US, Europe complicit in Israeli crimes against Gaza: Activist
The Israeli regime has begun in a series of airstrikes against the Gaza Strip since last Wednesday. At least 49 Palestinians have so far been killed in the offensive. Press TV has conducted an interview with Ken O'Keefe, a peace activist from London, to further discuss the issue. The following is a rough transcription of the interview.
Press TV: Telling half of the truth is just as bad as not telling the truth. We see the Israeli media machine at work especially online; and, of course, this whole scenario without what has been occurring to Gazans and the Palestinians deserves more light to be shed. But of course, that’s not what the media reflects on. You’re well aware of what’s going on as a peace activist, of course. Tell us your synopsis of how you see this whole situation.
Ken O'Keefe: It really gives credence to the idea that the ‘chosen ones’, i.e. the Jewish people, believe that they’re so chosen that they have the right to use every other human being on this planet however they can be used to their perceived benefit. And that each one of us is nothing more than dogs and cattle to be used and slaughtered, lied to and exploited in every way possible because “God so ordained” that the Jewish people have the right to do so as the “chosen ones”. It gives credence to that whole belief that these people are the most vile and disgusting, psychopathic criminals who are deluded with the most serious delusions of grandeur who believe that they can get away with everything because, again, “God said” they were chosen to do so. How is it possible for us to even begin to explain how the people of Palestine have been treated decade after decade unless we understand that, in the eyes of the power structure within Israel, the Palestinians are not in fact people, that they are dogs, that they don’t even exist to even think that they are worth anything in the eyes of this psychopathic Jewish supremacist ideology… It’s to insult yourself… because “God said” that you are ‘chosen’ and that everything else is irrelevant. That would explain very well what the Israelis are doing yet again. And I don’t use props in my whole presentation ever, but this little girl here is a reflection of our crimes. Our crimes against the people of Palestine in the Western world because we sit here and we do nothing while the Israelis continue to murder little baby girls like this one who used to be a beautiful little baby girl and who now looks like a piece of charcoal sitting in the cold iron box in Palestine right now. That is what we do, sit by and do nothing while the Israelis continue to murder and rampage at will.
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