1 00:00:00,370 --> 00:00:11,280 [Applause] 2 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:17,920 Thank you for 3 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:21,600 the tour of a turbulent horizon. Lamese, 4 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:25,119 I got to thinking when I saw my longtime 5 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:27,199 uh collaborator Ron Mai come in from 6 00:00:25,119 --> 00:00:31,840 Scotland. 7 00:00:27,199 --> 00:00:34,880 He and I became involved in this cause I 8 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:37,280 know we don't look it now more than 40 9 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:40,480 years ago. 10 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:45,680 And I couldn't help as I listened to you 11 00:00:40,480 --> 00:00:47,280 Lamese compare one of the many changed 12 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:50,239 facts 13 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:55,039 uh on the ground. 14 00:00:50,239 --> 00:00:58,640 When Ron and I in the mid 1970s 15 00:00:55,039 --> 00:01:04,559 went to the Middle East, Lebanon to be 16 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:09,360 precise, Beirut to learn more and commit 17 00:01:04,559 --> 00:01:12,000 ourselves more to this cause. 18 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:16,320 Almost everybody in the Middle East 19 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:18,880 supported the Palestinian cause. 20 00:01:16,320 --> 00:01:22,799 But here in Britain from which we had 21 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:25,680 come, hardly anybody supported the 22 00:01:22,799 --> 00:01:28,799 Palestinian cause. You could have fitted 23 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:32,000 easily with room for a few elephants at 24 00:01:28,799 --> 00:01:37,040 the back of the hall every supporter of 25 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:40,880 the PLO in 1975 into this room with a 26 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:45,360 lot of space to spare. Indeed, it was an 27 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:47,200 intensely controversial thing to do in 28 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:50,720 1975 29 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:55,360 to say that you were a supporter of the 30 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:57,280 PLO. And now we have almost the opposite 31 00:01:55,360 --> 00:02:00,320 situation. 32 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:04,159 Almost everybody in Britain, the United 33 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:08,160 States now at least accepts, if they 34 00:02:04,159 --> 00:02:12,239 don't support the centrality of the 35 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:15,120 Palestinian issue, the essential point 36 00:02:12,239 --> 00:02:18,239 that without justice for the 37 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:21,599 Palestinians, there can be no peace in 38 00:02:18,239 --> 00:02:24,959 the region and therefore the world. 39 00:02:21,599 --> 00:02:28,879 Whilst in the Arab countries, the 40 00:02:24,959 --> 00:02:32,879 Palestinians are quite abandoned, about 41 00:02:28,879 --> 00:02:35,760 which more later. 42 00:02:32,879 --> 00:02:37,360 A lady from the one of three television 43 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:39,840 stations 44 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:42,800 uh filming this meeting asked me before 45 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:46,560 we began 46 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:50,400 what we were calling for to happen. What 47 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:52,720 was the purpose of this meeting? Well, 48 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:55,519 the purpose of this meeting is to say 49 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:58,720 that for us, the Palestinian issue 50 00:02:55,519 --> 00:03:01,680 cannot be separated from the great 51 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:04,400 issues now gripping the world of 52 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:09,280 instability and insecurity 53 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:13,360 and the swirl of dangerous events which 54 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:16,720 imperils all of us. 55 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:19,200 What we're demanding is simple. 56 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:20,959 That our governments and the 57 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:23,120 international 58 00:03:20,959 --> 00:03:25,519 community as they like to call 59 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:28,480 themselves 60 00:03:25,519 --> 00:03:30,480 live up to their responsibilities 61 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:33,440 as powers. 62 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:35,840 For the United Nations to live up to its 63 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:38,239 responsibility. 64 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:41,680 for the governments of the world who 65 00:03:38,239 --> 00:03:45,440 have a legal responsibility 66 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:48,799 to protect the people of what is an 67 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:52,159 internationally recognized 68 00:03:48,799 --> 00:03:54,319 illegally occupied territory. 69 00:03:52,159 --> 00:03:57,840 This is important 70 00:03:54,319 --> 00:04:00,799 because we live in a world where our 71 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:04,560 governments are ready to move heaven and 72 00:04:00,799 --> 00:04:08,080 earth threaten war against 73 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:11,439 people who behave illegally, seize 74 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:15,920 territory illegally. We're Russia, for 75 00:04:11,439 --> 00:04:18,160 example, is currently under intensifying 76 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:21,040 economic sanctions 77 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:25,360 because the people of Crimea 78 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:27,360 voted to leave the Ukraine and return to 79 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:30,960 Russia. 80 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:33,919 So unacceptable is this in the modern 81 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:37,120 age that all the governments of the 82 00:04:33,919 --> 00:04:39,840 European Union choreographed by the 83 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:42,080 government of the United States has 84 00:04:39,840 --> 00:04:47,360 imposed 85 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:50,560 very powerful and stringent sanctions 86 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:54,080 against the government of Russia. Iran 87 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:57,440 has just emerged from a long period and 88 00:04:54,080 --> 00:05:01,840 may not have entirely emerged from a 89 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:03,440 long period of international sanction, 90 00:05:01,840 --> 00:05:07,759 ostracism, 91 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:10,880 and the daily threat of war 92 00:05:07,759 --> 00:05:14,560 against it. And it didn't even occupy 93 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:16,800 anybody else's country. didn't even have 94 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:19,919 weapons 95 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:23,440 that are banned under international law 96 00:05:19,919 --> 00:05:26,160 yet was sanctioned and threatened. 97 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:28,320 Nonetheless, 98 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:31,759 it's vital for people to grasp. That's 99 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:35,360 why I mentioned gave away my age 100 00:05:31,759 --> 00:05:39,440 how long this has been going on. 101 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:41,919 The Palestinians of Nablo, from which 102 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:45,280 Lamese springs 103 00:05:41,919 --> 00:05:50,080 have been living under illegal military 104 00:05:45,280 --> 00:05:53,080 occupation, brute force occupation since 105 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:53,080 1967 106 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:58,479 when the Beatles 107 00:05:55,600 --> 00:06:02,800 were at the top of the charts. And the 108 00:05:58,479 --> 00:06:06,240 Beatles are 40 years dead. 109 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:11,840 and Nablas and all the other towns and 110 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:15,440 cities are still under the same illegal 111 00:06:11,840 --> 00:06:18,479 military occupation except it's gotten 112 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:21,120 much much worse over the years. I used 113 00:06:18,479 --> 00:06:25,680 to travel regularly 114 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:28,400 in the West Bank in Jerusalem and Gaza. 115 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:30,639 I can't any longer. I'm banned by Israel 116 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:33,520 from entering the West Bank. become 117 00:06:30,639 --> 00:06:36,960 banned by the government of Egypt from 118 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:40,560 entering Egypt and therefore Gaza and 119 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:42,080 Jerusalem of course is entirely out of 120 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:44,319 bounds. 121 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:48,240 But in those days 122 00:06:44,319 --> 00:06:51,360 on my first visit 1979 123 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:53,440 to what we called still call the 124 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:56,880 occupied territories, the occupied West 125 00:06:53,440 --> 00:07:00,960 Bank, I was able to drive around all day 126 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:03,360 and every day one end of the West Bank 127 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:05,919 to the other and more importantly so 128 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:09,840 were the Palestinians. 129 00:07:05,919 --> 00:07:13,039 Now there are hundreds of checkpoints. 130 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:19,440 The aparite wall only what did you say 131 00:07:13,039 --> 00:07:22,400 30% complete another 70% to go and 132 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:25,199 settlements intensifying 133 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:27,759 with a settler population 134 00:07:25,199 --> 00:07:29,919 of hundreds of thousands of people. And 135 00:07:27,759 --> 00:07:32,479 here I want to deal with an issue of 136 00:07:29,919 --> 00:07:35,199 nmanllete. 137 00:07:32,479 --> 00:07:38,080 When I hear the word settlement, 138 00:07:35,199 --> 00:07:41,120 I don't know about you, I think about 139 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:43,280 log cabins, 140 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:46,400 covered wagons, 141 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:50,240 heroic frontier spirit 142 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:55,520 of people just pushing the frontiers, 143 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:59,759 pushing the edges of human existence. 144 00:07:55,520 --> 00:08:03,039 These settlements are cities. 145 00:07:59,759 --> 00:08:06,720 There are cities like Beverly Hills in 146 00:08:03,039 --> 00:08:08,319 some cases. Malia Dumin, the biggest 147 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:12,560 settlement 148 00:08:08,319 --> 00:08:15,039 very near to Jerusalem, is a city of 149 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:19,840 western proportions 150 00:08:15,039 --> 00:08:24,960 where people frolic in fountains and 151 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:28,720 swimming pools on green lawns that are 152 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:32,240 continually sprinkled. All of it using 153 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:33,839 stolen Palestinian water while the 154 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:38,479 Palestinians 155 00:08:33,839 --> 00:08:40,719 whose water it is whose land it is 156 00:08:38,479 --> 00:08:45,360 go without. 157 00:08:40,719 --> 00:08:48,000 And when I hear the word settler ditto, 158 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:50,880 these people are not settlers. 159 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:55,600 These are not settlements. These are 160 00:08:50,880 --> 00:09:00,440 cities built by thieves on stolen land. 161 00:08:55,600 --> 00:09:00,440 And that's what we should call them. 162 00:09:00,560 --> 00:09:04,320 They're not settlers. They're land 163 00:09:02,560 --> 00:09:08,880 thieves. 164 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:11,519 And here's the problem. I often, I hope, 165 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:15,680 disarm interviewers by putting it this 166 00:09:11,519 --> 00:09:17,440 way. If somebody stole your house, God 167 00:09:15,680 --> 00:09:19,680 forbid, 168 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:23,839 and you had to go and live on a piece of 169 00:09:19,680 --> 00:09:25,519 rough land, in a tent, in a refugee 170 00:09:23,839 --> 00:09:29,120 camp, 171 00:09:25,519 --> 00:09:32,880 for how long would you continue to 172 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:35,200 demand your house back? 173 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:38,240 I say forever. 174 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:41,680 And your children after you. 175 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:43,839 Because every day that you wake up in 176 00:09:41,680 --> 00:09:46,000 your new situation, 177 00:09:43,839 --> 00:09:49,519 as a refugee, 178 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:54,000 as a displaced person in your own land, 179 00:09:49,519 --> 00:09:57,360 or even worse, in other lands nearby, 180 00:09:54,000 --> 00:10:00,480 you are literally or metaphorically 181 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:04,000 looking at your own house, your own 182 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:06,480 garden, your own trees, 183 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:08,320 and watching someone else who already 184 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:11,279 had a house 185 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:13,120 who came from Brooklyn 186 00:10:11,279 --> 00:10:15,760 almost certainly. You'll forgive me. I 187 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:17,519 know that's where you're from nowadays, 188 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:20,320 too. They're the most violent. Who? 189 00:10:17,519 --> 00:10:22,560 They're the worst. No, it's true. 190 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:26,240 They've brought Brooklyn 191 00:10:22,560 --> 00:10:30,880 to the Palestinian lands. They already 192 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:34,399 had a house in Britain or in Russia or 193 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:36,640 in France. They had lives. Nobody was 194 00:10:34,399 --> 00:10:39,839 bothering them. The problem is they've 195 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:43,200 gone to somebody else's land and stolen 196 00:10:39,839 --> 00:10:46,000 their house and they wonder why people 197 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:50,560 are resisting. The only wonder is that 198 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:54,480 the resistance is not total always 247 199 00:10:50,560 --> 00:10:57,519 for every single year since 1967. 200 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:59,600 That's the only thing to be surprised 201 00:10:57,519 --> 00:11:02,079 about. 202 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:04,399 And if these people are not settlers, 203 00:11:02,079 --> 00:11:08,240 these are not settlements. If they are 204 00:11:04,399 --> 00:11:11,200 thieves living on stolen land, the right 205 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:15,760 of the person whose land it is to resist 206 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:19,120 them is absolute, absolutely legal and 207 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:22,480 absolutely moral. 208 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:25,200 I just looked at the some of the uh 209 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:27,680 Russes from the film on Tony Blair that 210 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:31,120 we've made that's coming out very soon. 211 00:11:27,680 --> 00:11:34,320 I saw Tony Blair in the refugee camps 212 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:36,640 filled with Kosovan refugees saying that 213 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:40,399 international law and international 214 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:43,040 morality would never rest until every 215 00:11:40,399 --> 00:11:45,760 single Kosovan was allowed to return to 216 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:48,880 their land and their home. If true for 217 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:50,640 Kosans, why not then true for 218 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:53,760 Palestinians? 219 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:56,480 Why is the victim of this great crime 220 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:59,839 called the terrorist and the terrorist 221 00:11:56,480 --> 00:12:03,440 who perpetrated this great crime called 222 00:11:59,839 --> 00:12:06,560 the victim of terrorism? We rejected at 223 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:09,440 the door one of the main Zionist 224 00:12:06,560 --> 00:12:12,000 agitators in London who wanted to come 225 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:15,120 in here. If he had come in here, he 226 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:18,320 would have in his inimitable style 227 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:21,120 accused us of sympathizing with 228 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:23,279 terrorism when in fact 229 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:26,639 the people who are facilitating this 230 00:12:23,279 --> 00:12:30,240 terrorism are the supporters of Zionism 231 00:12:26,639 --> 00:12:33,040 and the supporters of this illegal 232 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:36,079 entity in the first place. So what are 233 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:39,040 we asking? We're asking our government 234 00:12:36,079 --> 00:12:42,560 to stop treating the victims as the 235 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:46,079 baddies and stop treating the 236 00:12:42,560 --> 00:12:49,519 perpetrators as the goodies. But that's 237 00:12:46,079 --> 00:12:52,079 the opposite of what our government is 238 00:12:49,519 --> 00:12:56,160 doing. Our government even changed the 239 00:12:52,079 --> 00:13:00,000 law to make it impossible 240 00:12:56,160 --> 00:13:02,560 for anybody to go to court and seek a 241 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:06,320 judge's decision to issue an arrest 242 00:13:02,560 --> 00:13:09,120 warrant for suspected war criminals if 243 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:12,000 they uh come into this country. This 244 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:14,800 government is presently changing the law 245 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:18,880 to make it illegal, imagine, for a 246 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:21,920 council or any public body in Britain to 247 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:25,839 make a decision not to purchase goods 248 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:27,360 and services from this illegal settler 249 00:13:25,839 --> 00:13:30,000 state. 250 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:33,279 How much more clearly 251 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:36,800 can you identify yourself with the 252 00:13:33,279 --> 00:13:38,480 criminal and therefore against the 253 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:42,079 victim? 254 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:44,959 And here's our problem, specifically 255 00:13:42,079 --> 00:13:48,720 British problem. 256 00:13:44,959 --> 00:13:50,240 We are the author of this entire 257 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:52,160 disaster. 258 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:54,399 I was going to call it a tragedy, but 259 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:57,279 it's not a tragedy. It's a disaster. 260 00:13:54,399 --> 00:13:59,680 It's a manmade disaster. And it was made 261 00:13:57,279 --> 00:14:03,519 in London, made in the building that I 262 00:13:59,680 --> 00:14:06,000 sat in for 30 years. I used to walk past 263 00:14:03,519 --> 00:14:11,519 the very room 264 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:14,480 where Balffor 99 years ago promised on 265 00:14:11,519 --> 00:14:18,240 behalf of one people to a second people 266 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:22,959 the land that belonged to a third people 267 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:25,440 unique even by imperialist standards. We 268 00:14:22,959 --> 00:14:28,959 didn't even possess the land. We were 269 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:31,360 giving away to a people who by the way 270 00:14:28,959 --> 00:14:34,880 at that time overwhelmingly rejected the 271 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:39,839 idea of Zionism. When Balffor made this 272 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:41,680 declaration, he made it to a tiny group 273 00:14:39,839 --> 00:14:44,720 in 1917 274 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:47,199 who represented a mere cintilla of 275 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:49,760 international Jewish opinion. 276 00:14:47,199 --> 00:14:54,240 overwhelmingly Jewish opinion at that 277 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:56,880 time was on the left and wanted 278 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:58,720 to be protected in their own countries 279 00:14:56,880 --> 00:15:03,600 rather than go to somebody else's 280 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:07,279 country and cause misery for a century 281 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:10,800 uh on top of them. So 282 00:15:07,279 --> 00:15:13,839 on the eve of the Balffor declaration 283 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:16,639 centinery, we have a special 284 00:15:13,839 --> 00:15:20,240 responsibility towards the Palestinian 285 00:15:16,639 --> 00:15:22,959 people and that has in part driven the 286 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:27,680 more than 40 years now that I have been 287 00:15:22,959 --> 00:15:30,079 involved in this struggle. 288 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:31,920 So we demand our own governments. We 289 00:15:30,079 --> 00:15:35,120 demand our 290 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:39,279 governments in the international fora 291 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:42,000 and organs that we are a part of to do 292 00:15:39,279 --> 00:15:44,399 something to live up to their 293 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:46,000 international obligations. At the very 294 00:15:44,399 --> 00:15:50,079 least 295 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:54,240 to stop selling weapons 296 00:15:50,079 --> 00:15:58,160 to this settler state, to stop 297 00:15:54,240 --> 00:16:02,560 strengthening this settler state. And if 298 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:05,279 they won't boycott, divest, and sanction 299 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:08,000 this settler state, at least allow the 300 00:16:05,279 --> 00:16:10,720 people to do so. 301 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:13,920 If I'm the mayor of London, it will be 302 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:19,279 illegal for me by the by the time of 303 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:22,079 May, it will be illegal to refuse to buy 304 00:16:19,279 --> 00:16:24,000 Israeli goods and services. So, let me 305 00:16:22,079 --> 00:16:27,199 tell you right now, David Cameron, if 306 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:30,320 I'm the mayor of London, I will buy no 307 00:16:27,199 --> 00:16:32,880 Israeli goods, no Israeli services, 308 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:35,880 whether it's legal or whether it's 309 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:35,880 illegal. 310 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:44,800 But here I must turn because the other 311 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:47,360 part of my equation with which I began 312 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:50,000 is this. 313 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:53,759 Aslamist sketched 314 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:57,680 this new situation in this winter of 315 00:16:53,759 --> 00:16:59,759 discontent that is taking shape where 316 00:16:57,680 --> 00:17:03,279 young Palestinians 317 00:16:59,759 --> 00:17:06,720 beholden to none of the existing 318 00:17:03,279 --> 00:17:10,000 political parties in Palestine without 319 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:12,319 direction, without leadership 320 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:16,160 are taking the matter into their own 321 00:17:12,319 --> 00:17:18,640 hands and rising up as is their legal 322 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:21,520 and moral Right. 323 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:23,280 Where are the Arabs? 324 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:26,319 I'll tell you where they are. They're 325 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:29,039 busily murdering other Arabs. 326 00:17:26,319 --> 00:17:32,960 They're busily trying to start a war 327 00:17:29,039 --> 00:17:35,200 between the Arabs and the Iranians 328 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:36,880 instead of coming to the aid of the 329 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:39,440 Palestinians. 330 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:43,120 They're massacring the poorest Arabs of 331 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:46,559 the lot in Yemen. Thousands of people in 332 00:17:43,120 --> 00:17:49,280 Yemen have been massacred 333 00:17:46,559 --> 00:17:54,799 relentlessly 334 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:57,840 by Saudi Arabia and its grizzly allies, 335 00:17:54,799 --> 00:18:01,120 all of them Arabs. 336 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:05,280 Syria is being ripped to shreds. 337 00:18:01,120 --> 00:18:08,320 The ancient Arab capital 338 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:12,080 of Syria, the Lad Sham, 339 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:15,919 is being destroyed by Arabs. 340 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:19,919 by Arab governments who can't rebuild 341 00:18:15,919 --> 00:18:23,360 the destroyed houses in Gaza, but have 342 00:18:19,919 --> 00:18:26,400 limitless, absolutely limitless budgets 343 00:18:23,360 --> 00:18:29,440 for destroying the buildings in Syria 344 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:31,760 and the people in them. 345 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:34,640 And not only 346 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:38,160 are they doing that, 347 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:40,960 but they are, as Lamese told you, 348 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:43,840 openly now, openly 349 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:47,760 belly dancing for Israel, 350 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:51,039 normalizing their relations with a state 351 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:53,919 that has committed crimes 352 00:18:51,039 --> 00:18:57,440 almost beyond enumeration 353 00:18:53,919 --> 00:18:59,919 against other Arabs, other Muslims. How 354 00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:02,799 can any Arab government have normal, 355 00:18:59,919 --> 00:19:04,880 even friendly relations 356 00:19:02,799 --> 00:19:08,160 with the 357 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:10,000 state which is illegally occupying Al 358 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:12,559 Axa? 359 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:15,440 They're forever telling us, some of them 360 00:19:12,559 --> 00:19:18,400 how Muslim they are, 361 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:22,480 aren't they? Isn't that Saudi Arabia's 362 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:26,160 point? Visa v Iran. Will the leaders of 363 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:29,039 the Muslims but your belly dancing for a 364 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:32,320 state that is occupying al axa from 365 00:19:29,039 --> 00:19:34,400 which the prophet himself ascended to 366 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:38,720 the heavens? 367 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:41,760 How can this be explained? Never mind 368 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:44,559 justified. Of course they don't try to 369 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:47,679 explain it or justify it. Some of them 370 00:19:44,559 --> 00:19:50,720 don't even have the guts to announce it. 371 00:19:47,679 --> 00:19:53,440 I was in a Gulf country 372 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:57,520 couple of years ago and the lift opened 373 00:19:53,440 --> 00:20:02,080 and out of the lift came Shimon Perez, 374 00:19:57,520 --> 00:20:04,960 the president of the settler state. And 375 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:08,559 yet the Gulf country I was in officially 376 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:10,480 had no relations whatsoever 377 00:20:08,559 --> 00:20:12,240 with Israel 378 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:15,840 except Israel's president was coming out 379 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:20,240 of the lift in the best hotel in their 380 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:21,919 capital city. There are kings of Arabia 381 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:25,520 shopping 382 00:20:21,919 --> 00:20:27,200 in Tel Aviv. At least their wives are 383 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:30,559 shopping 384 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:33,520 in the malls in Tel Aviv. What kind of 385 00:20:30,559 --> 00:20:36,960 people are they? This Cece, who we were 386 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:39,600 told was the new Nasser, 387 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:43,200 is shooting Palestinians across the 388 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:45,760 fence in Gaza. A mentally ill man, went 389 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:51,280 into the water just a couple of weeks 390 00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:54,320 ago and was shot dead by Cece's army. 391 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:56,320 The man was mentally ill. had no idea 392 00:20:54,320 --> 00:21:01,600 what he was doing, but he was a 393 00:20:56,320 --> 00:21:06,159 Palestinian in Gaza and he was 394 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:08,880 crossing the international border. 395 00:21:06,159 --> 00:21:13,840 I'm running out of time. 396 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:16,400 So, let me conclude before a Q&A which I 397 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:18,799 hope will mainly be directed towards 398 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:23,120 Lamese. It's not every day that we have 399 00:21:18,799 --> 00:21:24,799 an activist from overseas of her 400 00:21:23,120 --> 00:21:28,080 stature. 401 00:21:24,799 --> 00:21:31,600 But let me conclude by saying this. I 402 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:35,360 have seen many Palestinian leaderships 403 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:37,679 come and go. 404 00:21:35,360 --> 00:21:40,320 Mahmud Abbas 405 00:21:37,679 --> 00:21:43,120 is not the leader of the Palestinian 406 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:46,240 people. Neither for that matter are the 407 00:21:43,120 --> 00:21:48,480 leaders of the other parties. The 408 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:51,440 leaders of the Palestinian people are 409 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:53,919 people whose names we don't know. 410 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:58,559 They are the young people that are 411 00:21:53,919 --> 00:22:01,679 facing the guns and facing the awesome 412 00:21:58,559 --> 00:22:04,640 destructive power. Can you just imagine 413 00:22:01,679 --> 00:22:08,240 for a minute what life would be like if 414 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:11,120 we were occupied here in London? If 415 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:12,640 there were foreign tanks and armies 416 00:22:11,120 --> 00:22:16,559 everywhere 417 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:19,919 and our leaders were collaborating with 418 00:22:16,559 --> 00:22:23,200 that foreign powers occupation were 419 00:22:19,919 --> 00:22:27,520 growing fat on the salaries and the 420 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:32,080 expenses afforded to them. 421 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:35,679 Wouldn't we hope that our young people 422 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:39,440 would not surrender but would carry on 423 00:22:35,679 --> 00:22:41,760 that struggle that once we were proud to 424 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:46,400 identify with? 425 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:50,080 That's why the 153rd 426 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:54,000 martyr of this alkud inifada who fell 427 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:58,080 today Sarwir Ibrahimi 428 00:22:54,000 --> 00:23:00,799 his parents are proud of him. 429 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:02,960 I don't know the circumstances in which 430 00:23:00,799 --> 00:23:06,640 he was slain, 431 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:09,679 but I can imagine them. Just like the 432 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:12,240 previous 152, 433 00:23:09,679 --> 00:23:16,000 he was either 434 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:19,760 moaned down, shot down, beaten to death, 435 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:23,600 lynched. They're even lynching Eratrians 436 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:26,080 thinking that they are Arabs. 437 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:27,919 or he died 438 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:30,720 knowingly 439 00:23:27,919 --> 00:23:34,320 confronting those who stole his own 440 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:36,559 land, stole his own house. It's the 441 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:40,000 anniversary of Tom H today as well. He 442 00:23:36,559 --> 00:23:42,080 died 12 years ago. Tom Hornel, a British 443 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:46,559 hero, 444 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:50,080 shot down by these brutes. 445 00:23:46,559 --> 00:23:53,520 We've had Rachel Cy and other 446 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:57,440 internationals who went there just to 447 00:23:53,520 --> 00:24:01,360 bear witness to what's going on 448 00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:02,880 and whose lives were brutally ended by 449 00:24:01,360 --> 00:24:06,159 these 450 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:08,799 tyrants and the Brazilian guy. 451 00:24:06,159 --> 00:24:10,799 The Brazilian guy. I don't know the 452 00:24:08,799 --> 00:24:12,240 Brazilian. You mean the Italian one? No, 453 00:24:10,799 --> 00:24:14,880 the Brazilian. They killed him in the 454 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:17,520 underground. Oh, in London. Yes. That's 455 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:20,799 a slightly different uh matter. They 456 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:22,320 thought he was an Arab. They certainly 457 00:24:20,799 --> 00:24:25,919 did. 458 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:28,559 But the children of Palestine 459 00:24:25,919 --> 00:24:31,840 are rising up and their children, if 460 00:24:28,559 --> 00:24:34,480 necessary, will do the same. I used to 461 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:38,799 believe, Ron will bear me out, that one 462 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:42,640 day I'd make a kind of heroic entrance 463 00:24:38,799 --> 00:24:44,640 into liberated Jerusalem with the flags 464 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:47,840 flying 465 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:50,000 and people welcoming those of us who 466 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:53,200 have identified with this struggle for 467 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:55,840 so long. I no longer believe that that 468 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:59,679 will happen. But my youngest child is 469 00:24:55,840 --> 00:25:01,360 here, one and a half years old. My 470 00:24:59,679 --> 00:25:04,080 friend, 471 00:25:01,360 --> 00:25:06,880 Palestinian friend in the audience, when 472 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:10,240 he saw him at a recent demonstration, he 473 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:14,320 pinched his cheeks and said, 474 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:17,919 "You little Genghis can. 475 00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:20,159 You have to help us liberate Palestine. 476 00:25:17,919 --> 00:25:24,559 The Arabs will not do it. We need a 477 00:25:20,159 --> 00:25:27,440 Genghis can." Well, of course, there are 478 00:25:24,559 --> 00:25:32,640 Arabs and there are Arabs. 479 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:36,720 These young martyrs, 153 of them, these 480 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:39,440 young strugglers, thousands of them, 481 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:42,240 all these people in Palestine that are 482 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:45,679 defending their honor, defending their 483 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:49,600 dignity and their land and their 484 00:25:45,679 --> 00:25:52,880 heritage, they are all Arabs. 485 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:55,600 The kings of Arabia will pass. 486 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:57,919 In fact, they're so old, they probably 487 00:25:55,600 --> 00:26:01,279 passed by 488 00:25:57,919 --> 00:26:04,480 half past 11, some of them. But the this 489 00:26:01,279 --> 00:26:07,039 new generation of Palestinians, I'm 490 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:11,440 sure, will liberate their country. And 491 00:26:07,039 --> 00:26:13,919 Lamese with my little gang can can enjoy 492 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:17,960 that welcome in liberated Jerusalem. 493 00:26:13,919 --> 00:26:17,960 Wasalam alalaykum. Thank you.