Reframing the Narrative: 5 Main Points to Understand the Palestine-Israel Crisis & 2 Key Refutations

Reframing the Narrative: 5 Key Points to Understand the Palestine-Israel Crisis 00:00 Introduction 02:51 Refuting two false arguments 03:23 Refuting argument 1: “Hamas must be condemned“ (with no condemnation of Israel’s crimes) 04:38 Refuting argument 2: “Israel has a right to defend itself“ 06:20 Summarising the 5 key points 08:45 Key point 1: Israel’s apartheid, illegal occupation and murder for over 70 years 12:39 Thought experiment: The French occupation of London 20:24 Key point 2: Over 130 Palestinian children were killed between 2021 and 2023 prior to October 7, where was the outrage? 24:17 Key point 3: Gaza has been an open air prison and has been described as “unliveable“, “degrading“ and “peverse“ 27:52 Key point 4: Notwithstanding Hamas and Islamic Jihad as procribed groups other factions have legal justification to resist occupation 30:44 Key point 5: Israel’s response is not proportionate 30:58 Thought experiment: Your neighbour occupying your village and killing your family 32:51 Conclusion References and further reading: Filiu, J-P. (2014). The Twelve Wars on Gaza. Journal of Palestinian Studies, 44(1), pp. 52-60.   Defence for Children International. (February 2012). Recruitment and Use of Palestinian Children in Armed Conflict. Defence for Children International Palestine Section. Loewenstein, A. (2023). The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the technology of Occupation around the World. London: Verso. Mearsheimer, John J.; Stephen M Walt. The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy (Kindle Locations 7012-15240). Penguin Books Ltd. Kindle Edition. Dugard, J. & Reynolds, J. (2013). Apartheid, International Law, and the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The European Journal of International Law, 24(3). 1125/ Selby, J., Daoust, G., & Hofmann, C. (2022). Divided Environments: An International Political Ecology of Climate Change, Water and Security. Cambridge University Press. Pappe, I. (2006) The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. One World: Oxford. Masalha, N. (2018) Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History. Zed Books.