'Better that way than dead though?' A talk like a true colonialist.

@the180degreerule3

9 ай бұрын

he literally said you better surrender or you'll die with that line...

@a_leaf

9 ай бұрын

They still like that today. The ignorant like the journalist view it as if a life of slavery is good enough for the Palestinian life and they should give up fighting for freedom so that they can be 'alive'.

@frogwitch95

8 ай бұрын

Right!? He said the quiet part out loud !!

@syawalhamidi

8 ай бұрын

Agreed.

@TonyNaber

8 ай бұрын

that was a threat, the British way

The language of the Western journalists have not changed till today.

@HowToTouch

8 ай бұрын

They are hypocrites and Disbelievers. Their place is hellfire

@drivethrive123

8 ай бұрын

You are absolutely right

@nidge8703

8 ай бұрын

So true. But this will change

@evanhelderberg3659

8 ай бұрын

I think it's gotten worse if the interview was today the reporter would be screeching "why can't u let Israel bomb children u antisémites" from the top of his lungs

@kemtpesmatic1584

8 ай бұрын

They don't have

This interview just shows how much the ability to control the narrative in a conflict, is crucial. The Palestinians didn't succeed in imposing their narrative and as a result they were completely dehumanized in the west and their needs overlooked for decades yet, if we choose to look just at the plain facts, these people were brutally ousted of their land, overnight, to permit the creation of a Jewish state in 1948. How is that fair ? I can't begin to fathom why Arabs of all people, had to pay for European crimes toward Jews ? To this day, Palestinians are slauthered, bombarded, persecuted ... simply because they are Palestinians and want a Palestinian state. It is a sinister irony of History that the descendants of Holocaust survivors managed to create another Holocaust.

@samofrabat

9 ай бұрын

No, it is because the west itself is evil, they want it that way. Do you think the west doesn't know what's going on ?

@a_leaf

9 ай бұрын

They probably created the first Hollocaust as well.

@ghofranesalhi7386

9 ай бұрын

​@@a_leaf they did. To pressure Jews into immigrating to Israel. Sinister!

@oblivionator_dimension

8 ай бұрын

The only word they will understand is the word of the sword. Nothing else. Power speaks better than words

@scorpio8963

8 ай бұрын

Jews are middle eastern. I don’t know why people have a hard time wrapping their heads around this basic fact.

"better that way than dead" the audiacity omg

@lastpirate1621

8 ай бұрын

Typical liberal thinking and almost every west and European thoughts on matter before having any info about it In other words | brainwashing

@m.khalid334

8 ай бұрын

typical white christians, "surrender to us or die" been their motto since the roman empire

@_S3

8 ай бұрын

british colonial talk

@ishtiaq968

8 ай бұрын

I know just shocking the way they think

@nidge8703

8 ай бұрын

It’s just shows the pure ignorance of the west. They just don’t want to understand.

"We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians" - Nelson Mandela

@mr.autismatikautomatik2363

8 ай бұрын

True.

@falconx4803

8 ай бұрын

i feel like he was talking more abt zionist who have control over the world

@phonymontana4254

8 ай бұрын

✊

@schjlr

8 ай бұрын

Well, South America is already in the deep ass, so as Palestine. Wish luck to Israel!

@phantomsiege7897

8 ай бұрын

as a South African im proud of what mr.mandela said

“Do you condemn Hamas” Piers Morgan 1970s edition.

@abdulrahmandawood5641

8 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@muzanmhaa4128

8 ай бұрын

so bad there was no humus back then to condem tototototo

@tttyuhbbb9823

7 ай бұрын

@@muzanmhaa4128 It's Hamaas, not "humus"!

He got assassinated at age of 36, along with his 17 yrs old niece at the same car, At 1972. Only bec he writes!! He was legend!! RIP!

@anashousni9075

2 ай бұрын

By Israel

@StealthyRifleman

Ай бұрын

@@anashousni9075 YES

"Better that way than dead though?"- Literally proving Ghassan's earlier statement, that the talks are there to surrender and submit to the coloniser.

75 years and still going. Now the world is watching. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

@NicitoStaAna

8 ай бұрын

All I saw is Palestinians rejecting two state solution Free Palestine from Hamas Only then maybe two state solution comes to fruition

@user-hj9oh1hm6x

8 ай бұрын

⁠@@NicitoStaAna The Israelis who refused two state solution , although that the Israel occupation the Palestinian land !

@NicitoStaAna

8 ай бұрын

@@user-hj9oh1hm6x wut They accepted the partition What are you talking about?

@missochisso

8 ай бұрын

With no right of return, no independent military, international observers ONLY on the Palestinian side, no ability to submit war crimes charges to ICC for IsNOTreali war criminals, no independent financial institutions, no release on prisoners in isNOTreali dungeon that havent been charged, tell me when to stop... Would you agree to this by a bunch of European Jewish refugees who overstayed their welcome? @@NicitoStaAna

@ryuukakhadijah7766

8 ай бұрын

​@@NicitoStaAnaI guess you've been lied to. Israel don't want two state solution, they want all of the Palestinians out of the land. The reason why they bombed civilians, houses, churches, mosques, hospitals. Get your fact straight.

Then someone says: it’s all began on the 7th of October!

I didn't know Pirece Morgan's grandfather also did interviews.

@thepotato3275

8 ай бұрын

Thats a good one

@rai2423

6 ай бұрын

Piers was alive when this interview took place so not old enough to be his grandfather, maybe his father or older brother 😂

“Maybe to you, but not to us.” Perfect.

This video is pure gold. Am I watching a real life superman with my eyes?!!! How strong he is in his beliefs!!! What an amazing personality!!! The weights of his words were infinitely heavy. Plus, he looks handsome, like a true gentleman in this video. May God bless him.

@rawand2345

7 ай бұрын

He was assassinated two years after this interview in a car with his niece

@khalidchahboune6047

7 ай бұрын

@@rawand2345By Cowards because he spoke the truth

@dberis

7 ай бұрын

Apparently Allah thought death becomes him.

@aliashfaque1746

7 ай бұрын

Right wingers will avoid this video lol

@abirahmed8643

7 ай бұрын

eveybody dies, the wretched and the noble, the poor and the rich, the weak and the strong.... nobody is exempt from death and thus your argument is nullified and baseless try harder next time this is no fun for me debunking dumb arguments like yours :)@@dberis

“A conversation between the sword and the neck”, best expression ever

@Zuuh-su7oy

3 ай бұрын

And the absolute moron of an interviewer took it literally.

Who else finds Ghassan really handsome and charismatic?

@celestesmith6060

8 ай бұрын

A truly beautiful soul.

@Trollika_Devi

8 ай бұрын

Very handsome

@oxygeninhaler9303

8 ай бұрын

he looks like tora sudiro, he really does fr ngl

@tylerdurden6060

8 ай бұрын

Well he is handsome dead.

@Ishi79

8 ай бұрын

​@@tylerdurden6060 Just by reading your comment, I can tell you died over 30 years ago.

His command over the the English language is impressive. He keeps check mating the interviewer

This man is a writer as well as a freedom fighter I've always admired his novels and I wish he was still with us but Mossad assassinated him in this 30s and ended the journey of such a beautiful mind and soul❤💔

@johndoop8684

8 ай бұрын

You're still alive for us Ghassan we love you ❤

@Turbo-bs7ok

8 ай бұрын

And his 17year old niece, let's not forget

@maoritrustee-io3hw

8 ай бұрын

But his vision and memory lives on 👍💯

@titikyulianti2897

7 ай бұрын

May I know the title of his novel? What is the story about?

@marieantoinettev712

7 ай бұрын

@@titikyulianti2897”returning to Haifa”

"Not fighting for what?" This line, as simple as it sound , carry a huge meaning between he lines

@olegnurmagomedov750

8 ай бұрын

Yep, implying that they are required to put up a fight for even the tiniest of the things, let alone total freedom.

Rest in power. Respect from Brazil 🇧🇷🤝🇵🇸

Slamming the oppresors talking points in a language not native to him says how much of a legend this man is.

✨Better that way than dead though✨ That tells much about who is right here

What a master in logic and argumentation! When he was not sure how to answer, he just kept asking why? What for? For whom? Basic questions. This technique allows you to get to the bottom rationale of the other and from there be able to destroy it.

@modestferala1488

8 ай бұрын

It’s not that he wasn’t sure what to answer. It’s that the colonial propagandist questions are so out of touch from reality, so deaf toned, so unjust that it shouldn’t even be a question.

@mimimusa757

8 ай бұрын

Yeah let's forget that a foreign immigrants with the help of colonial power , stole the land ethnic cleansed the Palestinians , destroyed their homes forced them to become refugees Disrespected their holy sites for 75 years , and made them live in apartheid , and finally now they are committing genocide I can't believe these palstinians why don't they just accept living under apartheid with their homes and properties being stolen all the time

@mahmoudmesleh1095

8 ай бұрын

It was not that he did not know how to answer, he was debunking the flaws in the question. These flaws show the misunderstanding about the Palestinian conflict and answering the questions without addressing the flaws is the a trap that serves to show that you are accepting this flawed understanding of the conflict

@coolhari2000

8 ай бұрын

You realize he was starting at the beginning - let's set the objective of these talks.

@VictoryOrJannah

8 ай бұрын

When you're Oppressed, your all senses works together to get Liberation and freedom

Priceless speech!

@yazeedme

3 жыл бұрын

I agree, except the part about the situation in Jordan, where his view was very self centred.

@Willy_Tepes

2 жыл бұрын

@@yazeedme Why should not a people be self centered? Other people can fight for their rights, I fight for mine.

@unorthozeus5023

Жыл бұрын

@@yazeedme he wasn't wrong, though, about their king.

@Bella44_115

10 ай бұрын

​@@yazeedmeWhat is the relationship of Jordan?

@tremendousyeet3467

8 ай бұрын

@@unorthozeus5023 what did he say about their king?

Western media then: Western media now: do you condemn hamas?

I read his book, men in the sun, many years ago. A very good book. I never saw him speak until I saw this video.

@tchek24

9 ай бұрын

what is it about

@MaBigFatEgo

9 ай бұрын

@@tchek24 collected stories about the life of those in the middle east, most are about palestina

@Mzale

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for share his work. Definitely will read

@tttyuhbbb9823

8 ай бұрын

Ghassan was assasinated, with his niece, Lamees, in Lebanon, 1972, by the Mossad, because he was a great Palestinean thinker... He lefy 4 huge volumes of his writings (2 of them are collections of short stories...) His ideas and visions about the Palestinean cause were brilliant, extraordinary...

@farheenbukhari1129

8 ай бұрын

Yeah, it made me cry. The end was heartbreaking. But a sad reality for these people. May Allah help all the Palestinian and grant us victory over the disbelieving people. May Allah end this oppressions.

Our human rights are as essential as human life itself.

free palestine

@emiliobertoncini1083

Жыл бұрын

From river to the Sea

@jayjayjay21

8 ай бұрын

From river to the sea Palestine will be free 🇵🇸🍉

"What the Iraq war taught us is that human rights are important, the humans are not." -Costas Douzinas

50 years later and nothing has changed.

Love this interview. Massive respect for G Kanafani.

Seems to me that interviewer never met a real man fighting for a real cause.

Courageous, principled, focused. A truly great leader. He puts the burden on the journalist to frame questions properly. He is very correct about oppressed peoples needing to be liberated FIRST before defining a post-conflict relationship. Only countries that won in their conflict with the West have gained the respect of those countries (Nicaragua, Vietnam, North Korea, etc.)

As someone who read so many of his short novels like عائدون الى حيفا I'm not ashamed to say: I shed few tears listening to him. what a brilliant man and a writer. his legacy and literature will continue to be a mark in history of resisting colinization and occupation. The mossad assassinated this man's body, but his soul will be forever alive.

It was 1970 and yet even today people just want to “talk”. Talks don’t resolve the issue, actions does.

They don’t want us to see this video. Share it everywhere.

He spoke the truth. People who are oppressed have nothing to talk with the oppressors. The only talk the oppressors are interested in is about the ways the oppressed will comply with the oppressors.

"as essential as life itself" ✌️

Muchos en el mundo deberíamos tener la dignidad de este personaje!

Great man .a hero !!

That’s why it’s very important to have more channels like Al Jazeera to get these peoples voices heard. Western medias such as cnn, bbc, fox, sky news will always paint them as the aggressors.

Un hombre sabio pausado responde sin perder la cordura. Bravo gravísimo ❤❤❤

Ghasan Kanfani they thought by killing your message can fade it got stronger

Damn he was so smart

He is correcting basics from very begging, can not stop admiring Gassan, god mercy his soul

I will never get sick of listening to this interview. Free Palestine

A conversation between the sword and the neck.....🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

Ghassan Kanafani's Interview Worth the watch. Q: it does seem civil war is fruitless. A:it’s not a civil war. It’s people defending themselves against a fascist gov. which you are defending. It’s not a conflict. Its a liberation movement fighting for justice. Q: whatever it might be best called. A: It’s not whatever. This is where the problem starts. This is a people who is discriminated is fighting for his rights. Q:”Why not just talk?” A:”Talk to whom?” Q:”Talk to the isreeelly leaders” A:”That’s a kind of conversation between the sword and the neck” Q:”Despite this why not talk” A:Talk about what? Q: Talk about the possibility of not fighting. A:Not fighting for what? people usually fight for something. You can’t even tell me stop fighting for what! Q:Talk about stop fighting to stop the misery and death. A: The misery and death of whom? Q: The Palestinians, Arabs and isreeli A: The Palestinians who are uprooted, thrown in the camps, living in starvation and forbidden to use the name Palestinian. Q: better that way than dead A: May be to you. But to us no. For us we want to liberate our country. To have dignity, To have human rights, is as essential as life itself.

The way he portrayed the difference between the two mindsets in just a few words is magnificent. ”Maybe to you but to us it’s not” is a powerful statement, the notion that you’d rather die than live enslaved is the ultimate act of defiance and liberty.

Thank-you for your strong words May Allah liberate palastine ameen yarabal alameen

It is people like Kanafani who are absent from the dialogue of this tragedy.

@JoseyWales93

9 ай бұрын

Killed by Mossad in 1972.

@nusaibahibraheem8183

8 ай бұрын

Because when they were here, Palestinians were freed?

@M.K.-dp6zf

8 ай бұрын

@nusaibahibraheem8183 I am not sure if the Palestinians were free, but they certainly had representatives who articulated the struggle and spoke for the Palestinians. Kanafani was a true hero and demonstrated how intelligent the Palestinian people are. As long as Israel, UK, France and the US are connected I am not sure how Palestine can be free unless there is a huge revolt that can overturn the occupation. Israel does not want a 2 state solution it has expansionist plans it wants control of the entire land and wants to become a powerhouse in the region. It wants to develop a trade route. They do not have friendly ambitions it is all about accumulating power and wealth at the expense of the defenceless indigenous population of Palestine. This is colonial subjugation, a product of the Europeans.

@coolhari2000

8 ай бұрын

You realize he was assassinated

@M.K.-dp6zf

8 ай бұрын

​@mosaabtwice3999Mossad in Beirut 1972. There is a reason why so many are silenced, assassinated, removed from positions of authority which is all part of the agenda. The narrative, the media, the politicians all institutions of power are squeezed & manipulated in the same way all in western democratic countries like Europe & USA etc.

He said for 20 years it has been going on…and now 53 years later it is still the same if not worse.

Wow 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 how come I never heard of this guy?! Bravo!

Oh the clarity of thought here

i love ghassan as if i meet him indeed, i read all his books and novels, this man was born free, i hope that he still alive, RIP ❤

@nidhalhammadi997

7 ай бұрын

No ,he was assassinated by Israël 2 years after this interview ...and they said everything started on October 7th ...shame on these people

May Allah aid all of our brothers and sisters around the globe. Ameen.

I can’t stop watching, Ghassan May Allah (SWT) reward Jannah.

@user-hj4ym7ug3h

8 ай бұрын

He was Christian

@thepotato3275

8 ай бұрын

@@user-hj4ym7ug3h Allah just means God in Arabic I seen arab Christians say it too

الله يرحمك يا شاعر المقاومة الاكبر ما اجمله من شخص التاريخ سجله بطل شهيد عزيز شجاع محارب صادق لا يخشى ولا يخاف مؤمن متمسك بعقيدته وبأرضه لا يساوم على شرفه وارضه كما ان التاريخ سجل الطرف المحاور على انه منافق مداهن وكذاب اشر بلا كرامة مستعد للعق جزمة سيدة لحفنة قليلة من المال والاثنان في ذمة التاريخ

It is not to be disregarded as a ‘whatever’! ❤

more true today than yesterday

"For you maybe"

Absolutely mercurial this gentleman is...for any generation.

Ghassan Kanafani, a Palestinian fighter and writer from the Popular Resistance for Liberation, who was expelled from Haifa in 1948 when he was 12 years old. He has many books and stories. He terrified Israel with his pure and strong words. A secular, left-wing man, not a Muslim. Therefore, Israel could not tell the world about him that he was a terrorist killed by the Mossad under the orders of the butcher Golda. Mayer

@fatimasaksouk

5 ай бұрын

He was born to a Christian family

Ahead of his time.

People fight for some thing and Stop fighting for Something so what do you mean Stop fighting ? ...GHASANI ❤

The interviewer was really animal.

"Technological progress transports the art of mass killing to frightening dimensions. But I hold that the ‘smart’ weapons of today will still find it impossible to eliminate the human desire for justice and dignity." -Chin Peng (1924-2013), Malaysian Communist leader

Ghassan should have asked him if peace talks is all it takes, then why didn't Britain initiated such talks with Hitler than declaring war?

@taz09216

8 ай бұрын

Absolutely 💯

@PaperPizza

8 ай бұрын

It's time for Ukraine to talk to Russia let's see how's the media's reaction

Just seeing after the conflict has rosen the ceiling in Palestine, and I'm chilling hearing Ghassan Kanafani speech. You can't kill ideology of being freedom, you can't force silent of being occupation, you can't stop fighting to be liberation! From the river to the sea, Palestine Will be FREE 🇵🇸☝️

From the reiver to the sea palestine will be free 🇵🇸 #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

@jayjayjay21

8 ай бұрын

Free Palestine till Palestine is free🍉🇵🇸

very bold man ,his speech,it’s so powerful and courage .

People think all this started on octoper 7th

1970 😮 "better that way then dead though" typical cnn bbc in 2023 2:00

His words pure and concise are still true today. And the journalist's words are still true for the ignorant side, they still talk like that. It is simply Islam vs Shaitan.

Well said freedom for palistine people

Could not been said better then that. Never knew the man but feels like I know him all my life!

British colonists did not leave peacefully. They were forced to leave. Occupiers only understand one language.

@weedAndTransRights

7 ай бұрын

the british colonists were being too nice to the natives for the zionists taste

Very moving… How terribly heartbreaking that Palestinians are still fighting for their right to self determination. Free Palestine ❤

The strength in his eyes is unbelivebale...they can not kill the Palestiniens spirit despite the mascaras happening right now 😢 one day Palestine will be free...

"Let the walls of the educational system come down, for the revolution is made through education, guided by great feelings of love." - Che Guevara

@tremendousyeet3467

8 ай бұрын

Che Guevara should not be taken as an idol, he was a communist disruptive rebel.

I salute this man, a legend 🫡🫡

Wow, he even looks like Djokhar Dudaev, two real men with real convictions

Ghasan its now 75 years💔

FYI…. He was killed 2 yrs after this interview in Lebanon

Entrevista a Ghassan Kanafani por Richard Carleton, 1970. Entrevistador: Parece ser que la guerra civil no ha sido fructífera Ghassan: No es una guerra civil, es gente defendiéndose de un gobierno fascista Entrevistador: el conflicto entonces Ghassan: No es un conflicto, es un movimiento libertario que lucha por justicia. Entrevistador: Bueno, como quieran llamarlo Ghassan: No es como queramos llamarlo, es la raíz del problema. Es gente que ha sido discriminada que lucha por sus derechos, esa es la historia. Entrevistador: ¿Por qué tu organización no quiere desarrollar conversaciones en busca de paz con los israelitas? Ghassan: Tú no estás hablando de paz, estas hablado de capitulación, de rendirse. Entrevistador: ¿Por qué no simplemente hablar? Ghassan: ¿hablar con quién? Entrevistador: Con los líderes israelitas Ghassan: Esa es una conversación entre la espada y el cuello Entrevistador: Pero si no hubieran espadas ni armas en el lugar, aun así podrían hablar Ghassan: No, nunca he visto un movimiento libertario nacional conversar con el colonizador Entrevistador: Pero además de eso, ¿por qué no simplemente hablar? Ghassan: ¿hablar sobre qué? Entrevistador: Sobre la posibilidad de no pelear Ghassan: ¿No pelear por qué? Entrevistador: No pelear por nada, independiente de la razón. Ghassan: La gente pelea por algo, o deja de pelear por algo, asi que dime de que deberíamos hablar. Entrevistador: Hablar de parar la pelea, la miseria, la destrucción, el dolor Ghassan: La miseria, la destrucción, el dolor de quién? Entrevistador: De los palestinos, israelitas, árabes Ghassan: …de los palestinos, que hemos sido desarraigados, arrojados a los campos, viviendo en el hambre, asesinados por 20 años e incluso prohibirnos usar el nombre palestinos. Entrevistador: Mejor de esa manera que muerto, no? Ghassan: Para ti quizás, pero para nosotros no lo es. Para nosotros liberar nuestro país, tener dignidad, respeto, el mero derecho humano es algo esencial como la vida misma.

@haidaralmohsen4408

8 ай бұрын

Thanks

He is clear sighted , brilliant leader if is leading the fight against occupation.

A Conversation between a Sword and a Neck. Extraordinary,

Extraordinary replies by Ghassan, present generation muslim leaders must learn from him, that how to talk and counter western media.

@ihavenojawandimustscream4681

7 ай бұрын

He was a communist

غسان 🥺 الله يرحمه

He was such a clever and honest man.

The truth was always there 😮 But they didnt allow to show it to the puplic until social media came and make people voces heard

Can’t expect the OG colonizers (Great Britain) to understand why people won’t just give up their land

So many mainstream interviews go this way. This interviewer actually sounds better than some of the genocide apologists today. At least he lets the resistance talk.

What an intelligent freedom-fighter this man is. He doesn’t want to give in to the terroristic government of Israel. Fight for freedom never stops.

And then out nowhere piers Morgan shows up asks him do u condam hamas 😅😂

What a great man he is

Great man

Shocking that you have to explain yourself to yet your right

Talk to whom !!!!!!!! the man was right

احبك غسان ❤️الله يرحمك

And...the time is still ticking...al - fatihah...