Pulitzer-prize winning Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha discusses growing up in occupied Gaza & remembering the names of the dead as a means to fight for the living & to end Israel's genocide.
They are people, not just numbers. The fact that you do humanize these people helps show how devastating the situation is. Netanyahu is a war criminal, Trump is a criminal. I did not agree with the fact that Biden continued to give weapons to Israel. I don’t support any war, deaths of women , children, the elderly. I don’t agree with any of it. The genocide must stop. America needs to stop enabling this.
I agree. Now, Netanyahu nominates Trump, so we will continue to supply weapons to Israel. I don't support wars of any type. Killing the innocent and no one is bothered by that?
What a powerful conversation! Thank you, Wajahat, for continuing to bring guests who open my eyes ever wider to the world outside of this country. What Israel is doing has to be stopped. Mosab, thank you for your work! Thank you for continuing to do your work even though it has to be so draining. So much respect.
Thank you for a great interview. I learned much more about the suffering Palestinian people. I have been disgusted with the government of Israel and its treatment of the Palestinian people for years. How does one justify the brutality by the Israeli Jews to the Palestinian people after what Europe was doing to the Jewish people for centuries? I can’t understand how the people in the Israeli government can look at themselves in the mirror? Did their suffering teach them nothing? Or did it just teach them to treat others as horribly as they themselves were treated? Where is their own humanity? My simplistic solution is to go back to the Armistice agreements of 1949 and 1950 and revise them, giving the Palestinian people total control, as in their own country, including the West Bank and Gaza. The Israeli people who illegally settled in the West Bank would have to leave of course. They should not have moved there in the first place. This would require the UN and a new US government to make it happen but it is the only solution for justice for the Palestinian people.
Dear Mosab, I praise your smile amidst so much injustice, pain and frustration that you must feel. Everything you say is so obvious that it is difficult to understand how can there still be someone that doesn’t acknowledge it. But has Waj said Israel is losing it all, so I do believe it is just a matter of time and, unfortunately, a matter of much more suffering for your people during that time. I must also say that what someone wrote here in one comment makes all sense to me: agreeing or not with the political viewpoints of Hamas, it is true that they have been the ones fighting back the oppressors of the Palestinians and they are no terrorists, they fight with what they have, which is not high tech weapons supported and paid by some of the wealthy countries in the world and also supposedly the most civilised ones! I hope freedom and justice will come soon for the Palestinians. Free Palestine! My (broken) heart is with you 💔
This we in America will come to understand - it's not Trump only who needs to go - it includes what's buried in the long game that includes those working behind him....JD Vance will come and go quickly - but that will not end the brutality of anything supporting this regime. We need to learn from Gaza and Ukraine and support these people in the fight for humanity and democracy
I have been pro palestinian for a long time. And it comes from meeting and knowing palestinians here and there in many places. And they are the nicest people and I have met him in different places that I have worked because I was a contract. Software engineer and traveled for jobs, and I would run into people all over the country that we're from the middle east. They were both israelis and palestinians. And arabs. I worked with the girl from iraq, when we invaded the country for nothing more than to steal their oil. And she was married and had two children and her husband what's here in the united states, add a flu over and brought his family to arizona. He would come into the store with the kids. All the time and I would talk to her.She was so nice.I mean chess so nice. And then there was a man who worked there, who was from iran it was so nice he was my friend. When I tell people I am pro palestinian the pushback, and the faces I get, I just astounding. I am just the worst person in the world. How could I like the palestinians? They are lower than the lowest animal. They are fierce and ugly and awful. How did this country get like this. It is disgusting. What is wrong with US people? The ones who come from Europe, they are the problem. And they have no right, because they're not from the United States, they are from Europe. They have no right To say anything.
That was a great discussion that everyone should hear. Mosab is 100% right that this is about justice for the sake of humanity, not just for Palestinians.
I find it shallow and short-sighted, to be so dismissive of Hamas, after all they have sacrificed for you, over many many years (as far back as this young one can remember)… Hamas has been, in fact, concretely, the only entity that has been there for you, beyond cheerful words, that are so cheap in comparison! All those tunnels to the outside world, were used by Hamas to feed and medicate you, while everyone else, did almost nothing, beyond passing frivolous words, to assist you… It is a hard, exacting world to navigate - we all do no more than “the best we can”, which, even with the best of intentions, is hard to discern… grow up - everyone is special - You are just one of the lucky ones, with more opportunity, to “parade your beauty” - beauty that each and every one of us contains, according to his or her own nature…
I chat with some Palestinians, I admire their faith in god /Allah. I think more privileged people that experience hardships abandon their faith more easily. But for Gazans that is all they have now. And no matter what happens, they keep that faith.
Thank you, Mosab for sharing and bringing humanity to the discussion. It's not a political discussion, today. It was so powerful for you to show the family tree diagrams you drew of Palestinians who have died along with the names and ages of their children. It was a powerful and moving discussion, so again, thank you.
Let's get something clear, however well meaning Glastonbury fans were in support of the victims of netenyahu TERRORISM, and I applaud their solidarity with the Palestinians people, who are the victims of Israeli GENOCIDE. Having said that, to refer to Glastonbury as a 'music' festival is stretching credibility to its very limits when it is actually a POP festival, as that is ALL that is ever played there and why the vast majority of people would not be prepared to pay the ludicrous prices for tickets to stand in a field and watch the acts on a huge screen while listening to sounds played at ear splitting volumes over loudspeakers. Glastonbury has become a cult, one which the vast majority of people would not even consider attending in order to subsidise the lifestyle of overpaid 'pop' artistes, even taking into consideration that many of them are standing in solidary with the Palestinians in their hour of need. Would that these same 'pop' artistes would donate their income from the event to help the plight of the Palestinian people who are bing MURDERED in their thousands.
They are people, not just numbers. The fact that you do humanize these people helps show how devastating the situation is. Netanyahu is a war criminal, Trump is a criminal. I did not agree with the fact that Biden continued to give weapons to Israel. I don’t support any war, deaths of women , children, the elderly. I don’t agree with any of it. The genocide must stop. America needs to stop enabling this.
I agree. Now, Netanyahu nominates Trump, so we will continue to supply weapons to Israel. I don't support wars of any type. Killing the innocent and no one is bothered by that?
Thank you Waj for having Mosab speak. What an important interview this is. Mosab is also on Instagram and posts frequently. Free Palestine ✌🏼
What a powerful conversation! Thank you, Wajahat, for continuing to bring guests who open my eyes ever wider to the world outside of this country. What Israel is doing has to be stopped. Mosab, thank you for your work! Thank you for continuing to do your work even though it has to be so draining. So much respect.
Thank you for a great interview. I learned much more about the suffering Palestinian people. I have been disgusted with the government of Israel and its treatment of the Palestinian people for years. How does one justify the brutality by the Israeli Jews to the Palestinian people after what Europe was doing to the Jewish people for centuries? I can’t understand how the people in the Israeli government can look at themselves in the mirror? Did their suffering teach them nothing? Or did it just teach them to treat others as horribly as they themselves were treated? Where is their own humanity? My simplistic solution is to go back to the Armistice agreements of 1949 and 1950 and revise them, giving the Palestinian people total control, as in their own country, including the West Bank and Gaza. The Israeli people who illegally settled in the West Bank would have to leave of course. They should not have moved there in the first place. This would require the UN and a new US government to make it happen but it is the only solution for justice for the Palestinian people.
Dear Mosab, I praise your smile amidst so much injustice, pain and frustration that you must feel. Everything you say is so obvious that it is difficult to understand how can there still be someone that doesn’t acknowledge it. But has Waj said Israel is losing it all, so I do believe it is just a matter of time and, unfortunately, a matter of much more suffering for your people during that time. I must also say that what someone wrote here in one comment makes all sense to me: agreeing or not with the political viewpoints of Hamas, it is true that they have been the ones fighting back the oppressors of the Palestinians and they are no terrorists, they fight with what they have, which is not high tech weapons supported and paid by some of the wealthy countries in the world and also supposedly the most civilised ones! I hope freedom and justice will come soon for the Palestinians. Free Palestine! My (broken) heart is with you 💔
Forest of Noise ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I read your book❤️
This we in America will come to understand - it's not Trump only who needs to go - it includes what's buried in the long game that includes those working behind him....JD Vance will come and go quickly - but that will not end the brutality of anything supporting this regime. We need to learn from Gaza and Ukraine and support these people in the fight for humanity and democracy
I have been pro palestinian for a long time. And it comes from meeting and knowing palestinians here and there in many places. And they are the nicest people and I have met him in different places that I have worked because I was a contract. Software engineer and traveled for jobs, and I would run into people all over the country that we're from the middle east. They were both israelis and palestinians. And arabs. I worked with the girl from iraq, when we invaded the country for nothing more than to steal their oil. And she was married and had two children and her husband what's here in the united states, add a flu over and brought his family to arizona. He would come into the store with the kids. All the time and I would talk to her.She was so nice.I mean chess so nice. And then there was a man who worked there, who was from iran it was so nice he was my friend. When I tell people I am pro palestinian the pushback, and the faces I get, I just astounding. I am just the worst person in the world. How could I like the palestinians? They are lower than the lowest animal. They are fierce and ugly and awful. How did this country get like this. It is disgusting. What is wrong with US people? The ones who come from Europe, they are the problem. And they have no right, because they're not from the United States, they are from Europe. They have no right To say anything.
That was a great discussion that everyone should hear. Mosab is 100% right that this is about justice for the sake of humanity, not just for Palestinians.
I find it shallow and short-sighted, to be so dismissive of Hamas, after all they have sacrificed for you, over many many years (as far back as this young one can remember)… Hamas has been, in fact, concretely, the only entity that has been there for you, beyond cheerful words, that are so cheap in comparison! All those tunnels to the outside world, were used by Hamas to feed and medicate you, while everyone else, did almost nothing, beyond passing frivolous words, to assist you… It is a hard, exacting world to navigate - we all do no more than “the best we can”, which, even with the best of intentions, is hard to discern… grow up - everyone is special - You are just one of the lucky ones, with more opportunity, to “parade your beauty” - beauty that each and every one of us contains, according to his or her own nature…
I chat with some Palestinians, I admire their faith in god /Allah. I think more privileged people that experience hardships abandon their faith more easily. But for Gazans that is all they have now. And no matter what happens, they keep that faith.
Thank you, Mosab for sharing and bringing humanity to the discussion. It's not a political discussion, today. It was so powerful for you to show the family tree diagrams you drew of Palestinians who have died along with the names and ages of their children. It was a powerful and moving discussion, so again, thank you.
Bernie Sanders openly criticizes Israel's genocide and supports Palestine. He has been very vocal about this issue.
Let's get something clear, however well meaning Glastonbury fans were in support of the victims of netenyahu TERRORISM, and I applaud their solidarity with the Palestinians people, who are the victims of Israeli GENOCIDE. Having said that, to refer to Glastonbury as a 'music' festival is stretching credibility to its very limits when it is actually a POP festival, as that is ALL that is ever played there and why the vast majority of people would not be prepared to pay the ludicrous prices for tickets to stand in a field and watch the acts on a huge screen while listening to sounds played at ear splitting volumes over loudspeakers. Glastonbury has become a cult, one which the vast majority of people would not even consider attending in order to subsidise the lifestyle of overpaid 'pop' artistes, even taking into consideration that many of them are standing in solidary with the Palestinians in their hour of need. Would that these same 'pop' artistes would donate their income from the event to help the plight of the Palestinian people who are bing MURDERED in their thousands.