used to be on the board of Chevron.

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And when she was on when she was on the board of Chevron, also working with Chevron sister company, Unical was a young upstart named Zalmay Khalilzad,

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who would become after invasion the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, then became the U.S. ambassador to Iraq.

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And like we didn't look stupid enough.

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We put like the only ambassador, the only person we could find is someone who doesn't speak Arabic.

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Do you know how dumb that looked on the evening news?

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And of course, Hamid Karzai was also with Unical.

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So there's your oil interests.

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And then there was this group of Zionist neoconservatives.

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Now, in Israel, the Israeli government was and continues to push for invading Iran.

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But the American neoconservatives, they were saying we will do Iraq first and that will be a good launching pad for going into Iran.

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So they said, OK.

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So Zionist neoconservatives who pushed for invading Iraq, people like Richard Pearl, who is chairman of the Defense Policy Board,

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which is an advisory group to the Pentagon.

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One third of the members of that board, the 30 member board, actually nine of the 30 members had ties to corporations

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who got billions of dollars worth of contracts after we invaded Iraq.

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Paul Wolfowitz, of course, went from cheering for invading Iraq to sharing his love at the World Bank.

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And Douglas Fythe, both of them were undersecretaries of defense.

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Fythe eventually had to resign because he was being investigated by the FBI and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

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because top secret information from his office, the Office of Special Plans, got leaked to the Israeli government through his office.

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And so he went where all war criminals apparently go.

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And so he became a professor at Georgetown University.

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Don't ask me.

427
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My dad went to Georgetown and I worked at Georgetown for a while.

428
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:45,440
And that's another, the country needs to be fixed and Georgetown needs to be fixed.

429
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:47,440
But I digress.

430
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:50,440
Also, David Wormser was a special assistant at the State Department.

431
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:58,440
And the reason I have their names highlighted is because back in 1996, Pearl, Fythe and Wormser wrote a proposal,

432
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:00,440
a position paper for their boss.

433
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:03,440
It was called a clean break, a new strategy for securing the realm.

434
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:08,440
And what they called for in this paper were three major objectives.

435
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:11,440
Number one, cut off peace talks with Yasser Arafat.

436
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:13,440
This is 1996.

437
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:18,440
Number two, launch military assaults on the occupied territories of Palestine.

438
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,440
And number three, get rid of Saddam Hussein.

439
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:23,440
This is 1996.

440
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:26,440
Who are they writing this paper for?

441
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:32,440
Then, yeah, then and current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

442
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:37,440
And this is a picture of many members of the Israeli government.

443
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:43,440
Netanyahu, Ehud Omer, Ariel Sharon, Shimon Perez.

444
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:48,440
You know, as a homeland for the Jews, you never see any Ethiopian Jews at the front.

445
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:52,440
Kind of like here.

446
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:54,440
Now, I know you guys will know this name.

447
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:58,440
This connection between Israel and Iraq, Philip Zelikow,

448
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:04,440
one of the Zionist neoconservatives who was on the president's foreign intelligence advisory board.

449
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:09,440
Like, there's a good – anyone who is on the PFIAB, go to the Hague.

450
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:14,440
He gave a presentation at University of Virginia in September of 2002,

451
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:21,440
almost a year after 2001 attacks and a few months before attacking Iraq.

452
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:26,440
And, of course, he became the, I think, executive director of the 9-11 Commission.

453
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:32,440
And he said at UVA, why would Iraq attack America or use nuclear weapons against us?

454
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:36,440
I'll tell you what I think the real threat is and actually has been since 1990.

455
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:38,440
It's the threat against Israel.

456
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:43,440
The American government doesn't want to lean too hard on it rhetorically because it is not a popular sell.

457
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:45,440
And it isn't.

458
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:48,440
You want to go to the American people and say, look, we got these –

459
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:52,440
we want to control the oil and where it goes and that part of the world.

460
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:59,440
And, America, we'd like you to send your sons and daughters to go kill and be killed to control oil resources.

461
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:01,440
No.

462
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:02,440
But wait a minute.

463
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:04,440
September 11th happened.

464
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:07,440
Let's lie and say that Saddam Hussein did it.

465
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:10,440
Let's lie and say he has nuclear technology.

466
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:13,440
He can put together a nuclear weapon and strike us in 45 minutes flat.

467
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:19,440
And forget that in the 1991 Gulf War that Iraq's air force and Navy were destroyed.

468
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:25,440
So they're going to swim over here all the way across the Atlantic.

469
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:27,440
They're going to make it and they're going to strike us.

470
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:30,440
And so we need to – this is for our national security.

471
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:32,440
This is for our way of life.

472
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:35,440
We have to send people there.

473
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:42,440
And even that wasn't a great sell, but reluctantly the country went along.

474
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:49,440
So more recently it was always speculated about the role the Israelis had in influencing our policy.

475
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:57,440
But at the – I don't know if I'll say it right – the Shilko inquiry on Iraq just in February of 2010,

476
00:38:57,440 --> 00:38:59,440
it was a toothless inquiry.

477
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:01,440
It was really just the formality.

478
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:03,440
But at least the British did it – the formality.

479
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:05,440
We haven't even gotten to that point yet.

480
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:07,440
This needs to happen at The Hague.

481
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:11,440
But what Tony Blair said, he admitted that Israeli officials were influenced

482
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:16,440
and that they participated in the decisions by the United States and the UK to attack Iraq,

483
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:21,440
that they were present at the meetings he was having with Bush in Texas in 2002.

484
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:24,440
And as Blair said, so that was a major part of all this.

485
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:26,440
This is something we need to know about.

486
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:29,440
Who's directing our foreign policy?

487
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:36,440
So it is joint American-Israeli operations that are occurring in Palestine and in Iraq,

488
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:39,440
either directly or through funding.

489
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:44,440
An article from December of 2003 in the British paper The Guardian,

490
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:47,440
Israel trains U.S. assassination squads in Iraq.

491
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:52,440
They have been conducting ethnic cleansing campaigns for 60 years now.

492
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:59,440
So when we need help in eliminating opposition and resistance, we go to the Israelis for advice.

493
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:04,440
The IDF has been sent to Fort Bragg, which is the home of American Special Forces,

494
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:08,440
and Israeli military consultants have visited Iraq,

495
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:13,440
which is extremely dicey because even just for appearance purposes, but it's happened.

496
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:16,440
And what they've done, if you watch what the U.S. troops are doing,

497
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:20,440
it's the same thing that the Israeli troops are doing in occupied Palestine,

498
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:23,440
sealing off centers of resistance with razor wire,

499
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:27,440
raising buildings from where attacks have been launched against U.S. troops.

500
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:30,440
Another word for this, collective punishment.

501
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:33,440
Another group that did this, the Nazis.

502
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:41,440
Amir Owen in Haaretz, one of the big Israeli dailies, back from 2005, America's SOS to the IDF.

503
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:45,440
They needed help because IEDs were taking out a lot of American soldiers.

504
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:52,440
And so they're like, well, what do you guys do when oppressing a poor brown population?

505
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:57,440
And so the U.S. Army maintains frequent and regular contacts with the IDF.

506
00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:00,440
American officers travel to Israel for training,

507
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:06,440
and some of the dogs that you may have seen in the Abu Ghraib photos might be from the IDF's K-9 unit,

508
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:12,440
because it's a much shorter trip from Tel Aviv than from the United States.

509
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:14,440
American crowd control in Iraq.

510
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:22,440
I know from a contact of mine who served as an MP in Nasriya, her job was crowd control.

511
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:28,440
What they used were concussion grenades, projectile bean bags, and rubber bullets.

512
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:33,440
What do the Israelis use? Concussion grenades, projectile bean bags, and rubber bullets.

513
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:38,440
They're not actually rubber bullets like you think of throwing a super bounce ball at somebody.

514
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:40,440
These are rubber-coated steel bullets.

515
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:48,440
And when lodged in a child's brain, they have the same effect as without that rubber coating.

516
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:54,440
Israeli Mossad and commandos are in a heavily guarded base in northern Iraq,

517
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:57,440
and this is the Mossad training the Kurdish forces.

518
00:41:57,440 --> 00:42:01,440
The Kurds, the Kurdish leadership, and the Israelis have long been allied.

519
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:07,440
The Kurds seeking an independent state, which has always been problematic for us,

520
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:13,440
because it's the same ethnicity, whether they're in Turkey or whether they're in Iraq.

521
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:18,440
But in Iraq, they're good Kurds, and in Turkey, they're bad Kurds.

522
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:20,440
We decided.

523
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:23,440
But they've been seeking independence. They thought the Israelis would help them.

524
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:28,440
And the Israelis and the Americans have for a long time used the Kurds

525
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:34,440
as like a fifth column opposing Saddam Hussein, and they were involved in the invasion in 2003.

526
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:39,440
The name for the Kurdish militia, the major militia, is the Peshmerga,

527
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:43,440
and this is the consulting, this is the training that the Israelis have done in Iraq

528
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:46,440
through private military companies.

529
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:52,440
There is an Israeli security firm called Interop that has two subsidiaries for Iraq work,

530
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:56,440
like Halliburton says, I didn't do anything. That's Kellogg Brown and Root.

531
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:58,440
Well, y'all write the same checks.

532
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:03,440
Those two subsidiaries were Kudo and Coliseum, which were Swiss registered,

533
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:07,440
so it's all kosher, if you will.

534
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:14,440
Danny Atom, again, Mossad training Kurdish forces, Danny Atom was the co-founder of that company, Interop,

535
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:17,440
and was the chairman of it until 2003.

536
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:23,440
He is also a former director of the Mossad, and he served in the Knesset from 2003 to 2008.

537
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:32,440
So the same interchange between military and civilian and military and governing positions

538
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:37,440
happens in Israel the same way it happens here.

539
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:41,440
Now, why? Why would the Mossad be training Kurdish forces?

540
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:46,440
And two big reasons. As I mentioned, they're longtime collaborators.

541
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:52,440
They wanted the help of the Kurdish militias, the Peshmerga, with the invasion in 2003.

542
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:57,440
The Americans wanted the help, and they moved south with U.S. forces as part of the invasion.

543
00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:03,440
The Peshmerga continued to occupy southern provinces still north of Baghdad,

544
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:07,440
but far south of what is today referred to as Kurdistan.

545
00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:14,440
And what has happened at the hands of the U.S. Army and the Kurdish militias working with them

546
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:18,440
are human rights abuses against non-Kurdish Iraqis,

547
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:24,440
be they Turkmen, Kaldio-Assyrians, Armenian Christians, Shabaks, Yazidis, and Arabs, just to name a few.

548
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:28,440
The government through the media broke it down for us as far as we could go.

549
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:31,440
Three groups, Sunni, Shia, Kurd.

550
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:35,440
Iraq is way more complicated, and they got thousands of years of history

551
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:39,440
that we shouldn't even consider ourselves able to understand.

552
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:44,440
You have to grow up in a particular neighborhood to understand the histories and the dynamics there.

553
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:52,440
But what's clear is that in order to control northern Iraq, especially Kirkuk, is very oil rich,

554
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:55,440
and we want control of that flow of oil.

555
00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:58,440
So we will support the people who could do that for us.

556
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:01,440
So that's the major reason that Mossad has been training Kurdish forces.

557
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:08,440
The other big reason is that it's strategic for hitting Iran, which was ultimately the Israeli goal.

558
00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:16,440
Now, if you look at this map, here's occupied Palestine, which is Israel, and here's Tehran.

559
00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:19,440
Oh, that's so far. That's a long, long way.

560
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:22,440
Wouldn't it be easier if we could just stop here and refuel?

561
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:25,440
Maybe rest overnight, come back here.

562
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:28,440
So it's a staging ground for attacking Iran.

563
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:31,440
But that works both ways.

564
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:35,440
Oh, sorry. Well, I won't go back, but it works both ways,

565
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:42,440
because just as Iran is right next door to Iraq for the Israelis or the Americans to strike,

566
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:44,440
Iraq is right next door to Iran.

567
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:51,440
So if we hit Iran, Iran has 160,000 targets with American flags on their uniforms right next door.

568
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:53,440
They don't have to come over here.

569
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:56,440
They got it right next door, and they're there illegally.

570
00:45:56,440 --> 00:46:02,440
Israel has a national urban training center, again, establishing that it's joint American-Israeli operations.

571
00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:06,440
In the Marine Corps Times, an article from June of 2007,

572
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:10,440
this urban training center built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

573
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:16,440
I don't know if the quality of the work is the same as the levies that failed with Hurricane Katrina,

574
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:19,440
but it seems to be up and running, continue.

575
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:22,440
This has been funded by U.S. military aid.

576
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:25,440
This has been funded by your tax dollars.

577
00:46:25,440 --> 00:46:28,440
And in a later article from February of 2009,

578
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:33,440
this was going to be a training area for U.S. Marines as well.

579
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:40,440
So this is why we're the ones who make the distinction between the occupation of Iraq and the occupation of Palestine.

580
00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:45,440
The rest of the world has most of this information, but we tend to make the distinction,

581
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:50,440
but we have to understand where our policies need to go, that it's one and the same.

582
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:54,440
The IDF is training at that center for four theaters.

583
00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:58,440
This is again from the Military Times article, Marine Corps Times.

584
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:02,440
Gaza, Lebanon, West Bank, and Syria.

585
00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:09,440
Illegal occupation, it's illegal to invade, illegal occupation, illegal occupation, the Golan Heights.

586
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:11,440
It's all in violation of international law.

587
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:15,440
And what the article said was that there was, this is 2007,

588
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:19,440
there's a reasonable likelihood of another war on Israel's northern front,

589
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:24,440
perhaps by summer's end, according to some intelligence estimates here.

590
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:30,440
Well, in 2008, in December, we saw an assault not on the northern front,

591
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:34,440
but on the people of Gaza in Operation Casled.

592
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:39,440
Now, at this urban training center, they have a cemetery that doubles as a soccer field,

593
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:42,440
depending on the operational scenario.

594
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:48,440
But what's critical about that and what's poignant to me about that is that in Iraq,

595
00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:52,440
there was a soccer field that had to be converted to a cemetery

596
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:56,440
because every time the medical personnel went to go bury a body,

597
00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:59,440
they would get shot at by snipers.

598
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:03,440
So instead of going to the graveyard that was on the outskirts of town in Fallujah,

599
00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:07,440
they used the cemetery, they used the soccer field to bury the dead.

600
00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:11,440
And many of those buried here are the kids who used to play in the soccer field.

601
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:15,440
And you're going to see more of this at the end.

602
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:19,440
Now, this right here, this image, this is Jalal Talabani,

603
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:23,440
the president of Iraq under occupation.

604
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:26,440
This is Mahmoud Abbas, still wheeling and dealing,

605
00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:31,440
though his term has long expired as a leader of the Palestinian Authority.

606
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:34,440
And this is Ehud Barak, who was prime minister,

607
00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:39,440
but now serves as defense minister in Israel.

608
00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:42,440
I actually, I found this photo online,

609
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:48,440
but I saw the newsreel when it was playing showing this historic handshake.

610
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:52,440
And I happened to be at my parents' house, and I was watching it with my father.

611
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:56,440
And with compassion, he said, this is the cause.

612
00:48:56,440 --> 00:49:01,440
What noble cause? This is the cause that Casey Sheehan died for.

613
00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:05,440
You won't see Saddam Hussein shaking this hand,

614
00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:08,440
and you won't see the leader of Hamas dealing with people

615
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:14,440
who are responsible for war crimes and colonialism in the Arab world.

616
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:18,440
The Mossad is conducting assassinations in Iraq.

617
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:22,440
There was a conference in Madrid in April of 2006

618
00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:25,440
outlining the more than 350 Iraqi scientists

619
00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:29,440
and more than 200 academics that have been murdered by Mossad,

620
00:49:29,440 --> 00:49:34,440
which is like Israeli Special Forces, CIA, and American forces.

621
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:38,440
These are the academics, the nuclear scientists, the chemical scientists,

622
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:41,440
the biological scientists that were first offered jobs

623
00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:45,440
to come work for American defense contractors.

624
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:49,440
But if they refused American collaboration, they would be eliminated.

625
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:53,440
Number one, you eliminate that level of education

626
00:49:53,440 --> 00:49:55,440
so the country can defend itself.

627
00:49:55,440 --> 00:49:59,440
And number two, you eliminate academics and intellectuals,

628
00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:05,440
and that's the category of people that can lead a resistance

629
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:08,440
and resist the occupiers' policies.

630
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:10,440
We've seen it happen before.

631
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:16,440
In the 1960s, the CIA fed the names of leftist intellectuals and communists

632
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:22,440
to a young upstart from Tikrit who wanted to come to leadership in Iraq.

633
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:25,440
That's how Saddam Hussein's killing spree started,

634
00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:28,440
is with the CIA's help.

635
00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:33,440
And the same thing is going on today to assassinate intellectuals in Iraq.

636
00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:37,440
Zionist influence, guiding our foreign policy.

637
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:41,440
It's not the only thing, but we have to take a look at the influence here

638
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:45,440
and the financial incentives that are being given to our leadership

639
00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:51,440
in order to serve an interest that is not in our national security interest.

640
00:50:51,440 --> 00:50:55,440
Israel occupies, as I've mentioned, Palestine, Syria, Iraq,

641
00:50:55,440 --> 00:50:58,440
and for what's important to us, the United States Congress.

642
00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:02,440
Now, why do I say that?

643
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:04,440
How do they do it? Money.

644
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:07,440
Follow the money. Here's one example.

645
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:14,440
Haim Saban, who in the 2001-2002 year was the largest single donor

646
00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:16,440
to the Democratic Party.

647
00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:21,440
Democrats are not going to help us, unless you have $10 million to give to them.

648
00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:28,440
He has a $2 billion empire that he's built, and he built it through violence.

649
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:31,440
His corporation is Saban Entertainment.

650
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:35,440
One of the things he's put together is Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

651
00:51:35,440 --> 00:51:41,440
But he also has ties, I know, he also has ties to Fox News.

652
00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:45,440
So that's who's guiding our understanding.

653
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:48,440
He also put forth some of his pocket change

654
00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:54,440
to establish the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.

655
00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:58,440
The Brookings Institution is a conservative think tank

656
00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:01,440
that was a big cheerleader for invading Iraq.

657
00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:07,440
Haim Saban established Martin Indick as the first director of the Saban Center,

658
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:11,440
and he's well established as a Zionist neoconservative.

659
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:16,440
Saban says, I'm a one-issue guy, and my issue is Israel.

660
00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:21,440
Well, if you as an individual want to support 62 years of ethnic cleansing,

661
00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:23,440
maybe I can't change your mind.

662
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:25,440
But I don't think it's fair that you get to use your money

663
00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:30,440
to guide American foreign policy that jeopardizes everybody over there

664
00:52:30,440 --> 00:52:32,440
and everybody over here.

665
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:34,440
That's what I got a problem with.

666
00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:39,440
Another example of the influence in Congress is the influence of lobbies like APAC,

667
00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:42,440
the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

668
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:47,440
And they give a lot of money to congressional representatives.

669
00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:51,440
There's a very good resource by former State Department official Richard Curtis.

670
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:56,440
It's called Stealth PACs, Stealth Public Affairs Committee, Stealth PACs.

671
00:52:56,440 --> 00:53:01,440
So it's hidden how much influence various lobby groups have.

672
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:06,440
Jeffrey Blankford, a journalist and Middle East analyst and someone of Jewish background,

673
00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:11,440
says that the reason that the pro-Israel lobby has to give so much more money

674
00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:15,440
to the politicians than the other lobbies, such as arm manufacturers, oil, et cetera,

675
00:53:15,440 --> 00:53:20,440
is that supporting Israel and Israel's policies is arguably not in the U.S. interest

676
00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:28,440
from any perspective, and the contributions are necessary to buy the politicians' cooperation.

677
00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:33,440
So Zionist influence on American policy, it was the Zionist neoconservatives

678
00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:38,440
who pushed for invading Iraq, and those same people continue to push for invading Iran.

679
00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:41,440
Mearsheimer and Walt came out with their landmark book,

680
00:53:41,440 --> 00:53:44,440
The Israel Lobby in U.S. Foreign Policy.

681
00:53:44,440 --> 00:53:49,440
As I mentioned, Israel really was targeting Iran from the beginning,

682
00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:52,440
but we convinced them to work with us to attack Iraq.

683
00:53:52,440 --> 00:53:56,440
And the same neocons who pushed for invading Iraq,

684
00:53:56,440 --> 00:54:00,440
Fife and Worms are pushing for a military assault on Iran.

685
00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:05,440
Now, why doesn't Israel just go ahead?

686
00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:08,440
You know, if you really want to hit them that bad, just go ahead.

687
00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:10,440
Well, they need help.

688
00:54:10,440 --> 00:54:13,440
And when I read this, I was like, what the?

689
00:54:13,440 --> 00:54:15,440
Come on, this is not democracy.

690
00:54:15,440 --> 00:54:20,440
The Israelis need U.S. permission to use Iraqi airspace.

691
00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:22,440
There's sovereignty for you.

692
00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:25,440
But they have to, if you remember the map,

693
00:54:25,440 --> 00:54:28,440
you're going to fly over a few countries there,

694
00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:33,440
and Saddam Hussein was not going to give them permission to use his airspace.

695
00:54:33,440 --> 00:54:38,440
The other and maybe the more important thing is that the Israelis need the U.S. Air Force.

696
00:54:38,440 --> 00:54:40,440
You may remember the map.

697
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:43,440
Iran is a big country, 70 million people.

698
00:54:43,440 --> 00:54:47,440
And as I mentioned, Iran can hit right back, right next door.

699
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:49,440
So if America has a stake in it,

700
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:52,440
then the biggest military superpower in the world

701
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:55,440
might do more damage than the Israelis can on their own.

702
00:54:55,440 --> 00:54:59,440
This is an article from Chris Hedges that appeared in February 2009.

703
00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:05,440
Everything I have here today is at my website, liberatethis.com,

704
00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:07,440
under a section called Further Reading.

705
00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:12,440
And I have cards, so you can get my cards afterwards if you want.

706
00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:18,440
But I have to back up what I say because it's so vastly different from what we usually hear.

707
00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:21,440
Of course, here's our Commander-in-Chief now.

708
00:55:21,440 --> 00:55:26,440
And I think finally that the magic spell is wearing off.

709
00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:30,440
I didn't make this. I got this off of Facebook, but I love it.

710
00:55:30,440 --> 00:55:35,440
And the magic spell is wearing off, and people are starting to see that, you know,

711
00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:38,440
oh, he's not the Messiah that we hoped he'd be.

712
00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:44,440
But there is a myth that relations with Israel have gotten worse.

713
00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:48,440
But actually, while for us it might be better in the Bahamas,

714
00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:50,440
for Israel it's better with the Obamas.

715
00:55:50,440 --> 00:55:55,440
Michael Orrin, Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., has praised the Obama response

716
00:55:55,440 --> 00:55:58,440
to lost ground during the close of the Bush years,

717
00:55:58,440 --> 00:56:02,440
and that this change in his policy was warm and immediate.

718
00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:06,440
And this was to maintain a qualitative military edge.

719
00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:12,440
There is no other country for whom we are interested in maintaining a qualitative military edge.

720
00:56:12,440 --> 00:56:18,440
And so we've been giving Israel cutting-edge technology to give Israel a larger margin of safety.

721
00:56:18,440 --> 00:56:21,440
This is from the Jewish Daily Forward.

722
00:56:21,440 --> 00:56:28,440
The United States commitment to Israel's QME has been now codified directly into U.S. law

723
00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:32,440
through a 2008 piece of legislation backed by AIPAC.

724
00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:38,440
This stuff gets just like hidden. It just slides under the radar.

725
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:43,440
And so now this requires the President, now Obama, to report to Congress periodically

726
00:56:43,440 --> 00:56:48,440
on actions taken by the administration to ensure Israel's qualitative military edge.

727
00:56:48,440 --> 00:56:53,440
If only we had such legislation to regulate Goldman Sachs.

728
00:56:53,440 --> 00:56:58,440
So far there's been one such report, but everything is classified.

729
00:56:58,440 --> 00:57:01,440
I don't know what's in it.

730
00:57:01,440 --> 00:57:04,440
They have had increased cooperation on missile defense.

731
00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:11,440
In November of 2009, seven months ago, there was a joint American-Israeli exercise called Juniper Cobra.

732
00:57:11,440 --> 00:57:13,440
You can do a search for Juniper Cobra.

733
00:57:13,440 --> 00:57:18,440
This has been the biggest missile defense dry run ever that involved 1,400 U.S. servicemen,

734
00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:23,440
probably at the training center that the Army Corps of Engineers built in Israel.

735
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:26,440
What are they practicing for?

736
00:57:26,440 --> 00:57:32,440
We are now selling, it should happen this year if it hasn't already, F-35 fighter jets.

737
00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:38,440
Now I don't know that much military technology, but if F-15s and F-16s are super sophisticated,

738
00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:42,440
I'm guessing that the F-35 is really beyond that.

739
00:57:42,440 --> 00:57:47,440
So what we need to think of while we're giving this qualitative military edge away,

740
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:52,440
what are they going to do with the weapons, and would they ever harm us?

741
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:56,440
Oh, yes, and it's documented.

742
00:57:56,440 --> 00:58:01,440
False flag attack, the USS Liberty, June 8, 1967.

743
00:58:01,440 --> 00:58:05,440
I'm going to offer you just a brief mention of it here.

744
00:58:05,440 --> 00:58:11,440
There's an excellent BBC documentary called Dead in the Water that I highly recommend to everybody.

745
00:58:11,440 --> 00:58:14,440
Israel attacked the USS Liberty.

746
00:58:14,440 --> 00:58:17,440
It was an attack on the Navy and the Marines.

747
00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:22,440
It was an aerial bombing attack, and then Israeli ships came in and torpedoed the vessel.

748
00:58:22,440 --> 00:58:27,440
An order from Johnson came down for the 6th Fleet that was supposed to protect the Liberty,

749
00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:29,440
which was an unarmed spy ship.

750
00:58:29,440 --> 00:58:32,440
The 6th Fleet was told to stand down.

751
00:58:32,440 --> 00:58:34,440
Stand down.

752
00:58:34,440 --> 00:58:36,440
Stand down, orders.

753
00:58:36,440 --> 00:58:40,440
I saw the flag, which had visibly identified the ship as American, riddled with bullet holes

754
00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:45,440
and heard testimony that made it clear that the Israelis intended there be no survivors.

755
00:58:45,440 --> 00:58:48,440
Thirty-four were killed, over 100 injured.

756
00:58:48,440 --> 00:58:51,440
The survivors are still out there seeking justice.

757
00:58:51,440 --> 00:58:57,440
Ron Kuckel, who was in charge of body recovery and identification, he has stories to tell.

758
00:58:57,440 --> 00:58:59,440
K-U-K-A-L.

759
00:58:59,440 --> 00:59:03,440
This is still out there, and they are still seeking justice.

760
00:59:03,440 --> 00:59:06,440
So that's the USS Liberty is a critical moment.

761
00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:09,440
Israel charged with systemic harassment of U.S. Marines.

762
00:59:09,440 --> 00:59:14,440
This is an article that came out in March of 1995, reported by Donald Neff.

763
00:59:14,440 --> 00:59:21,440
In Lebanon in 1983, Reagan had put Marines in Lebanon.

764
00:59:21,440 --> 00:59:26,440
And what the Israelis wanted to do is they wanted the Marines to work for them.

765
00:59:26,440 --> 00:59:30,440
And the Marines didn't want to because they didn't want to be associated.

766
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:34,440
They were supposed to be there as a peacekeeping force, so they didn't want to take sides.

767
00:59:34,440 --> 00:59:40,440
But this is an important article regarding the harassment of American forces by Israeli forces.

768
00:59:40,440 --> 00:59:42,440
And of course, we know the outcome.

769
00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:47,440
Ultimately, the Lebanese caught on that the U.S. was taking sides,

770
00:59:47,440 --> 00:59:53,440
and 283 Marines were killed when their barracks were blown up.

771
00:59:53,440 --> 00:59:56,440
Another incident, Rachel Corey, and this one is near and dear to my heart.

772
00:59:56,440 --> 01:00:00:03,440
I never knew Rachel, just knew of her story that came along at an important point in my life.

773
01:00:03,440 --> 01:00:09,440
But Rachel was a 23-year-old college student whose response to 9-11 was to find out what was going on in the world,

774
01:00:09,440 --> 01:00:12,440
because the media spin just didn't seem right to her.

775
01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:19,440
And what she ended up doing in 2003 was she went as a volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement,

776
01:00:19,440 --> 01:00:25,440
which goes and practices civil disobedience, nonviolent civil disobedience in the occupied territories,

777
01:00:25,440 --> 01:00:28,440
trying to enforce international law.

778
01:00:28,440 --> 01:00:34,440
And on March 16, 2003, she and five of her colleagues were standing down bulldozers,

779
01:00:34,440 --> 01:00:41,440
tax-free gifts from you and me to the Israeli Army in its ethnic cleansing campaigns, all illegal.

780
01:00:41,440 --> 01:00:46,440
The standoff took over three and a half hours, and she succeeded,

781
01:00:46,440 --> 01:00:50,440
and her colleagues succeeded in deterring the first bulldozer.

782
01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:58,440
But a second bulldozer came, and obviously, Rachel, you can see her in her fluorescent jacket with a bullhorn,

783
01:00:58,440 --> 01:01:05,440
and according to the eyewitnesses, easily visible to the two operators of the Caterpillar D9 bulldozer.

784
01:01:05,440 --> 01:01:07,440
But she was mowed down.

785
01:01:07,440 --> 01:01:13,440
The drivers of the bulldozer went over her, kept their blade down, and backed up over her.

786
01:01:13,440 --> 01:01:18,440
And then her friends got to her, she said, my back is broken, and those were her last words.

787
01:01:18,440 --> 01:01:26,440
So Rachel died that day, and I don't think she thought, she knew what was going on,

788
01:01:26,440 --> 01:01:30,440
she knew the racism that was going on, and in her letters to her parents, she said,

789
01:01:30,440 --> 01:01:38,440
you know, if the Israelis ever change what they're doing, and they direct harm towards someone white like me,

790
01:01:38,440 --> 01:01:40,440
I want you to know this.

791
01:01:40,440 --> 01:01:44,440
But Rachel could have turned a blind eye to the horrors of the world.

792
01:01:44,440 --> 01:01:50,440
This all-American girl, blonde, blue-eyed, beautiful, could have lived the American dream.

793
01:01:50,440 --> 01:01:55,440
And she chose to go thousands of miles away to help people she didn't know.

794
01:01:55,440 --> 01:02:02,440
Her only connection to them was humanity, which is really what I think is the key to,

795
01:02:02,440 --> 01:02:06,440
that's really, that outshines everything else.

796
01:02:06,440 --> 01:02:11,440
And she literally stood up for what she believed in.

797
01:02:11,440 --> 01:02:18,440
And so she was critical to my decision to start standing up and opening my mouth,

798
01:02:18,440 --> 01:02:21,440
because I had a lot at stake.

799
01:02:28,440 --> 01:02:31,440
Never fails that I get choked up talking about Rachel.

800
01:02:31,440 --> 01:02:34,440
This will all be in the book, so please stay tuned.

801
01:02:34,440 --> 01:02:39,440
Rachel died that day. Her parents just finished their phase of the civil case.

802
01:02:39,440 --> 01:02:44,440
They are still seeking justice for Rachel's murder, and the case is ongoing.

803
01:02:44,440 --> 01:02:48,440
But you can find out more at the RachelCoryFoundation.org.

804
01:02:48,440 --> 01:02:54,440
So absolutely, Israelis, after that, it was open season on internationals in the occupied territories.

805
01:02:54,440 --> 01:02:58,440
Tom Herndl was shot and killed. Brian Avery was shot in the face.

806
01:02:59,440 --> 01:03:05,440
And more recently, Tristan Anderson was shot in the head with a high-velocity tear gas canister.

807
01:03:05,440 --> 01:03:08,440
And there are others I'm not mentioning.

808
01:03:08,440 --> 01:03:11,440
And of course, Palestinians and Iraqis are dying every day.

809
01:03:11,440 --> 01:03:17,440
And I'm probably invoking the same racism that I've been taught, that everybody's been taught,

810
01:03:17,440 --> 01:03:20,440
that Western lives are more important.

811
01:03:20,440 --> 01:03:24,440
But what stands out for these individuals is that, you know, the way I look,

812
01:03:24,440 --> 01:03:27,440
I feel like I have an obligation to do what I do.

813
01:03:27,440 --> 01:03:32,440
As I said, those are individuals who could turn a blind eye and not pay attention,

814
01:03:32,440 --> 01:03:34,440
but they wanted to do something.

815
01:03:34,440 --> 01:03:40,440
Rachel's story was buried because three days later is Bad PR, and three days later, shock and awe started.

816
01:03:40,440 --> 01:03:48,440
Just to point out, total direct American aid to Israel from 1949 to 2008, over $113 billion.

817
01:03:48,440 --> 01:03:51,440
What could you do with $113 billion?

818
01:03:52,440 --> 01:03:55,440
They are the largest total recipient of aid since World War II,

819
01:03:55,440 --> 01:04:01,440
and there was an agreement signed in 2007 that 10-year, $30 billion aid package, ongoing,

820
01:04:01,440 --> 01:04:05,440
average of $3 billion a year over a 10-year period.

821
01:04:05,440 --> 01:04:08,440
What's important is we don't just give Israel that much money.

822
01:04:08,440 --> 01:04:13,440
They get special benefits that nobody else does.

823
01:04:13,440 --> 01:04:19,440
All the economic and military aid is given in cash during the first month of the fiscal year.

824
01:04:19,440 --> 01:04:22,440
Take it. No accounting required. Do whatever you want with it.

825
01:04:22,440 --> 01:04:27,440
Israel is the only country allowed to deal directly with U.S. companies.

826
01:04:27,440 --> 01:04:31,440
Every other country who buys from American weapons manufacturers

827
01:04:31,440 --> 01:04:35,440
has to go through the Department of Defense so that we know exactly what they're getting.

828
01:04:35,440 --> 01:04:38,440
Israel, go ahead. Do whatever you want.

829
01:04:38,440 --> 01:04:45,440
And only Israel is allowed to spend 26% of each year's military aid in Israel

830
01:04:45,440 --> 01:04:48,440
with Israeli weapons manufacturers.

831
01:04:48,440 --> 01:04:54,440
Which means that we have financed a very sophisticated Israeli defense industry,

832
01:04:54,440 --> 01:05:00,440
that Israel is today the eighth leading world supplier of arms as of 2007.

833
01:05:00,440 --> 01:05:04,440
So what is it that they need the $3 billion a year for?

834
01:05:04,440 --> 01:05:08,440
At this point, they have a sophisticated industry on their own.

835
01:05:08,440 --> 01:05:12,440
What's happening is that there was some economic aid, some military aid.

836
01:05:12,440 --> 01:05:15,440
The economic aid is decreasing. The military aid is increasing.

837
01:05:15,440 --> 01:05:20,440
And our tax dollars are subsidizing, as I mentioned, one of the most powerful militaries in the world.

838
01:05:20,440 --> 01:05:25,440
An excellent resource, ifamericansnew.org. It's at my site.

839
01:05:25,440 --> 01:05:32,440
Just a small sampling. Between 2000 and 2005, M-109 spare parts and artillery shells

840
01:05:32,440 --> 01:05:37,440
used to shell the beaches in Gaza. Almost $70,000 for that five-year period.

841
01:05:37,440 --> 01:05:41,440
I could have used that to pay for part of my education.

842
01:05:41,440 --> 01:05:45,440
Tanks, components and spare parts, $348 million.

843
01:05:45,440 --> 01:05:48,440
Maybe the people of New Orleans could have used that.

844
01:05:48,440 --> 01:05:55,440
Patrol boats, ships, submarine components and spare parts, torpedoes and sonar equipment, $572 million.

845
01:05:55,440 --> 01:06:00,440
That would be a nice platform for towards the health care system.

846
01:06:00,440 --> 01:06:09,440
And spare parts, engines, missiles for F-15, F-16 fighter planes, $1 billion between 2000 and 2005.

847
01:06:09,440 --> 01:06:16,440
In 2005, the Veterans Affairs budget came up $1 billion short.

848
01:06:16,440 --> 01:06:25,440
So what this is, is this is military financing that is in gross violation of international law, the Geneva Conventions.

849
01:06:25,440 --> 01:06:30,440
It is in gross violation of our domestic laws, including the U.S. Arms Export Control Act,

850
01:06:30,440 --> 01:06:35,440
which says that we won't deal arms with governments that attack civilians.

851
01:06:35,440 --> 01:06:40,440
The war on terror is a war of terror and a war of illegality.

852
01:06:40,440 --> 01:06:46,440
We and Israel use napalm, white phosphorus, depleted uranium, cluster bombs, experimental weapons.

853
01:06:46,440 --> 01:06:53,440
A lot of the new weapons that are manufactured in this country get tried out in Iraq and Palestine.

854
01:06:53,440 --> 01:06:58,440
House raids, the uprooting of trees, the building of a wall, it's the same occupation.

855
01:06:58,440 --> 01:07:02,440
This was an ambulance in Fallujah.

856
01:07:02,440 --> 01:07:04,440
This was an ambulance in Lebanon.

857
01:07:04,440 --> 01:07:07,440
As Kevin introduced, I'm almost done.

858
01:07:07,440 --> 01:07:12,440
This big red mark on the top of the ambulance is not X marks the spot.

859
01:07:12,440 --> 01:07:14,440
That's a red cross ambulance.

860
01:07:14,440 --> 01:07:22,440
But as you can see, that's a direct hit on a centered target right outside the Lebanese Red Cross.

861
01:07:22,440 --> 01:07:29,440
Can you imagine what would happen if any other country or a Muslim country did that to a Red Cross ambulance?

862
01:07:29,440 --> 01:07:32,440
Oh, my Lord. No consequences.

863
01:07:32,440 --> 01:07:35,440
We bomb bridges. This is from the Gulf War in 1991.

864
01:07:35,440 --> 01:07:37,440
The Israelis bomb bridges.

865
01:07:37,440 --> 01:07:39,440
Everybody flee the cities.

866
01:07:39,440 --> 01:07:42,440
And then we bomb the bridges so there's no escape.

867
01:07:42,440 --> 01:07:46,440
And so we have people who don't like us.

868
01:07:46,440 --> 01:07:49,440
No random arrests.

869
01:07:49,440 --> 01:07:52,440
Detainees have legal and human rights.

870
01:07:52,440 --> 01:07:56,440
Who is the terrorist? You, USA, terrorist to the world.

871
01:07:56,440 --> 01:08:00,440
And in Lebanon, they know what Condoleezza is doing.

872
01:08:00,440 --> 01:08:03,440
They are not impressed by her piano playing.

873
01:08:03,440 --> 01:08:05,440
Nice bombs, nice gifts to our children.

874
01:08:05,440 --> 01:08:08,440
Thank you for the smart bombs from Kana's children.

875
01:08:08,440 --> 01:08:11,440
They know exactly what's going on.

876
01:08:11,440 --> 01:08:14,440
In March of 2010, a fundraiser was held for the Israeli forces.

877
01:08:14,440 --> 01:08:19,440
$1,000 a plate at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City.

878
01:08:19,440 --> 01:08:23,440
Special honored guest, Gabi Ashkenazi, chief of the IDF general staff,

879
01:08:24,440 --> 01:08:27,440
who has a long list of degrees from American universities.

880
01:08:27,440 --> 01:08:31,440
He was one of the leaders of Operation Cast Lead in Gaza.

881
01:08:31,440 --> 01:08:35,440
If you're worried about terrorists getting visas to come to this country,

882
01:08:35,440 --> 01:08:40,440
and if you're worried about foreigners breaching the borders,

883
01:08:40,440 --> 01:08:42,440
this should be a red flag.

884
01:08:42,440 --> 01:08:46,440
This is the kind of person you don't want to be associated with.

885
01:08:46,440 --> 01:08:51,440
So ultimately, what we have to do, just in that part of the world,

886
01:08:52,440 --> 01:08:55,440
obviously I have a personal connection, so I'm focused here,

887
01:08:55,440 --> 01:09:00,440
but these issues are in our own cities, and they're in our history all over the world.

888
01:09:00,440 --> 01:09:03,440
We need to end the entire occupation.

889
01:09:03,440 --> 01:09:07,440
In my world, in my life, I know two antiwar Sindhis.

890
01:09:07,440 --> 01:09:10,440
Cindy Sheehan and Cindy Corey.

891
01:09:10,440 --> 01:09:12,440
Cindy and Craig Corey were Rachel's parents,

892
01:09:12,440 --> 01:09:16,440
and they are both seeking justice for American policy.

893
01:09:16,440 --> 01:09:20,440
And they both lost their children to American foreign policy.

894
01:09:20,440 --> 01:09:23,440
What we have to do is just get out.

895
01:09:23,440 --> 01:09:26,440
We don't want anybody else interfering with what we do here,

896
01:09:26,440 --> 01:09:31,440
and they certainly don't want us meddling with our money and our weapons and our armed forces.

897
01:09:31,440 --> 01:09:37,440
I am calling for cutting military aid to Israel and compliance with domestic and international law.

898
01:09:37,440 --> 01:09:40,440
That's it. I just want us to follow the law. That's it.

899
01:09:40,440 --> 01:09:44,440
If we want national security, we have to stop denying it for others.

900
01:09:44,440 --> 01:09:47,440
So that's the end of this presentation.

901
01:09:47,440 --> 01:09:50,440
I have a seven-minute clip that I hope you can hang in there for.

902
01:09:50,440 --> 01:09:55,440
There's really no good time to show this clip because it's overwhelming.

903
01:09:55,440 --> 01:10:01,440
But as Kevin mentioned, you know, you hear 20 died here, another 100 died here.

904
01:10:01,440 --> 01:10:05,440
There was just a bombing, explosions at a soccer match.

905
01:10:05,440 --> 01:10:09,440
We have to think, like, you know, they want to play soccer.

906
01:10:09,440 --> 01:10:13,440
Who will be responsible for this? Who would make that happen?

907
01:10:13,440 --> 01:10:19,440
So I will show you the aftermath, very briefly, just seven minutes of aftermath

908
01:10:19,440 --> 01:10:25,440
of what's happened in Fallujah.

909
01:10:25,440 --> 01:10:31,440
This is a documentary made by a Japanese filmmaker, Toshikuni Doi.

910
01:10:31,440 --> 01:10:34,440
And I'm emphasizing that because...

911
01:10:34,440 --> 01:10:36,440
Oh, did it start?

912
01:10:36,440 --> 01:10:40,440
I emphasize that because you'll hear the reference in there.

913
01:10:40,440 --> 01:10:43,440
But understand, this is 2004.

914
01:10:43,440 --> 01:10:48,440
We are six years later in a country where, thanks to us, it's 9-11 every day.

915
01:11:10,440 --> 01:11:14,440
I want to emphasize that there were no other Fallujah fighters.

916
01:11:14,440 --> 01:11:18,440
There were some Arab fighters.

917
01:11:18,440 --> 01:11:20,440
I didn't see them with my own eyes.

918
01:11:20,440 --> 01:11:25,440
I was in Fallujah, and I saw the Mujahideen, and I saw the fighters.

919
01:11:25,440 --> 01:11:31,440
I was among those who were on the front lines.

920
01:11:31,440 --> 01:11:36,440
I didn't see anyone other than the people of Fallujah.

921
01:11:40,440 --> 01:11:45,440
I was among those who were on the front lines.

922
01:11:45,440 --> 01:11:49,440
I was among those who were on the front lines.

923
01:12:10,440 --> 01:12:15,440
This is the aftermath of the fallujah.

924
01:12:15,440 --> 01:12:20,440
This is the aftermath of the fallujah.

925
01:12:20,440 --> 01:12:25,440
This is the aftermath of the fallujah.

926
01:12:25,440 --> 01:12:30,440
This is the aftermath of the fallujah.

927
01:12:30,440 --> 01:12:35,440
This is the aftermath of the fallujah.

928
01:12:35,440 --> 01:12:40,440
Sorry, there are more than 500 bodies.

929
01:12:40,440 --> 01:12:45,440
This is the soccer stadium converted to a mass grave.

930
01:12:45,440 --> 01:12:42,440
This child was killed by the bombing of the U.S. forces in the

931
01:12:42,440 --> 01:12:47,440
This child was killed by the bombing of the U.S. forces in the

932
01:12:47,440 --> 01:12:52,440
This child was killed by the bombing of the U.S. forces in the

933
01:12:52,440 --> 01:12:56,440
This child was killed by the bombing of the U.S. forces in the

934
01:12:56,440 --> 01:13:01,440
This child was killed by the bombing of the U.S. forces in the

935
01:13:01,440 --> 01:13:06,440
This child was killed by the bombing of the U.S. forces.

936
01:13:06,440 --> 01:13:11,440
All we could find in the rubble was an arm.

937
01:13:11,440 --> 01:13:16,440
The arm of Wasim Saadun.

938
01:13:16,440 --> 01:13:21,440
They are two girls killed by the bombing.

939
01:13:21,440 --> 01:13:26,440
The two girls' bodies were buried in the same grave.

940
01:13:26,440 --> 01:13:31,440
The sisters, five and seven years old.

941
01:13:31,440 --> 01:13:36,440
The sisters, five and seven years old.

942
01:13:36,440 --> 01:13:41,440
The girls.

943
01:13:41,440 --> 01:13:46,440
Wafaa Jamaa and her sisters, Zahra Jamaa.

944
01:13:46,440 --> 01:13:51,440
At the beginning of the battle, a mother was killed by a bomb.

945
01:13:51,440 --> 01:13:56,440
At the beginning of the battle, a mother was killed by a bomb.

946
01:13:56,440 --> 01:14:01,440
With her three-year-old child in her arms.

947
01:14:01,440 --> 01:14:06,440
The child's grave is by the mothers as if it was held in her arms.

948
01:14:06,440 --> 01:14:11,440
The child's grave is by the mothers as if it was held in her arms.

949
01:14:11,440 --> 01:14:16,440
We gathered and buried the remains of three children

950
01:14:16,440 --> 01:14:21,440
We gathered and buried the remains of three children killed by bombing in this grave.

951
01:14:21,440 --> 01:14:26,440
There were three children's names written on the gravestone.

952
01:14:26,440 --> 01:14:31,440
There were three children's names written on the gravestone.

953
01:14:31,440 --> 01:14:36,440
There were three children's names written on the gravestone.

954
01:14:36,440 --> 01:14:41,440
There were three children's names written on the gravestone.

955
01:14:41,440 --> 01:14:46,440
This old man lost two sons.

956
01:14:46,440 --> 01:14:51,440
This old man lost two sons.

957
01:14:51,440 --> 01:14:56,440
This old man lost two sons.

958
01:14:56,440 --> 01:15:01,440
Two sons, a college student and a high school student.

959
01:15:01,440 --> 01:15:06,440
Two sons, a college student and a high school student.

960
01:15:06,440 --> 01:15:11,440
We're drinking tea with three young relatives at their house.

961
01:15:11,440 --> 01:15:16,440
We're drinking tea with three young relatives at their house.

962
01:15:16,440 --> 01:15:21,440
A bomb hit the house and the five youths were killed instantly.

963
01:15:21,440 --> 01:15:26,440
We regard the US, Arab states or any countries which sent an army to Iraq as our enemy.

964
01:15:26,440 --> 01:15:31,440
We regard the US, Arab states or any countries which sent an army to Iraq as our enemy.

965
01:15:31,440 --> 01:15:36,440
Even Japan is our enemy.

966
01:15:36,440 --> 01:15:41,440
Even Japan is our enemy.

967
01:15:41,440 --> 01:15:46,440
We consider that Japan took part in the slaughter of the people in Fallujah.

968
01:15:46,440 --> 01:15:51,440
They never helped the Iraqi people.

969
01:15:51,440 --> 01:15:56,440
They hurt the people in the city of mosques.

970
01:15:56,440 --> 01:16:01,440
They are going to destroy our city.

971
01:16:01,440 --> 01:16:06,440
Where is the democracy?

972
01:16:06,440 --> 01:16:11,440
Families are expelled from their houses and people are killed.

973
01:16:11,440 --> 01:16:16,440
The foreign armies have merely killed us rather than helped us during Saddam's regime.

974
01:16:16,440 --> 01:16:21,440
Who brought the Japanese army to Iraq? The US.

975
01:16:21,440 --> 01:16:26,440
The US is an enemy of the world.

976
01:16:26,440 --> 01:16:31,440
Why doesn't Japan withdraw like Spain?

977
01:16:31,440 --> 01:16:36,440
How is the Japanese army different from the Spanish army?

978
01:16:36,440 --> 01:16:41,440
Have Japanese people forgotten what the US did to Japan?

979
01:16:51,440 --> 01:16:56,440
The US is an enemy of the world.

980
01:16:56,440 --> 01:17:01,440
The US is an enemy of the world.

981
01:17:01,440 --> 01:17:06,440
The US is an enemy of the world.

982
01:17:06,440 --> 01:17:11,440
The US is an enemy of the world.

983
01:17:11,440 --> 01:17:16,440
The US is an enemy of the world.

984
01:17:16,440 --> 01:17:21,440
We put them under siege again.

985
01:17:21,440 --> 01:17:26,440
18 days later the Iraqi national security advisor said more than 2,000 were killed.

986
01:17:26,440 --> 01:17:31,440
But the BBC reported the Iraqi Red Crescent feared more than 6,000 people could have died.

987
01:17:31,440 --> 01:17:36,440
In November 2004 in Fallujah alone.

988
01:17:46,440 --> 01:17:51,440
So that is a tiny glimpse into the new Iraq.

989
01:17:51,440 --> 01:17:56,440
So that is a tiny glimpse into the new Iraq.

990
01:17:56,440 --> 01:18:01,440
It's difficult to watch, but this is the piece that's missing and it's missing on purpose.

991
01:18:01,440 --> 01:18:06,440
Because I believe that the American people as a whole, given the facts, would make the right decisions.

992
01:18:06,440 --> 01:18:11,440
So again I just want to emphasize what a tremendous honor it's been to share this podium

993
01:18:11,440 --> 01:18:16,440
with so many distinguished speakers and thank you for sharing your time and having me here today.

994
01:18:16,440 --> 01:18:21,440
Thank you so much.

995
01:18:21,440 --> 01:18:26,440
Applause

996
01:18:26,440 --> 01:18:31,440
Applause

997
01:18:31,440 --> 01:18:36,440
Applause

998
01:18:36,440 --> 01:18:41,440
Applause