Yeah.

And, and they, they don't recogn- Like, you know, you wanna, you want to see me as human, you, you need to see me as, as having the right to bear arms when someone, uh, does this to me.

It's, it's a very simple equation.

And sadly enough, there wasn't even that much written about it.

The la- the reason why we actually have the right to resist so clearly articulated international law goes to, uh, Georgia Bessaab, who's, uh, an Egyptian, uh, international lawyer who worked, you know? But then the, the, uh, but then, uh, there was a moment at the United Nations where all of that, what was happened, what happened in 1970s when they recognized the right to resist, was completely disregarded.

So anyway, so I, I went, so I was really excited.

I, I went ahead.

Mm.

You know, how did the conditions that were present on October 7th, on October 6th, in Gaza come into being?

So it's very important to also see this as the history of imperialism in the whole of West Asia and North Africa, in the sense that the British arrived in, uh, West Asia around the 18th century to facilitate their own trade.

And with that, facilitated a very good coalition with, uh, some of the elite classes in the region.

Um, and with, uh, the case of Palestine, what happened is the, uh, is the effort to cut apart, uh, or create the Berlin Conference of the Levant by cutting apart the whole region, which was one whole entity, the Levant itself, with its indigenous people, uh, according to the pieces of cake that, uh, appealed best to the French and the British.

Hence, we have the new nation states of what we call Lebanon, uh, Palestine and Jordan.

Um, and when it came to the...

When it came to Palestine specifically, it was both the Zionist project, um, as well as places within the British government that thought it would be a very good idea to resolve the, uh, Jewish question of Europe, and predominantly the question of European Jews, uh, into creating their new homeland in, uh, Palestine.

You know? I'd be interested to get your thoughts on some of this.

What is the awareness of Britain's relationship with Israel?

So to begin with, let's be very clear.

Had it not been for the UK's material support to Israel, we could have saved tens of thousands of lives.

And it was very clear for the people who went to the street that if something were to happen by the UK's government, we are able to save those lives.

So an apology coming far too late into the future is almost offensive rather than anything that would relinquish people or allow us to breathe.

So, as to the British people's understanding of what was happening, it is indeed very disturbing to see the distortion that happened through mainstream media, such as the BBC, for example, where representations of Palestinians as less human were not only normalized, but also deep fear of the other was ingrained over and over and over again.

Listening to the news, it was as if one is listening to the world saying that their life and specifically their right to say no to a settler colony that has deprived us of our life for five generations now is criminalized over and over again.

So,