Islamist Starts CRYING After Ayaan Hirsi Ali Crushes Islam! — Transcript
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- 0:00I want to show you this clip of Ayan
- 0:02Hersy Ali destroying this Islamist
- 0:04sympathizing panel. I showed you another
- 0:07clip just a few days ago where she did
- 0:08that with a group of women. Have a watch
- 0:10this clip because she is just so good at
- 0:13debunking the the the politically
- 0:16correct nonsense. Watch.
- 0:17>> All three of you, I think, also
- 0:19acknowledge that the majority of people
- 0:21who identify as Muslims around the world
- 0:23are not engaged in violence. It seems to
- 0:25me that where there is some difference
- 0:27is this question of whether the acts of
- 0:30violence by a small minority define the
- 0:33faith or are a perversion uh and a
- 0:36hijacking of the faith. And I want to go
- 0:39um first to you Ayan Hercieli. We just
- 0:42heard uh Imam Fisel uh make the point he
- 0:45made an analogy to um uh episodes
- 0:48historical episodes of wrongdoing by by
- 0:51faith that are more familiar. for for
- 0:53example in Richmond Virginia Christian
- 0:55uh faith of course uh historically wars
- 0:57have been fought by Christians uh with
- 0:59each other and against uh other groups
- 1:02and yet there's no tendency in our
- 1:04culture therefore to say that there's
- 1:06fundamentally something wrong at the
- 1:08root of Christianity and its definition
- 1:10and I'd like to ask you why you make
- 1:11that leap in the case of uh Islam and
- 1:15Muslims.
- 1:17Um what I do is I sorry um what I do is
- 1:21I listen to the men mostly they are men
- 1:25there are some women most but mostly men
- 1:27who invoke the founding documents of
- 1:30Islam and the founding father of Islam
- 1:33and I look at what they say and um and
- 1:37then I think is that in the Quran uh for
- 1:40instance I as you probably all know I'm
- 1:43very much concerned about the subjection
- 1:44of women Um, so when I read a verse in
- 1:48the Quran that says that men are the
- 1:51maintenance of women and that husbands
- 1:54are allowed to hit their wives, I see I
- 1:58I look at that verse in a way and I
- 2:01think you can read that in context
- 2:03in its historical context or you can
- 2:05apply it to our times. And the men who
- 2:09are doing that, who are applying all of
- 2:11these verses and the example of the
- 2:13prophet Muhammad not to the seventh
- 2:15century but to our time
- 2:18um
- 2:20I find and it's very unfortunate but I
- 2:24find them to be far more influential in
- 2:27inspiring and mobilizing young men to
- 2:30see the religion of Islam the way they
- 2:32see it than the way either Imam Fisel
- 2:36says he sees it or Majid Noah says he
- 2:39sees it and and that's a fact. You know,
- 2:41you look at al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda does not
- 2:44use Bin Laden to recruit new people.
- 2:47Al-Qaeda uses the Quran and the Prophet
- 2:49Muhammad to recruit young men. So that
- 2:51we have to stop this denial and at some
- 2:54point try and address the influence of
- 2:58these documents. And the way to do it is
- 2:59to
- 3:01you know to look at what is in there and
- 3:04not not deny it. It's just the denial
- 3:07that is so incredibly frustrating.
- 3:09>> The terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda,
- 3:11they all come from the strand of
- 3:13Islamism that I described or the
- 3:15politicization of Islam. And then there
- 3:17are the fundamentalists. The governor of
- 3:20Punjab in Pakistan was assassinated by
- 3:22his own bodyguard because he attempted
- 3:25to reform the blasphemy law in that
- 3:27country. And the sad fact is that the
- 3:32very people the very phenomenon that
- 3:34have been the fiercest in opposing the
- 3:37the strand of Islamism in Pakistan also
- 3:41produced the assassin of the governor of
- 3:43Punjab because they are
- 3:45ultra-conservative and the one thing
- 3:47that fuels their fire and angers them is
- 3:51questioning the blasphemy law and that's
- 3:53the second strand I address which is the
- 3:54fundamentalist strand. So in Ayan's
- 3:57analysis of what the problem is, I would
- 4:00agree with her. But then when Ayan goes
- 4:02back to the cause and says the cause for
- 4:04that problem
- 4:06is somehow to be found only in the
- 4:10religion of Islam exclusively.
- 4:12>> No, no, no, no. We are talking the
- 4:14subject tonight is is the religion of
- 4:16Islam one of peace or one of violence.
- 4:19>> Right. So the debate is not on
- 4:22Christianity or other religions. I know
- 4:24that it is difficult to talk about the
- 4:27violence but I don't think it's right to
- 4:30continue.
- 4:31>> Let's let Maji
- 4:34either either [applause]
- 4:40either either we must be consistent
- 4:42either the problem is religion per se or
- 4:47if we don't want to say that if we don't
- 4:48want to say that every single religion
- 4:50and there are people that say that
- 4:51Richard Dawkins is one of them. Yeah.
- 4:53who is as consistent against
- 4:55Christianity as he is against Islam and
- 4:57Judaism and all faith will stop
- 5:00>> or we say okay if the problem isn't
- 5:02religion per se then it must be about
- 5:05the way that religion is interpreted and
- 5:08if that's if that's the point then I
- 5:09agree with Aam that today today there
- 5:12are serious challenges with the way
- 5:14Islam is interpreted and I wish Muslims
- 5:16were doing more to challenge those
- 5:18interpretations not just in the
- 5:19political sense but also in the social
- 5:21sense we need to hear more voices speak
- 5:23out.
- 5:24>> I've got to say that I I don't I I
- 5:26really struggle with this one because
- 5:29you're telling me that the problem is
- 5:32about how religion gets interpreted.
- 5:36Well, does anyone have any concerns,
- 5:39widespread concerns about how Buddhism
- 5:41gets interpreted? Because there's many
- 5:43ways in which it could get interpreted
- 5:44or Hinduism, how that could get
- 5:45interpreted.
- 5:49No, the concerns have been historically
- 5:51by the way Christianity there was a big
- 5:53some serious issues there in terms of
- 5:55how some bits were interpreted
- 5:56particularly for the Jewish community
- 5:57but they've dealt with that not entirely
- 6:00but many many segments have there's a
- 6:03specific issue with Islam so why are you
- 6:05broadening it out to religion when there
- 6:09are specific things within I would say
- 6:12the Quran that I just think are
- 6:16incomparably
- 6:18uh more insightful, violent, uh
- 6:22potentially inflammatory and and causing
- 6:24all the kind of problems we see today
- 6:26that you just that you can't necessarily
- 6:28compare in any same way to many many
- 6:32other faiths and and that I think is the
- 6:36the the conflation that's being made
- 6:37here that I just I I don't really
- 6:40accept. I think yes there is something
- 6:43about interpretation. Again I mentioned
- 6:45the you know in Christianity things have
- 6:47been interpreted certain things in in
- 6:49the New Testament that that did cause
- 6:51issues and they had to relook at that
- 6:54particularly uh you know in in the last
- 6:57century. Um, but uh at the end of the
- 7:01day to pretend that there isn't a
- 7:03specific issue here with Islam, I think
- 7:06is uh
- 7:08it's just not being intellectually
- 7:10honest because there is sadly a lot of
- 7:12subject material there that jihadists
- 7:15and the radicals draw upon. Danny
- 7:17Burawi, who I interviewed, a former
- 7:18Muslim from Jordan, said that it is the
- 7:20radicals who are interpreting it
- 7:22literally. There's lots more subject
- 7:24material in the Quran that lends itself
- 7:27to these kinds of problems. That's just
- 7:30the truth of it.
- 7:31>> There are many reasons why they don't.
- 7:32>> What are the reasons?
- 7:33>> Well, you know, two of us on this stage,
- 7:36I don't know about the imam, and forgive
- 7:37me, but I hope I am mistaken, but Ayan
- 7:40and I both live with death threats over
- 7:41our lives. And and the reasons for that
- 7:43just last month after the Kenya mall
- 7:45attack, the Somali al-Shabaab added me
- 7:47to their hit list. You know, it's the
- 7:49fact that you're both under death
- 7:50threats for speaking the way you're
- 7:51speaking that raises the spectre of the
- 7:53notion of Islam as a religion of
- 7:55violence. It it's a very bad headline.
- 7:58>> Of course. Well,
- 8:02>> that's that's a that's a point that of
- 8:04course
- 8:04>> and that's really why we're here and to
- 8:06hear why that's not true.
- 8:07>> That's a point that would resonate
- 8:08except let's not let's remember one
- 8:09thing. It takes one person and their dog
- 8:13to issue a death threat. Frankly, you
- 8:15know, I mean, it's easy to issue death
- 8:17threat. That doesn't mean the majority
- 8:18of Muslims want to kill us. That means
- 8:20there are groups out there.
- 8:21>> I I I take that point completely and and
- 8:24and that this is the thing that I keep
- 8:26asking myself. If if you if you all
- 8:28agree if you all will stipulate that the
- 8:31majority of Muslims are not involved in
- 8:33violence and or interested in being
- 8:35involved in violence and if the
- 8:36behaviors of the people of a particular
- 8:38faith in my mind would define that faith
- 8:41then why does that not tell us by it by
- 8:43the virtue of the fact that most Muslims
- 8:45don't want to be involved in violence
- 8:46that Islam is not a religion of violence
- 8:48>> I think
- 8:49>> isn't it you you walk like a duck and
- 8:50you talk like a duck
- 8:51>> yes you walk like yes exactly quack
- 8:53quack
- 8:54>> because the [laughter]
- 8:57The violent ones are the ones that get
- 8:58the whole news headlines,
- 8:59>> right?
- 9:00>> I mean, I don't get, you know, you don't
- 9:02get news attention because of being
- 9:04being moderate or or promoting peace.
- 9:06>> I'm sure's going to speak in a second.
- 9:08I'll be quick in this point, but I have
- 9:09to say that there's there's a few issues
- 9:12here that they're conflating. Again,
- 9:14okay, yes, most Muslims are not violent.
- 9:17Um, but then the question is, what about
- 9:19who are the ones that are leading the
- 9:21cultural, civilizational, uh, religious
- 9:24world? That's what matters. Don't forget
- 9:26the Nazis um didn't get the majority of
- 9:29German support, but they led the agenda.
- 9:32And then secondly, how much sympathy is
- 9:34there? Not necessarily they would be
- 9:36themselves be violent, but how much
- 9:37sympathy is there for jihadist stuff and
- 9:40terrorism? And sadly, polling shows that
- 9:43there is widespread support for jihadi
- 9:46terrorist activities like kamas um etc.
- 9:50Um, and this exists uh sadly throughout
- 9:53um throughout the Muslim world. Um,
- 9:57yeah. And that's part of the problem as
- 9:59well, is it not? Because once you, you
- 10:01know, you might not have the majority or
- 10:03even a substantial minority that are
- 10:06involved in violence, even though, by
- 10:07the way, a small minority is still
- 10:08millions and million millions of people.
- 10:10Um, but if you have a culture that's
- 10:12growing that supports this kind of
- 10:14stuff, that lends itself to this kind of
- 10:15stuff, that in of itself is a massive
- 10:17massive problem. uh you know you you get
- 10:20the attention when you commit acts of
- 10:22violence.
- 10:23>> Well, look, Yidsak Rabbine was shot by a
- 10:25fanatic Jewish extremist and nobody
- 10:30leaps from that to thinking that Judaism
- 10:32is an extremely violent religion even
- 10:35though that young man brought
- 10:38essentially brings the text to to his to
- 10:40his action. And yet with Islam the that
- 10:43leap is often made and I'm trying to
- 10:44understand why you think that is. I I
- 10:46want to point out we can't
- 10:48>> actually let me I I actually wanted to
- 10:50put the question to Imam Ruth first and
- 10:51then I'll come to you.
- 10:52>> Well it is made because that
- 10:55>> by the way there's so many causitive
- 10:56distinctions there that one has to make
- 10:58with the Sakurin assassination. Uh first
- 11:01of all this was a political targeting
- 11:03whereas terrorism is literally just
- 11:05targeting civilians indiscriminately.
- 11:08Um so there's a qualitative distinction
- 11:10there. Um and secondly the issue is you
- 11:14know again about uh frequency right and
- 11:18how widespread is this and how much
- 11:19widespread support is there for this
- 11:21kind of stuff that's the distinction
- 11:22>> that link is not made because as
- 11:24Christians and as Jews you you get it
- 11:25you understand the the political
- 11:27motivation behind it
- 11:29>> the vast majority of Muslims do not make
- 11:31that link either the vast majority of
- 11:34Muslims see these things as as not uh
- 11:39not legitimately interpreting the
- 11:40religion of Islam or something outside
- 11:42the state of Islam just like the
- 11:44majority of Jews would not consider the
- 11:47the assassin of Jakabin as legitimately
- 11:50expressing the Jewish faith. Uh this is
- 11:53very much the case in the in the vast
- 11:54majority of the Muslim world.
- 11:56>> So it's it's what you're really saying
- 11:59is it's our I'm talking collectively our
- 12:03culture here. It's our not knowing
- 12:05uh enough about Islam or enough about
- 12:08Muslims. It's it's about the way
- 12:09perceptions are shaped.
- 12:11>> Mhm.
- 12:12>> Perceptions are shaped by events very
- 12:15much for most people. And just like you
- 12:18know when I'm in Muslim majority
- 12:20countries they will say why is America
- 12:22attacking Islam. They view that. Why?
- 12:24Because when some major in in the US
- 12:27military says we're in Iraq because this
- 12:29is a crusade against Islam. That gets a
- 12:31banner headline in the Muslim world. So
- 12:33that shapes perception.
- 12:34>> And is it a very powerful way? Is it the
- 12:36view in the Muslim world that this
- 12:38country, our country is dedicated to
- 12:40destroying Islam?
- 12:41>> There are there are large numbers of
- 12:43people who feel that way based upon
- 12:45these types of headlines. This is why I
- 12:47said that the cycle of extremist actions
- 12:50and extremist statements get the banner
- 12:52headlines in each in each country. So
- 12:54when an Ayatollah in Iran saying death
- 12:57to America, this scares Americans and
- 12:59Americans get this image that the
- 13:01Iranians are out to destroy and Islam is
- 13:03about to destroy America. Then you have,
- 13:05you know, a a military general who says
- 13:08this and then somebody commits an act.
- 13:10>> You know, I get so frustrated by all of
- 13:12this because at the end of the day, this
- 13:14is just trying to whitewash and wash
- 13:16over, you know, the serious existential
- 13:19security threats and problems that the
- 13:21West and Israel America are facing. And
- 13:22they do it all in their kind of comfy uh
- 13:25couches and their smart suits. What are
- 13:27we really getting so worked up about and
- 13:29so worried about? But of course it costs
- 13:31lives this kind of naivity and uh
- 13:33distraction
- 13:34>> violence that gets the headlines over
- 13:35here. Then you have a pastor who has
- 13:37only 30 people in Florida saying he's
- 13:39going to burn the Quran and then it
- 13:41results in acts of violence. So the the
- 13:44the the media grabbing these extremist
- 13:46events helps shapes perceptions and
- 13:49creates this sense of revulsion that
- 13:51people have and the tendency to then
- 13:53whitewash all of those people and say
- 13:56well this America's against us or the
- 13:58west is against us. I only been very
- 14:00patient. Go ahead.
- 14:01>> Yeah, I've been very patient. Thank you
- 14:02very much. So, is it is it the
- 14:06packaging, the marketing, or is it the
- 14:10substance? Okay.
- 14:13In America, in the Western world, there
- 14:16are continuous debates about the place
- 14:18of Muslims. And yes, in amongst Muslims
- 14:22in the west and amongst Muslims outside
- 14:25of the West, there is this general
- 14:28belief that Islam is under siege and
- 14:30that Americans want to destroy Islam.
- 14:33That is a matter of perception because
- 14:35it's not supported by facts. Now we look
- 14:40at Islam and I look at Islamic countries
- 14:42like Pakistan and they have blasphemy
- 14:44laws. Part of the constitution of
- 14:46Pakistan is derived from or founded on
- 14:49the Quran or the hadith. Um the
- 14:51constitution of Iran is Islamic.
- 14:55The constitution of Saudi Arabia is the
- 14:58Quran. You look at movements like the
- 15:00Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamists in
- 15:02uh the countries that have sprung up
- 15:04after the Arab Spring and these
- 15:07movements want to organize society along
- 15:11religious lines. this conflation
- 15:15between politics and religion. This is
- 15:18not something that I am imagining.
- 15:20[clears throat] It's not a packaging
- 15:21problem. It's substantial. So when you
- 15:24give the example of the murderer of its
- 15:27Rabbin, uh he is a fringe. The state of
- 15:30Israel is not
- 15:32>> and he's in jail
- 15:33>> and he is in jail. And the Christian
- 15:35extremists here in the United States who
- 15:39take the Bible and then use it to um
- 15:43kill people and hurt people, they are
- 15:45the fringe. But unfortunately, what we
- 15:48are seeing in Muslim countries is that
- 15:50the people who feel that they should be
- 15:53governed under the Sharia law are not a
- 15:56fringe. In some countries, they are a
- 15:58mainstream.
- 16:00>> In some countries, they are a minority.
- 16:02But in any case, it's a huge obstacle
- 16:05that cannot be ignored. And Islam can
- 16:07become a religion of peace. If politics
- 16:11is divorced from religion, if science is
- 16:14divorced from religion and and for that
- 16:18we need a reformation.
- 16:19>> Specifically, why is there so much
- 16:21violence against and oppression of
- 16:24women? Is this a problem of substance or
- 16:27is it a problem of interpretation? Does
- 16:29the Quran specifically justify and
- 16:32condone it?
- 16:34Ayon, I think as the feminist, well,
- 16:36maybe everyone here is a feminist, but
- 16:38as you're the female feminist on the
- 16:40panel, [laughter]
- 16:41I'll give you first crack at that.
- 16:43>> Um, well, thank you very much. Um,
- 16:47I find enough verses in the Quran and in
- 16:50the Hadith and in the practice of Islam
- 16:52to show that as a woman in Islam, you
- 16:55have to have a male guardian. you don't
- 16:57own your sexuality. Um, you know, all
- 17:00the examples that I mentioned. So, that
- 17:04is meat. It's substance. And when I call
- 17:09for a reformation, I am calling for an
- 17:13editing, a review of that so that uh men
- 17:17who do not want to oppress women um can
- 17:21find consistency within their scripture
- 17:24and the way they practice Islam. Right
- 17:27now what you see when it comes to
- 17:29violence whether it is against women or
- 17:31against religious minorities or even you
- 17:33know Shia and Sunnis what you see is
- 17:36there are peaceloving Muslims who are
- 17:39put in a position of cognitive
- 17:41dissonance. They want to live and they
- 17:44do lead lives that are not conssonant
- 17:48with what the Quran says and the example
- 17:50of the prophet Muhammad. And I think the
- 17:52way forward is to stop the denial, the
- 17:56evasion and to look at this and to
- 17:59modify it. We live in a country that
- 18:00allows us to do that. United States is
- 18:03founded on innovation and there's this
- 18:05enormous opportunity um today for
- 18:08Muslims. As we look at the world that we
- 18:11were born in and the world we come from,
- 18:13there's this enormous opportunity here
- 18:15in the US to look at scripture in the
- 18:17eye and to innovate and to reform. And
- 18:20unless that is done, that dissonance is
- 18:23going to be there. And the people who
- 18:24invoke the verses and the practice of
- 18:27the prophet to justify the subjection of
- 18:29women and to justify violence will
- 18:31always be there. So my message is right
- 18:35now there is an opportunity for reform.
- 18:37I have this printed out and I'm just
- 18:39waiting for that challenge that it's not
- 18:41in the Quran. You should go to a website
- 18:43called Islam a religion of peace and
- 18:46someone has documented 109 verses from
- 18:49the Quran and the hadith. So it's in the
- 18:53world we live the Quran is a small
- 18:56and everyone can see what it is.
- 18:57>> I'm only coming to you as the moderator
- 18:58on this question because I'm looking for
- 19:00clarity. But you could do the same thing
- 19:01with the Old Testament.
- 19:03>> Oh you can but the Christians have gone
- 19:05through that. The Christians have had
- 19:07their inquisitions and their crusades
- 19:08and the witch burnings and they are past
- 19:11that. So that violence is now an issue
- 19:14of the fringe. Islam is right in the
- 19:16middle of it and a true leadership. By
- 19:18the way, this topic for another time,
- 19:20but I would challenge the idea that in,
- 19:23you know, the New Testament things a
- 19:24different story, but the Old Testament,
- 19:28the things that may seem a little bit
- 19:30inflammatory or whatever, actually, once
- 19:32you understand them and the way they've
- 19:34also been interpreted through our oral
- 19:36law, which we've always had since Mount
- 19:38Si, that I I think they all become
- 19:42completely justifiable.
- 19:44um as evidenced by the fact that we
- 19:46don't see an example of from the Jewish
- 19:48side a crusade and inquisition or or
- 19:50jihadi or jihad or terrorism or that
- 19:53kind of stuff. Um but I think the big
- 19:55concern here is that there's just too
- 19:57much within the Quran that seems to lend
- 20:00itself to this kind of interpretation.
- 20:03Therefore, you want a reformation.
- 20:06How do you do that with so when there's
- 20:08so much subject material here?
- 20:09Ultimately, even if you want to have a
- 20:11whole new thing that says, "No, we don't
- 20:12interpret it that way." Anyone that just
- 20:15reads the text itself will see so much
- 20:17there that would encourage in their
- 20:20minds jihad.
- 20:21>> Compassionate leadership who love
- 20:22Muslims would be a leadership that would
- 20:25now modify, innovate, and and reform. So
- 20:28I have to say that ultimately um we
- 20:32can't get away from the fact that it is
- 20:34the uh Quran itself
- 20:37that is problematic
- 20:40and uh I in no way want to take away
- 20:43from the fact that Muslims have a there
- 20:47are many that just have a devout sense
- 20:48of wanting to be connected to God, lead
- 20:52a uh spiritual god-oriented life and
- 20:56that is absolutely commendable and
- 20:57that's Great. And there probably is a
- 20:59lot of overlap that we share as Jews
- 21:01with Muslims, but the Quran itself uh is
- 21:04a problem. And certainly from a Jewish
- 21:06perspective, in the end, it's going to
- 21:09have to go. Not connection to God, not
- 21:12connection to spirituality. And again,
- 21:14there's so much within the Quran that
- 21:16shares the narratives and stories of of
- 21:18of the Torah, but but but uh this uh you
- 21:24know, the the fact that there's quite a
- 21:26lot of textual distortion actually of
- 21:28what the Torah says in the Quran and
- 21:29also the inflammatory
- 21:31uh anti- non-Muslim stuff there uh and
- 21:35its political desires certainly to you
- 21:38know overtake um the uh the world
- 21:42politically.
- 21:43Um that is something that's uh going to
- 21:46be a major a major problem that
- 21:48ultimately uh is it means that that the
- 21:51Quran is a problem and it's going to
- 21:54have to be
- 21:56replaced
- 21:58with the Torah. That is the Jewish
- 22:01vision. Um and it's something that we
- 22:03believe is coming and it's going to be
- 22:04actually imminent. Um, but one thing
- 22:07that I want to get back to is that we
- 22:09saw on this panel discussion um too much
- 22:12of uh a desire to want to just
- 22:16uh labor under false illusions to
- 22:21convince themselves that no no we see
- 22:23this we see this problem and violence
- 22:24everything but no no it can't be because
- 22:26you know every religion gets interpreted
- 22:28this way and and you know it's only a
- 22:30tiny minority.
- 22:32It's so dangerous when we allow fancy
- 22:35arguments to cloud the actual problem.
- 22:40And the same thing has happened inside
- 22:42of Israel on another question. The whole
- 22:44issue of the Palestinian
- 22:47cause, thinking that we need to keep
- 22:49doing the whole two-state solution
- 22:51thing. We can't talk about any other way
- 22:54to resolve this conflict and say that
- 22:57the Palestinian thing is actually a lie.
- 22:59And actually I was trying to do some
- 23:01digging into where has this come from?
- 23:02Why are we so stuck? Why is Israel
- 23:04stuck,
- 23:06the world actually for that matter,
- 23:08stuck psychologically and politically in
- 23:10this trap where we can't get out of
- 23:13stating the bleeding obvious that the
- 23:14Palestinian cause is a lie and a cynical
- 23:17creation. And I think it all comes back
- 23:19to an agreement that was secretly
- 23:21negotiated and then signed in the 1990s.
- 23:24And so we made a documentary about this
- 23:27and it's about the Oslo Accords and how
- 23:31this laid the groundwork for the cage
- 23:33that Israel's been stuck in. But it also
- 23:35shows us how Israel can finally escape
- 23:38Oslo's trap. Have a watch the trailer
- 23:40for our new film that we've just
- 23:42launched on JTV Plus called The Oslo
- 23:44Trap. And if you want to watch it in
- 23:46full, just click on the link below in
- 23:47the video description. You've been
- 23:49watching this conflict for years now,
- 23:52maybe your whole life. The wars, the
- 23:54terror, the protests, the politics,
- 23:57and underneath all of it, a set of
- 23:59phrases that get repeated so often
- 24:02they've stopped meaning anything. And
- 24:03yet somehow they still shape everything.
- 24:06Two-state solution. Two solution.
- 24:09>> Occupation. Palestinian statethood. But
- 24:12if you want to understand where all of
- 24:14this comes from and why things seem so
- 24:16stuck, there is one moment you need to
- 24:19know about. One agreement signed 30
- 24:22years ago that created the world we're
- 24:24living in now. It's called the Oslo
- 24:26Accords.
- 24:29A peace agreement, or so the world was
- 24:31told,
- 24:33secretly negotiated,
- 24:36in the Norwegian city of Oslo, and
- 24:39signed on the White House lawn in 1993
- 24:42between the Israeli government and the
- 24:44Palestine Liberation Organization, the
- 24:46PLO, a Palestinian political movement
- 24:48that had spent decades waging a terror
- 24:50campaign against Israeli civilians. Most
- 24:53people have never heard of the Oslo
- 24:54Accords, or they've heard the name and
- 24:56moved on. But Oslo is the reason Israeli
- 24:59occupation dominates the news bulletins.
- 25:02It's why two-state solution is the only
- 25:04diplomatic language anyone speaks. It's
- 25:07why Israel left Gaza in 2005 and why
- 25:10that withdrawal handed Hamas the
- 25:12launchpad for October [music] 7th. It's
- 25:14why Israel, even after the largest
- 25:16massacre of Jewish people since the
- 25:17Holocaust, found itself in the dock at
- 25:20the International Court of Justice
- 25:22rather than unequivocally backed by the
- 25:24[music] world. Oslo didn't just fail as
- 25:26a peace process. Oslo built the
- 25:28framework, the moral, political, and
- 25:30military framework inside which Israel
- 25:32has been trapped ever since. And until
- 25:34you understand what it actually was and
- 25:36why it was [music] built, you cannot
- 25:38understand what is happening today. In
- 25:40this JTV Plus documentary, we're going
- 25:42to show you what Oslo was really
- 25:44designed to achieve. How it handed a
- 25:46terrorist organization the space to
- 25:48build the machine that carried out
- 25:50October 7th. how it trapped Israel in a
- 25:53moral framework it can't win inside and
- 25:56why the world is still reaching for
- 25:58Oslo's language today because Oslo
- 26:00didn't just shape the conflict, it
- 26:02shaped how the entire world thinks about
- 26:04it. This film is going to show you where
- 26:06it all began, why it still hasn't ended,
- 26:08and how Israel can finally escape Oslo's
- 26:10trap. To watch this JTV Plus documentary
- 26:14and access much more premium content,
- 26:16click on the link in the video
- 26:18description.
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