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00:01:45Hello, of I'm Chris Williamson and this is Palestine Declassified
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00:01:53of efforts of to manipulate the political class
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00:01:58scrutinizing the way which the British State is abusing the UK's
00:02:02anti-terrorism laws to harass and intimidate journalists and
00:02:06pro-palestine political activists. But before I talk
00:02:09in about this abuse with our
00:02:10of resident experts and our invited guest, this report
00:02:14of explains how Muslims in particular have been targeted and highlights
00:02:18two specific examples of this
00:02:19crackdown. The British government's abuse
00:02:23of terrorism laws continues with the recent police detention of
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00:02:32of the Palestinian cause and the access of resistance. On the
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00:02:37me August, on the way to his honeymoon, Kasme was stopped for several hours at
00:02:41London Heathro air police, who questioned him a police,
00:02:44who questioned him about Palestine, Iran and
00:02:48Lebanon. Kasme had appeared on Palestine declassified
00:02:52on many occasions and he recently travel to Iran to cover the
00:02:55funeral of Ayatollah Khaminai, Iran's martered
00:02:59leader. His detention is part of a broader picture of
00:03:02political activists and journalists, particularly Muslims
00:03:06being harassed in Britain on behalf
00:03:08of the Zionist regime. Palestine declassified resident
00:03:12expert, Professor David Miller, was also detained in questioned at
00:03:16London Heathro airport last year
00:03:18of after traveling back from Lebanon. These detentions, which
00:03:22affect thousands of people every year occur on the schedule
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00:03:26of the terrorism act 2000. Under this...
00:03:30people can be stopped,
00:03:32of detained and subjected to highly intrusive questions, which
00:03:36typically cover political, and or religious beliefs and
00:03:39activities. anyone can be stopped under this legislation
00:03:43without any suspicion of wrongdoing. the aim of a
00:03:46schedule seven stop is supposedly to determine whether someone
00:03:50is involved in commissioning, preparing or instigating
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00:03:56me terrorism, but in practice it's used against pro-palestine political activis.
00:04:00journalist to intimidate and spy on them. In
00:04:042014, sample taken by students at Cambridge University
00:04:08reveal that 88% of those stopped on the schedule seven
00:04:12a particular airport were Muslim,
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00:04:15of intimidatory and spying tactics go far
00:04:18of beyond the Muslim community. In 2013, the late David
00:04:22Miranda was detained at Heathro airport for carrying
00:04:26files related to information obtained by the whistleblower.
00:04:30Edward Snowden and in April
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00:04:35of who works for the Independent Publishing House, Lafabr, was detained at
00:04:39St. Pankras international station while on his way to a London
00:04:42Bookfair. La
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00:04:47Finkelsten. Cozmi's recent
00:04:50a detention on the schedule seven highlights the need for continued vigilance
00:04:54and campaigning against Britain's terrorism
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00:04:58in increasingly being used to. and spy on
00:05:01pro-palestine activists inside the
00:05:03country. is joining
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00:05:12a of these? intimidatory tactics amar is a political and legal
00:05:15commentator and the host the attration podcast. i'm also
00:05:19joined as usual by resident expert in the UK usual by resident expert
00:05:23in the UK's leading scholar and critic of Israel david mixer the lobby and watch dog
00:05:27spinwatch and a senior research fellow at the center for islam and global
00:05:30affairs Istanbul Zayim University. welcome to the
00:05:33show. well arm, I mean tell us what happened to to
00:05:37you and and the sorts of questions that you were asked. well, this all
00:05:41happened the day after my wedding, i was on the way with my
00:05:45wife to my honeymoon, i was at London Heathrow
00:05:48airport, and as i got to the gate to get onto
00:05:52the airplane, my boarding pass scanned red, i was taken to
00:05:56the side and uh there were three plain clothed police
00:06:00officers who said to me, oh we want to have a little bit of a chat with you,
00:06:04and i said uh, under what power uh, what's this all about? they said,
00:06:08oh, this is under schedule seven, and i actually completed the sentence for them, i said schedule seven
00:06:12the terrorism act, yes, I'm very familiar, because of course I've been in
00:06:16situations where I've assisted other people who've been stopped under this power and I'm very familiar
00:06:20with how these interviews go, what happens, so this wasn't a
00:06:24unique process that happened to me, it's happened to of course many thousands of
00:06:27people, and I have tried to learn from their experiences, so I think
00:06:31they thought that I was going to be very flustered, very shocked, very
00:06:34intimidated, but I wasn't at all, I was pretty composed, I have to
00:06:38say throughout the whole process, they then took me to room, they
00:06:42took my fingerprints, my g-degree photograph of my face, d-degree
00:06:46photograph of my face. uh, what the purpose
00:06:50is really of of taking all of this stuff, i don't know,
00:06:53because um, they've stopped me under this power for which they don't need any
00:06:57suspicion of wrong doing, so as far as i'm concerned, there's no suspicion that i have
00:07:01engaged any wrong-doing, so they have no suspicion that i'm engaged
00:07:04anything unlawful uh, so why they need all of this
00:07:08information uh is beyond me, i don't think it has anything to do with.
00:07:12stopping terrorism, it's all about trying to harass me, intimidate me, and
00:07:16of course to intimidate other people and to gather intelligence on
00:07:20people and to keep them under surveillance a very dictatorial,
00:07:23authoritarian way. uh, in terms the actual questions,
00:07:27I mean they didn't interestingly asking me about any specific
00:07:31organization, they didn't ask me about Hamas, Hisbullah,
00:07:35the IRGC, they spoke in very coded
00:07:39ways about men. of violence
00:07:43and groups that some people would consider to be
00:07:47terrorists, but they didn't actually ask anything specific about
00:07:51those groups, I think
00:07:51it was obvious which groups they were alluding
00:07:54to. I was also asked about my recent trip to the Islamic Republic of
00:07:58Iran, of course I attended Iran early this year
00:08:01to cover the funeral
00:08:05of um Iran's martered leader ayatullah Khamenei, and this
00:08:09was not something secret or covert, I was very... public about
00:08:13the fact that I was in Iran, I was publishing videos and reports from
00:08:16Iran on the ground, um, I was also asked
00:08:20about my trip to Lebanon last year where I covered the
00:08:24funeral of Sayid Hasan Nasarlah, and I
00:08:28should also just clarify this point that for both these trips
00:08:32I arranged my own visas, my own travel, I
00:08:36didn't, I was not the the lacky of
00:08:39any organization or government.
00:08:42'um, I was free to travel and to
00:08:46do and say whatever I wanted to do and say, so no one was controlling me on either
00:08:50these trips, um, but basically they were trying to
00:08:54infer that or trying imply, sorry, that
00:08:57you know you were there and you were doing something defarious, probably on behalf of
00:09:01Hisballah or the irgc, which is of course completely uh ludicrous
00:09:05and there's no evidence at all for that, um, we also spoke a
00:09:09little bit about the Zionist entity and'
00:09:12and zionism and zionist infiltration in
00:09:16Britain, and I made that point actually, that really the threat here
00:09:20is zyanism, there's no threat
00:09:24to Britain from the Islamic Republic of Iran or Hizbullah, Hamas, all this
00:09:28stuff is completely preposterous, but really in terms the questions I was being
00:09:31asked, I really failed to see
00:09:34what any of it had to do with supposed terrorism, as far as I'm
00:09:38concerned, this was attempt to interrogate me and my
00:09:42will. view uh a deeply authoritarian way, a
00:09:46way that is reminiscent of some the worst dictatorships that the
00:09:50the planet has ever seen, and this is
00:09:53how so-called you know
00:09:56democratic Britain treats it citizens.
00:10:00well, David, I mean, you were also stopped weren't you, were last February on your way
00:10:04back from from Lebanon, back from from
00:10:07Lebanon, what was your experience similar to what amar
00:10:11went through? well, I think the uh cops
00:10:14in his case seemed a little bit better briefed than perhaps
00:10:18were the ones in my case, because what happened to me was that they
00:10:22clearly didn't have any idea who I was
00:10:24or why. said i had been bounced into uh stopping me
00:10:28by the fact that the zionist had clutched their purls and managed
00:10:32to get the telegraph and the mail to report
00:10:35that this very bad man was coming back from Beirut so I was stopped for four
00:10:38and for four and a half hours and uh they didn't really know what to ask
00:10:42me and uh they got progressively more and more embarrassing in
00:10:46their cross-examination of me so I think the comparison with the
00:10:50ar cases is instructive because it kind of looked like at least one
00:10:53the... cops in his case was a little bit better
00:10:57briefed on matters and was able to be a little bit more sophisticated, I mean the
00:11:01questions in my case involved things like saying well
00:11:05what about all this terrorism that's happening uh in the UK do
00:11:09your friends and colleagues support that and I said what terrorism and they said
00:11:13well the southport attack and I said well not even the police think
00:11:17that that was a terrorist attack and his colleague shame facedly
00:11:21said uh yeah that's correct and so it was just embarrass
00:11:25for them, but um,
00:11:26you know, I think
00:11:27you you can go into these um uh interviews and uh be scared that
00:11:31they're going to somehow interrogate you or bring things out that you
00:11:35don't want to say, but actually um my experience and it seems to some
00:11:39extent I'm ours is that uh the people who are doing the inter, the
00:11:42people who are doing the interrogations are not really up to the job and
00:11:46don't really understand the pol uh pin you pin you
00:11:49with, I know George Gaway was saying buse
00:11:53he was also stopped. wasn't he last last year and he's now
00:11:57in self-imposed exile is a consequence of that, but he was saying that they
00:12:01said to him, you're not under arrest, but you're not free to leave, and you must
00:12:05answer our questions, you can't reserve your right to remain
00:12:09silent, was was was that your experience as well? well yeah, that's the
00:12:13script, the standard script that they read to you and they actually give you a copy the script
00:12:17as well, that's the law, give you a copy the script as well, that's the law that
00:12:20you yes, are not being arrested, you're being detained and you have to answer
00:12:24the question. but of course you can also ask for legal advice, you can
00:12:28have your lawyer present or you can speak to your lawyer in advance, which is
00:12:32what happened with me, and they will advise you on what to see and what not to say,
00:12:36but you actually have to answer the questions, the other thing of course is that
00:12:39the answers you given the questions can't be used in evidence against you,
00:12:43so it's more or less about trying to gather
00:12:47insights for then further evidence
00:12:49to be gather, that of course is the
00:12:50real reason why people are stopped because they want to get their devices, they want to
00:12:54understand yes? yesuh who they know, who they message and
00:12:57whatsapp, and we've seen a case just recently where uh someone's
00:13:01being uh prosecuted for a supporting a prescribed
00:13:05organization, I think Hamas and instead
00:13:08of uh actually having any evidence against them, what they've done is the they've taken
00:13:12a speech that the person's made where they refer to Palestinian resistance
00:13:16etc. and they then tried to say what they really
00:13:19meant was Hamas, because when they looked at
00:13:23the whatsapp messages the... was a time when once upon a time they said
00:13:27something about Hamas, so it's an attempt to try and fit you up and to
00:13:31do also to find out who else
00:13:33you you're in touch with, yeah, crazy, crazy, well, well, I
00:13:36mean, you're a law obiding citizen, and I mean, and you've previously worked in in
00:13:40parliament, so why do you think the police decided to stop
00:13:43you? well, I think we have to ask, what exactly
00:13:47is all of this about, of course they don't believe that I'm involved in
00:13:51terrorism, um, as I mentioned earlier, there was no...
00:13:55suspicion that I have been engaged in terrorism and I have been engaged in
00:13:58terrorism and they don't need suspicion in order to use this about it, this is about
00:14:02harassment, if they of course if they believed that I
00:14:06was actually involved in some sort of terrorist financing,
00:14:10plotting, coordination, they would have arrested me
00:14:14and they would have charged me with something because I'm sure if they really thought
00:14:18I was a terrorist they'd be taking that very seriously, they wouldn't have just stopped at an airport and
00:14:21then let me go on my way afterwards. so the
00:14:25point of this principally in my view is about
00:14:28harassment, of course you mentioned the fact that I a
00:14:32law-abiding citizen here
00:14:34of parliamentary office chris and parliamentary office chris
00:14:37and by the British intelligence services by the British
00:14:41Intelligence services in order to be able to do that, so at
00:14:45some point Britain thought that I was not a security threat and now they've
00:14:48decided that I am um for some reason,
00:14:52obviously we know what the reason is, it's because I support palestine and I support
00:14:56the axis of resistance uh that doesn't mean that
00:14:59I'm uh somehow trying to undermine British interests, actually I
00:15:03think that Britain's interests will be better served by being allies
00:15:07the Islamic Republic of Iran, the access of resistance of Palestine and
00:15:11of cutting diplomatic relations and all relations with the Zionist
00:15:14entity. Um, that's my personal point of
00:15:18view. Um, and look,
00:15:21the the point these stops of course also, addition to harassment is about trying. to
00:15:25obtain intelligence from people, because when you're in
00:15:29that position, they have really extreme powers
00:15:33that they don't have in other circumstances, so let's say you get
00:15:37rest. and the police take you to a police
00:15:41station, they don't have an automatic right to
00:15:44demand the pin code to devices that you may have on you, to
00:15:48devices that you may have on you order to do that,
00:15:51and the order
00:15:52to do that, and then in order to get that warrant they of course need to have some
00:15:56suspicion of wrong doing that maybe there's data on this device that will assist a
00:16:00police investigation, under schedule 7 they don't need any
00:16:04of that suspicion, they can.
00:16:08right there and then that you give them the pass code to
00:16:12your phone, they can then enter your phone, build a
00:16:15picture of your your personal network, this is all
00:16:19about intelligence gathering and community
00:16:22surveillance, and i think it's also about sending a
00:16:25signal that we as the British
00:16:29intelligence services, we as SO15 the Metropolitan
00:16:33police, we're keeping an eye on you, and this is about
00:16:36trying to... tur um any future work
00:16:40or future activism that someone might want to be
00:16:43engaging and that's not going to work, it's not going to work
00:16:47against me certainly if they think that uh by stopping
00:16:51me
00:16:51at at an airport and by questioning me and looking through
00:16:55my
00:16:56you know devices that I'm going to get scared and
00:16:59intimidated by them and I'm going to therefore stop speaking out, I'm
00:17:03going to stop publishing, I'm going to stop appearing uh on programs like...
00:17:07palestiny classified, i'm going to abandon the palestinian cause,
00:17:11then they have another thing coming, and i think
00:17:13that that should be everyone's attitude who stopped under
00:17:17this power, and thankfully it is. mean, of course, professor David Miller, the
00:17:21resident expert the show, was also stopped under this power and he's still going strong, and i very
00:17:25much commend you, David for that. um,
00:17:28and we have to understand
00:17:32that uh, this power is not
00:17:35about genuinely. trying to interrogate or to stop
00:17:39terrorism, it's about harassment, and once you understand that, I
00:17:43think that that gives lot of confidence. Well, David,
00:17:46I mean it seems these laws are
00:17:47are being weaponized by the Zies to to shut down support for for
00:17:51Palestine in the access of resistance, I mean is that fair
00:17:55assessment, do you think? Well, you say weaponize and of
00:17:58course the zionists are trying to weaponize them, they're trying to
00:18:02push the police uh to arrest people who shouldn't
00:18:06otherwise bear. many these cases now we've seen
00:18:10have been the result of pressure put
00:18:14on the police or the home office or MI5
00:18:17by zionist groups
00:18:19you identified zionist groups UK for Israel campaign against anti-semitism
00:18:23etc. in my case of course the CA is taking a private prosecution
00:18:27against me because the police declined to prosecute me because i
00:18:31hadn't broker any laws so that's how that works but when you say weaponize
00:18:35it's not correct in another sense the legislation.
00:18:37is itself a weaponization, it's not that they are abusing the
00:18:41legislation, the legislation actually makes it illegal to
00:18:45voice support for an organization in the sense of
00:18:48analyzing the activities of say hamas or palestinan islamic
00:18:52jihad or hisb and and saying things which might be said
00:18:56to be sympathetic to those organizations, now they don't really
00:19:00believe that we're going to set up a Glasgow branch of
00:19:04Hezbulah or the south London branch of Hamas, believe that's good to happen at
00:19:08all, but that is the implication the legislation and legislation is drawn so
00:19:12widely that it can catch anyone who who says something
00:19:15ill-advised or or or loose about about hamas or
00:19:19PIG or whatever, but and that even by
00:19:23itself in the terrorism act 2000 didn't work, so they had to
00:19:26actually uh make the offenses even broader, so it's
00:19:30not just about supporting a prescribed organization, it's using words which might be
00:19:34interpreted as supporting such an organization, so the real time to kind of
00:19:38run a dragnet through society which doesn't allow people to speak
00:19:42openly about uh matters of political
00:19:44violence. would it be a stretch then to to
00:19:48say that the legislation then has been weaponized on
00:19:51behalf the the zinish lobby? well I don't think that's
00:19:55unfair but the legislation itself was put in
00:19:59place uh in part by pressure from the zionist
00:20:02movement way back in the in the day, I mean the original
00:20:06legislation you. was the prevention of terrorism brackets
00:20:09temporary provisions act in 1974 and it had to
00:20:13be had to be formally agreed by parliament every
00:20:17single year as result it was temporary until 2000
00:20:21when they made it permanent and of course the way in which they made it permanent
00:20:24started to prescribe other organizations was as result of
00:20:28zionist movement lobbing that's why we started to have this
00:20:32ridiculous list of organizations nothing to do with with britain
00:20:36because the original list was only. organizations and they've started
00:20:39to add on all these palestinian groups, which of course nobody's going to start a
00:20:43branch of of those organizations in this country, that's what the legislation kind
00:20:47of assumes, so it's extended and extended. so legislation
00:20:51itself has been put in place with the under pressure from the zionis and then the
00:20:55zionits wanted to go even further than that, yes right, yes
00:20:58indeed, well well am I, I mean, you're you're training to be a lawyer, aren't
00:21:02you? do you think the British terrorism laws are really
00:21:05designed to to stop terrorism? look, I think
00:21:09objectively speaking, you could say that Britain's uh
00:21:12terrorism laws have some relation to trying to
00:21:16stop so-called terrorism uh because...
00:21:20"you know, obviously they've designated various groups that I think everyone would
00:21:24agree on the various groups that shouldn't be being financed, shouldn't
00:21:28be being supported any way, shape or form, alqaida,
00:21:31ISIS uh, things like that. Um, the
00:21:35problem is though, that the definition of
00:21:38terrorism is basically now meaningless, at least from legal
00:21:42standpoint. The classic understanding was that
00:21:45terrorism is the use of violence by non-state
00:21:49actors. in order to achieve political ends, but
00:21:52firstly what is violence, right? so the idea of what violence
00:21:56is has been expanding, now we have you a non-violent direct
00:22:00action network here in Britain called palestine action being prescribed as
00:22:04a terrorist organization, we have people holding placards saying that they
00:22:08oppose genocide, that they support palacing action being arrested,
00:22:1280-year-old priests, disabled
00:22:16people who are just protesting that being charged under the...
00:22:20terrorism act, so uh, what is the meaning of violence,
00:22:23what is the meaning of terrorism? and um, even when
00:22:27it comes to the classic understanding of terrorism about state
00:22:31bodies, well they're now prescribing state
00:22:34bodies like the uh IRGC um, which state, but
00:22:38now that's been classed as a state, but now that's been classed as a terrorist
00:22:42organization here in Britain. I mean, you kind of had that already with the prescription
00:22:46of Hamas's political wing and of Hisbullah's political wing. 'hamas of
00:22:50course being the elected government of Gaza, Hisbullah having two ministers
00:22:54in the Lebanese government, so in some ways you could say those are also
00:22:58sort of state actors, but with the prescription the IOGC it's
00:23:01even clearer, so um, this
00:23:05is basically about fulfilling zionist wishes, this
00:23:09is zoonist lobbying, zionist pressure, zionist
00:23:12infiltration uh, which is really damaging
00:23:16Britain uh, Britain Britain's interests, indeed it's standing across'.
00:23:20the world, people just look at Britain now, I think, what's going on
00:23:23there, it's absolutely absurd, they're calling everyone and everything uh, a
00:23:27terrorist, so um, what they ought to be doing, and I made this point in
00:23:31my interview is Britain should be, like if we're going to have this terrorism apparatus
00:23:35and it's going to mean anything, Britain should be prescribing
00:23:38zionist organizations, they should be confiscating their funds, shutting
00:23:42them down, and of course Britain should be detaining and
00:23:46charging anyone going from Britain to fire.
00:23:50in the Israel occupation forces and we know that thousands of British Jews have done
00:23:54that, those people need to be tracked, followed,
00:23:57imprisoned uh, and they should be facing very large
00:24:01sentences in prison, and I think also Britain and the British
00:24:04intelligence services ought to be far more concerned about false flag
00:24:08terrorism coming from the mossad than they should about you,
00:24:12ficticious Iranian, lebanese or Palestinian
00:24:14terrorism uh, which
00:24:17you know there's really no evidence for and is not a threat to... person, well
00:24:21David, I mean, we've discussed this on on previous shows,
00:24:24but this seems to be further circumstantial evidence that the
00:24:28British intelligence services and police have been penetrated
00:24:31essentially, influenced by the cienist lobby, isn't
00:24:35it? well, it does look like that, and of course it
00:24:39looks like that going back some some considerable distance in history, but in
00:24:42only the recent past, we've seen all sorts of
00:24:46nonsense spouted by, especially by MIF.
00:24:50about the threats that are faced by this country, of course they do in
00:24:54relation to Russia and to China as well, but in particular
00:24:58threat from the alleged threat from Iran, and that's of course
00:25:01why they prescribed the IRGC, it's supposed to be running
00:25:05agents and running operations in the UK, which of course manifestly
00:25:09isn't, but the reason that they say this is not just
00:25:13because they're incompetent and ideological, it's also because they're being
00:25:16pressured by the mosad and given information. "the mossad were
00:25:20the ones who supplied the information about this new pro Iran terror
00:25:24group, which of course doesn't exist, which has been made up in order that they could
00:25:28prescribe the IRGC, in order they could pass millions
00:25:31of more public money to zionist lobby groups, which themselves have close
00:25:35connections with the mosad, so yeah the whole thing is a scam uh, but
00:25:39the but we're not allowed to say that because apparently that would be
00:25:42antisemitic, no indeed, mean of course amar as he was saying there,
00:25:46mean they didn't think he was actually a terrorist and i think he he's..." "I
00:25:50think you what you're saying that this is really about you,
00:25:54intimidation and
00:25:55and and just fishing exercise, well of course it is, I mean I
00:25:59mean you, I've been stopped by the police uh way back." when
00:26:03when the the pass and ingreats weren't even
00:26:06prescribed going to Ireland and that that was just all
00:26:09about one time they said well you can go less now off we go on the boat
00:26:13quick it's going to shot soon and they knew it was already shot they just did it to to
00:26:17annoy us you know that's the long history the special branch
00:26:21sure sure no indeed indeed indeed well I'm afraid that's what we got time
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00:26:52now.
00:27:10نحن الحمد لله بنصبر ابنائنا
00:27:13بنصبرهم على ان شاء الله بنقول لهم يما بيصير
00:27:17مستقبل قدامكم احسن من هذه الحياه اللي نحن
00:27:20عايشينها بس نحن لازم نصبر على هذا
00:27:24لانه هذا بلاء والحمد لله من رب العالمين بدنا الصبر
00:27:28نصبر عشان ان شاء الله الاحتلال مش
00:27:31حيدوم. she has been displaced 15 times, honestly it's
00:27:35easy to say that, you can't even begin to imagine what it means to be displaced 15
00:27:39times. the problem with western feminism, i
00:27:42think is more that it doesn't link the struggle of
00:27:46for example, palestine, Iran, wherever, to the
00:27:50Iran, wherever, to the fight against imperialism, and if
00:27:53you don't fight against imperialism, then
00:27:57uh the
00:27:58problem.
00:28:02Yeah!
00:29:00Behind the cold lifeless. statistics of war, lifeless
00:29:04statistics of war, lie human faces, each one's a
00:29:08world of life, laughter and unfulfilled dreams earth
00:29:12was reduced in a single instant a picture frame a
00:29:16wall. one of those names is Elijah Khatami, a
00:29:1912-year-old boy from the city of Lamer, full of
00:29:22vitality, sharp-witted and with smile that never left
00:29:26his face, like many boys his age across the globe, he had a
00:29:29dream, he loved football, he would erupt... with joy with his
00:29:33team one cheer for Cristiano Ronaldo and lose himself in
00:29:37the sheer thrill of chasing ball, yet deep in his
00:29:41young heart, even bigger dream had taken root. he
00:29:45wanted to be firefighter, to run into the flames and save
00:29:49lives. his father still vividly recalls the day he dressed
00:29:53him an oversized firefighter uniform, handing him
00:29:56extinguisher as Elia's eyes sparkled with the
00:30:00passion to put out fires and rescue.
00:30:02people, but the fire that engulfed this land was not
00:30:06meant to be extinguished, nor did it leave any room for rescue and
00:30:10devastating war waged by the US and Israel, the dreams of
00:30:13generations collapsed in the blink of an eye. on
00:30:17February 28th, the first day of war, it was on that very
00:30:21afternoon as Elia thrilled by the school break, tied
00:30:25his football clates and stepped outside with light, eager
00:30:28steps that the terrifying roar of air strikes tore through the...
00:30:32sky his father running desperately through gridlocked panicked.