“I am PAINED I have to WATCH on TV a MURDER UNDERWAY” IN GAZA
March 22, 2024
Watch this fascinating interview between political commentator Mehdi Hassan on his new platform, Zeteo, and the South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Naledi Pandor.
“I wish I could be in Gaza and stand in front of a Palestinian family and be strong enough to protect them.”
Pandor goes on to encourage people to protest outside the embassies of the BIG 5 supporters of Israel, namely the US, UK, Germany, France and the EU. When asked by Mehdi about this, she said, “How do you get change?”
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English Script:
Mehdi Hassan: You said last week, you issued a call for South Africans to protest the war outside the embassies of the five primary supporters of Israel.
Naledi Pandor: Yes, Indeed.
Mehdi Hassan: Which five supporters?
Naledi Pandor: I believe protest is important. I think people do know who the five are.
Mehdi Hassan: They don’t. They don’t.
Naledi Pandor: They certainly do.
Mehdi Hassan: I am sure that my mum doesn’t know if she’s watching at home.
Naledi Pandor: I bet you she does.
Mehdi Hassan: Who are the five?
Naledi Pandor: I bet you your mum knows.
Mehdi Hassan: Okay, let’s go. The US, the UK.
Naledi Pandor: The US, UK,
Mehdi Hassan: France,
Naledi Pandor: Germany has been a very strong supporter.
Mehdi Hassan: That’s three. France.Four.
Naledi Pandor: France and others. The European Union in its collective. So I think…
Mehdi Hassan: So you would like to see protest outside the EU embassy and those four embassies?
Naledi Pandor: How do you get change? I wish I could be in Gaza and stand in front of a Palestinian family and be strong enough to protect them.
That’s what I wish I could do because I’m pained that I have to watch on TV essentially a murder underway. And I am helpless and can do nothing. This was very much the experience we had under apartheid, and it was mass protests, mass struggle, which made a major contribution to indicating to the world that this could not go on any longer.
So for us to be invisible in a massive human struggle, where we know a huge murder is underway, I think that is unacceptable. And the world should be horrified and having large protests with a million is insufficient. There has to be an ongoing campaign to say to the world ‘This can’t be’.
Mehdi Hassan: I have to ask again one more time. You say a huge murder is underway. That’s a big charge: genocide, murder. You say protest outside the US embassy because they are helping Israel. So is the United States then, according to the logic you’re presenting, is the UK, is Germany. Are they accomplices to that murder?
