No. I don't think he is remotely interested in the safety and dignity and security of Palestinian people. I think he believes that uh he would be better off if they didn't exist. Or at the very least, he doesn't want them around, right? And so we see a policy which obviously has led to what it did in
So, you think the United States is going to put ground troops in, Iran are going to resist, and then chaos is going to break out in the United Palestine, Hamas. Okay, and and before Syria was also part of their axis of
pro-Israel. And now after 40 years, the type of abuses that have happened in Palestine have hit individual ordinary people's attitudes to Israel. So ordinary people are saying Israel's the aggressor. Israel's making the mistakes.
The Israeli military is to open internal criminal investigations into two of the most high-profile attacks on Palestinians during the war in Gaza. The killing of 5-year-old Hind Rajab in January 2024 and the killings of 15 emergency and aid
Uh along with East uh East Jerusalem is what Palestinians want for a future Palestinian state. So, for decades now there have been negotiations of whether a Palestinian state could be established. Well, that it is on that land where they want it. And these clashes
impossible by laying facts on the ground. So, in effect, to split the West Bank into so many parts that a Palestinian state becomes impossible. Now, it used to be Palestinians who made that accusation, but you now have Israeli ministers boasting that that is
hard for the reintroduction of the death penalty for um alleged terrorist offenses committed by Palestinians. Uh that law passed. He has talked about uh clearing Gaza of Palestinians and getting Palestinians to migrate out of Gaza and fully resettling
Palestinians. Uh that law passed. He has talked about uh clearing Gaza of Palestinians and getting Palestinians to migrate out of Gaza and fully resettling the Gaza Strip with Israelis, um which again is something
dialogue where once and for all we can find a durable solution to the Palestinian issue. But I think um I had a chance we had a chance meeting in Davos um a few months before October 7th
And I might just read out the names to you to remind you who uh who was killed there. That is Sif Abu Taha, a Palestinian, Darmian Soal, then Zumi Franco, um James Henderson, uh John Chapman, James Kirby, and Jacob Flickinger. Now, the families obviously
you know, they had erected some of these smaller outposts. Uh they established in in in front of the homes uh of Palestinian families there. Um some of them were torn down, but the settlers themselves, they were not removed from the area. The Israeli military also took
viewers, the United Nations estimate that Israel has killed more than 1,000 Palestinians, including 269 women and children, since the ceasefire was signed. Uh and 700 more than 700 Palestinians injured. So, there is no ceasefire in Gaza. There is
So this is the olive oil. Palestinian olive oil, when you can find it. Oh, my god. I wish I-- If you talk to Lamees offline, we have a source.
And you know, it's something that happens with practice, but once you nail it, it becomes an incredibly easy kitchen thing to do. Palestinian olive oil. I love it.
But he has no shoes on, and the sole of his feet are cracked. Palestine. Turkey, Kuwait. Yeah, the leaders of Kuwait, Surdia, Palestine.
guidance and when has Hollywood been wrong before now we can actually think about um conflicts around the world today that are tied to water the Israeli Palestinian conflict a very complicated conflict many layers to that one Many religious and other historical layers but water is a part of that Israelis say there'll be no water until there's peace and the Palestinians say there'll be no peace until there's water water inequity is one of the parts of that conflict the
But we've added to this list, A few places. Palestine. Oh, no, it is on there. So we've added to this list a little bit this year, and it continues to grow.
You must have had doubts along the way. How did you maintain your focus and your ability to com-continue going on despite how hard it was? You must have along the line thought Palestinians will hate us because otherwise he cannot really control his own people. And that it should be our interests that he will be controlled by Supreme Court, by his Supreme
You must have had doubts along the way. How did you maintain your focus and your ability to com-continue going on despite how hard it was? You must have along the line thought Palestinians can be closer to democratic way of life than maybe any other group of Muslims because they have been in Diaspora, because they were involved in free economy, because
governments be it say george w bush's or barack obama's is that israel needs to satisfy palestinians israel needs to make concessions to palestinians to give them more land more control of territory more money more arms more recognition my emphasis is quite the opposite that
pro-Palestinian advocacy helps you win votes in the general? You know, cuz that's the other side of the argument
Uh I guess they're just outside the village up on a hillside. It's a kind of compound with three, four houses where two Palestinian families live. And this is in the middle of the West Bank really, the occupied West Bank. About uh a bit of a drive south of a big city
actually some uh activists tried to walk up to these three or four houses to offer support to these Palestinian families, to take them food. And very quickly you saw a large numbers of Israeli soldiers blocking uh these activists and completely stopping them and getting rid of them. You know,
When Palestinians controlled the whole territory, it was still in one of the most overcrowded places on the planet.
no Palestinian state end to security threat. Look what I've
or Palestinian and Colombian.
And Palestine wasn't a country.
or Palestine, or Israel.
and Palestine, or any human rights issue that exists, you write about them, and you explore them.
the Palestinian refugees in Hebrew, about Jews from Damascus even in Hebrew.
Because Palestinian and Israeli, we're all insecure line cooks at the end of the day.
this Palestinian woman who I met at a speech I gave in East Jerusalem she had a lot of just sadness
Palsy Palestinian. OK, I think she's in the light.
and Palestinians, you went around eight different cities and printed them up on the security fence and the walls and stuff.
and Palestinians could call it a free phone number and they put through to Israelis and in its first five years of
A Palestinian man came up to me last year and said the following.
and Palestinians, where do you stand?" In blue or purple, whatever the color is, is the level of support for Israel.
we'll help you and in return leave us alone it didn't work the palestinians were supposed to in this vision say you know what israel is treating us pretty decently we should in fact leave it alone but it didn't happen what happened instead was the palestinians saw in
seek other goals and this is my fourth and last concept change of heart the two different ways of approaching the palestinians the prevailing one is to say that the palestinians did accept israel in 1993 but there are all sorts of problems there are grievances such as occupation and poverty and humiliation or alternatively that the united states
more money more arms more recognition my emphasis is quite the opposite that the palestinians must accept israel i'm not looking for israel to make concessions i'm looking for something fundamental to change on the palestinian side prevailing view says that israel must give my view is that israel must win
negative step and i look at developments in the region through that prison i also see palestinians as the key once the palestinians who are rather small population except israel then arabs and muslims and others around the world will eventually follow they are the key my recommendations for israel and the united states follow from this i don't
In Palestinian territories, 66 percent, two out of three.
The Palestine Liberation Organization for a long time was headed or led by Christians in fairly prominent positions. Now, you have two sides who are at their most
in Palestine. If you let these people get power, they end up being more like other politicians than they certainly ever intended to be.
And that pales in comparison to some of the concerns that exist externally.
But it pales by comparison with 9 million premature deaths annually from fossil fuels.
All of it pales in comparison to getting that message from someone who says, I've been here, and I know what it's like to just take it until you make it,
Everything else pales in comparison.
in the uh pales which I don't actually do but you know I'm a cartoonist and I draw things okay and when I take a break
I'm Palestinian. I wouldn't say it the same way.