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font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DXD57gSyPlZ\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Daizy Gedeon (@daizygedeon)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap is-cnvs-dropcap-bordered\">I am sharing this because the world needs to see the absolute insanity of the colonial mindset in real time. Hamzah has exposed a British born Israeli who openly admits to fighting in occupied Gaza and he is actually saying he is proud of it. The catch? He has zero roots in the region and no historical connection to the land he is helping to destroy.<\/p>\n<p>This video slams the global system that allows someone to fly in from London to pick up a weapon and flatten the homes of people who have been there for generations. It pulls back the curtain on this bizarre reality where an outsider can claim a birthright over a land they have never set foot in while the indigenous population is being erased and displaced. <\/p>\n<p>We are watching the sick irony of a man feeling pride while participating in the slaughter of a people whose language and culture he does not even share.<\/p>\n<p>How can you be proud of stealing a home you have no right to? <\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of @hamzahs1948 <\/p>\n<p>#Hamzah #Gaza #freepalestine #fyp #gaza<\/p>\n<p>English Script:<br \/>\nHamza: All right. Where are you from? <\/p>\n<p>Israeli British man: I&#8217;m from Israel. <\/p>\n<p>Hamza: Where are you from? <\/p>\n<p>Israeli British man: I&#8217;m from Palestine. <\/p>\n<p>Hamza: Where are you originally from? <\/p>\n<p>Israeli British man: London, England. <\/p>\n<p>Hamza: And you&#8217;re in Israel now. How long have you been in Israel? <\/p>\n<p>Israeli British man: For 38 years. I&#8217;ve been in Gaza, I think, since 1988. During my army service\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Hamza: You said you were in Gaza in the 80s, right? <\/p>\n<p>Israeli British man: Yeah. That&#8217;s right. 80s. 90s? Yeah. <\/p>\n<p>Hamza: That was illegally occupied territory. What are you doing in Gaza? Did you kill any Palestinians while you were illegally there? <\/p>\n<p>Israeli British man: I prefer not to answer, but this was many, many years ago. It was very different. I&#8217;m very proud of what I&#8217;ve done. I&#8217;m not ashamed of anything I&#8217;ve ever done in my life. Especially not coming to Israel because I felt I needed to fight for my country as opposed to you. <\/p>\n<p>Hamza: You&#8217;re from London and you&#8217;re from London. Israel is not your country. I&#8217;m Israeli. I was always this way. My family is not Israeli at all. I always felt, and that maybe you should learn. <\/p>\n<p>Israeli British man: Oh my God. You came from London to commit war crimes in Palestine. And you just said that my whole family is not Israeli. <\/p>\n<p>Hamza: But I am, because I choose to be. <\/p>\n<p>Israeli British man: What the fuck are you talking about?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View this post on Instagram A post shared by Daizy Gedeon (@daizygedeon) I am sharing this because the world needs to see the absolute insanity of the colonial mindset in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,35,37,33,1],"tags":[],"powerkit_post_featured":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-daizy-gedeon","8":"category-israel-hamas-war","9":"category-israel-hamas-war-live-updates","10":"category-middle-east-news","11":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16015"},{"taxonomy":"powerkit_post_featured","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/powerkit_post_featured?post=16015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}