Whitebeard says happy majority Thursday my favorite day so now that numerous investigations
have confirmed and thank you for saying that so now that numerous investigations have confirmed
an Israeli sniper intentionally killed Sharina buaklay well all of these politicians who
intentionally initially called for investigations criticize her killers and demand Israel be held
accountable passage a Canadian publication asked 17 members of parliament who called for
investigations to follow up only one replied and none of the rest have said anything on the matter
since including our foreign affairs minister what a surprise yeah I mean wasn't it Ned price just
saying like we're going to wait until there's an independent investigation to make a determination
no we we know now we know so hello like are there any any response any uh any anything that's going
to happen it was our unconditional support of Israel yeah and it was the same thing kind of
and did multiple you know uh press conferences between Apu a diplomatic writer uh Matt Lee and
and Natalie is Ned Price's worst nightmare where like Lee was like you you essentially accept every
single judgment from the international criminal court except for ones involving Israel and
Palestine why is that they're like and price was like Matt like we you know we evaluate everyone on
its merits it's like oh interestingly seemingly every single claim from the ICC is meritocratic
except for everyone that involves Israel right yeah they're just trying to out we're just trying
to outweigh the public you know they're trying to outweigh the Public's attention span when it comes
to this issue so they don't have to situate this particular you know human rights violation War
crime that Israel committed into like the larger pattern of other war crimes and other human rights
violations that they commit you know consistently obviously uh that they can just you know in the
future when people reference it you just treat like it's an anomaly so that you don't have to
like treat it you know basically as well there's another and a long line of continued violence
against the Palestinian people and also continued violence against people who try to expose the
violent regime that Palestinian people are are currently being subjected to by Israeli occupation
yeah I mean it you're absolutely right that they're trying to wait out public opinion and
the thing is is that they're right to do that from their perspective no one's talking about
srin Abu bakla anymore um and there doesn't seem like there's going to be any consequence there
won't be I mean so the experience the same thing with Saudi Arabia right now where they're like
oh we're just gonna uh you can deal with the oil press it's like well we have leverage over you too
and we just won't exercise it because a certain part of American leadership agrees with the
um the sort of projects of Israel and Saudi Arabia yeah so I also Saudi Arabia uh responsible for
murdering a journalist even more in more of a direct way because it was at the uh it was mbs's
directive but um but but the Saudi Arabia and Israel have both uh committed countless human
rights violations and it's not like some of the I understand why uh the murder of journalists in
particular is a hook for people in terms of like how can we hold Israel or Saudi Arabia
accountable but it's everything else that's even more problematic but Saudi Arabia's uh human
rights violations it's a blockade in Yemen um in support of terrorism that attacked us
um and in Israel of course it's the apartheid and the subjugation of Palestinians so I I I
feel like I I'm I wish those twin instances of Jamal khashoggi and Shirin abuaklay were more
of initial um the beginnings of conversations about the larger issues with each of those
governments no I agree and I think honestly you know we have to reckon with the fact that
what draws people's attention to the you know at this point at least in our society to the murder
of these journalists is oftentimes they're what there's what finally shocks the journalists who
cover these countries you know the fact that not that there is a consistent human rights abuse uh
regime in both places you know Saudi Arabia and Israel but that that might eventually implicate
people who like them are journalists and you know that's not to say it like we should start you know
executing journalists when we don't like but it is to say that like I think that they are the
journalists who cover these places and in some ways act to normalize the violent regimes that
go there they are expecting that people will be able to carve out an exception for them the
journalists you know like when the Washington Post reporters who act and normalized violence
in Saudi Arabia who act as like so institutional levels normalized violence against populations
here they act surprised that the readers and the public might not be as shocked in a gas that these
on just you know journalists were killed too it's like because yeah you know we've been working as
at the highest levels to normalize violence against people who get uppity and Germany
so just another part of that population and so I think journalists have to take a little bit more
seriously maybe more so you know as they cover these things that if you continue to normalize the
violence against normal people eventually you know violence against journalists will be normalized as
a consequence of them also just being people I mean they just Israel just murdered and killed a
young boy uh in Palestine and the um I still feel like the outrage over them intentionally seemingly
targeting that building last year that house was it the Associated Press in or or one of a major
Outlet in I think it was AP or algebra it was Al Jazeera right right well either of those and and I
feel like that they're still it just seems insane to me given the dynamic that you describe Brandon
about how Journal this is like where journalists they feel the outrage about this kind of more
acutely because it's naturally their profession but like that that should have been even more
of a story I don't think you know I I will say you know you can't paint broad brushes about all
journalists obviously I was speaking specifically about a certain subject of U.S journalists who
seem to take like violence against their own not even just violence but any kind of inconvenience
against their own media subclass as some sort of especially you know especially egregious offense
and you know I think when we talk about like what we need for a sustainable informed society that
is a free press but I think what a lot of them are forgetting is that they aren't currently a
free press they are currently at least at the institutional level operating as mouthpiece for
you know military industrial complexes you know mouth pieces for various types of like Washington
special interest groups who act to strip away our rights and then to suddenly expect you know the
population to just be on board with on the same page about like the specific violence against
journalist as like this you know that's what we need to be really concerned about I think you
know it's unrealistic to spend a lot of time making excuses for violence violence against
specialized groups only to expect people to be able to determine the difference and you
know when they hear the same excuses made about why it's okay to Target journalists