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It’s perfectly possible to support peace for Palestine without being pro-Hamas. It is perfectly possible to criticize the attacks by the armed forces without being anti-Semitic.
Of course that it is, but the elephant in the room is that many pro-Palestinians protesters are pro-Hamas and openly anti-Semitic. I still remember those clips where people were shouting "Gas the Jews"...
My sentiments exactly which is why I stay out of the arguments bc there’s no productive discussion when feelings rule over facts.
It's a damn shame that it is necessary to point that out but, yes, you're absolutely correct.
ironically, refuting the latter part is actually anti-semitic. same way that the trope of the "bad/self hating jew" is. israels actions as a nation-state and the jewish people/faith are NOT synonymous. no matter how much the zionists scream otherwise.
In some cases, I believe we talk past each other. Knowledge gives context - and should hone your focus on protesting. I agree with your statements 100%. I still think the students protesting on campus and the universities where the protests occurred seemed to miss the educational opportunity to ensure everyone was knew the context. I will have to listen to Hillary’s statement for context as well. But I was disappointed that modern day protesters aren’t better educated or informed.
I support the idea of people not dying. I'm a veteran. The deaths and killing is senseless. I wish we'd all side with life and compassion.
Me to brother old nam vet.
I'm a veteran too and 1 thing I learned in the military is War takes a horrific toll ON EVERYBODY and everything, it touches.
Reminds me of the Eisenhower speech about how soldiers hate war. I am a summer soldier, I have great respect to the winter soldiers who fought for us.
@@steveboverie9432 We have the responsibility of warning others, before they fall for the same trap, and somehow bring it here.
I'm a Nam vet and I am sorry that I didn't stand up with Muhammad Ali.
There is a variant of the "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it." meme that goes on "Those who prevent history from being taught fully intend to repeat it".
That's a good variant
I hate that people are dying. I hate that children are dying. I hate that families are being destroyed. Starvation, war and death are horrific. This is wrong, and it has to stop! Those in power are supposed to help people, not kill them. Thank you Beau, for saying what I feel!
For saying what we all feel
“The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”
Yes.
And really the only reason for being!
yes
Copy that!
Amen!
🙏
I think David Bowie said it best...
"And these children that you spit on as they try to change their world are immune to your consultation. They're quite aware what they're going through".
He also didn't accept any peerages from the Queen, because they represent the Empire, and colonisation.
This dude needs a David Bowie Changes Tshirt.
Yup, it's just rank ageism. The younger generations today are the most politically informed currently alive. She just views us with naked contempt because of our demographics.
@@dynamicworlds1 I agree 🥲
Keep on.
It's clearly working 💪 🤗🌹
A history lesson isn't necessary to be upset that tens of thousands of people have been slaughtered. It really just takes having a heart
Truth! ✊
Beau's point is that if the powerful people can keep us from seeing the slaughter and the starvation, we won't care because we won't know.
But if we see it, we care, and that makes it hard for Netanyahu to do what Hitler did.
@@aaronbaker2186 ...yeh I get that. And my point is that caring about it is only human
you need to maybe get your data from unbiassed sources.
@@SanDiegoHarry1 not sure why you're saying that
My family exists because one great grandmother survived a camp. Using suffering from people like her to fuel another genocide is wrong.
Very excellent basic notion. Thanks for that.
Totally 💯
I want people to stop killing other people.
Lol. Good luck!
That what Trump said at the CNN town hall interview. Haven’t heard the elitist Biden say it.
Standing up for human rights is always the right position.
Good luck with that.
@@loft306 so far, so good.
Thank you, Beau. I'm pushing 70 and have faith in today's young people. Nothing wrong with idealism and empathy.
Same age boat, and totally agree. People should be required to watch the one-on-one chat between Sir David Attenborough and Greta Thunburg. He knew she was still finding her way, but you could almost see the relief on his face.
@danmayberry1185 same here. And yes, Sir Attenborough has all but given up that his beloved creatures on his beloved earth will be saved.
The kids are alright. I’ve got a couple of them. They’ve taught me important things about becoming a better person.
Yes I believe as much. Bravo to you!
My kids have educated me in so many ways. I have hope because of them
I'm a historian, so I think it is important. But you don't have to know history to know something is wrong.
You got me crying...some grief, some frustration, some sympathy for the people who are saying, enough. It isn't just "kids" with ideals, I'm over 80 and I am understanding of the need to stop and find the better way.
Indiscriminate slaughter of civilians and war crimes can't be justified by "historical context" , no matter what side of the fence you're on
Agree with the idea. But i dont see how they DONT go after HAMAS after oct 7. I see no good solution for anyone in this conflict.
unless gazans gave up HAMAS members
The post actually goes both ways. HAMAS killed innocent civilians, which is wrong regardless of "historical context." I think this post is incredibly insightful because it can apply to both sides.
As the other two have commented, BOTH sides are wrong as hell. What it appears to me from the other side of the world is that group 1 attacked and killed thousands of the group 2 and took hundreds of hostages, non of which have been found alive or returned. Group 2 counter attacks group 1, but they hide behind their own citizens and in/under facilities like schools and hospitals resulting in many civilian deaths. Group 2 is clearly attacking without ANY consideration of civilian casualties. And group one is playing innocent, screaming “LOOK AT WHAT GROUP 2 DID!” As if Group 1 didn’t attack first. This is messed up on so many levels it is just sickening. 😢🤢😵💫
funny that there is only outrage and protest when Jews are involves, and complete silence over this week Erdogan bombing Kurds, Assad bombing Syrians, Putin bombing Ukrainians, why is that?why are only Jews condemned for defending their country? do you know how this is called?
You are correct, but these people's book tells them that their god has no issue slaughtering women, babes, sheep, and ass, camels and donkeys. As long as they think the land is theirs.
If you’re not upset, you’re not paying attention.
It's been like that since forever
@@comfortablynumb9342 Luv your handle
Im freaking out that others arent freaking out
or you are part of the objective evil thats the problem. i kinda doubt bibi or the IDF are ignorant of what they are doing, ya know?
Should be top comment.
I swam in the Sea of Galilee, the Dead Sea and stood in the Jordan River. It was 40 shekels to take the subway to the top of Mount Carmel. I have friends who are Israeli Bedouin, Sabra Israeli and Palestinian.
I know the region. I know the history. The people in power don’t listen to me either.
The carmelit is 40 nis now??? inflation is out of control
@@eitancodish301 That was in ‘84.
@@almitrahopkins1873 when the shekel was in the toilet, got ya
Thank you. I don't need a Ph.D. in foreign affairs and 20 years experience working in the Middle East to know pulling the dead body of a 2 year old from the rubble is wrong. To anyone who says I do need these things before I can express my views, I've got four fingers and I only need one to respond.
You don't need to understand foreign policy to demand change, but you do need to understand it to demand specific policy objectives.
This part. It's like people who want better education. They don't have to understand education policy to hold that opinion, until they say "do x"
Yeah that bit of nuance gets lost /WAY/ more often than it should. I think we'd all be much better off if we understood the boundaries between personal conviction and workable policy positions a bit better. Requiring Germany to pay reparations post-WW1 might have satisfied a lot of personal convictions, but you'd have to be a fool to think the way the policy played out was a good thing for anyone involved. That little tidbit is one of my favorites to pull out when people start getting weird about how different countries have different goals under the Paris Climate agreements. You cannot expect a country to do something that exceeds the reasonable capacity of its economy without provoking disaster. At least not while we're hung up on the dynamic of international competition.
As an over 70 member of the "flower child' geneation I am grateful and relieved that someone finally gets it.
74 tomorrow. Flower child adjacent.
@@VTownGregoryHappy Birthday in advance!
A 55yr old product of Flower Children, first teargassed in 69 protest in Tampa, I concur.
"Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming...."-Neil Young
@@rebekahogle9021
That (and the B-side) was my reaction to the first call for the National Guard to come out to play on this college protest issue.
"... and that worked out so well 60 years ago."
I never thought id see a day where wanting peace was considered terrorism
1984
FWIW: The majority of folks who think they know the history of that region don't. They know a mythology and confuse it with history, which in most ways is worse than being ignorant.
Truth. No disrespect to the Bible, but it's purpose is not for basing a group's claim to land. Otherwise, it would've been a legal contract used by lawyers, not a book of faith guiding religious beliefs. "But the Bible says..." is not evidence for anything relevant in this case. Too many "christians" looking for a crusade these days. 🤦♂️
@@erinmcdonald7781 Not just the ancient stuff, but a lot of what people think happened in the 20th century with Palestine/Israel includes a lot of myth as well (and omits a lot of reality too).
One example... Back to the beginning of the "Jewish homeland" idea, the Balfour Declaration was opposed by the only Jewish member of the British cabinet (and supported by a lot of other folks) because it gave countries a convenient rationale for expelling Jews. There are a lot of complications which allow for someone to tell a 'history' justifying pretty much any position depending on what is included or omitted.
"They just want people to stop dying." Well said, Beau. That sums up my feelings about every conflict on the planet.
And can we add famines and floods and extreme weather and toxins that poison-the things we have influenced. And the things we haven't done enough about-dying from chronic stress of being unhoused.
Well said.
Sure. given. stipulated, people should stop dying in conflict with one another. Very damn few of us DON'T want that. The trouble is, if that is ALL you are saying you are preaching to the choir. How do we get there? That is the question. Calling attention to the problem is useful to a point, but if no real world functional solutions are brought forth it's a nearly useless gesture.
Sometimes in order to stop the killing you need to join the fight against the aggressor just like in Ukraine. Not taking a stand against Ruasia sens a message of ambivalent toward Putins expansion is ideals. That cannot be allowed.
Your right, we are all just tired of people dying for no damn good reason. So tired of wars for the wealthy and religious reasons.
I had one gomer just yesterday try to tell me that religion is not even remotely a factor in this. What a dinlow, eh?
@@user-fi6he2ud3h im not sure whats more dumb. the claim that religion isnt part of it, or the notion that religion not being part of it makes it any more acceptable.
@@user-fi6he2ud3h I might see the gomer's point, hear me out. People USE religion, but it isn't about the religion, it's about their greed for power. Most "religious wars" are about taking from "others". It's cloaked in religion, but it's about power, wealth, and control.
@@amberandrews6842 It doesn’t help that the Abrahamic faiths, in their scriptures, are very much pro-slavery and pro-genocide.
@@Skywatcher16 It doesn’t help that the scriptures of the Abrahamic faiths are very much progenocide.
Are the people who say "they dont know the history" sure they want people to learn the history? It certainly wouldn't put things in a better light.
Agree Beau. Most students want the killing to stop. Just like we did in the 60s and Viet Nam protests. Very proud of the students doing peaceful protesting and trying to stop the killing. They are making a difference.
I remember when Republicans justified not televising images from the Gulf Wars by saying it would be "obscene". I remember wondering how many people recognized that disconnect. Yes, war is obscene, and the Powers-that-Be didn't want public support to be eroded by witnessing the obscenity. Clearly a lesson learned from Vietnam.
Very true! While I’ve never served or been in a war, I have known several who have been. They all were deeply changed by it, all hated it, some told stories, others refused to speak of what happened. I remember watching the end of Rambo… I forget which one, one of the last ones with the big .50 cal. battle and remarked how unreal it seemed. They paused the movie and asked questions, I replied no weapon makes holes in people like that. There was a pause, and they proceeded to enlighten me that THEY ALL saw .50 Cal. in action and they absolutely F’ing 🤬 DO, and added that was THE most realistic footage of a battle they had ever seen since the opening shots of Saving Private Ryan.
They wouldn't show the coffins with our soldiers being unloaded from the military planes, either. Our then governor went to EVERY soldier's funeral in our state ensuring that at least the local media covered it.
@@bel-amimargoles1209 In Canada, as well as in the UK, the coffins being unloaded and the ceremonial guard bearing them to the hearses was televised. The road, in Canada, on which the hearses travelled was called the 'Highway of Heroes' and people lined the overpasses to pay their respects as they passed under them. In the UK the hearses drove though the small town of Wooten-Bassett where residents lined the streets to pay their final respects. Was it guilt over no weapons of mass destruction being found, a personal vendetta because daddy Bush's life had been threatened, or was it ultimately not wanting to sway public opinion against the 'Operations' that those in power decided not to recognize, let alone honour the fallen as they were repatriated.
It is good to know that your governor had the humanity to personally attend each soldier's funeral.
There is nothing more obscene than war
Well my Republicans learned from the Viet Nam war which was televised like we were living with Trump, everyday, there was no getting away from it
Photojournalism ended Vietnam. My first thought when I hear "Vietnam" Is a little girl, running down a road, naked and screaming from being burnt by napalm.
Geesuz, me too.
Mine is always of the immolated monk, then the girl running down the road. Both having to do with fire. Both ought to have been lessons from war - they simply taught the American media powers-that-be to show U.S. less.
Lucky is she survived but that had to be a lasting g scar
Oh! Just made the same comment. The lack of understanding didn't matter when that image was published, although it did have a negative effect on how veterans were received. We've come a long way on both fronts.
Yes. I was having a conversation just last night with a friend Who is in his late 30s. I said the very same thing. That photo ended the war. ❤
My brother was a "conscientious objector" to the Vietnam War. For exactly this reason. Not a 'coward' as so many would call him, just a man who didn't want to kill other humans.
It is exactly that elitist attitude that lost her the White House in 2016. Hope someone sends this to her in an email. And thank you, Beau, for giving the historical context of protests that she, and many like her don’t seem to know at all. This is also the reason people believe in the fictional uniparty.
“To be persuasive, We must be believable,
To be believable, We must be credible,
To be credible, We must be truthful.”
― Edward R. Murrow
Thx, I like that quote.
Basically, don't lie to kids about anything because if they catch you in a lie about one thing it will make them doubt you on everything.
Excellent quote!
@@Stuff_And_Things
the younger they are the better lie detectors they are;)
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the quote, but there seems to be millions of Americans who are persuaded by Fox news.
You don’t need to know foreign policy and history to want fewer people to die. But as soon as you start to formulate a plan to make that happen, you better understand the history.
Reason will always be deficient because we are not omniscient, and reality consists of non-linear relations so consequences are often unintended. The most anti-fragile strategy is to move power to the powerless and let them work out how to improve their lives. Most people are not revolutionaries, so this is a low risk strategy.
As guy who was protesting in the 60s against the slaughter in Vietnam, I can tell you that you are exactly correct .. we did not really know the history of the region but for the first time we were getting non sanitized reporting with videos of the horrors of war and the brutality (on both sides) and we wanted it to stop and did NOT care what form of government or political ideology their country used .. we all saw the naked girl who had been napalmed running down the road.. how can you not want it to stop and in my opinion, the same horrors are being seen in Gaza despite the Israeli government's atttempts to censor it by not allowing foreign unbiased journalists into the war zones. Thankfully we have smart phones and they cannot totally stop the truth from emerging -- even kicking out AlJazeera because they were reporting facts. Thanks Beau ,,, I am writing you an e mail to other channel about the fallacy of ever having a real "2 state" solution.
Billionaires are allowed to own everything and they want a police state worldwide. Shut up, pull the levers, make the coffee, invent shit for me to maintain my undeserved privilege....
There are lots of things I don't understand. Born in 1955, came of age in the sixties, remember JFK and MLK. Didn't understand the geopolitical issues of Vietnam. But knew we were wasting my generation. The youngsters today may not understand the nuances of geopolitics. But they understand indiscriminate bombing of children. And they know that creating a famine is wrong. All they NEED to know. I'm thankful the younger generations have that.
The military can win military conflicts but they cannot win hearts and minds because that is political. The 20th century has shown us that you cannot beat a terrorist organisation militarily unless there is both an aramelite and a ballot box in the solution. Being anti hamas and anti right wing Israeli govt. Are not contradictory positions being alive and not being anti death is.
“Now that you’ve seen it with your own eyes, you can choose to look away.
But you can never again say you didn’t know.”
No need to give her that much credit even. She preached that nonsense from a perch of being in denial about decades of failed policy. Remember how being misinformed is worse than being ignorant? Yeah, the kids effectively know this better than she does here. She loses even on her own terms and framing.
I wish I could upvote this over and over. Once again we're faced with political leaders who think their expertise is a substitute for the moral consciousness of their constituents. And once again, they're wrong. Thank you for making that plain.
As someone who knows both the history and is tired of the endless death toll of Palestinians since the designation of Isreal- I appreciate this message. Being pro-Palestinian doesn't equate being antisemitic, there's a huge difference between antisemitic and antizionist. A genocide of a people from those that experienced their own genocide is insanity.
Totally agree
In 71 years, I had hopes that humans would become more educated and more civilised.
They haven't 😮
Wel I guess we were both wrong. Im 60
if war and suffering was a teacher we'd have given it up millennia ago.
Humans cant even agree on what either of those terms mean... What it is to be civilised or to be educated is diff from country to country, territory to territory within the countries
Disagree. Also 71. Humans are doing better.
Logic leads to conclusions. Emotion leads to actions.
Temple Grandin, who is on the autism spectrum, wrote a book (with assistance) about how animals think, given that they don't use human language. Animals use images, just like Grandin. In fact, everyone starts out the same way; we have to be taught to speak, to read, to write.
A photograph of a naked child running down the road because her body was on fire from napalm became the symbol for what the US was doing to Vietnam. Emotion leads to actions.
These young people are going into 5 figure debts to study at these institutions. The kids have every right to make their voices heard and to fight for change. We should all praise their righteous anger and join in where we can. Thank you Beau for lending your voice to theirs.
I'm 67, just barely missed Vietnam, i can not remember a month in my life that there was not a war somewhere on this planet. Regardless of how well militaries plan out the strategies, civilians get killed. I'm with the young folks , tired of the killing. And also just imagine how much humanity could benefit if the resources devoted to death and destruction could be diverted for the good of mankind.
Even a child could see that Netanyahu is morally naked.
Something he has in common with Vonshitzinpants.
Two wrongs don't make a right, though.
Netanyahu is an authoritarian empathy deficit disorder subhuman! Israel! Get rid of him!
He is. 100%. That doesn't give Hamas the moral high ground. Trump being a horrible option to vote for doesn't tirn RFK into a good vote.
@@olivierkains1771 your argument reeks of straw man fallacy. OP never said anything about Hamas, you just made something up and then argued with yourself about it to manufacture outrage.
Since you want the argument so bad, let me give it to you. We know Hamas are terrorists, but if Israel doesn't stop killing innocent Palestinians and aid workers, they are being terrorists, too. We all WANT Israel to have the moral high ground, because that would mean they kill the terrorist assholes and keep innocent civilians safe. They, at the current moment, look really really bad, because they are not keeping the innocent civilians safe. Palestine is on the brink of famine. So next time you want to make things about you, maybe you should just shut your mouth and turn off your computer instead. You should feel bad that you are being a keyboard warrior while innocent women and children are dying of hunger and thirst.
Thank you! "That lady" should keep her mouth shut! I began protesting when I was a junior in high school and have been protesting wars even since. It's been 54 years! Beau, you are a masterful teacher. Keep being you!
Ditto.
Telling that lady to keep her mouth shut goes against what the United States Stands for. Part of having free speech is hearing things you disagree with, disagreeing with it, but supporting their RIGHT to say it.
Who IS "that lady"? I genuinely want to know, I only saw DeSantis saying something to this effect.
Am also curious who "that lady" was. I'm at work so it's a little difficult to look up who it was
I know. Her basket of deplorables remark already caused this country enough pain.
There can never be a reason for genocide. Ever.
The image of the little girl who got napalmed is still stuck in my head so many years later.
History lesson for the rich and powerful:
Eventually the peasants rise up and eat you.
.. eventually.
It usually takes many generations of exploiting before the peasants "rise up",
and for the wealthy that's been a comfortable bet to wager on
@@RainerMichelle lol
and a couple years later it will be all back to BAU, because the root causes, the first principles responsible for ALL OF IT are not being discussed or even just acknowledged.
won't change the root causes, so just go back to business as usual. No one talks about the root causes and first principles involved as not even sociology and economic are knowledgeable about it.
@@RainerMichelle where have you been since for ever, all the above been denounce so many times and called evil and terrorist for their doing, many of them so their countries destroyed for it...except jews, who can go all the way to genocide(again,see the amalek) and are also, in that bunch, the biggest cry babies about it.
Every time I think about this, I remember what Beau called it: “PR with violence.”
PR with violence. In a world where everyone has a production studio in their pocket.
PR with violence.
This is a key element that it seems like gets lost.
@Beau that’s how it seems to me too. Perhaps a reminder every now and then would be a healthy thing for us to hear. Because it’s damned important. Just a thought.
"That lady" should really not have said that people do not know the history of the region. That comes with the implication that they should learn about it, and if they do, well, "that lady" is going to find herself hated even more than she already is.
I'm neither pro-Israel nor pro-Palestine. I'm pro-peace.
You can't be neutral if you want peace. One of those entities wants to wipe out the other. There will never be peace so long as Israel exists.
Unfathomably based take
Being pro peace means being pro Palestine.
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@@ammar1811 how so? Explain clearly.
Can we talk about Beau’s old timey newscaster voice? Because it’s perfect.
I suspect he's practiced that a bit over time given how accurate it was.
@@TheReflectivePerspective
Maybe, but he does speak several languages.
I expect old time newscaster dialect wasn't hard.
He did a good job!
In that style, Ed Herlihy did many of the voiceovers for the newsreels to which Beau is referring, by the way.
Beau is spot on here, and cuts to the heart of the issue. This is one of Beau's best videos.
Something happened to Hillary which froze her in time. She is mired in the status quo. Biden is more mentally and politically flexible than she is.
I didn't see that coming 8 yrs ago.
There is an immediate, unconscious, emotional reaction to seeing a boot on a neck that no amount of historical context will change.
Thank you beau. For real I'm a grown man in tears. Its absolutely a fact. This.
Indiscriminate slaughter of civilians and war crimes can't be justified by "historical context" , or which deity you pray to... no matter what side of the fence you're on.
Thank you so much for this video! It needed to be said. I'm 77 and appalled at the rate humans are killing humans. We are the most dangerous animal.
“They suffer a moral injury “. Thank you, Beau! This is the part that leaders and commentators miss, sometimes this is even the part those who have been injured miss or don’t have the words to say. We need to say something about what’s going on because it hurts us too.
Beau is forgetting that Hamas had cell phones during their invasion on Oct 7. They were proud of their actions and recorded their deeds. People on both sides of the conflict have seen the videos and in Israel their injuries aren't merely moral.
@@setsoru5319"in Israel, their injuries aren't merely moral"
That's a really odd statement. Is civilian death due to famine "merely moral" as an injury to this civilians and their neighbors?
Are Israeli settlers merely inflicting moral injury on their Palestinian neighbors by driving them out of their homes and uploading video of it, or braging about it on Israeli right-wing media?
The injuries innocent civilians of any group are taking here are far more than "merely moral"
It's the folks who are privileged enough to live in safety and be outraged others are unsafe that are experiencing a "merely moral" injury.
@@ajchapeliere Chappy, re-read my statement and remember the context. Recall Beau's video about leadership and changing media democratizing video access in the people's hand, Ace's facetious echoing of Beau's moral injury argument, and Hamas atrocities committed and recorded on Oct 7 preserving those moments for all to see. It isn't leaders that are driving these actions, it is the people fully determined to resolve their issues. And the injuries Israel suffered weren't moral.
As for all your points about the hardships the Gazan's face. They asked for and still support this war by large majorities. Consistently 70% polled support the violence, while Hamas support fluctuates from 35 to 55% due to corruption and incompetence. Gaza's only complaint is against Israel's insistence of fighting back. Gaza set the tone for the war by doing unto others and now they are finding out. Israel has been quite restrained in returning the sentiment if you consider the situation dispassionately.
Didn’t seem to bother lawmakers in the 60s that they sent guys to fight in a place that they didn’t know the history of the region….
It bothered them enough that they changed the voting age from 21 to 18.
Believe it or not, Richard Nixon's book "No More Vietnams" details both the regional history and the lawmakers who made the wrong decisions out of ignorance. Including himself.
@@ChrisBV I’d like to think the protests help change public opinion.
Thank you for using your platform to speak for us. I want to say the same thing.
I remember thinking how brave the 17-year-old girl who was that filmed the George Floyd murder while she held her cousin and
3 of my family members were trying to have a “conversation” about this the other day. My Gen Z daughter ended up in tears and my mom and husband claimed she didn’t understand. 😭
Seems your daughter understood all too well.
Please tell her, that we all understand her, and that she is right!
Hug your daughter for me, please. And one for you, too.
Yup, it's just naked ageism as normal.
truth plain and simple, Stop the killing.
30k+ 💀 as compared to 1200 💀is not a proportional response! It’s a slaughter!
The bloodiest day in this war so far was October 7 and the blood belonged to the Israelis. If the IDF conducted wanton slaughter the way Hamas did the whole way through the death toll would be in the hundreds of thousands by now. The response isn’t anywhere near proportional, it’s just that the IDF is actually a competent force with more than just missiles made from stolen pipes
Damn, Beau. There are very few days since the 2020 election and J/6 that I have felt any pride for our country. The younger generations are our future and we must give them a fighting chance. Knowledge is power. So is critical thinking. I hope we can finally turn the corner and reverse this trend. Happy Sunday AND Mother's day all you internet people.
It does not help that any criticism of the Israeili government, or their actions, will bring about allegations of supporting Hamas or antisemitism.
Palestinians are Semites, too. I like to counter with that one. Hard to be anti-Semitic against Semites. (Hamas is a whole different side of the equation and yet the zionist government has committed so many more atrocities...)
That is what many believe, because they are too lazy, too angry(in general), or too lazy to a dually dig into what's going on in Gaza. My parents watch a "news" channel that is "max"imizing and relying on hate and the uneducated. The people that subscribe to what they are being told scream avlbiut everyone else being sheep, when in actualitu... it is THEY who are the sheep.
Hamas will continue to kill jews. And people in the west are helping them. It is support for Hamas.
Yeah, well, as long as people know they can spout BS and still NOT look like idiots they will keep doing so. I think a grade school student knows that everything is not black and white, but supposedly important politicians who supposedly have been educated just keep flapping BS from their top a hole and yet do not expect to be judged for it.
Convenient though, uh?
Love you brother.. sorry i got upset with your coverage in the beginning. I should've known your reasoning. Thank you for being you and continuing to be my favorite news coverage. You're the best of us, please never change.
Oh no, we all need to change! As we learn and grow more-even Beau said something like if you're the same person you were 5 years ago-you've stopped growing.
And this was another video I said out loud "I love you, Beau" while watching.
People who care about others being called ignorant is a tale as old as time.
100%...THANK YOU for breaking out of your agenda and saying it for all of us.
I don't have to like or respect a people's ideas or leaders or anything to not want them dying in explosions...
I just had a conversation with a friend from Florida about friends as teenagers who came back in wheelchairs; or 3 weeks later came home in a body bag. The Marine recruiter was run out of town. They were young men in a small town up by the Canadian border with little else available. War is Hell.
Most of the people hate war in any country.
People no longer want the history that was written by the winners. They want the reality of what has truly occurred. The Good The bad and The ugly. This is good news. 👍
Some people want that and some don’t want anyone to know the truth m. That’s why there are books being banned in the US.
@@sarahpalmer411 and course removed in schools...history class being rewrote, fights over CRT etc ... there is a movement to the right and it needs to be put in check and with or because of the economy being so hard for the lower financial class ... historically not a good place to be in.
“It says here in this history book that luckily, the good guys have won every single time. What are the odds?” -Norm MacDonald.
@@sarahpalmer411 So very true. Sad, but true.
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong, "For what it's worth " Buffalo Springfield.
As someone who started out in the "i have no idea what's going on over there, i just want people to stop dying" camp. in the last 7 months i've learned the history and the policies from arab voices, because they were the only ones obviously speaking the truth! Believe me, someone who learns the history will despise the injustice all the more.
🏴 In 1980 I was 15 yrs old. I initially had no idea how South African Apartheid had come about. I just knew it was wrong, and I wanted it to stop. I asked my history & modern studies teachers about it. I got our librarian to help me find books on it.
Then, I started becoming vocal and active. Letters, boycotts, arguing or dropping friendships with racist school mates.
Continuing to adult hood ... kept making my views known to anyone who'd make a racist joke in my presence etc etc. Attended the Free Nelson Mandela gig in London (birthday one too)
I was at work doing OT on a Sunday in Feb 1990 when my desk phone rang, it was my boss....' Get through to Mike's (CEO) office, switch on the TV, you have to see this.' And he hung up.
I went through just in time to see Mandela walk out the gates.
It doesn't matter when you join a fight as long as you understand and believe in what you are fighting (for or against).
And yes, it took a long time... but in the end we won. ❤
I've been involved with non-party politics/ issues/ causes (call it what you will) from then to now and have no intention of stopping.
Just glad that some of this generation have finally 'woken up' ( not 'gone woke' ) and opened their eyes and minds. ❤
Thank you for sharing.
Vote Democrat for women Rights, for Social Security... thanks Beau
Planning on it
If the Party of Liars Cheats and Thieves ever get control of the three parts of the legislative branch again everyone’s rights are at risk of disappearing!!
The LCT party will then have their way to turn this country into Russia, Turkey, Hungary, Belarus, etc!!
Also to continue funding public schools. Our wonderful governor Abbott is trying to siphon public money into private schools. Most people still wouldn't be able to afford private school, so it will mostly help the wealthy and hurt everyone else.
He is primaring the Republican that stopped him. I can only imagine Abbott has some kind of grift going on. I'll be Voting Blue to protect education too.
Women’s rights? Democrats are pushing for biological males to play in women’s sports.
I worry that many younger people will abstain from voting because of a rising anti-Biden sentiment. I see many of my younger friends casually throwing around "Genocide Joe" and talking about the Uniparty. These are people who have previously voted democrat/Biden.
I and many of my fellow anti-Vietnam war activists knew the history of Vietnam going back 1000 years. Our opposition to the British occupation of the six Northern Counties of Ireland was based on an understanding of 200 years of history. My knowledge of the situation in Palestine goes back about 100 years. But I agree that you do not need to know this to understand that military force or any other type of killing is not the best way to resolve problems and that if and when it becomes necessary it should be as targeted and limited in duration as possible.
Thank you once again Beau for your clarity and passion. It's the harm, the loss of life & loved ones that war creates. As you say, you don't need the whole history. I waged peace against the Vietnam war knowing only that friends were being sent home in black bags. Clinton's remarks were condescending. Everyone has a right to say their piece/peace without being scorned or judged as too uninformed to protest.
“I'm tired, boss. Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other." ~ John Coffey (The Green Mile)
Naive I know, but damn if I don’t feel it every time I look at the news.
If people were required to have perfect historical knowledge on a subject before speaking on it, the entire world would be silent.
This would be a bad thing?
@@davidbrennan2728 If you want to turn the meat grinder off, then yes, it's a very bad thing. Silence in the face of oppression is taken as endorsement.
@@davidbrennan2728 Name one historical subject on which you have perfect knowledge.
She doesn't know the history of the region.
@@Frostbite08 Perfect knowledge does not it is a lack of general knowledge due to our education system focusing on rote memorization'
At about the 1 minute mark, I had to resist the urge to pop some popcorn... That kind of intro by Beau means that something excellent is on the way.
EXCEPT in the 1960s, marchers were there because we did not want ourselves or men we loved to be drafted into the military for a senseless war. It truly was personal.
Random of topic comment:
I just saw the Northern lights for the first time in my life. Not sure why I cried. It is unimaginable that Mother Earth can produce so much splendor and beauty, and at the same time harbor so much misery.
Count your moments in the colorful lights, people. It's a privilege.
It has been too cloudy for us.
However my aunt in Michigan sent me some really cool photos.
The one time in my life that I saw the aurora, I lay on a park bench in -20f degree weather and watched for over an hour. It was AMAZING. I missed it this time because I believed the prediction that it was going to peak at 2am in my area, so I slept through the actual peak at 10:40-11. Everyone should have the opportunity to see it at least once in their life, there’s pictures, but they really don’t do them justice.
Awe for the wonders we see and grief for those who will never have the chance due to cruelty and indifference. That's a lot of emotion for a body to hold. It fills us up, drop by drop, until it begins to leak through the windows of our soul.
Amongst the horrors we need to stop to take in the beauty and feel awe.
This makes me wonder why more people don't seem to be suffering a moral injury over the ongoing murder of Ukraine's people.
It’s almost as if this situation was manufactured as a distraction.
Lots of people are. But lots of other people are under the influence of a select few whose wallets get heavier when they say "It's not our place to get involved".
They've got war fatigue. Then there's that relentless ru pro*p*g**** that's crept into most if not all countries far and wide. ♥️🇺🇦🔱💪🚜🌻🍉🇺🇦💙✊🤙
Pro-Palestinians are in many cases pro-Russians since West is supporting Ukraine and West is bad. Plus gulf states are funding pro-Palestinians protests and many protesters are just Muslims who as per default hate the Jews. That's the reasoning.
Our government is helping Ukraine fight the Russians. We are actively fighting the moral injury in Ukraine. That is not the case in Israel-Palestine.
It shouldn't be controversial to demand less death and less destruction. What does it say about a person's or a society's values that is willing to disregard or even encourage such suffering.
I love it when you speak truth, Beau. It makes my whole day better. We, the people, hate it when innocent women, children and men are murdered and tortured (starvation is torture) by BY OUR OWN FUC*ING GOVERNMENT
My grandfather was 32 years old when Israel was formed. He was 43 when Hawaii was forced to become a state. The only history that remains relevant, and ties all of this together, is the insatiable Eurocentric need for dominance and greed.
greed is the motivation for dominance. it is never a goal in and of itself. greed is the fuel, violence is the engine, ideology is the vehicle, religion is the driver, domination is the destination.
@@thehellyousay
Greed has become a drive of its own. They just want more, just like some people can't stop eating even though they had enough. Some people can't have enough wealth to keep them satisfied.
Honestly it's not just Eurocentric. The fact that we /think/ it's Eurocentric is a testament to how bad we are at contextualizing history.
The Aztecs, Mayans, and Incans were imperial powers, too. But we tend to forget that because the conquistadors won.
As someone who does know the history i agree. I just want the Damn killing to stop. I'm so goddamn tired of the way foreign policy works.
I want the suffering to stop. Plain and simple. I want ALL the suffering to STOP!
exactly so & thank you for stating it so clearly. don't need a history degree to want people not to die.
Yes, we're watching. We see everything. Well, almost everything anyway. That won't stop the people in power to keep trying to fool us though. You're right, Beau. You don’t always have to know the exact details of history to realize something is wrong. What a valuable message.
Well howdy there Beau, it's the internet again. If history has taught anything, it is that history is lost on the powerful.
Those in charge have no imagination. They can't imagine doing things any other way.
A friend of mine told me "I got my ass whooped at a protest, and I didn't even know who "Ho chi Minh" was". 😂
Nice bud;)
Why the quotes on Ho Chi Minh?
@@ajchapeliere fat thumbs
Most folks nowadays think Ho Chi Minh was just the name of a trail.
@@jeepliving1Yeah, the rest of my generation doesn't know.
Lucky me I study History for fun.
All we are saying, is give peace a chance. 🎶
As a former history teacher and a lifelong news junkie, well said Beau!
I know exactly who you are talking about. I was deeply disappointed with what she said. BUT exactly what you said! 😢 Retired High School teacher here. Beau, you are 100% correct!
As someone that’s been watching Beau for years now, this is maybe my favorite video of his.
I remember Kmher Rouge, the Boxer Rebellion, the rise of Maoism, because I took world history in high school. Guess it's no longer required. Sad. Our education system has gone to hell. Thanks, GOP! 🔥🤬
Might be a good idea to check state DoE curriculum standards before assuming what is or isn't taught (e.g. your state and my state probably have different standards). Basing /anything/ solely on the ranting of culture warriors is not intellectually sound.
If you want to fix something you have to know what's broken.
I'm also willing to bet that you're not accounting for recency. You'd be able to account for that by looking at how long ago those events you mentioned happened in relation to you being in high school. Then check to see if there are similar events that are being covered that have that temporal relationship. Sometimes concepts get covered using newer examples.
I guess you could say it's a bit like updating Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys every decade or two to account for technological advancements and social changes.
Yea ..I remember that
in high school ...I was stateside but what we saw and heard in the news was horrifying. Would like to visit Cambodia now, I have heard it has changed and the future looks much brighter
Thank you, Beau. These politicians saying these things have lost their humanity, spending too much time in their rarefied world. It's about the lives, not policy.
One of Beau's best videos. Gives me a lot to think about as an aging protestor against the Vietnam War. Moral injury is the right expression.
This Disabled USAF Vietnam Veteran is opposed to ANY killing.
Happy mother's day, friends! ❤ 🇨🇦
Happy Mother's day to you too 😊
Happy Mother's Day to One and All! I hope you are enjoying this day Crystal and will have a lovely week ahead. 💐🕊💐
Thank you💖 and the same to you.😊
CrystalAbrahams, Hello 👋 & Happy Mothers Day to you 🎉 !