Palestine, Prisons and Pledges | James O'Brien - The Whole Show 

Our great Australian cricketer, Usman Khawaja, wore a black armband for Palestinian dead, in a recent test match and got a reprimand from the ICC!! What an appalling stifling of an expression of grief

Israelis support their governments actions! When will we discuss that?

Armed struggle by the Palestinian resistance against the occupier is legal under International Law.

I am a 73 year old (gentile) woman living in Florida. I have no dog in the race, but I do have a memory--a memory of the Likud statement of purpose (2017, I think), of unlimited Israeli imprisonment, torture of Palestinians, of unjustified execution of Palestinian children throwing stones, etc. Of those who have memories, the position is obvious.

Palestinian people have been going through this for 75years. The disgusting act of terror killed 1200, the idf killed 20000 injured 50000 are they both not acts of terror. The idf killed 3 of their own holding white flag speaking hebrew, imagine what the Palestinians have gone through

The Balfour declaration happened in 1917, nearly 20 years before the holocaust so the reason for the establishment of Israel wasn’t for the Jewish people, it was for the antisemites in Europe that facilitated the holocaust

Why would it break your heart that no one has called in to support Israel’s war crimes against the Palestinian civilians. War crimes be it committed by Hamas or the IDF is wrong…

Everytime I hear someone confidently state that Israel has the right to defend itself I understand it as someone saying the nzais have the right to defend themselves if we were living in those times. How people justify a violent genocidal invader and come up with rights for it is shockingly unbelievable and sadly displays ignorance/dismissal of the rights of those who are at the receiving end of being eradicated and everything they own stolen

Palestinians have novright to defend themselves?...no one is mentioning before Oct 7th...put it into context...Norman Finkelstein has studied the conflict for 40 years...he is jewish both his parents survived but the rest of his family did not. Survive the german gas chambers. He is worth a listen to...Same with Gabor Mate..

We need to be hearing from the Palestinian diaspora about what they would like to see for their Homeland. Israel must continue to exist but not in their current self-destructive form. They cannot continue to deny Palestinians citizenship under a democratic single state solution or a two state solution. We cannot allow Israel to continue their apartheid regime. Israel is a spoilt little childish state that requires international guidance. Since its formation is the result of the UK and US support, we are ultimately responsible for reining in this project.

Pierce Morgan should learn

On October 7th I was filled with feelings of revulsion for the atrocities and compassion/support for Israel. By as early as October 9th or 10th, that was replaced by outrage at the actions of the IDF and the comments of the spokespersons of Israel. Now I am just angry that the most important people in terms of decision making seem not to recognise that ONLY path to peace is for justice and equality to apply to every single human being between the river and the sea. Two state solution/One state solution, whatever - but there MUST be safety and security for everyone or there won't be safety and security for anyone.

Zionism isn't even a religious belief. In reality, the leaders of the modern Zionist movement that was created in Europe weren't motivated by religion. Many of them were actually secular or agnostic Jews. They saw the Jewish people more as a nation than a religious group. For them, Zionism meant establishing a separate political state for the Jewish nation. Originally Uganda was proposed as a homeland for the Zionist before Palestine. *To put things into perspective, in the year 1891 Jewish people owned less than 1% of land in Palestine,* *where as Palestinians owned 99%. In 1947 that number was still at a low, with the Jews owning below 5% of Palestinian land.

People still condemning them when their actions on the 7th have been mostly debunked and in that case what they did is the conclusion of 80 years of occupation, oppression and abuse. I pity anyone who supports the other side because they’d obviously allow someone to take over their home, and not stand up for their loved ones.

Anti Semitism is a red herring there are many Semitic tongues Arabic Aramaic, Hebraic, Phoenician, Ethiopian Aramaic, Semite is a family of languages from the Levant. Judaism is a belief system not a peoples of a nation state.

38:50 im of the opinion that was the Israeli governments position before that awful day. I think they had accepted that oppressing Palestinians came at the cost of innocent Israeli citizens lives. I'm of the opinion that the Israeli government believed the ends, Israel expanding as a "jewish" homeland, justified the means, the death of innocence, be they Palestinian or Israeli. Edit: i say the "Jewish" homeland because ive seen videos of soldiers/police beating up Orthodox jews.

Thank you James. A voice in this maelstrom of darkness, hate, suffering and death.

Right from the start, you've misframed the situation. You compared the deaths/injuries of Oct 7th to the weeks following which of course ignores the victims leading up to Oct 7th over 7 decades.

It amused me when Jimmy nObrain stated that so far he hasn't chosen a side in this war 😆

Asking for ceasefire doesn’t make you pro anything.

Why has @lbc cut out the part at 49:45 where James says he has to add something? I just listened on the app and it’s still there, where he talks about journalist not allowed in Gaza unless they are with the IDF. He also says how 61 journalists who live in Gaza (it’s actually closer to 100) have been killed in Gaza. Interested to find out why LBC chose to cut out the bit for the RU-vid version? Would like some clarity on this please @lbc

There was no bait. The aim was to have hostage/prisoner swap.

I used to think James was just another Piers Morgan but I was wrong

40,000 Iraqi civilians died during the house to house fighting to evict ISIS from Mosul and there were no protests. Are Palestinian lives more valuable than Iraqi lives?

Any conversation that starts with decrying the action of one group as being terrorists, while the action of the other is a humanitarian disaster and not an act of terrorism, while patting oneself on the back for being so “even handed”, is not going to lead anywhere. What a shame.

1hour10 James OB said “in Scandinavia taxation is higher but everything is better” Indeed Mr O’Brien so why did you destroy any chance of Corbyn bringing in the same model in this country?

The worst part about those pledges is that during PMQs, Sunak would tout the very act of pledging as a list of wins.

Biden heartbroken about 1 Israel what about all the Palestinian children you e

Amazing ❤

You are great..

Prison is a deterrent until you are imprisoned. Some people manage to put it behind them, most become institutionalised. They make friends among the prison population who become useful contacts on the outside. They find it more difficult to make an honest living than get better at crime. Worst of all, after you've done time, you're not so scared of it.

You was right to say that Hamas & Israel don’t care if the Palestinians live or die, but you forgot to mention the U N don’t care because if they did they wouldn’t have let it go for 75 years with out doing nothing.

Zionisms final act.

When Hamas was voted in, they functioned as a social distribution network. It was later that they began refusing that role.

James’ Ooooo Brien. The war is on the Palestinian people hamas are merely casualties of war

Why do RU-vid not let me play videos on Palestine?

The same thing happens all the time first it was 7 oktober then every one saw what happens in gazza we have turn our eyes also to westbank and other parts of palestina

we are all responsible for letting thing get so bad

Got your book for Christmas and can’t wait to read it x

Where did ISREAL COME FROM ?

36:47 James repeated insistence on talking about the Netenyahu govt ignores the context in which these events take place which is ongoing Israeli apartheid and occupation. That's what motivates Hamas' actions and that's why people are anti-Zionist. The previous status quo was still brutality, it was just less flashy.

A Jewish state already exists in russian and has so for many years yet no one seems to talk about it.

FREE PALASTINE.

Zionism is the belief in a religious state. Not the belief in Israel as a state to exist.

Can you explain why you're so dismissive for anyone who sympathises with Hamas? They're a group that literally exists because of Israel's oppression of Palestinans.

Well said respect to the lady

AFTER THIS , even the highest walls of Jericho wont make israel live happily ever after in those kibtz next to gaza.

The bait was set by the Israeli government. They knew every detail about the Hamas operation months before it happened. Hamas took the bait. I hope the Palestinian people would soon recognize that Hamas was developed to support Israeli interests.

The kibbutz 18:50 18:50 outside of are armories and command for the IDF terror troopers. You can make an argument here the IDF is hiding behind civilians

Ive not been to prison but did a lot of community service in my youth. I found everybody came up with scams and money making schemes. I remember 3 lads getting together while we were cooking for the oldies and planned a cash machine heist. Following week they were all in new designer clothes.

Finding the plug not plugged in and still muscling through the intro was almost peak partridge.

Why we can’t just focus on humanity and their right to exist…..why this task is so difficult?

The problem with the prison system and re-offending is linked to the infrastructure and the system. Within the confines of prison, the regime is tightly run with no opportunities to re-offend - the rare cases being transferred to higher Category prison. From this, ex-offenders suddenly are released into an environment where they have to immediately manage their behaviour. There is poor provision for both supervision of this and rehabilitation as well as re-integration into society. Rather than prevention and rehab, the strategy seems to be to place offenders into scenarios whereby they are prone to re-offending and when they do, they are immediately incarcerated. This is the chosen option, since the agencies involved with ex-offenders would rather have them taken off their books and pass the problem onto another party - hence reducing the number of ex-offenders that need to be managed.

When you go to prison and get out nobody will hire you so all that’s left is crime

James how will a ceasefire lead to another October 7th. There was an October 7th because the IDF got arrogant and thought it could shift its focus to the west bank

I believe the conflict has a deeper meaning. I began by believing it was rutting season and human males are violent, but the diversity of deaths makes the back of my eyes itch. There's something else, and i would like to see autopsies

@30:11 I need that!!!

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Re prison. I was assaulted by police, in front of my 7 yr old daughter. When I said I was going to complain, I was accused of swearing at them. I believe the judge knew the police were committing perjury, but fined me(us) anyway (not prison,but could have been)

Prison .. Seen Brubaker ?

In March 1997, John F. Kennedy Jr. published an article by Guela Amir, mother of Yigal Amir, the alleged assassin of Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. Guela Amir recalled the Hamas terrorist attacks in the wake of the 1993 Oslo Accords signed by Rabin and provided some evidence that her son was part of an Israeli intelligence plot to remove Rabin and prevent the recognition of a Palestinian state. John F. Kennedy Jr. died two years later in a mysterious plane crash. “In September 1993, the Rabin government signed the Oslo accords with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The accords, and the series of terror bombings [by Hamas] that followed their implementation, brought thousands of previously apolitical Israelis into the streets and onto the barricades in embittered protest. These neophyte activists poured into the pre-existing right-wing groups and placed themselves at the disposal of experienced organizers such as [Shin Bet informant] Avishai Raviv. One of these new activists was my son Yigal.” Source: A Mother’s Defense (George Magazine, 1997)

If you watch him, then you know a lot duh!

Still curious as to why lbc use a picture of mr happy from a long time ago rather than a new updated version. Has not aged well

Mr james why you dont wear suits in your conversation now

Netanyahu see it up! Deal with these facts

The Quran says, "Never think Allah is unaware of what the wrongdoers do, he just delay them to a day when eyes stare in horror". (14:42)

Why should the Palestinian people suffer and die because of what the Germans did to the Jews, where is the homeland for the Roma?

Starker is not the pm wot? Who you gonna vote for they?

1:59:42 I'm dead!😂🤣 This was so well done!

Benjamin is spot on.....

At least James in not like Piers Morgan and his show

I wonder why james uses the male terminology when talking about prisoners? There's a subject for a conversation right there. 59:56

Update your photo please James

A call in for people that are neutral..... so far not one neutral 😂 Including Jimmy nObrain 😂

What is the point of finding out uninformed opinions ?

Why exclude talks with people who are in support of Hamas? Hamas terrorism is in response of Israels colonialism. So colonialism worth talking to, terrorism not? I support Palestinians and their fight for freedom. They haven't been listened to in a long time, this was their only unfortunate way

i dont think james understands what zionism is.

You can’t help but think that as a young man or woman that this atrocity would drive you to join the Palestinian army (much like the Americans after 9/11). Here lies the problem.

Hamas Israel did not want peace

Ask sunak haw much he's getting from BP and Israel to get patrolem out ov gaza ground work it out its to do with oil 🛢

Rev2:9 and Rev3:6 revelation times of the tora is here! The table are turning and those that were dogs are be coming gods and those thare have been gods are becoming dogs! And there is nothing the world can do about it Including fake israel, Usa, and U.k.

Funny, how on the Israel Palestine conflict you don’t want to hear from informed people, but on the Brexit debate, you expected everybody who called in to be overly informed, and in fact, chastised those who weren’t

Sigh, Obrien thinks hes so knowledgeable & magnanimous, but its only surface level. He takes the first step, & refuses to look around at what the implications are. Its this "both sides" as a form of ideology that is maddening. And i dont mean recognizing humanity of everybody & condemning war crimes. Refusal to acknowledge driving forces & larger historical issues. Not wanting to recognize that Israel has never really been interested in a 2 state solution etc. Not knowing about Israel's "nation state law" or recognizing Hamas & Likud are flip sides of the same coin. He can full face condemn Hamas, but refuses to do the same for Israel when they engage in the same behavior. Israel's government still has a place in negotiating & settlement, but Hamas does not. Either both dont or both do. Israel has done ALL the same war crimes AND MORE, but yet they can be dealt with as honest brokers.

The facts don't change your antisemite opinions.

Jimmy O'boring talking utter tripe as usual.... go figure.....

Talk to intelligent Douglas Murray.,.I bet you cant

Douglas Murray is way smarter than that

Mr O Brien. Why do you constantly refer to the Palestinian people.they are people from Arab countries of the Middle East as immigrants who went to an area in Judea called Palestine.There is no state of Palestine,and never has been,ask the U.N..they will tell you.There is so much unsubstantiated rhetoric bandied about.

As usual, did clown O'brien immediately resort to patronising people that disagree with him? If clown O'brien is as intelligent and as articulate as he tells us, he should be able to have a debate with someone that disagrees with him without immediately resorting to being patronising and disrespectful.

DON'T FORGET THAT 90% OF PALESTINES VOTED FOR HAMAS. THEY SUPPORTED HAMAS THEY JOINED HAMAS.

This conflict was ,and is, inevitable !

James O Brian pretty one sided.

Fact Oct 7