TESTIMONY
Attendee Testifies on Misinformation and Wrongful Convictions Regarding Protests Against Israel
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4 min
An attendee discusses misinformation fueling wrongful convictions and protests against Israel.
The speaker argues that protests against Israel are based on lies and misunderstanding.
UNKNOWN
2:18:31
Mister Chairman.
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Mister Chairman, thank you very much.
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I think your name is appropriate as I've watched this proceeding for the last 3 hours, as I know it, salam, shalom, all mean peace.
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And you've proceeded over this committee with just that aspect.
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I hope you won't call me out of order or being off topic because ultimately what I will quickly say comes back to everything that people were talking about today.
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That is wrongful convictions and misinformation about judgments and cases and courts.
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I'd like to speak about president Nixon.
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In the war of in Israel in 1973.
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The Israelis asked for 3 helicopters.
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It was brought to president Nixon by Henry Kissinger.
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Henry Kissinger said the Israelis need 3 helicopters.
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And Nixon said how many do we have?
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Kissinger said we have 52.
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And Nixon said, send them the 52.
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And Kissinger said, well, why, Mister President?
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They only asked for 3.
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Nixon explained that Israel was the line in the sand between democracy and autocracy and dust botism that it was represented from the east.
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That when I read the Nixon Transcripts, There were a lot of unpleasant descriptions of Jews and people he was dealing with, yet he gave the helicopters to Israel to win the war.
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Maybe he didn't love Israel so much, but he loved America.
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And he knew that lying in Israel was the difference between freedom and despotism that was threatening the world at the time.
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That issue has still never been resolved.
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There are incursions to Israel from Russia, from Persia, from every country that has some influence in supplying materials to go against Israel.
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I just wanted to say in these protests, They seem not to have the true background of what is really an issue and what the cause of the United States brotherhood with Israel is.
Yusef Salaam
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So
UNKNOWN
2:20:58
when they go against Israel, they go against the United States.
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The United States and Israel are united in the idea of keeping a line of democracy and protection for the western world.
Yusef Salaam
2:21:11
Sir,
UNKNOWN
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I don't have to
Yusef Salaam
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Well, I appreciate this this lesson in history.
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This is about wrongful convictions.
UNKNOWN
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Well, so is this?
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Look at the convictions that they're causing and and blaming the Jews for.
Yusef Salaam
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If you're able to, I guess, sum up in terms of time.
UNKNOWN
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Okay.
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I will be happy to.
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Thank you, sir.
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I I I would say that Martin Luther King said no lie shall live forever.
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The things that are being told and propagated against the Jews in these rallies are all lies, all.
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The idea of, again, Martin Luther King, who said truth crushed earth will rise again, meaning you can't hold down the truth.
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And eventually, the things will come up that have been the basis of these rallies that are anti American in the sense that it is foraging of great controversy between Israel and America and the importance of this union.
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Finally, I'll say, the last thing that I learned from Martin Luther King was the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.
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Well, it can't be much longer.
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People are being killed.
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People have been killed.
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And it's time for that arc of the moral universe to reflect the truth.
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As far as I've been in the Jewish community, which hasn't been all that long actively.
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In fact, this is the first time I've ever spoken on behalf of the Jewish community.
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I would save
Yusef Salaam
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the Jews
UNKNOWN
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aim was never to humiliate the Islamic world, but to win its freedom and understanding.
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Thank you for
Yusef Salaam
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your testimony.