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Professor Norman Finkelstein on the recent ceasefire agreement. #normanfinkelstein

00:00:00 nations that climaxed in this ceasefire agreement I've of course read the agreement the text and I've have read some commentary but I didn't follow it very closely I was working on a book on Gaza which was preoccupying me my basic feeling no I don't want to quote a feeling my basic understanding is the following number one uh there is a interesting uh analogy to what just happened with the ceasefire I suspect nobody in the among your viewers and listeners will know that on January 17th that is today

00:00:56 January 17 2009 operation castled ended that was the Israeli assault on Gaza at the time it seemed like a very large assault uh it lasted from August excuse me from December 26th till January 17th when Amnesty International called 22 days of death and destruction and you know why it ended it's an interesting story of great relevance with the recent developments in Gaza it ended because President Obama was going to be inaugurated president and he didn't want this sideshow in Gaza to distract attention from his

00:02:08 coronation and so he told Israel end the attack and it did very obediently it did as the master ordered them them being Israel to do in the current situation as you will recall about a month ago um president Trump announced that if the hostages were not released at the time of his inauguration there would be all hell to pay now Trump president Trump he didn't want to begin his presidency by having to unleash a Savage assault on Gaza first of all because the people of Gaza had already paid hell in the past 15

00:03:24 months so there wasn't much more that he could do and secondly because he didn't want to begin his presidency on such a merciless heartless note and so he read the riot act or his Emissary read the riot act to Netanyahu as in sign the agreement the agreement which apparently doesn't differ in any significant way from the agreement that was agreed to in May of this past year and it ended the lesson to be learned from there is when an American president says stop it stops all this talk about Americans

00:04:27 having no power that Netanyahu doesn't listen that and so on it's just nonsense now having said that as you know there are two components to the ceasefire one is the mutual hostage exchange the thousand thousand of hostages that are being held by Israel versus the hundred or less hostages currently being held by Hamas there is the hostage exchange but there is also a second aspect that is the promise of admitting humanitarian Aid on a high level they say 600 trucks per day allowing for the Reconstruction of Gaza and all the

00:05:42 rest for those who don't know the history lifting the blockade of Gaza allowing for the Reconstruction of Gaza and all the rest it was promised after operation cast Leed it was promised after Israel assaulted the humanitarian flotilla the maavi mura it was promised after operation pillar of Defense in 2012 it was promised after operation protective Edge in 2014 and nothing came of it uh as at the time of operation pillar of defense the defense minister was AUD Barak and he said they were signing an

00:06:50 agreement to end the operation these high-tech killing spr they were signing an agreement M and it included a ceasefire plus the lifting or the easing of the blockade and at the time um Barack told the other Israeli officials who were debating whether to sign the ceasefire plus the end of the blockade or the easing of the block blockade he said quote a day after the ceasefire no one will remember what is written in that agreement I think that's absolutely correct I think after the ceasefire and the exchange the mutual

00:07:49 exchange of hostages between Israel and Hamas all the promises about admitting humanitarian Aid and allowing for the Reconstruction in Gaza all of that will vanish like snow in the spring sunshine