The Seeds Of The Past
Listen to excerpts from Outlook's India, Trapped issue by Pragya Vats
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00:00 I am Pragya and I bring to you excerpts from the current issue of Outlook titled "Trapped"
00:06 that looks at two cover stories, one where poor migrant workers trapped in a tunnel make
00:12 it alive after 17 traumatic days, the other for the Palestinians trapped in Gaza, the
00:18 ceasefire may be short-lived before the next round of attacks by Israel.
00:23 The other cover has illustration of the olive tree, a symbol of Palestinian culture and
00:30 resilience.
00:31 The Palestinian poet in exile Mahmoud Darwish has always used olive tree in his poetry.
00:37 Lines from his poem "The Second Olive Tree" reads, "The portrait for the olive tree is
00:42 neither green nor silver.
00:45 The olive tree is the color of peace if peace needed a color."
00:50 Over a million olive trees have been uprooted by the settlers in occupied Palestine since
00:55 1967 to build new settlements, according to Harid's newspaper and other agencies.
01:02 The seeds of the past by A. Faizur Rahman, Secretary General of the Islamic Forum for
01:08 the Promotion of Moderate Thought.
01:10 An overlooked aspect of the horrific October 7 attack by Hamas is that it provided Israel's
01:17 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the protects he needed to fulfill his dream of occupying
01:23 the entire Palestine.
01:25 On December 30, 2022, Netanyahu dismissed the right of the Palestinians to establish
01:31 their own independent state by declaring that "the Jewish people have an exclusive and
01:38 unquestionable right to all areas of the Land of Israel" and therefore, his government
01:45 will promote and develop settlements in those regions.
01:49 Then, at the UN General Assembly on September 22, just 15 days before the Hamas attack,
01:56 he mocked all UN resolutions favoring an independent Palestine by holding aloft a map of Israel
02:04 which included all Palestinian territories, including Gaza and the West Bank.
02:09 Confirmation of Netanyahu's determination to carry out his cartographic threat came
02:15 on October 9, when he warned that Israel's response to Hamas will change the Middle East.
02:21 By October 12, a whopping 6,000 bombs had been dropped on Gaza, killing thousands of
02:27 civilians including a large number of children and displacing over a million.
02:32 The brutally disproportionate response sparked huge protests across the globe, but despite
02:38 their peaceful nature, several European nations banned them.
02:43 In France, the Land of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, a legal challenge to the ban failed
02:49 when a court upheld it, citing "the serious risk of disturbing public order" amid heightened
02:56 tensions linked to the events in the Gaza Strip with the rise in anti-Semitic acts in
03:02 France.
03:03 Germany, too, disallowed many rallies to stop public disorder and prevent public anti-Semitism.
03:11 In the UK, Home Secretary Svella Breivik, who was sacked subsequently, described the
03:17 protesters as "hate marchers" and accused the Metropolitan Police of bias following
03:23 its refusal to ban the November 11 pro-Palestine rally in London.
03:29 The rally, however, was peaceful and turned out to be one of the biggest non-violent demonstrations
03:35 in British history, with nearly 800,000 joining it to condemn Israel's bombing of Gaza.
03:43 The attempts to smother peaceful protests in the name of preventing anti-Semitism is
03:48 not just unjustified, they masked a form of Palestinophobia never seen before, a fact
03:55 confirmed by the consistent refusal of the West to call for a ceasefire, as a result
04:00 of which nearly 15,000 innocent Palestinians, including at least 6,000 children, have been
04:08 brutally massacred and almost the entire population of Gaza forcibly displaced.
04:14 There appears to be a refusal on the part of the West to understand that support for
04:19 Palestine does not amount to backing Hamas.
04:23 For this and more, read the current issue of Outlook.