Shadee Elmasry – It Didn’t Start On October 7 Hamza Tzortzis NBF 272

Shadee Elmasry
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A speaker discusses how the crisis has been complex and volatile, with police actions leading to the deaths of children and the construction of carpet-bombed buildings. The speaker uses a narrative that assumes that the aggressor is the aggressor, not the victim, and uses the phrase "oppressors' to describe the situation.

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			Don't assume that the crisis
started on October the seventh,
		
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			we've had seven decades of illegal
occupation, decades of apartheid,
		
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			decades of killing hundreds of
children killed. One would argue
		
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			that a whole decade of bombing,
right every couple of years, Gaza
		
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			has been, you know, literally
carpet bombed. You have even Arab
		
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			Israeli citizens being treated
like third class citizens, you
		
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			have Palestinians being treated,
you know, worse than animals. So
		
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			from this perspective, we see that
there has been an ongoing
		
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			aggression going on. So what we've
just done is we reframe the
		
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			narrative by saying, Well hold on
a second, your statement assumes
		
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			that you are not the aggressor,
that you're the victim. But in the
		
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			grand cosmic scheme of things on
this issue, you are actually the
		
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			oppressor. You are tyrannical. You
are terrorists state, you're an
		
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			apartheid state. And it really
frames the whole narrative and we
		
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			say didn't just start on October
the seventh