 I'd like to focus in on Gaza. I'd like to focus in on the fact, the well-known fact, that without U.S. support, Israel could not do what it's doing in Gaza and that what it's doing in Gaza is a textbook case of genocide. Now, what do we mean by U.S. support? About 20 years ago, when Bibi Netanyahu was in the living room of one of his constituents, he decided to lay it all out there. And so he said, turn that video machine off. The fellow forgot. He forgot. And so we know exactly what Bibi Netanyahu said. He said, the Americans, let me quote, I transcribed it. The Americans can be very easily moved, moved in the right direction. 80% of the Americans support us. It's absurd. And quote, whoa. Well, is it still the case that 80% of the Americans support genocide? We have to make clear that it is not. That is no longer even close to 80%. Despite the Zionist influence in the administration, in the Congress, and in the media, it's a tall hill to climb. But we're doing it, okay? I bet demonstrations here in a small town called Raleigh, North Carolina, thousands of people, most of them with only a tenuous connection with Palestine, but a big deep connection with justice, okay? Now, what I'd like to do is tell you of an experience that veterans for peace, a group that I'm proud to belong to, experienced when we went to the West Bank, the occupied West Bank in Palestine six years ago. I'm going to show a couple of clips. One is taken in the, pretty much, begins in the living room of a man named Bassem Tahini. Now, his daughter is Amit Amini, and she's more prominent and more popular and more well known because of what she did in the face of the Israeli soldiers. I mention that because what follows our program here is a film about a father-daughter relationship, it seems to me, the same between Bassem and Ahad. Now, so we're in Bassem's nine of us, nine delegation from Veterans for Peace. We're in the living room there, and the discussion turns to what the protesters against occupation, and specifically what the young children suffer, and what the very brave women do to stop it. So, may we have that first clip now, Dave, to show this, and then I'll talk a little bit. It's only three minutes, so if you fall asleep, you're going to miss the whole clip. Thank you, thank you. Beautiful, wonderful, and you are a hero, a great hero. Yes, you are. I saw the soldier was he trying to take your son? We have a demonstration, and then we come to the to the hill here, and then the soldiers were hiding around us. He was broke in hand because they shot him before two days of this by a rubber bullet. And they said, did he throw stones? How he throw stones with a broken hand? He was eleven, eleven, eleven years old. And they took him for five months in jail, seven months in jail, and this boy, you see, we have the youngest prisoners now, he's 13 years old. They give him three years in jail. 13 years in jail. You were a big rock star when you were on tour because of this video. The price is high. When you lose part of your cousin and family, it's not easy to say it's famous or not. It's important to be famous or not. Yeah, the worst issue that we have still under occupation, we need a lot of time to reach our goal and mean a lot of suffering and mean a lot of losing. For that, the future is not easy for us. Well, that was Bassem Tamini. I asked him after seeing that video, I said, Bassem, your sons, one of them's in prison, another one has had his leg shot, and it has to limp for the rest of his life. Your brother-in-law was killed with a rifle shot just outside your door here. How can you persuade or how can you allow your children to keep this up? And he looked at me like I was from Mars or maybe Saturn far away, and he said, Ray, you're asking me to stop my children from fighting for freedom, freedom from occupation, and I swallowed. Put note here, Bassem is now in jail. He was arrested last week, so is Ahad, his daughter. I will see more of them in the next clip, which will show what happened after we had a demonstration that is simply walking down the road and stopping at a trail, and the settlers came, and they beat up the women who were with us, and they beat up the women press who were with us, and then they went after the small guys. They never touched. Matthew Ho was about six foot four. That was really a terrific example of how cowardly these people were, and as we climbed back up the hill, I heard shots that I hadn't heard in about 40 years, and I said, are those rifle shots? And the Iraqi and Afghan veterans were like, yeah, Ray, get your head down for God's sake. Those are rifles whooshing over us. What you're about to see is after that event, the Israeli army was not satisfied with defending the settlers who came armed. Each of them had a sidearm. Some of them had rifles, okay? But they came up and pursued the little kids, the little kids in the Navisale, the name of the town where we were, where we were staying with the Tamini family. Okay, so the next clip we'll show that, and then we'll have just a few more comments. May we have the next clip, David? But it's a good experience for you to come and see and touch the meaning of the occupation. It's not a word. It's a life. It's a life. This generation, how they deal. How they deal? Yeah, these are the bravest people I've ever seen. These are the bravest people I've ever seen. Your children are the bravest people I've ever seen. Well, when we were putting this together, we thought it was really important for the group to get a really good sense of the nonviolent resistance and the persistence and the dedication and the long-term steadfastness of the Palestinians in keeping to this nonviolent resistance in the face of really brutal occupation, in the face of a lot of guns, in the face of tear gas, in the face of racism, their refusal to be drawn into that and how they manage every day to keep getting up and doing this work when the forces of occupation and oppression are coming down on them. What you've just seen and what has been going on in the West Bank for decades is what I would call slow genocide. They go in every week to some village and they pluck out some young kid and they put them in jail. 11 years old, I ask Bassem, they can arrest and put in jail 11-year-old? Yeah, they can. And the 13-year-old got three years. That's what's going on here. That's what we have to stop. The overt genocide actively advertised by Israeli leaders. That is so blatant that it's up to us to do more. They just write articles as I do, participate in demonstrations as I do. We have to do more. The reality is captured by this headline in a recent article in consortiumnews.com. Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Joe Biden know that if they lose the American people, they are both in serious trouble. Well, they're losing the American people. I don't think 80% of the American people support Netanyahu in what he's doing now. It's a textbook case of genocide. It's against the Judy of Convent. It's so manifest and it appears on our TV screen and the president apparently will say on Tuesday, go ahead, go ahead, defeat Hamas and if that means killing another 5,000 Palestinian children, well, you know, so what we have to do is something more than make speeches, something more than what we've been doing. We need to organize, organize, organize. That means that if you only have two friends, two friends who feel as strongly as you do, you get together with them and you figure out what you can do because we could all do something. Now, as an example of a laudable writing that came out just a day or two ago after seven weeks of slaughter in Gaza, one author, he wrote a letter to Biden, okay, and he said, your unqualified support for what the Israeli leaders have announced, have announced openly as the determination to slaughter unlimited numbers of Palestinian civilians. This constitutes the crime, the crime of all crimes defined in international law, the crime of genocide. It makes every American complicit, complicit to the extent that you do not, that we do not, that I do not directly and actively, I say actively oppose such policies. I'm going to quote my favorite rabbi, Abraham Heschel, who said, when such crimes take place, few are guilty, but all, all ALL are responsible. Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. So we have examples of very brave, very nonviolent Palestinian citizens on the West Bank where slow genocide is taking place. We have examples in Gaza of fast genocide with half the population already routed from their homes, moving to South Gaza. So what are we going to do? Well, we need to get out there, folks. And you know, to those who think you can change things, well, LBJ was going to do even worse in Vietnam. Now let's see, was there a genocide in Vietnam? McNamara, the Secretary of Defense at the time, said that 3 million Vietnamese died in that war. Oh, 6 million in the Holocaust genocide. Does it have to be 6 million? I'm not trying to be funny here. 3 million is quite enough. And after World War II, the law was written to include part of an ethnic group, okay? 3 billion Vietnamese, 2 million in Gaza? Is that genocide? Of course it's genocide of the international law. Now, my point is simply this. We stopped the Vietnam War. It was later than we hoped, but we stopped it. Had we stopped it, we shouted, hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today? Real loud, we know. We know now from revealed documents that that had an effect. That prevented LBJ from going north into North Vietnam and getting China, almost certainly getting China involved. So what do we need to do today? Well, it occurred to me, we have to have a new slogan. And here's what I'd suggest. Ho, ho, sleepy Joe, genocide has got to go. Everybody, ho, ho, sleepy Joe, genocide has got to go. If we don't do it, nobody else is going to do it. BB Netanyahu cannot do it without the support of the American people. He's probably depending on American people just watching TV and then we're cheering for their favorite football team. We're not going to do that this time. We're going to say, not, hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today? We're going to say, ho, ho, sleepy Joe, genocide has got to go. Thank you very much.