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“Zionism as an ideology is a threat to humanity as a whole”: Dr Azzam Tamimi speaks at Gaza Tribunal

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    I was born seven years
    after the Nakba
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    And the testimonies
    we heard yesterday
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    —we've been hearing similar
    testimonies for the past 20 months—
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    keep reminding me
    of the bedtime stories
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    that my mother kept telling
    me and my siblings
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    about how she and her family
    —entire family—
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    were evicted from Beir Al-Sabaa
    where she was born
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    and where she was raised,
    up to the age of 16
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    and had to leave like hundreds
    of thousands of other Palestinians.
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    What happened...what
    is happening today in Gaza
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    is happening in
    a modern technological warfare.
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    But the principle
    is one and the same.
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    It happened to my mother before.
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    It happened to so many
    Palestinians in 1948.
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    And since then, it has continued to
    happen throughout this occupation.
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    When a certain group of people
    believe that God gave them
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    a license to take other
    people's lands, to kill them,
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    to do whatever it takes to
    remove them as an obstacle....
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    how can you deal
    with such a community?
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    How can you deal
    with such a mentality?
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    It's impossible!
    You cannot deal with them
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    because they believe
    they have a divine license!
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    Just recently the BBC
    showed a brilliant documentary
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    about the settler movement
    in the West Bank.
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    And one of the settlers,
    a lady I remembered
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    from more than 20 years ago
    when I saw her first interview ever,
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    as far as I'm concerned,
    on the BBC as well,
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    when she was asked:
    "How do you justify
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    coming from Europe and doing
    this to the Palestinians?"
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    And she said: "Had God
    not told me to do so,
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    I would have been a criminal!"
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    Blaming it on God!
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    What sort of God is this?
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    And that's why,
    as Dr. Sammy explained,
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    Zionism is not just a threat
    to the Palestinians.
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    Zionism, as an ideology, is a
    threat to humanity as a whole!
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    Actually, Zionism has been
    the reincarnation of Nazism.
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    Israel is a reincarnation
    of the Third Reich!
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    And the world is beginning
    to recognize this.
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    The young students in America,
    in Europe, and elsewhere in the world
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    are now realizing that their parents
    and grandparents who supported
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    or sympathized with Zionism,
    for so many years, were sinners.
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    They were wrong, because
    you cannot do this anymore!
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    Even Jewish students are now
    saying: "Not in our name!"
Title:
“Zionism as an ideology is a threat to humanity as a whole”: Dr Azzam Tamimi speaks at Gaza Tribunal
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02:56

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