#27 Human shields and made up laws: Palestine v. Modern Colonialism -Abdelghany Sayed

The Palestinians are trapped. Not just by a powerful, US-backed military, but by international institutions and an international legal framework that stacks the deck in favor of supposedly moral state armies, and against the weaker peoples that are occupied and oppressed by them.

That's the argument of Abdelghany Sayed, a legal scholar who has worked with the International Criminal Court and has studied the concept of "human shields," and how that concept has been used to justify state violence in Palestine, Iraq, and throughout the Global South.

Abdelghany Sayed is a PhD student at the University of Kent. In addition to the ICC, he's worked as a legal analyst at the Public International Law and Policy Group (Washington DC), and has consulted for UNICEF (Cairo), the OECD (Paris), and International Law and Policy Institute (Oslo) on issues of international law.

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) - Intro

(01:09) - Human shields claim is a radical political assessment

(03:17) - Why are Israeli civilians not seen as human shields? (06:34) - US kills civilians in Iraq, claims human shields

(10:04) - When is it a crime of collective punishment?

(12:18) - US war policy to violently displace Vietnamese

(13:50)- British use Palestinians as human shields in 1936

(14:42) - Israelis are hostages, Palestinians detainees

(17:48) - 2002 destruction of Jenin

(20:58) - Palestinians blocked by international institutions (24:49) - Palestinians can resist through culture

(30:40) - Terror attacks get immediately condemned, army attacks get years of investigation

(32:22) - The conduct of Hamas

(43:27) - Violence as civilization-level gentrification

(44:28) - Early Zionist discussion of gentrifying Palestine

(46:54) - A land without a people, for a people without a land (49:07 )- Why you can't dump Palestinians in Sinai

(52:53) - Why are there so many Arab dictators?

(58:00) - Does Egypt have moral obligation to open border to Palestinians?

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