Yanis Varoufakis and Francesca Albanese on Israel, Palestine and Genocide

[Applause]

[Yanis] Well, Francesca Albanese, the
United Nations rapporteur on Palestine,

it is not only a personal
pleasure to be talking to you today,

but I want to convey

on behalf of our MERA25 friends and
members that are watching this

their appreciation, our joint
appreciation

for everything you've been
doing so courageously

over months and months of
this unfolding genocide,

which will stigmatise humanity
for so many years.

So thank you on behalf of everyone,
not just on my behalf.

Let me ask you, we are
having this conversation now

less than 24 hours after
the announcement, finally

of an agreement between
Hamas and Israel,

to affect a ceasefire.

What are your feelings about this?

[Francesca] I don't know, I don't know.

Really I'm still processing it,

I feel, I feel so happy to see
the Palestinians cheering,

especially the kids are looking forward to
the return of a peaceful normalcy.

This is on the one hand.

I also mean, I also know that for many
Israelis, this is the end of a nightmare.

But is it going to be the end of the
nightmare for the Palestinians?

for the Palestinians,