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Radio Al-Shams · 2024-10-14
Radio Al-Shams reports his call-in to its morning programme Awwal Khabar in October 2024. Shaban says Gazans have lost trust in the whole political system, local and international, and that neither the Security Council nor the Arab League has even met over what is happening in the north of the Strip. He argues that the world loses interest as a war drags on, that Netanyahu is blocking a deal because the war no longer costs him anything, and that the Arab world is either silent or gloating. He calls on people to go out at one set hour carrying white, UN and Arab flags to say they are paying for a war they were never consulted about.
Radio Al-Shams reports his call-in to its morning programme Awwal Khabar in October 2024. Shaban says Gazans have lost trust in the whole political system, local and international, and that neither the Security Council nor the Arab League has even met over what is happening in the north of the Stri…
Economist Dr. Omar Shaban said that people have lost confidence in the entire political system, local and international alike, and have come to say, "We have no one but God."
Shaban added, in an intervention on the program "Awwal Khabar" ("First News"), that despite what is happening in the north in terms of a campaign of cleansing and extermination, the Security Council has not met and has not held a press conference, nor has the League of Arab States, and he considered that all of these things will not lead to a result, but that they are the minimum needed to send a message to the Palestinian people that we stand with you.
He stressed that when a conflict drags on, the world loses interest in it, because every day a new problem appears in the world, and that the Israeli government itself announced that the conflict in the Gaza Strip has become secondary, "so what about the world," stressing that prolonging the war is sickening and offensive.
He continued: "We want to come down from the tree, but we are not allowed to," adding that the Palestinian parties in the Gaza Strip may wish to reach a deal, but Netanyahu does not want that and has obstructed the deal in recent months according to all sources, even though Hamas has made significant concessions because the war no longer carries a cost for him.
He went on to say that Netanyahu is present with a single battalion, bombing whomever he wants and killing, while directing most of his forces to southern Lebanon, and that U.S. aid is not merely doubled but rather 300 and 400 percent, while the Arab world is either silent or gloating, whereas those paying the price are the people living in the streets amid the bitter winter cold.
He stressed that it is important for the people to move and for the people themselves to come out, raising white flags, United Nations flags, and the flags of Arab states, into the streets all at once at one time and a specified hour, and to say, "We bear no responsibility for this aggression and are paying a heavy price for a war about which we were not consulted, and in which we have neither she-camel nor camel."
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