Chris Hedges Live Q&A on Palestine
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Chris Hedges Live Q&A on Palestine
Today, I answered questions on all things Palestine live on YouTube. Also, I announced that my regular interview show, The Chris Hedges Report, will air at the end of July on my YouTube channel.
We must all strive to retain one vital fact to sustain us throughout these dark times of Israel's genocide being so open that even ordinary humans normally too absorbed in the day to day struggle for existence notice its reality. That is as disgusting and amoral as this genocide is, ultimately it will not succeed. I myself have long accepted that it is unlikely that I will live long enough to see the end of the zionist entity but I'm certain that it will end in ignominy and failure.
The only regret is I won't get to experience the joy that I felt on the day Mandela walked out of prison. When that event occurred which like the freedom of Palestinians, I had been agitating and pushing for since adolescence some 60 years ago, the immediate aftermath of issues such as the temporary obstruction of the ANC by the Zulu hierarchy of Inkatha passed in a blur; it was obvious apartheid was over, there could be no turning back and from here on out it would be up to indigenous South Africans to decide their future. Of course there have been disappointments along the way, such as the denigration of, and lawfare waged against Winnie Mandela, the framing of Jacob Zuma, and most recently the decision by rightist ANC leader Ramaphosa to enter into coalition with the Boer dominated DA (see https://www.africanews.com/2024/06/21/newly-appointed-south-african-mp-suspended-for-racist-language-video/) Incidentally whilst South Africa's prosecution of the zionist entity at ICJ has been brilliant, people should be aware that SA government support of this has been because of Ramphosa's need to mollify his electorate angry at domestic failures with a dash of "See what we're doing internationally". A standard piece of careerist political BS practiced worldwide by corrupt pols.
That victory over apartheid cannot be judged in terms of what came next because when a population has been denied input into their leadership for generations we should always expect there will be missteps along the way. That must never deter us, as soon as we imagine we have some sort of right to determine what a people do with their political freedom, we become no different than its original oppressors.
Nevertheless if we maintain our stance of opposing zionist genocide, altering our means of opposition to suit each situation, and we retain that one fact "ultimately this is gonna be successful" most of the humans fighting for an end to the zionist entity will live to see that end come about & those of us who don't can rest easy knowing the outcome is inevitable.
The one abiding lesson I picked up during my travels is that most humans on this planet are innately tolerant of others and given the opportunity they will place themselves into the others' shoes when considering their actions. Of course regimes will always attempt to counter this with indoctrination and they can be impermanently successful if the indoctrination is buttressed with cradle to grave propaganda as it is in the zionist entity.
Then who knows; one day humanity may even see the folly of the leadership model of government and develop better more honest methods of what could be called 'self-administration'.
The EID holiday is this week and there is a group of Palestinians returning to the West Bank from the Hajj in Saudi. They are in 12 busses– about 1000 people of all ages including the elderly – and are being held up now at the Jordan crossing (Allenby/King Hussein bridge) in abnormally hot weather. They have had their passports stamped in Jordan so they can’t go back to Jordan. Israeli border patrol won’t let them through even though the Israeli government arranged for the transfer of these 12 busses in advance. For no reason the Israelis decided to not let the busses pass today and then they announced they won’t let them pass until Sunday. This means 1000 people are stuck in the heat for 48 plus hours without water or food. This is Israeli sadism in action. It’s not unusual either.