Palestinian American Interviews Israeli Activist About This Weeks Events 

I need to apologize to all Palestinians for not being aware of what they have been put through for so long.

Sammy, we met after your last NYC show. Something I did not tell you then, but that I am telling you now, is that one of the reasons I’m such a huge fan of yours is that every time that there is a conflict flareup between Israel and Palestine, bits of that conflict spill over into other countries, and Jews like me fear becoming the targets. And one of my rituals now for dealing with the anxiety and dread that produces is watching your comedy. You deal with this topic in a way that is so human and compassionate and even silly, in a way that reminds me that no matter how bad things get, there are still are good people everywhere, and it gives me hope that the desire for peace will eventually win out.

Thank you Sammy for sharing this and putting it together. ❤❤❤

This is ridiculous! this content should be pushed to a larger audience ❤️😢

She's a beautiful person. I came across this interview today and I'm glad I did. It would be nice to hear from her again to discuss the current sentiment and if there has been more clarity about the events on Oct 7. Thanks a lot.

Well done Sami Your friend is impressive Wish national leaders could have her ear and listen

Sammy, thank you for your efforts in lifting these messages

I think the fact that a Palestinian and a Jewish lady are long-time friends proves a lot. They're both activists from different sides religiously, but that doesn't seem to come up in this mess. Actions really show your intent. Thank you for showing this to everyone.

I wanted to return here to say this conversation affected me very deeply. I’ve been thinking about this all day. Noam crying out for humanity in the depth of her pain is an inspiration. If there is hope to be found, it is there. Good luck and Godspeed to everyone caught up in these horrible events.

Hi, can we get another interview? I'd love to hear her perspective on what's happening now. Sending love to you both.

25 min in she explains the need to rebuild together. I think this is the most critical part of rebuilding trust and breaking the cycle of violence. It will take a tremendous amount of strength on both sides but I have faith in humanity

She’s got a heart of gold. Unbelievable empathy.

The most compasionate and soultouching voice I've heard. Thank you so much!

Thank you for this levelheaded interview. As an anti-Zionist and supporter of Palestinian freedom, I really appreciate this dialogue. My empathy goes to all the citizen victims on both sides and although the number of casualties are are completely disproportionate. The pain of loss of your loved ones is the same.

Thanks for sharing this. It was an incredibly valuable perspective to hear.

Peace nothing but peace. Praying for Israel and Palestine

From a Canadian, thank you for talking about Palestine. #FREEPALESTINE #STOPISRAELIWARCRIMES

I live in Iran and my Jewish friends live in total respect here, along with my Armenian and Muslim friends

Thank you! This was great!

noam has a heart of gold i love her.

" we are tested in hard times when we are in pain".. This communication led by moral compass is a beautiful example ♡ people indeed just want to live as humans regardless of where they are...

Please post more videos We must keep connected 😊

A man with a conscience

I think it's great that you two are having this conversation. There should be more of them. But unfortunately there is even less than before October 7

We need more of both of you in this world!

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YOU’RE AMAZING!!!!

Love both of you. I wish you (anybody who calls that land their home) live together in peace and without rear. I will visit for sure to see you two performing together in that land. Apartheid regime will be gone soon and living in peace will be a reality.

Thank you for using your platform &for doing the right thing

This conversation is very moving. It is hard to know what to say.

Things are happening that are horrific on both sides.💔 and that’s the truth!

"uphold multiple sufferings" ❤

Sammy, do you have an update on Noa? Has she been spared from the witch hunt? We’ve all seen what is being done to those who fight for truth and justice in Israel

Sammy are you coming to New York anytime soon? I’d love to meet you one day.

Just come across this video, and tragically 4 months in, Gaza is still being annihilated. We also know the truth about the 7th October and the scorching of vehicles by the IOF, who killed their own. On a positive note, it was beautiful to see these two friends of different backgrounds sharing and uniting❤

"Comedy will resume later. Clarity first." So, so wise!

More of this conversation please.

What a beautiful person

I love you Sammy. Thank you.

Your voice matters and is needed. Thank you

God bless the peace loving. I just want to say that it is perfectly understandable that the events of 7 Oct would make the blood boil, and cause anger and grief; people on the edge and unable to sympathise with the Palestinian cause because they are consumed by shock, grief, rage and trauma, rightly. After a day’s attack and 1400 deaths. She had to even say she hopes there would be no revenge. I therefore cannot even begin to fathom or imagine or pretend to understand the amount of anger, grief, misery, rage, trauma and horror; the edginess, the desire for revenge that would exist in a people after 75 years of siege, oppression, violence, attacks, arbitrary detentions, rapes, torture and murders of children.

It is heartbreaking that the civilians living in the villages where hostages were taken were largely if not 100% a community of people who actively sought and worked towards an end to the occupation, just as in this womans story about the man who protected palestinian shepherds in the West Bank. Has anyone seriously considered whether the IDF the govt found it easier to kill their own as in the Hannibal directive because these were an israeli community who were at the extreme of anti netanyahu citizens? Is that question really so insensitive? Is it not at all possible? That said, this womans words are so important in helping me observing this really with only humanity as my one commonality across the vast miles. Such an important conversation. I hope this woman is safe. It would be so good to hear her words now. I pray shes safe 🙏 Thank you for this, sending love ❤️

Free Palestine

❤ SAMAY YOU ARE A FUNNY GUY, AND LOVE ❤️ YOU

One NATION

This is the real stuff

The problem starts with those who are extreme in their belief that either palestinians or Israelis don't deserve to be in the land. I feel a single democratic state will be the best option, but this will require empathy to each other and, most importantly, justice for those who committed atrocities both by Hamas and Israel side.

Well we´ve got proof from the IDF attack helicopter now and I for one do not believe there are too many women with flowing hair in Hrrrramaz, particularly not unarmed and running with other young people of similar age, who, coincidentally weren´t armed either. Now I am no IDF attack helicopter pilot, but if I saw a bunch of cars driving away with said unarmed runners I probably wouldn´t have gone full Daenerys Targaryen with my Hellfire missiles... Anyway... Great talk Sammy! Much appreciated! Would be interesting to hear a follow up at some point. Take care!

What is the update on her writer's family?

Subhanallah

She is a shining light for Jews the World over. ❤

Make an update to this talk.

she really looks like a Iranian woman. She is a true empathetic woman and human being.

It’s many months passed since this interview was recorded. So many more deaths, so much more evidence of atrocities in Gaza and escalating in West Bank and Wast Jerusalem. I’ve spent the last few months learning as much as I could, because before Oct 7th I couldn’t even point to Palestine or Israel on a map and didn’t know the difference between Hamas or Isidro Al Quaeda…I am university educated, but was wholly ignorant. So I wanted to change that. I was truly shocked to learn the history going back to the late 1800s and the rampant anti-semitism in all of Europe and Russia. I had learned it was just the Germans…those bad Nazis. Despite having studied history in high school for 5 years and covering both WW1 and WW2 in detail, I was not edu-fed the details or even broad strokes of settler colonialism that contributed to both wars, and the very specific British double dealings circa WW1 which birthed the Palestine-Israeli conflict. As a British person - born in Scotland but descant from Irish great grand parents who fled brutal British occupation of Ireland - I was shocked to learn about the impact of British settler colonialism not just in Palestine but all around the world and in my and ancestral home of Ireland. More recently I’ve been learning about The Settlers…and it’s beyond shocking. What has become clear to me, is there are people to blame for this, but I don’t think it’s the Palestinian people in any form: those who tried peaceful protest for years and got their knew caps shot off, nor those who took up arms and participated in the largest prison break in the world. None of the violence is ok, but I do understand why it got this way. And Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims, Christians did not create this situation. That is one thing I have become crystal clear on. It has taken me months to undo my own ignorance and face the biases instilled in me - subconsciously - about the semetic world (in the official definition sense of the word semetic). I can tell you that growing up in the west we do think we are more civilized. We absolutely do. We don’t even realize it. We think we are superior. It’s in our DNA and I’m as shocked to admit it as I was to realize it about myself and the community and the environment I grew up and got educated in. It’s hard to really listen to someone else’s point of view when you start out with a certainty that you’re right. While I realize that it’s important to continue to learn and talk and listen and share etc…, I do feel that there is a point at which a person must - in a situation of oppression - take a stance. To paraphrase Desmond Tutu…if you’re neutral during oppression, you chose the side of the oppressor. I do not choose the oppressor, I do not choose Israel. And if and when Israelis learn the same history and current events as I have learned in last few months, they wouldn’t choose Israel either, unless they are the evil sort that rules the current government, or the settlers leading the physical and violent charge of ethnically cleansing the West Bank and East Jerusalem. There’s something rotten in the State of Israel. This is not, in my view, of getting the Palestinians to the table and agreeing not to be so violent or terroristy. Israel cannot stop itself so it needs to be stopped, if there is to be any hope for Israelis and Palestinians alike. Lastly, just want to say to you that I really appreciate your comedy because it’s a tool that all of us can use to break the ice so to speak with all of our ‘liberal’ friends and colleagues in the west who feel too uncomfortable not only to speak about this, but to learn about it: to take an honest to god look in the mirror and say, “why the hell ate we doing this? How on earth can our governments do this in our name?” There’s a great line in Animal Farm : “all pigs are equal but some are more equal than others”. While that was an allegory of communist Stalin Russia, I think of that in terms of cross borders and cross ethnicities. We really do need to believe that we are all equal, and not with the unspoken subtext that “some are more equal than others”. That’s the bias I had to first identify in myself: and I swear, once identified, it’s demolished in an instant. It just takes truth and knowledge and a willingness to take a stab e not because it’s comfortable or popular or acceptable, but because it’s right. I think Israelis, having been heavily indoctrinated for decades will have a very steep uphill battle in challenging this, especially at their time of undoubtably grief. But I hope they learn truth of the events not only of Oct 7 2023, but the events of every day in Palestine since the early 1900s when the Zionists first began to immigrate to Palestine and were promptly supported by the British army after WW1, being awarded more rights than the native indigenous Palestinian people simply because the incoming immigrants were largely white Europeans, and clever Theodor Herzl did a deal with the British government. It has nothing to do with native Palestinians. They were then, and are now, the victims, the oppressed, and they are not responsible now or ever for their oppression, no matter how violently they resist it. That is the side i take. Edit: for clarity: I don’t hate Israelis. I don’t hate Jews. Of course. But I’m having a pretty hard time not hating those responsible for this genocide in Israel, UK, US and Europe. And I hope they all are held to account by the ICJ and ICC, as countries and personally. And let the ICC determine the fate of those responsible in Hamas for what they have done too. We have international systems to deal with this if only the U.S., UK and Israel would STOP preventing them from working.

Doesn't seemed she lost any known of her on 7th Oct.. god bless Israel ❤

Most Israeli are not from Europe but Middle East. It's a myth they spread that the Israeli came from Europe. Yes, 30% or more did, but not majority. After 1948 there was a massive influx of nearby Jewish people.

Do you condemn the settler colonial apartheid?

I really like your work, and I really appreciate your attempt to show both sides, it's important and sacred, but as an Israeli I have to say that the Israeli point of view is not reflected at all in this video, I won't expand on it too much because I doubt anyone will even see the reaction, but you have to understand, Israel has gone through a trauma as severe as 9/11, Israel must react, we are afraid, every person in Gaza scares us, I have friends who were kidnapped or those who were murdered in a barbaric manner, we feel insecure but this is nothing new. It's clear to me that the situation in Gaza is much worse, and my heart goes out to every innocent person who loses their life there too, it's not fair, but how does their government expect Israel to react when they go in and kill babies and say it's up to them, Israel is trying to act in the most moral way it can, to inform before that it bombs or puts humanitarian aid equipment into a literal siege, which country informs its enemy in advance where it is going to shoot so that he can defend himself. Politically I am so opposed to the government, but we must defend ourselves and as long as Hamas exists Israel will experience more and more atrocities. The only way to believe that one day the Palestinians will have rights is to eliminate Hamas from the face of the earth. Hamas is ISIS

Men do horrible things right? Noo we the same people you ask for help

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