There's been multiple reports of the killing of Al Jazeera journalist
Shereen Abu Akleh, who was killed by an Israeli soldier a few weeks ago.
The Biden administration is coming out with more reasons, potentially excuses,
for how this happened to help figure out what it is that actually went down.
Let's go to some details in this statement that was released on July 4 over that
holiday weekend.
A US State Department Spokesperson Ned Price said that
independent third party examiners could not reach a definitive conclusion
regarding the origin of the badly damaged bullet.
That fatally struck the 51 year old Al Jazeera correspondent in the face.
The US Security Coordinator concluded that while Israeli fire was likely
responsible for the death of Shereen Abu Akleh.
It found no reason to believe that this was intentional, but
rather the result of tragic circumstances.
So, with these explanations that are coming from the US State Department,
of course there's pushback coming from folks that were there.
And also folks that saw things that went down and
have seen these things happen before.
Her colleague Ali Samoudi who was also shot during this entire incident but
survived, he spoke up as well.
US statement is yet another proof that the United States can't be trusted with
anything that has to with the Palestinians.
I was there personally and witnessed the whole thing.
There was no one there apart from the Israeli force and
they were the ones who shot at us.
And also the Palestinian journalists syndicate claimed that
Abu Akleh was the 86th journalist to be killed while covering
Israeli operations in the West Bank, Gaza.
And East Jerusalem since the territories were illegally occupied in 1967.
So Cenk, you can imagine with Israel being one of the largest allies and
strongest allies of the United States, that this is something that we might wanna
say to change the narrative of what went down.
We did see the video of what happened and
that breakdown seemed pretty intentional too.
>> Yeah, now look, there's actually no question of what happened here.
This was a rare case where mainstream media did actually a fantastic job.
Even CNN, Associated Press, Reuters, they all put out articles where
they went through in painstaking detail showing how she got killed and
that led to an inescapable illusion of why she got killed.
So the Israeli defense forces lied about there being a conflict nearby,
there was definitively no conflict nearby.
They said it might have been an accidental shooting as they were trying
to target someone else, but there were no militants in the area at all.
It was shown that it was a sniper.
They clearly targeted her.
She's one of the most famous journalists or
she was one of the most famous journalists in the area.
They've killed all these journalists before.
There's no question that Israel targeted her and they murdered a journalist.
But, there's also no question that there are a couple of allies
that America has that completely control our politics.
You're not supposed to say that, you're supposed to lie and you're supposed to
say, I can't tell if Israel has an undue influence on American politics.
I can't tell if Saudi Arabia has an undue influence on American politics.
Well, I have eyes and I have ears.
I can tell, so I don't care if you're offended by it.
There's no way we told you ahead of time.
There was a 0% chance that the American government would defy the Israeli
government.
If the Israeli government says it was an accident,
there is a 1,000% chance that America is gonna say it's an accident.
They're lying.
The State Department for
Joe Biden is definitely lying to cover up a crime for Israel.
Now again, don't get it twisted on religions and ethnicities and
backgrounds and nationally.
That's nonsense because the Saudis are Muslim fundamentalists and
Biden covers for them too.
He's going to kiss their ass now and what do they do?
They also murdered a journalist.
In fact they chopped him up into pieces.
And what did Trump do?
They kiss their ass.
What did Biden do?
I'm gonna be tough on Saudi Arabia.
He kissed their ass because the Saudis and the Israelis can do anything,
anything at all and America will never object because we serve them.
>> The problem is that this takes away any credibility that the Biden
administration or any administration would have.
I mean you would think that even the IDF at this point because once we're living
a different time now where there's videos, there's footage there's evidence.
And once that exists, the IDF should want to come out and
say we're actually gonna do something and
go after the guy who wrongfully shot this journalist which isn't gonna happen.
But I'm just saying in terms of gaining credibility because now the problem
is it's kind of like I'm gonna draw an analogy with January 6.
We saw the videos, we see with our own eyes.
So when you tell us it was just a tourist visit, it clearly wasn't.
And so similarly when you have something like this and you go it was caused by,
I mean when I read the thing it said it was like you said an accidental shooting.
And they were going after the Palestinians who were prompting some sort of thing for
them to shoot at.
It clearly isn't and it takes away your credibility.
So we're in this world now where we are watched but
you are watched meaning the governments are also being watched.
Crimes are being watched and recorded.
And so when you come out and
do this kind of stuff, it takes away any credibility you might have gained.
And it's I hope that the time when governments
have to admit the truth when things like this happen,
I hope that that's closer than ever simply again because we see the proof.
>> Yeah, I'm gonna go further.
Why does the American government have?
No, I mean as you say they lost credibility.
They didn't have any credibility to lose when it comes to Israel and Saudi Arabia.
None, zero.
I wouldn't believe one word out of an American government official about those
two countries.
They almost always lie on their behalf.
Okay, so now why do they do it?
Well they claim all those are our top two allies in the Middle East.
Are they?
So Israel has occupation of millions of people.
So they say why is Israel big ally?
They're the only democracy in the Middle East.
Are they?
No, they imprison several million Palestinians and
will refuse to give them independence.
They have these open air prisons that they run.
And then they say yeah, we're occupying them.
Were forcing them into ghettos.
But we're a democracy.
Are you?
Why are you our ally?
What has Israel done for America?
I know what America's done for Israel, tons of the billions.
Let them start any conflict, kill journalists, do anything.
What has Israel done for America?
You're not allowed to ask that.
That's a very forbidden question.
Okay, well I just asked it.
Okay, there it is.
Boom, you want to cry?
Cry, I don't care.
Saudis, what the hell did the Saudis do for us?
The ostensible reason was low gas prices.
Do we have low gas prices?
When we had record high gas prices, Biden asked the Saudis to take action.
They said no, they spit in his face and now he's gonna lick their boots.
What have the Saudis done for us?
So if you want.
And by the way the Saudis, 15 out of the 19 hijackers on 9/1 were not Iraqis,
they were not from Afghanistan.
They were Saudis.
You know who killed our soldiers in Iraq?
The Saudis, they funded a Sunni insurgency that murdered our soldiers.
And then they chop up Jamal Khashoggi the Washington post comments,
what has the Saudis ever done for us?
And the answer is the Saudis and UAE and other gulf countries and yes,
friends of Israel give tons and
tons of money to American politicians through lobbies and groups like Apack.
And then they give money to think tanks and
they give money to lawyers and lobbyists.
They drown DC in money.
If you think the Saudis don't do that, you're an obvious liar.
If you think that friends of Israel to their lobbies don't do that,
you're also an obvious liar.
Now you can say yeah, but you're saying things that are forbidden Cenk.
I know why they're forbidden,
because what they do is they fall back on false charges of antisemitism.
Well if you're gonna point out how we purchase politicians by the way,
again, it has nothing to do with religion.
It has nothing to do with ethnicity.
The Muslim country does it.
A Jewish country does it.
Drug companies do it.
Oil companies do it.
Banks do it.
Beagle shops do it.
Clothing stores do it.
Everybody does it.
And you know who does it the most in America?
Christians, cuz this is 75% Christian country.
So most of the people who do bribes of American politicians are Christians,
but it's an open auction.
If you're pretending it isn't and
if you're pretending that America didn't lie for Israel in this case.
And if you're pretending it's not because of the money,
you can say I have a good reason for pretending.
I have a good reason for lying,
but you can't say you're not lying because you definitely are.
>> I guess the question is who have they convinced?
Because it seems pretty obvious, I wonder.
>> No, are you kidding me?
Every stupid reporter in Washington, they would be outraged at this segment Jerry.
You're saying it's so obvious, right?
Literally, almost every reporter in Washington would be [SOUND],
he mentioned lobbyists and lobbyists in favor of Israel.
[SOUND] And they would do sanctions.
And if I was a congressman, they would do condemnations and
resolutions etcetera, right?
You're allowed to criticize the Saudis a little bit, right?
But Israel, it's untouchable.
I'm tired of your false charges.
I'm tired of your lies.
I don't care, I don't care who's bribing the politicians.
I care that they're being bribed and you're covering up for it.
They murdered Shereen.
Israeli Defense Forces definitely murdered her.
Okay, look at the CNN of all people,
CNN did an excellent report that proved it beyond the shadow of a doubt.
So America go lie, because you get paid to lie.
But don't expect any of us rational people to believe you.
>> And the bigger problem Cenk beyond that is,
as you said that nothing ever gets done.
Even if they say we're gonna investigate, as you said,
we all know where the investigation is gonna end up.
Similarly with the Khashoggi thing, it's almost hopeless.
It's almost like where when you vote for someone who seems idealistic,
and you go this person is gonna make a change.
And then you see the changes aren't being made, and
you have every right to be angry and upset,
because there's no repercussions for these actions of killing innocent journalists.
So yeah, I feel your anger.