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The Russell Tribunal on Palestine - The Movie

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    (♪ Arabic song♪)
    [Russel Tribunal on Palestine]
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    (♪ ♪)
    [with the support of the Russel Peace Foundation Ltd]
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    [ I am from a small village in the West Bank called Nabi Saleh which began to demonstrate once a week, four years ago, against the stealing of our land by the settlers more than 25 years ago]
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    (♪♪)
    [Bilal Tamimi]
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    (♪♪)
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    (loudspeaker: in arabic]
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    (Off voices: in Arabic)
    (Gun noises, screams)
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    (piano music)
    ["May this tribunal prevent the crime of silence" - Bertrand Russell]
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    (Man) Il m'appartient maintenant de -- officiellement - ouvrir cette session.
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    (Stéphane Hessel - Honorary president of the RToP)
    Today, our task here,
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    as members of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine
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    is very simple very clear
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    very uncontroversial.
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    We are here to say what violations
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    of international Lawl is being committed
    committed
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    ok which the Palestinian people has been suffering from -- for the last 16 years.
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    We are here to say
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    that any country member of the United Nations,
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    and that is the case of France, of South Africa and of Israel,
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    has a commitment to that Charter
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    which is to implement
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    the text that have been submitted and adopted
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    by the International organization.
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    (piano music)
    [The Russell Tribunal has no legal status but acts as a court of the people, a Tribunal of conscience faced with injustices and violations of international law, that are not dealt with by existing international jurisdictions, or that are recognized but continue with complete impunity due to the lack of political will of the international community]
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    (Pierre Galand RToP General Coordinator)
    Plus de 80 experts et témoins ont travaillé pendant ces quatre sessions
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    à Barcelone, à Londres, à Capetown, à New York
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    et ils ont été accompagnés, eux aussi, alors, d'une équipe extraordinaire
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    de juristes de droit international.
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    (♪Arabic (?) song♪)
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    (Michael Mansfield - UK Barrister, Queen's counsel, RToP Jury member)
    The forces at work in Palestine
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    much the same as the forces at work
    elsewhere
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    are recognizing the chips are down and that there is action being taken
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    and there is an interesting correlation in connection
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    -- tony mentioned it -- a connection between these various movements
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    and the Palestinians because they all
    recognize
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    that what the Palestinians have had to put up with the sixty years, sometimes much longer,
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    and they have, is their struggle.
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    (Mohammed Khatib - Palestinian activist)
    you know that in from my roof
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    in [place name ?] which is 15 kilometer from the Mediterranean sea, I can see the sea.
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    I can see it: it's so totally clear to see it.
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    But then to be in there and then not managing
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    to be to be there and to be in this ...
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    ... sea.
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    everything be these palestinian workers
    stopped at checkpoints
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    can't get through be held up by
    18-year-old soldiers
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    uniform is watching Batman thank you
    don't forget to them
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    no palestinian to attack a showing two
    if by
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    another story if they cannot get to you
    and haven't
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    my way of doing it can make anything the
    ethnic cleansing
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    Palestine in 1947 28 and connected a
    plane to police reported
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    palestinian population its 13-point
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    any explanation attribution can you may
    pick an issue
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    anything with Chris today I spread
    across many geographical region
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    refugees like myself in 1998 entire home
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    those living in the West Bank and Gaza
    steer implanted population thank you
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    divided from when I think my me think an
    empty-net a checkpoint engineering lee
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    Hyori
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    and finally there palestinian workers
    who I think you can
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    everything could be here each of these
    groups if anything we think the sky's
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    condition
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    very quickly make a condition banned
    from the multi-tiered 15
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    colonialism occupation think a imposed
    on them by K
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    cities throughout the hump ft part of
    the peace is supported his dignity me
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    Jenna but it is a secure long-term
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    this issue 3 at me could you tell them
    who January by Jamie
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    tobacco drew boos and put on this
    computer science from some divine
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    yeah ago androgynous alter awesome
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    stack whose the
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    the
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    the
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    the
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    the
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    the lovelies
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    them love
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    that bomb help
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    meant saw as bad
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    and half bad
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    the
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    do
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    that and I'll that
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    I
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    honest them does the
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    yeah
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    that's the
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    mine are Paul the
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    guy
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    me
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    we use the word of part 8 in israel
    officially
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    in other words with the word we use the
    name of our policy
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    towards the Palestinians is called ha
    TRADOC in hebron
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    F H AF are ateh
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    after a die in hebrew means a party
    separateness two separate
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    I am we simply say it in hebrew rather
    than offer comes
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    but at the same with the same concept
    and in fact
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    the official name up the wall is not the
    security barrier
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    there's a really wasn't built for
    security but the official name on the
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    wall
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    is the separation barrier so it's ep and
    Israel calls the line to the wall I was
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    gonna short on a slide but
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    we don't have to but that Israel calls
    the torturous line up the wall
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    that intrudes deeply in the Palestinian
    territory
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    its demographic border its security
    border is a Jordan River
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    but the demographic border is is
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    and this is all in documents in
    government statements this isn't the
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    I something secret that I'm revealing
    today
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    itself adds up front and its explicit I
    am
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    a and I think that a it conforms what
    lady was saying
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    Yacht Club Barbara more
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    doll my
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    hah
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    I'll
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    where you goo for the Holy Land
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    for us
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    not
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    everything being drilled by any bloody
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    for us for me
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    it is being such an uncanny
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    such a
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    and
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    goodnight easy steamy to see
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    a deeply of what
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    used to happen here
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    in many respects he apartheid regime
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    was much more honest because the laws of
    apartheid
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    openly legislated parliament and then
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    clear who to see where is the
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    laws governing Palestinians in the
    Palestinian territory
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    largely contained you know skid military
    degrees or inherited emergency
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    regulation shoe John virtually
    inaccessible
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    on
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    galore
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    my
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    yeah goldblum
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    room
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    old ruled
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    I'm up
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    okay yes yep
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    I I recognized that law is rife from
    power
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    I recognize that the way that laws are
    made
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    is not some organic loss but that
    they're is
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    the question and power up that creates
    loss
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    but that said I think that we generally
    no
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    what is just and what is in just and
    what the United States has attempted to
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    do
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    in palestine is to make what is unjust
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    seen just what is illegal seem
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    legal the Palestinian people constitute
    one of the largest and longest standing
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    and resolve situations and displacement
    in the world
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    about half the refugees in the world
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    our palestinian approximately 66 percent
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    or 7.4 million up the entire population
    up
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    eleven-point two million palestinians is
    forcibly displaced
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    among those displaced are at least six
    point eight million palestinian refugees
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    and another $500 in nineteen thousand
    internally displaced persons
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    on
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    way
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    be or the Arab world decided to use
    forced
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    in order to reject the petition led by
    the United Nations
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    namely before the 15th May 1948 in
    before it was clear
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    what other positions on the sides
    because the united nation deliberation
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    on Palestine continue before he's
    deliberation ended
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    already haha on the palestinians became
    refugees I know perfectly well that so
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    so sad
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    it's not an object a positive
    international
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    I can sense one reason why
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    this is what western colonialism isn't
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    it was also about killing so it's also
    about the story nature
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    it was a ball all tearing apart
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    fragmenting marginalizing local
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    indigenous subsides
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    0
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    in an official this course
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    and they've got the official discussed
    stock peak from 2007
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    that I Israeli intelligence your but
    this can
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    has this cock the Palestinian side is at
    hand apostol
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    those who don't accent not rules of the
    game as a sec the chick
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    shit
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    of our job as civil society is to pick
    up the slack when the united nations
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    aims to do the job it is mandated to do
    because the United States government
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    refuses to allow it to do
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    what it is mandated to do that's our job
    that's the job
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    a civil society that was the reason that
    the largest at the United States
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    mobilizations on February 15
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    2003 in their work 250 some-odd
    demonstrations across this country
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    but by far the largest what's up would
    have the United Nations
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    because we were saying to the United
    Nations the same thing
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    that people around the world were saying
    the world says no to war
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    will now the world is saying no to
    Israeli occupation and apartheid
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    your resolutions traced the history of
    israeli by relations
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    you regret you deplore you even condemn
    the violations
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    but when have your resolution has been
    implemented
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    it is not enough to dip below condemn
    what we need is for the united nations
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    the you excellencies your governments
    and the General Assembly in which you
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    said I have
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    to take seriously our responsibility to
    protect Palestinians
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    living under occupation and facing the
    daily
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    violation up their inalienable rights
    self-determination inequality
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    the way love we the people that these
    United Nations
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    is that all our brothers and sisters
    should be free to live in
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    self-determination
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    that the oppression be released from
    their burden bike
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    being given recourse to the law
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    the
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    your
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    and i won big
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    yen by emphatically a surging
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    that the important work and the Russell
    tribunal
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    on palestine is not
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    over
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    and so now is the time to issue
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    the strong guess possible condemnation
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    a Israel we demand that the stadium
    Israel immediately
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    dismantle its system apart a not only
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    and the occupied territories but also in
    relation to Palestinian refugees
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    and inside Israel itself
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    we demand and the strong guess possible
    terms
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    that Israel Resende all discriminatory
    laws and
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    practices and that it immediately
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    Holt its persecution a palestinian
    square ever
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    they may reside
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Title:
The Russell Tribunal on Palestine - The Movie
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Revision 1 of these Metadata Geo subtitles contains the YouTube automatic captions, reuploaded. The idea is to see how easily they can be edited for human consumption, or if it's faster to start from scratch, as Esther Garau did in the English subtitles.

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  • Congratulations and thanks , Ester ! You've done most of this editing. Just wondering: can't we keep the explanation about using this metadata: geo track to edit the Youtube automatic captions in the description? It won't influence the description in the main /info/ page, and this way people who wonder what's that funny language and click on it will see the explanation in the transcript . ------ I was thinking of maybe re-splitting a few subtitles according to human instead of Youtube logic: then you could download them and reupload them as English. Would that be okay with you? ----- Best, ----- Claude

  • Yes, it would be ok.
    All the best to you

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