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Husam Zomlot

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first: 2024-11-29
most recent: 2024-11-29
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“No, no, I was born exactly at the Rafah border, and there is a story why. And Rafah has two parts. One in Asia, that is Palestine, and one in Africa that is Egypt. And by the way, that's why Gaza has been at the crossroad of civilizations historically. It's at the edge between Europe, Africa, Asia, etc. But I was born there because my grandfather with my father, when they were forced out of their homes, farms, livelihoods in the village of Simsem to the north of Gaza, My grandfather kept asking his fellow Palestinians as they were walking southward, is this still Palestine? They will say, yes, it's Palestine. He kept asking that question every few miles until he got a point. He asked the same question, is this Palestine? They told him, yes, hajj means, you know. But if you take one step, it will be easy. There I was born because he wanted to escape the atrocities as far as”
2024-11-29 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Husam Zomlot One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was created as a result of the ethnic cleansing. The UN resolution did not give Israel what it took. The UN resolution made sure that it is two states, the state of Palestine, the Arab state would have had Yafa and Nazareth. What Israel did had nothing to do with the UN. The UN is innocent of the crimes and atrocities committed. Let's talk about it.”
2024-11-29 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Husam Zomlot One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is the story of people who have gone through first cancellation, complete cancellation, and by the way, the UK Britain had something to do with that cancellation process. The Balfour Declaration, we were completely cancelled as a nation, and then there came an ideology that Palestine is a land without a people. And for that for that ideology to materialize, acts of extramination has to be implemented against my people. And in 1947-48, the Nakbayir, Militias, Jewish militias engaged in ethnic cleansing campaign, whereby two-thirds of the Palestinian people were Violently forced out. That was my parents, my grandparents, and as a result, I am the son of the Nakba. I was born in a refugee camp in Rafah.”
2024-11-29 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Husam Zomlot One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, the only thing that I can hold to and must hold to is hope. If I lose it, I will not wake up in the morning. The thing that keeps me going is hope, not optimism. Hope there's a difference between both. Hope with realism of what is happening, with a grasp, with the dent in our humanity, with the trauma that we're going through. But Hope is the propeller, the healer. The real energy that gives you that kick every single morning to keep at it because you have no other option.”
2024-11-29 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Husam Zomlot One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It would be the lesson that only diplomacy can work. And Netanyahu would have gotten his hostages out already by March and April. There were many, as you know very well, diplomatic formulas, agreements offered by him, and he has refused. Let's hope Lebanon will give an incentive in the direction of diplomacy.”
2024-11-29 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Husam Zomlot One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I do, I do see it as a source of hope, so does the rest of the world, I think. Everybody who was involved in that process of negotiation and diplomacy now doubles down on the belief that diplomacy works. And look, it works. We have a ceasefire. Our security issues have been resolved, and now we look at political and diplomatic resolutions. But that's you and I and the rest of the world. But there is one person missing in this calculation that is Netanyahu, which he might go exactly for the second option, which is now we single Gaza out, we put all of our military and capacity might to continue the mass murder, the mass destruction, and the mass expulsion of Gaza by the use of starvation and the use of disease as weapons of war, especially in light of the utter silence and impotence of the international system and the international community to stop him. So we are literally standing at an edge of where things would go from here. Let's hope.”
2024-11-29 · Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · The Husam Zomlot One · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source