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[00:00:05] Blue Pill shows you reality, the other lets the story go
[00:00:08] exactly where you need to. Choose
[00:00:11] carefully.
[00:00:16] of What do you see? A
[00:00:19] plane, fly
[00:00:21] dubai.
[00:00:27] of
[00:00:33] of
[00:00:44] of A pilot a very determined
[00:00:48] of plumber.
[00:00:51] of of How
[00:00:55] does of of he reach the cockpit? He stops following normal
[00:00:58] physics.
[00:01:00] of
[00:01:12] What is the Omani Pilot doing? Thinking about what? Maybe
[00:01:15] in he's of of wondering why he's even here. Israel had already screened the
[00:01:19] passenger and crew lists. Oman has no diplomatic relations with
[00:01:22] Israel, so an Omeny pilot shouldn't have been cleared for this
[00:01:26] flight. Maybe that's what he's thinking about. Why doesn't he lock the copping?
[00:01:30] He'd have to stand up
[00:01:32] of and he'd get thrown across the cockapit, but the plumber can cross 15 rows.
[00:01:36] Everything works differently from row 16
[00:01:43] a forward.
[00:01:45] of Can't he use the plane to stop
[00:01:49] him? He
[00:01:52] in
[00:01:52] of tries.
[00:01:59] of
[00:02:04] of
[00:02:11] of so the captain is down, the other pilot is tied up with
[00:02:15] headphones,
[00:02:20] the plumber goes back to do what, fly the
[00:02:22] plane, any flight training,
[00:02:26] no, simulator, no, then what does he know?
[00:02:45] of
[00:02:52] You just pull it toward herself and the plane comes
[00:02:54] up, that's
[00:02:58] what makes it in.
[00:03:00] of appressive, who's going to land it? I have something for that
[00:03:04] too. From here, I take
[00:03:07] over. I'm a
[00:03:10] pilot. Me too.
[00:03:12] Interesting. Your
[00:03:15] turn.
[00:03:19] What do you see? An American airman over
[00:03:24] of Iran. Not properly. Not properly.
[00:03:27] Impact. Heard.
[00:03:30] of dead?
[00:03:34] no, injured? a
[00:03:35] little.
[00:03:43] of in of so he waits for rescue?
[00:03:44] no,
[00:03:52] he climbs. climbs what? the
[00:03:54] mountain.
[00:04:00] of
[00:04:03] Good,
[00:04:04] of that's interesting too, of
[00:04:09] of course, every crime needs an excuse, and when they don't have
[00:04:12] one, they make up
[00:04:14] story.
[00:04:20] of
[00:04:23] of of
[00:04:30] قوانه of بخطوط نبيعه
[00:04:32] ميزان وكيف بسعر صوت ولا الحض كله طرح بمكانه
[00:04:35] اهدى ما هو كل شي باين
[00:04:37] of في المحنى الله الله بيشهد مين نحن
[00:04:39] of رجاله ضمنطش لك بنضرب حرب الليله ما بنغلك بدك ش بالعاده
[00:04:43] in منهدلك مرحب فيك في اولاد الاوتس مندبر حالنا نحل
[00:04:47] of اللغش رنيت على نبحه وكله بخش وكشفنا وياما وكله بيصف ولا مره
[00:04:51] of نخاف ولا مره ونوس
[00:04:55] in بالدفكان. in
[00:05:01] of
[00:05:01] of in I had done the boycott
[00:05:04] campaigns, I had lobbies, politicians, I had
[00:05:08] organized protests and marches, but nothing was working.
[00:05:12] I've
[00:05:21] got you, rather than asking any politician
[00:05:24] to shut weapons
[00:05:27] factories down, we could go and shut them down
[00:05:29] ourselves,
[00:05:34] by putting our bodies on the line and our liberty on the
[00:05:38] line, occupying these factories, smashing them up
[00:05:42] and putting them down, we could take the power back
[00:05:45] into our own hands. We know we
[00:05:49] had the power, small groups of people with conscience,
[00:05:53] morality and few tools are all that's needed
[00:05:56] to actually
[00:05:57] change.
[00:06:06] Our world of drone, our world of drones is
[00:06:10] rising fast from delivery. to emergency response,
[00:06:14] law
[00:06:14] enforcement,
[00:06:29] elbit systems technologies are
[00:06:32] operational in dozens of
[00:06:35] countries with
[00:06:38] power and pr.
[00:07:17] 'Never in my wildest imagination have I ever even thought that I
[00:07:21] would be in such a situation where my daughter is in
[00:07:25] prison, she has been arrested for an
[00:07:29] alleged action against elbit, the filton
[00:07:32] site and causing allegedly
[00:07:36] damage to weapons worth around one million
[00:07:40] pounds.' '
[00:07:48] to take action against something unjust going on in
[00:07:52] my city, take pride in
[00:07:53] that.
[00:08:24] Direct action is
[00:08:25] a form of protest where you
[00:08:26] go straight to the
[00:08:27] people
[00:08:33] that?
[00:08:49] what direct action does is it confronts power
[00:08:53] a tangible way and it forces power to
[00:08:57] confront
[00:08:57] itself.
[00:09:01] direct action is literally i'm refusing to move. direct action
[00:09:05] is not the national parades where police 4 pm we will
[00:09:09] decide on 4 pm we will decide on how we are. opposing
[00:09:13] you and how we will disrupt until you listen to us, in terms of palestine
[00:09:17] action, that means we've given up and asking people to
[00:09:21] stop arming Israel and we're going about um dismantling the
[00:09:24] arms industry
[00:09:25] ourselves.
[00:09:43] "It is factory of
[00:09:46] revolutionaries. You've never had anything
[00:09:49] the nature of Palestine action on the
[00:09:53] Palestinian cause in this country work a sustainable way
[00:09:57] for this period of time and achieve the
[00:10:00] successes that have been achieved. The effectiveness the actions
[00:10:04] that they they've taken um has had huge
[00:10:08] impact, factories being closed down a contracts being
[00:10:12] lost. "It's the
[00:10:13] in the interest public actually, for people to know what is happening within
[00:10:17] their cities and towns and to be able to have a say
[00:10:20] in that, and for a long time
[00:10:21] we didn't, but thanks to Palestine
[00:10:24] action, now
[00:10:24] we know." and we can
[00:10:26] act.
[00:10:41] I became aware of Palestine action through the kinds of
[00:10:45] uh actions that they were engaged in to disrupts the
[00:10:48] weapons manufacture and dissemination of weapons over the
[00:10:52] course the last three to four years. and mean
[00:10:55] immediately clear that they were doing some the most important protest
[00:10:59] work and not only in Britain but mean the world, those
[00:11:02] people are sacrificing something
[00:11:06] for cause far far bigger than them and all of
[00:11:10] us and they are giving
[00:11:13] themselves, their future, their time, their mental, their
[00:11:17] physical health um in order
[00:11:21] to articulate a form of love for.
[00:11:25] some the most oppressed people in the
[00:11:26] world, these are the best of
[00:11:30] humanity.
[00:11:48] when they ask me why did it, tell them about the
[00:11:52] children, how their childhood is st. from
[00:11:55] them, how their skeletons are left charred and
[00:11:59] smoking, how easily their bodies are crushed by
[00:12:03] falling buildings, how their skin melts as their
[00:12:06] flaming tents collapse around them, tell
[00:12:10] them the boy found carrying his brother's
[00:12:14] body inside his bloody backpack, tell them
[00:12:17] the girl whose hanging corpse ended at the
[00:12:21] knees, tell them the father,
[00:12:25] holding up his headless toddler. tell them
[00:12:29] the mother who received the approximate weight of her
[00:12:33] family in body parts to bury. they'd all been
[00:12:36] shattered beyond recognition. then
[00:12:40] tell them about the history and talk about how it was us that
[00:12:44] started it with our about
[00:12:46] declaration. so i
[00:12:50] say i cannot stand for this. it can go on no
[00:12:54] longer. so I took action against
[00:12:57] Elbit, their weapon
[00:12:59] supplier, but I never forget
[00:13:03] to say that it was love, not hate that called
[00:13:06] me.
[00:13:10] You know, the images coming out of Gaza on our phone screens
[00:13:14] every single day, showing the slaughter of children,
[00:13:18] especially of children was,
[00:13:21] was very hard for all of us to take, and the... saying for Fatma
[00:13:25] Zainab, she did not want to be complicit in genocide, and all these
[00:13:29] images, these stories that that were reaching
[00:13:32] us, made her feel really helpless and
[00:13:36] really distressed and depressed, that you know,
[00:13:39] why are we not doing anything, you
[00:13:42] know, as individuals, as communities, why are we sitting there with our hands tied? the
[00:13:46] UK has has supplied Israel with
[00:13:49] material support in order to facilitate its violation of
[00:13:53] international law, it is very easy. arguable that the UK is a complicit
[00:13:57] actor in the ongoing genocide in Ghazza. Palestinians in Gaza
[00:14:01] had been living under a brutal siege by land,
[00:14:05] air and sea for over
[00:14:07] decade. And when
[00:14:10] Palestinians in Gaza marched to the fence which has
[00:14:14] entrapped them under this brutal siege for over
[00:14:18] decade, to demand their rights to freedom, the right
[00:14:22] to return to their homes, a right stipulate. under
[00:14:25] international law, they were met and shot and
[00:14:29] killed by Israeli
[00:14:31] snipers,
[00:14:40] we had extreme violations, some of which can be considered
[00:14:43] and classified as war crimes in terms of
[00:14:46] dark direct targeting the civilians who are partaking in
[00:14:50] these uh
[00:14:51] demonstrations.
[00:15:01] Israel responded by sniping thousands
[00:15:04] them - there were thousands of amputs off the back of it and
[00:15:08] hundreds of people killed and those sniper rifles, some
[00:15:12] them were sold to the israelis by the
[00:15:14] British.
[00:15:31] So we decided to occupy the weapons
[00:15:35] factory in Staffshire. 'we grabbed whatever tools we
[00:15:39] could, we got some ladders, we didn't have much
[00:15:42] money so we just brought whatever we could from home, we used a
[00:15:46] shopping bags to carry the stuff onto the
[00:15:49] roof and we were there for three days
[00:15:52] and we weren't sure if they would hold us in prison
[00:15:56] on remand afterwards that in that moment we had
[00:16:00] the power, we could shut down this factory and that is the best
[00:16:04] place i have ever been, is top of and is really
[00:16:07] weapons factory, shutting it down with hammer in my
[00:16:11] hands.
[00:16:21] some the best known forms of direct action can be thought about in relation to
[00:16:25] resistance to apartide and forms of segregation,
[00:16:29] so direct act they disrupted and broke, they
[00:16:32] disrupted and broke segregation laws in on
[00:16:36] public transports and networks for instance or on food counters, we can think about
[00:16:40] examples such as resist about examples such as
[00:16:43] resistance to chattle slavery,
[00:16:46] it was up, burnt down the property the the peoples who were
[00:16:49] enslaving them, all these forms of resistance were holy
[00:16:53] illegal, you also have the sufragets movement which went as
[00:16:57] far as trying to push Winston Churchill bricks at
[00:17:01] 10 downing bricks at 10 Downing Street,
[00:17:05] so there's all manner of ways in direct action has achieved
[00:17:09] some the things that we actually take for granted and
[00:17:13] view as positive aspects of our
[00:17:16] society, those were one through direct action they
[00:17:20] were fought for from below, not bestowed from
[00:17:23] above here at UAV engines in
[00:17:27] Chenstone, I'm locking on a van, we've
[00:17:30] got couple of guys with
[00:17:34] couple of guys with brick breakers.
[00:17:39] "this is Elbit's drove, so that's why we are
[00:17:43] here, ordinary people, closing this factory
[00:17:46] down, that sound you
[00:17:50] hear is the sound of ordinary people taking direct
[00:17:54] action, let's see how our
[00:17:58] fortification
[00:17:59] works
[00:18:03] against police tools, we've
[00:18:06] got to..." take this factory
[00:18:08] down, brick by
[00:18:11] bick, wall by
[00:18:13] wall.
[00:18:17] primary purpose is shutting elbit down and causing economic damage, but
[00:18:21] if we don't publicize what's happening there, if we don't show
[00:18:24] people not only how it's operating, what's happening
[00:18:28] within it, the companies that are complicit with this and are supplying them, but
[00:18:32] also showing people the bravery that
[00:18:35] activists are taking who are going. and smashing up the inside of factory, but when you
[00:18:39] see someone take that courage and take that step into action, it means
[00:18:43] that you have that conversation with yourself, could I take that action
[00:18:47] too? if not me, who, and if not now,
[00:18:50] when? I can act to stop
[00:18:54] these weapons being manufactured, it's within my power, and I will do
[00:18:58] that.
[00:19:03] What brought me here today is kind of realization that direct actually... is
[00:19:07] probably one the best ways to get your voice
[00:19:09] heard.
[00:19:14] We are here to shut, we are here to shut
[00:19:18] Albert
[00:19:19] down.
[00:19:28] Protest has limited
[00:19:32] effect in this country, and
[00:19:35] you know we saw it with Grenfeld, we've seen. with Palestine, we
[00:19:38] saw it with the Iraq war. What we're seeing now is that these demonstrations
[00:19:42] become - are institutionalized in a way that isolates them
[00:19:46] from the rest the community, so you can protest all you want, but the
[00:19:50] policy change will remain very minimal, and you
[00:19:54] see actually futility of some the
[00:19:57] methods that have been used for decades in this
[00:20:00] country. People were literally going out every day
[00:20:04] and there was no impact, like it wasn't.
[00:20:09] that the Israeli government were going to look
[00:20:10] at that and do anything and um the only thing
[00:20:13] that I saw that I felt was actually going to have
[00:20:17] any impact was to stop the weapons that we're producing in this
[00:20:21] country
[00:20:23] and so that leads you to the point where
[00:20:26] you see direct action as actuals delivered
[00:20:30] results a tangible delivered results a tangible
[00:20:33] way um and a dramatic way.
[00:20:38] in in this country, inspired by the Raithion
[00:20:40] Nine.
[00:20:50] so Raithion are between Raithion and Lockede martin, the
[00:20:54] largest arms company in the world at the uh Rathian
[00:20:58] building, there's a number of persons inside have taken
[00:21:02] over the building and are throwing
[00:21:04] items uh computer desks, paper etc.
[00:21:08] onto the roadway onto the
[00:21:11] roadway,
[00:21:15] these were people israeli war on lebanon realized
[00:21:19] they had ratheon. factory in derry and
[00:21:22] they uh got into the factory, shut it
[00:21:25] down,
[00:21:35] we then arrested and used the court case as an opportunity to
[00:21:39] turn the tables on the
[00:21:42] company, so they entered the
[00:21:46] court, the accused and they left as the accusers and they were...
[00:21:50] able to not only be acquitted, but also Raythion was forced to leave
[00:21:54] derry. By seeking to turn the table and take these
[00:21:58] corporations to court through direct action,
[00:22:01] these these actionists sought to engage the legal
[00:22:05] system a rather creative way. Furthermore, this way of
[00:22:08] thinking is a way that appeals to the law
[00:22:12] and the court of public
[00:22:13] opinion.
[00:22:28] Palestine is certainly being used and I mean it's not this
[00:22:32] is not just kind of claim by activists or Palestinians or
[00:22:35] lawyers, this is something that is openly admitted by the
[00:22:38] Israeli arms industry and they're selling these instruments of war as
[00:22:42] battle as battles tested against the Palestinians. If you
[00:22:46] go to the DSEII arms fair which happens every two. years in
[00:22:50] Excel, London, you will find Israeli corporations
[00:22:54] using a demo videos uh on how these weapons
[00:22:58] were used and conducted in Palestine.
[00:23:02] Israel has a constant guiney pig, which is the
[00:23:05] Palestinians. Guine Pigs for how we can control them,
[00:23:09] Guine Pigs for how we can watch them, Guine Pigs for how we can study them, Guine
[00:23:12] Pigs for how we can kill them, that the UK and the Israeli military
[00:23:16] industrial complexes are actually quite integrated. Now
[00:23:20] an important aspect of this was the watchkeeper drone.
[00:23:24] Since becoming operational in the IDF in the mid 1990s,
[00:23:28] Hermas family systems logged more than 400 thousand operational
[00:23:32] flight hours in more than 40,000 successful combat
[00:23:35] missions for various forces around the globe,
[00:23:39] making them the most versatile and reliable tactical unmanned
[00:23:43] aircraft platform in the
[00:23:45] world. Elbit
[00:23:48] systems is uh military technology
[00:23:51] company that is officially incorporated in Israel,
[00:23:55] but as a multinational corporation, it has uh different
[00:23:59] subsidiaries all across the world, it produces weapons primarily for
[00:24:02] the Israeli state, however it also exports its weaponry
[00:24:06] to uh state actors all around the
[00:24:08] world.
[00:24:13] it produces many the missiles, drones,
[00:24:16] armory and that's been used to pumel gaza.
[00:24:20] is also deeply integrated with the Israeli state. Israeli
[00:24:23] officials are frequently at elbit events. i'm here in
[00:24:27] bristol uh for the opening the new elbit
[00:24:30] factory and i'm very very proud the Israeli technology. elbit
[00:24:34] is defense technology uh company Israeli that
[00:24:38] based here in the UK has factories in Kent and in
[00:24:41] Bristol. we quickly
[00:24:45] identified Albert Systems, Israel's biggest weapons firm as
[00:24:49] our main target. Elbit systems are the
[00:24:52] very manifestation the Israeli military
[00:24:56] regime here in Britain. We knew they were operating in
[00:25:00] towns and cities across Britain. We also
[00:25:03] understood the impact it would make if Israel's biggest
[00:25:07] weapons manufacturer was forced out of a country,
[00:25:11] one their strongest allies, and not because the government said
[00:25:15] so, but because the
[00:25:16] people. You knew that. elbit
[00:25:20] systems under under the subsidiary UAV tactical systems, we're
[00:25:24] operating an arms company and a manufacturing
[00:25:27] hub where they're assembling drones to be shipped off to
[00:25:31] Israel from there, and the idea there is if you're on the roof of
[00:25:35] factory like the the British health and safety rules means that no one can actually be
[00:25:39] underneath you until they take you off, so just being there shut down a
[00:25:42] factory, the idea was to occupy it for long as long as we could,
[00:25:46] and um yeah just keep that factory shut shut down, yeah? so
[00:25:50] this is day this middle the sixth day top of
[00:25:54] Elvit's factory in Leicester, police have been dening us water
[00:25:57] for a couple of days now,
[00:26:00] yeah uh... resulted to every time it rains
[00:26:04] scraping water off the tent. this morning um i'll just show you over
[00:26:08] here um made a hole in the
[00:26:12] roof and we can see down into the main workshop where they
[00:26:15] assemble killer drones just around the corner there that's
[00:26:19] the end the drone you see on the right there so we reckon this is where they
[00:26:23] assemble the drones ready for shipping towards Israel to
[00:26:27] be tested on palestinians it was kind of that moment of like we
[00:26:30] are so definitely the right place doing the right thing
[00:26:34] um and yeah and that that was that was the
[00:26:38] same day that that was that evening the police came to take us down
[00:26:42] and like it was with that happening in the morning the police coming take us
[00:26:46] down that we kind of picked up the sledge hammer and hammers and we just like we
[00:26:50] need to k this this place needs to be shut down for as long as possible and we just did as much
[00:26:54] like as we could to the to the top of it um i remember this guy
[00:26:58] graham from the police showing don't do that that's not going to help your cause which has
[00:27:01] been uh i think successfully proved
[00:27:03] wrong,
[00:27:08] actually that occurs is
[00:27:09] it is really important action that occurs it is really important for local community
[00:27:12] members to get involved, people came out and droves, so now we had
[00:27:16] convoys coming from across
[00:27:18] Leicester,
[00:27:23] we had people coming outside the factory, people were staying over at
[00:27:27] night because we could tell that like the activist on the roof they were
[00:27:31] struggling.
[00:27:37] and then we glued ourselves to the roof just to stay out for a bit longer, you
[00:27:41] understand?
[00:27:47] once we were arrested and put into the police fans,
[00:27:50] something that they hadn't really banked for was the leaster community and quite
[00:27:54] how spectacular they
[00:27:56] are.
[00:28:03] the police were trying to get down um the activist
[00:28:07] from off the roof and in that time you know uh the lester community had
[00:28:11] mobilized a lot of people there were call outs they were standing in front the police with
[00:28:14] riot shields police had come with their
[00:28:16] vans
[00:28:27] while they were busy trying to unglue us and have people on the roof i
[00:28:31] remember their conversation. in my year and there was this guy saying just on the
[00:28:34] radio, a bit concerned, there seem to be people putting barriers
[00:28:38] up against the entrance to the factory, by the time they'd got us in the vans later that
[00:28:42] night um, the whole entrance had been barricaded a total
[00:28:46] people-powered blockade the
[00:28:48] factory
[00:29:02] every single one these actions has often a small
[00:29:06] number of people dressed up in red boiler suits maybe doing some damage or doing the
[00:29:09] action and huge number of people supporting that to happen and supporting
[00:29:13] it for years
[00:29:14] afterwards.
[00:29:18] when it came to 2023 when the there was a siege
[00:29:22] held by palestine action outside the alester elbit factory, our community were like,
[00:29:26] okay, these people have been manhandled by the police, the all their
[00:29:30] tents are being confiscated, but they want to... continue the siege,
[00:29:34] so lester people came and gave blankets and food supplies
[00:29:38] and everything for the activist to be able to continue in what they firmly believe that they
[00:29:41] should be, what they firmly believe that they should be there, you
[00:29:44] know,
[00:29:52] areas do not want an Israely weapons factory operating on
[00:29:56] their door step, and they can also be key driving
[00:29:59] force in forcing the company. out their
[00:30:03] city, those community members took direct action
[00:30:07] themselves, when people were on the roof - and being refused
[00:30:10] things from the police, they threw things up, when police tried to remove
[00:30:14] activists, they blocked the road, and then crucially they carry on, and
[00:30:18] then crucially they carry on and they come out after every action, ones
[00:30:22] on the roof