Palestinians are suffering – who is to blame, Israel or Hamas?
May 21, 2024

Les Palestiniens souffrent – est-ce la faute d’Israël ou du Hamas ? Émission bilingue avec Rony Brauman et Daniel Ben-Ami.

This panel is bilingual, French and English. Plebity used simultaneous interpreters to enable communication across the languages. The video is subtitled in both French and English.

Ce panel est bilingue, français et anglais. Plebity a utilisé des interprètes simultanés pour permettre la communication entre les langues. La vidéo est sous-titrée en français et en anglais.

Instead of shouting slogans, our panelists debate on ideas and the facts. You may think there are not two sides to this issue, but if you haven’t heard the arguments, the genuine arguments and not the straw men caricatures of arguments, you’re giving up your right to make up your own mind.

Au lieu de crier des slogans, nos panélistes débattent des idées et des faits. Vous pouvez penser qu’il n’y a pas deux côtés à cette question, mais si vous n’avez pas entendu les arguments, les véritables arguments et non les caricatures d’arguments, vous renoncez à votre droit de vous faire votre propre opinion.

It’s easy to be partisan, follow a party line and repeat ready made phrases. It’s difficult to listen to arguments you don’t like to hear, but being able to do that is the only genuine way to arrive at your own judgement and to truly support the principle of free speech. If you believe in critical thinking, and you value your own right to make an independent judgement, you owe it to yourself to listen to Rony and Daniel in this video.

Il est facile d’être partisan, de suivre une ligne de parti et de répéter des phrases toutes faites. Il est difficile d’écouter des arguments que vous n’aimez pas entendre, mais être capable de le faire est la seule véritable manière de se forger son propre jugement et de vraiment soutenir le principe de la liberté d’expression. Si vous croyez en la pensée critique et que vous tenez à votre droit de porter un jugement indépendant, vous vous devez d’écouter Rony et Daniel dans cette vidéo.

Rony Brauman: doctor, former president of Doctors without Borders, author of numerous books, in particular about the reality of ‘humanitarian wars’ he is a French citizen, born in Jerusalem into a staunchly Zionist family and is a former Zionist himself.

Rony Brauman : médecin, ancien président de Médecins sans Frontières, auteur de nombreux livres, notamment sur la réalité des « guerres humanitaires ». Il est citoyen français, né à Jérusalem dans une famille farouchement sioniste et est lui-même un ancien sioniste.

Daniel Ben-Ami – runs the Radicalism of Fools website, which is about antisemitism. In over 30 years as a journalist, he has written for many publications, including The Australian, The Economist, Financial Times, The Guardian and Spiked and others. He has written two books and contributed to several others.

Daniel Ben-Ami : dirige le site web Radicalism of Fools, qui traite de l’antisémitisme. En plus de 30 ans de carrière en tant que journaliste, il a écrit pour de nombreuses publications, notamment The Australian, The Economist, Financial Times, The Guardian, Spiked, et d’autres. Il a écrit deux livres et contribué à plusieurs autres.

Moderators: Sasha White joins with French journalist Rosa Moussaoui to co-host this discussion. Rosa is a Senior Journalist with the French daily l’Humanité where she has worked for decades, reporting extensively on North Africa, the Mediterranean region and Latin America.

Co-animatrices : Sasha White rejoint la journaliste française Rosa Moussaoui pour co-animer cette discussion. Rosa est grand reporter au quotidien français l’Humanité, où elle travaille depuis des décennies, couvrant largement l’Afrique du Nord, la région méditerranéenne et l’Amérique latine.

Rosa joins with Plebity today as an independent journalist to co-host this joint production of The Kiosk, a coalition of independent media.

Rosa se joint à Plebity en tant que journaliste indépendante pour co-animer cette production conjointe de The Kiosk, une coalition de médias indépendants.

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