Joseph Massad: Why genocide is a "Western value" 

Thank you Electronic Intifada. Independent journalists with journalistic integrity are the heroes of our time.

Thank you so much to The Electronic Intifada for hosting Professor Joseph Massad, one of the most important and crucial Palestinian academics of our time, or any time really, and for posing pertinent and thoughtful questions. It's great! This doesn't only challenge Professor Mearsheimer's thesis on the power balance between the US and the zionist settler colony in Palestine, but it settles it once and for all and shows it to be false.

Greetings from Gaza amidst the rubble Thanks to those who subscribed shared and encouraged me ❤..

Totally agree with Joseph Massad's argument. This IS colonialists vs resistance to colonialism.

Professor Massad spoke only the truth. A very valuable discussion that all need to understand. Thank-you Electronic Intifada, as usual 🌸⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Incredible guest and discussion, thank you

Thank you Nora ,Ali and the team for your hard work grateful to ei free Palestine from apartheid settlements.

Heartbreaking and unbearable, the world has lost its humanity .

Wow what a fantastic interview. Thank you!

He's a great guest with lots of fascinating facts.

Such an insightful interview! Thank you!

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76 year long apartheid, 17 year long blockade of Gaza and now committing genocide. Pure evil

Thank you both, for not stopping, for keeping us informed (regardless of how sad and horrifying the israeli butchering is). Some people are only now waking up to the support both US, (US is 100% behind israel) Europe, Australia and Canada are providing to this massacre. Knowingly and willingly. This is what a US tax dollar is for/what it its doing!!!

Ali is spot when he said that was like a semesters worth of education. Thanks EI and professor Massad I need a lie down now to let all that knowledge settle in.

Big love to y'all for covering this for us

Thank you for this program and your excelent guest. Please keep up.

Wow..the Professor was a force of knowledge. Amazing!

thank you Joseph massad for your truth's.

"Western civilization is a hallucination"

I was quoted, by an acquaintance, that there is no emotion more destructive than guilt. This has stayed with me for over 20 years. We need to look squarely into side ourselves

Wonderful, deeply thought-provoking content

Looking forward to watching this

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Thank you EI! ❤

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Electronic Intifada's professional, well researched journalism is respected and valued. Appreciate journalistic integrity as shows respect for audience. Great guest and Informative interview. Gratitude to Nora, Ali and whole team.

The fight against Lebensraum Philosophy Manifested; Continues.

Get to hear so many highly educated and amazing people of this program, love it.

Thank you, Professor Massad.

It's either we invest OR get rid of the Electoral College and let us the People of the United States of America choose our own leaders!

Excellent commentary!

Thank you for such an informed discussion ❤

Professor Joseph Massad, thank you for your knowledge and analysis.

Joseph Massad ❤

Excellent interview.

❤🇵🇸 I love the coverage.

Great interview, very insightful.

Truth spoken.... and about time too

I agree with Ali: not surprised at all about what Israel was capable of, but horrified about the lengths that the West will go to to support this horror show.

Thank you for your great work

Great Interview Thank you Sir J. Massad👍👍👍✌️

I caught this live, but...I'm catching it again! There's a lot to digest here.

Prof. Massad is absolutely correct

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Wow. What an interview! What insight. Thank you.

Thanks to Professor Massad and EI. This was highly informative!

I’ve been saying the actual number of Gaza people murdered by the IDF is way higher than what’s reported since Nov of last year. Add a zero to the “official” number. SHAME ON ISRAEL SHAME ON AMERICA. I no longer call myself American, although I was unfortunately born and raised here. I renounce.

Thank you for your work EI

thank you for this tutorial from someone who knows his subject 🎈🎈🎈

Amazing interview. Thank you. I learned so much.

Brave brave people of Gaza and Lebanon

I think people should think about what a Greater Israel would mean for the United States. If Israel controlled Land from the Nile to the Persian Gulf... Huge advantage to the West. They would have control of the crossroads of the world, almost EVERY crossroads on land and sea. That's why the US is paying this huge moral cost. The economic rewards are huge.

Thank you TEI for a really excellent analysis from Joseph Massad,especially the historical and academia information. Great video

Phenomenal educators.....Many thanks to Ali, Nora and Joseph. This is so important. ❤😢

A wonderful insight into Israel Palestine and the world relating to the Israel Palestine conflict.

I am your sister from Yemen, and by Allah I only spoke out of hunger and distress. My mother, my brothers, and I lessons and tears. We are in a situation that only God knows about. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs for those who broughtOh people, we are your sisters, by God 😭😭😭 We do not even find a loaf of bread inside the house that would satisfy you, oh nation of Muhammad. People are brothers. Oh God, make your righteous servants subservient to us. Oh God, make your righteous servants subservient to us. My appeal to every Muslim, oh Lord, if he sees this message, may He prolong his life, make him happy, and cover him. May God reward him. God is sufficient for me, and He is the best disposer of affairs. There is no power or strength except with God. Oh people, oh nation of Muhammad, oh people of goodness, oh people of mercy. We are your sisters and your children. By God, we do not even find a loaf of bread inside the house that would satisfy you. Oh nation of Muhammad, I only spoke out of extreme hunger and distress. My mother, sisters, and I are displaced from our homes because of the war. We are in a state that no one knows about except God. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs, against those who brought us to this state 💔💔 By God Almighty, I only wrote this appeal out of extreme poverty and poverty, oh people. I beg you by God Almighty, Lord of the Mighty Throne, that I do not have food at home. By God, my brothers and sisters have been sitting around for two days. Without food, by God our situation is very difficult, we are 6 people in the house and my father passed away and there is no one to support us and we live in a rented house and we cannot pay the rest of the rent. I am not lying to you nor deceiving you nor cheating you. I am a Yemeni girl displaced because of the war between me and my family over a rent dispute and the owner of the house. By God, my brother comes every day and humiliates us and talks about us and wants us to go out to the street because we are unable to pay him the rent. The neighbors saw us crying and talked to the neighbors again and gave us a deadline until the end of the week and we swore to God to let us out of the street now we are in arrears of 60 thousand Yemeni riyals for 3 months rent may God have mercy on us our country is suffering because of this war and we do not find our daily sustenance and we live my mother and sisters our father passed away may God have mercy on him and we do not have anyone in the world to come to us in these harsh circumstances my little sisters went out to the street and saw the neighbors eating and stood at their door giving them even a piece of bread and by God in whose hand is the heavens and the earth they closed the door and kicked them out and they came back crying dying of hunger no one has mercy on them and now the holiday has come back to me if no one of us helps us with a kilo of flour by God we will die of hunger brother I seek refuge in God and then in you and I want your help for the sake of God I ask you by God you love goodness and help me even if it is about the rent of the house send me a WhatsApp message on this number 00967717415667 and ask for my card name and send it and do not delay may God compensate you with all good My little sisters, look at their situation and help us and save us before they throw us out into the street and humiliate us or my family and I die of hunger. We ask you by God, if you are able to help us, do not delay on us, and may God reward you with good.'~~_«%•&»_~~_~&:»'////;&&;&;&;;&🎉😢😢😢😢;&;&&&//&..,!~~~♡♡♡~~~♡~♡~•~•~•~•~♡~♡~♡~;l.i.i.i.i.i.l.|-..............،

2nd time listening 👏 it’s a masterclass

Interesting insights by Pr Massad 👍🙏

Thank you EI for being the voice of the voices that has been silenced

Thanks for your work, EI!

Excellent analysis thank you M. Massad and ei

Very articulate and factual, great intellectual and academic. As they say, a gentleman and a scholar

This guy is stuck in the 90s if he thinks that Russia and China are no match for the US militarily! Clueless observation imo!

Excellent listen. Thank you.

This was such an interesting conversation. I really, really appreciate these interviews during their broadcasts. I cant even begin to describe how much i learned from listening to these guests but also by listening to EI in general. I'm so glad, i found this broadcast and can read on their website!

Very grateful!

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Thank you, very enlightening. It makes much more sense to me now. Although it’s dismaying. Unfortunately, all the good that some of us thought Western society had brought to the world will now be irreparably besmirched by these shameful, shameful revelations of its perfidy

Strewth, clear and concise brilliant. 🐼🐼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

What justifies? Guilt, and interests.

Brilliant

What rich content. Thank you e.i. for your great journalist work and platform for truth tellers full of historical knowledge and insight. Hope you will have Professor Massad back soon!

Joseph Massad is incredible why have I never heard of him. If only he can slow down his speech a little bit but then many would learn less in time allotted!

Genocide was done by the Nazis in Europe, by the Turks in Armenia, by the Chinese of the Uighurs and the Tibetans, by the Myanmar generals of the Rohingya, and according to the bible on multiple occasions by the Israelites and by the US on the Native Americans. Colonialism is the problem but it is not not specifically Western, sadly it seems to be universal.

Ask the American Indian about genocide in the 19th century.

Why should Palestinians pay for German Christian sins.

this guy is making so much sense ...

The proliferation of hate is the ultimate wester value. We can dislike things about others but there is so little love in the world. We should love our Palestinian and our Jewish brothersand sisters and remove this political and corporate evil that empowers conquers like Bibi and Joe. What ever happened to diplomacy and live and let live. Cooperation and love will save all of us.

One of the errors academics and lay folk make is to assume the mechanism of genocidal replacement is somehow synonymous to the colonial activities of Western Governments of the nineteenth century. The word colonialism in this context corrupts our thinking, and tends to racially connect the idea of genocide to a particular group, it isn't. The Amalek story is apocryphal and has no basis in fact, but that has not stopped one particular nation from assuming it has a god given hall pass for genocide. However all history, and as archeology has shown us, prehistory, is littered with this behavior of the human ape. Studies after the war indicated it is childishly easy for any group of humans to develop genocidal ideation; we forget these lessons in acts of negligence. Western nations are not systemically more genocidal than any other group, and there are contemporary examples to demonstrate this; it is just that the west is economically and technologically better placed to do it.

"making lives unliveable with the hopes that they would leave". nicework

When asked what he thought of Western civilization, Mahatma Gandhi replied, "I think it would be a good idea".

Wow 😲......."great discussion 👍!"

Great guest!

Im now hungry to read the work of Dr Massad. What was the title Ali mentioned about Palestine? Hes such a monumental source of historical analysis!

So devastating to realise that colonial white supremacy is not only alive & well but continues with full support of all of the west, despite over 70% of the people supporting an immediate ceasefire? This genocide has left me traumatised & with little hope for the future of humanity. I’m from UK & have never felt so completely gutted in my life. Sheer depravity openly committed, leads me to feel these people must be insane.

"Well Stated!"

Corporate money dictates education.

"The exact number of Romani people that the Nazi regime and their allies murdered is unknown. It is estimated that at least 250,000 European Roma were killed during World War II. But the number may be as high as 500,000" perhaps there should be a Romani state too.

It’s hard 😢

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I just let out a scream in my apartment saying "I hate Izzrayll" Never had this much rage against one nation...!

It would be interesting to know how many ppl supported Israel’s right to exist 3 years ago but now see them for what they really are!

The z called me anti-semitic today because I attacked my sandwich

Seems utube does not like my suggestions to sort this crisis. Do you have a better suggestion, I would like to hear it

So if the Israel lobby isn't what's causing the U.S.'s support for Israel, then what is the function of the lobby? Btw I agree that the U.S. supports Israel of its own volition, but the lobby must exist for some reason.

Just as there is a Holocaust Industry, there is also an October 7 Business

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Von der Leyen was also given the name “the Nazi Princess” by Norman Finkelstein. Both names I think are highly appropriate.

The reason why China and Russia have not interfered more directly is not from fear of a United States military power, those two countries would dominate, there is another reason