What The Media WON’T Tell You About Hamas

With Israel’s killing of Yahya Sinwar and continued vilification of Hamas, it’s important to remember that Hamas, not Israel, has been willing to negotiate while Israel has refused. In fact, as Palestinian journalist Rami Khouri points out, “the Israelis refused to respond to overtures for political negotiations. Hamas made at least 10 explicit overtures to the Israelis, to the American president, to George Bush, to Rabin, the prime minister of Israel, to others in Israel. Most of these were discreet and private, but some were public. Hamas has offered to negotiate and coexist with Israel in its 67 borders with certain conditions being met.... The Israelis and Americans never responded. They didn't want to get into a negotiation with Hamas on these issues. So the idea that Israel is a peace-loving state that just wants to live with its neighbors quietly is not correct. It's not borne out by the behavior of the state of Israel.

00:00 Intro
00:20 How we got to where we are now
03:34 Why Israel and Palestine are seen in the wrong context
04:45 The double standards of Western media
07:40 The shift in paradigm
08:52 Hamas TRIED to negotiate

Rami Khouri is a Palestinian American journalist and a senior public policy fellow at the American University of Beirut, as well as a nonresident senior fellow at the Arab Center Washington DC.
He’s the co-editor of the book: 'Understanding Hamas: And Why That Matters'

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[katiekane]

If your God tells you that your salvation and safety is dependent on the destruction and suffering of others, maybe it's not God you're hearing 🤔

[farcoussaful]

The negotiations lasted for 30 years and during that time they were building settlements.

[patricksampson-fgnf]

Absolutely sickening the way one group of people can treat another group of people with such disdain.

[dudebladeX]

I forget who said it, but someone once said that blaming Hamas for firing rockets is like blaming an abuse victim for fighting back.

[CopperCopper-dm]

Deep Respect for you Katie for standing on the right side of the history!

[thinkbeforeyoutype]

What’s becoming so obvious to people now is that colonialism has never ended just rebranded with different terms. From Natives indigenous people being called “savages” in the old days to now being called “terrorist” by neocolonialists who are neoliberals, neoconservatives, and zionist.

1) Savages is now “terrorist”

2) Civilizing them is now “bringing them democracy”

3) Colonies is now “territories”

We can all see Israel is a colonial project being supported by former and current colonials such as U.S, UK, and others who also control territories of indigenous natives in Caribbean Islands, Pacific Islands, Hawaii, and many more.

The liberation of Palestine will definitely give RISE to many indigenous natives around the world to free themselves from western domination. This is the underlying ripple effect that the U.S government and its puppet allies don’t want to happen

[panjo]

It is so sad it’s taken the day to day horrible scenes of Palestinians being slaughtered and destruction of Gaza to make more people aware of the history

[FreedomDaveX]

Double standards are the root of evil.

[TheHumanEarthling]

The us is complacent and is supporting everything being done

[dryan]

I am disgusted with the failure of the American government giving into a tyrannical party in Israel.

[ehisgeorge]

You hold millions hostage for 75 years but at the same time crying they want to free themselves from your evils.

[youngeagle]

" We are the only people on earth asked to guarantee the security of our occupier While Israel is the only country that calls for defense from it's victims." Hanan Ashrawi

[IIst-ormt]

The Genociders acussing the victims of terror. What a world 😢

[samsung_media]

one of the best quotes i've seen on isreal: "they lie and they lie and they lie and they lie."

[hindculhane]

My appreciation to your courage and unbiased program highlighting the truth, humanity, and justice, Katie.

[kish-ih]

i'm so saddened by that video of sinwar or whomever that was... being hunted by a drone... this is the future of the world, thanks to usa and israel... shame on us all for letting genocide continue

[EduardoArtistaDelavega]

Palestinians have the right to defend themselves against a racist oppressor.

[Pana]

Don't ever speak even to yourself about Human rights, woman's rights, children's rights, animals rights unless you believe in the freedom of the Palestinians!

[ckcqmbb]

For the Palestinians, Sinwar is an undisputed hero, able to mingle with the crowd without protection. On the other hand, Natenyahu, completely isolated, flees the crowd baths for fear of being attacked or assassinated.

[ramykhaleel]

The truth will prevail and you are part of the voices of truth