Ex-Palestinian negotiator: Condemnation of Israel has no impact

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00:00Do you get the impression of someone who lives in Israel, that that international condemnation

00:03that you mentioned, and it is coming from far and wide, it's coming from Europe, it's

00:07coming from the Middle East, it's even coming from the United States, and the Trump administration

00:11is not looking quite as friendly to Prime Minister Netanyahu as some might have thought

00:16a few weeks ago.

00:17Is that message getting through?

00:20It is, and yet at the same time you still have a population that thinks that it's okay

00:25to carry out genocide.

00:26And so on the one hand, while they are hearing the condemnation and the criticism, they're

00:31able to sloth it off as just somehow that they have the right to do this.

00:36And so this is the problem, is that the words need to be backed by deeds.

00:40Yes, we've heard condemnations, but so far the average Israeli is not paying the price.

00:45We haven't seen that there's been a cutoff of free trade agreements or trade agreements

00:51in general.

00:52We haven't seen that Israelis have been barred from traveling to places.

00:56We haven't seen that anything has happened to them.

00:59Life for them is normal.

01:01And so for them, it's very easy to just push it off and just to dismiss any international

01:07condemnation.

01:08But it's more than that that's happening in Israel.

01:10It's also that we see that Israelis themselves have taken to the streets to try to block these

01:15aid trucks from entering.

01:16And we've seen that there have been Israelis that have gone down to the edge of the Gaza

01:21Strip and are holding barbecues in order to so that Palestinians who live in Gaza can smell

01:28the barbecues that they are making.