A lineup of special Guest Tonight including the mother of the israeli hostage. Reporting from the ground in gaza battling a rising Death Toll for palestinians and journalists. Sir Richard Branson on the movement he is back that could provide a path to peace. Lets do it. October 7, 2023 hamas militants launched an unprecedented coordinated attack from Gaza Breaching the Security Barrier Israel had built. The targeted and massacred israeli soldiers and civilians. Mortared communities. Setting fire to homes. Killed and abducted women, men, and the children. As the Sun Rose rockets flew over the music festival. Excitement turned into terror as militants on motorcycles and trucks approached mowing down festivalgoers who try to run those who hid in bushes and ditches were shot point blank. 40 were abducted. Overall over 1200 people were killed that day. 250 taken hostage into gaza. It was the deadliest day for jewish people since the holocaust and Shock Waves of grief reverberated around the world felt until this day. The attacks prompted immediate questions for Israels Security and intelligence services. How could this have happened . And yet before those questions were ever answered israels prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed revenge. What followed was a campaign of annihilation. The systematic killing of men, women, and children by the Israeli Military. The erasure of hundreds of Famu Bloodlines per carting of schools and hospitals. Slow and cruel deaths caused by famine and the withholding of lifesaving aid. The Icc Issued Indictments against leaders of hamas and israels prime Minister And Ministry of defense for alleged War Crimes. International Human Rights Organizations in leading scholars said israel was committing genocide against the palestinian people in gaza. The were quickly engulfed the entire Region with yet no end in sight. As we look back on this past year it is important to assess what the united States Role has been in all of this. New bombshell reporting this week sheds light on americas complicit this in the war. Early warnings of potential israeli War Crimes went completely ignored by u. S. Officials according to internal administration emails from three key dates. On October 11 israel was intensifying its retaliatory Bombing Campaign in gaza and as horrifying images of lifeless young bodies were emerging sympathies began shifting from the victims to the palestinian people. The Death Toll had already reached 1200. They sanded the State Departments top public Diplomacy Official warned in any multisee administers officials the u. S. Is lack of response of the humanitarian conditions for palestinians is not only effective and counterproductive but we are also being accused of being complicit to potential War Crimes by remaining silent on israels actions against civilians. Two days later October 13 the Israeli Military dropped Evacuation Leaflets over goes ahead of its expected ground invasion. Be the Deputy Assistant Secretary of defense for The Middle East in of the senior officials writing International Committee Of The Red Cross is not ready to say this in public, but is raising private alarm that is real is close to committing War Crimes. The main line is it is impossible for 1 Million civilians to move this fast. He said he would try to buy time with the israelis, but the military began its Ground Operations later that day. And then October 14 president Bidens Rhetoric shifted. The humanitarian crisis in gaza. Innocent palestinian families and the vast majority have nothing to do with hamas. They are being used as human shields. That same day an israeli Embassy Official in washington emailed State Department officials asking for a shipment of automatic rifles to be expedited. The request was sent to the State Departments of bureau of Democracy Labor and Human Rights tasked with ensuring u. S. Munitions arent sent to militaries involved in abuses. After conducting a review the Deputy Assistant Secretary recommended holding onto the shipment, but it went ahead anyway. These emails encapsulate the freedom u. S. Officials gave to israel early on in this war. Is Starting Point that permitted and longtime ally to act with impunity. In the months that followed the Death Toll climbed dramatically with 25,000 palestinians killed by early january. At that time two notable things happened. International court of justice ruled israel was committing possible genocide and is will drastically ramped up its requests for bombs from The American government according to new reporting from pro public us specifically 3000 smaller and more precise munitions. The us investor to israel assured the State Department israel had a decades long proven Track Record of avoiding killing civilians when using the Americanmade Bomb they had demonstrated a willingness to employ in a manner that minimizes collateral damage. Reporting while the request was pending the Israeli Military approved those assertions wrong. On May 26 an airstrike on an encampment of displaced Palestinians North of rafah caused a raging fire leaving bodies in its wake. And one video that went viral on social Media Man could be seen holding up what appeared to be the headless body of a child. At least 45 people were killed in the strike including eight children according to the gaza Health Ministry. The bombs used in this attack. Despite protests from the State Department and its employees the request for 3000 of those bombs was not denied. In fact weapons requests from israel were virtually never denied. A steady pipe in weapons, deliveries made its way to the Israeli Military and on top of that a 20 BillionArms Deal was approved in august. Just days after a strike on a school turned shelter this from people in gaza city. No Evacuation Order have been given prior to the strike and by then the Israeli Military had previously bond designated safe zones. The biden administration expressed concern. The kind of muted rhetoric that had become its go to responses to these massacres. It did however draw a much more blunt assessment from a un official. As israel is genocide in the palestinians one neighborhood at a time, one hospital at a time, one school at a time, one Refugee Camp at a time, one safes on at a time. Over the past 365 days as the United States about israel with what it wanted it also claimed that it was brokering a Cease Fire Deal in an effort to stop the killing of innocent palestinians and to prevent a wider war in the Region. My hope is by next monday we will have a ceasefire. That starts with a Cease Fire that we have been working on. That deal never came to fruition and soon became clear that President Biden was being played by his israeli counterpart who has been accused of not wanting to end the war. Warnings against Regionwide escalation also fell on deaf ears because they were was already widening. Rebels had been attacking shipping vessels in the Red Sea since november in what they called a campaign of solidarity with palestinians. Israel attacked targets inside syria killing a senior iranian general. Militias attacked israel. Is relaunched a fullscale assault on and then an invasion of lebanon. Forcing all of this while iran is currently bracing itself for an israeli attack. We are in dangerous and unpredictable new territory. As the Washington Post puts it President Biden has lost his grip on Israels War over Benjamin Netanyahu desire for total victory in gaza. There are several ways to evaluate this past year. It is will achieve its stated objective of destroying and freeing all hostages . The answer is no. 97 hostages remain held in gaza and hamas as an organization although diminished is still operational. Are the u. S. And israel and its allies in the Region safer today than they were last year . Not if we are on the eve of war with iran. Is the war in gaza contend . Not with 2000 lebanese dead according to the Health Ministry and 1 Million more displaced and oil tankers being blown up in the Red Sea. The Gaza Strip has been reduced to rubble and is virtually uninhabitable. The Israeli Military destroyed near 60 of all buildings in the enclave according to an analysis of Satellite Data by Oregon State university. The Gaza Health Authority says 42,000 people have been killed including over 11,000 children. Thousands more still missing under the rubble. Numbers like these are hard to grasp. There are many who look back at this and question whether the u. S. And world powers were ever genuine and using their leverage to truly end the war. We may also want to look back at this year and realize the biggest mistake the u. S. Made by allowing israel to act with impunity wasnt just the destruction of gaza. But the destruction of international law and the rules based international order that we claim to have cherished for so long. I have some incredible guests joining me tonight. Starting us off. Diplomatic correspondent. Also a survivor of the October 7 attacks and wrote a book about his experience called the gaetz of gaza. History of betrayal, survival, and hopes. He joins us tonight. Great to see you. I know that we have been in touch over the last year, but it is great to finally speak to you. I know that a year ago today your life was very different. You have written extensively about how your family survived the hamas attacks on your community. You and your family survived the witnessed atrocities firsthand and it seems like an of this will sound like an impossible question, but when you reflect back on this past year how has it changed you . Good evening over there. It is impossible to sleep On A Night Like This when we are about to mark a year since the massacre that happened on October 7. And open the door to all of the atrocities and tragedies of the past year. For me just coming from the little place where i lived until October 7. It was a community of 450 people located half a mile from the border with gaza. Is civilian community that was attacked on that day. We lost 15 people. That is basically 3 of the population that was murdered on that day. The neighbor and the house in front of me was killed. The neighbor in the house behind me. A woman. An 80yearold. Was murdered. Seven of our neighbors were taken hostage into gaza on that day. The oldest was an 84yearold woman. The youngest was an eightyear old girl. Five of our hostages were released in november of things to the deal orchestrated at the time by President Biden including all of the women in the girls from our community. Sadly we still have two friends in the hands of hamas. Both of them fathers of young children were kidnapped in front of the eyes of their children, and if you had asked me on October 8 almost a year ago would they still be in the hands of hamas on October 7 i would have told you no way. We would have a deal by then. All of the hostages would be back. The war would be over. And yet here we are. I know you wrote a piece highlighting some of the failures over the past year. Writing that Benjamin Netanyahus claim that hamas is stopping a deal is a testament to the failure of his strategy. If there even was a strategy in the first place. He said he needed to take over and then rafah. After all the above the bottom line remains the same. Our hostages are supplying a slow and terrible death in the tunnels of gaza. Talk about the strategy and why you think it has failed so far and whether there are concerns that it has caused radicalization among more people. First of all, in terms of blame. Of the blame for the situation rests with hamas. I write about responsibility. Those are two different terms. This is a crime that never should have happened. I see Aug Failure On behalf of my government and releasing them. It is true that hamas is the negotiating partner. We are talking about a murder and terrorist person who has no regard of Human Life whether it is israelis or palestinians, but he is the person holding our hostages right now. He is the Person And Hamass organization we will have to make a deal with to release them. When i wrote that article what i was trying to say is coming and saying they do not want a deal and that is the end of the story. That is not a real strategy. That is not a real answer to families of these hostages. Because what they need to do if that is the calculation is to find ways to change. It can be applying more pressure on hamas. It can be a by offering a more sophisticated deal. The same thing that can actually get the approval. Right now it seems that nothing is happening on that front. There is no negotiation. This is the analysis of the intelligence community. He is happy about this becoming a Regional allout war. That was his aim since October 7. To draw the entire middle east into this and set the Region at self on fire. A year later we do not have a solution to the issue of 100 hostages still being in the hands of terrorists. I have to ask you really quickly. Can israel win this work . Do you think they will ever feel safe again with the current government . You can see the achievements that they have had recently in illuminating the leadership of the hezbollah. Making it more difficult for them to fire rockets into central israel. Those are real military achievements. Without a diplomatic strategy to build on those achievements and to create a better reality for israelis or the people in gaza we will be stuck with hamas and we will be stuck with some kind of dysfunction. It is not clear what is the long Term Strategy behind all of this. You can have great military achievements and eliminate your enemies, but a year later the hostages are still there. What we need is a policy to change that. Great to see and thank you so much for joining us and reflecting on what a difficult year it has been. Thank you so much. Thank you for having me. We spotlight be brave journalists risking their lives to cover the war in gaza. With improvement in activities of daily living. It is reduced muscle weakness. And ultomiris is the only Longacting Gmg Treatment with the freedom of just 6 to 7 infusions per year, for a predictable routine i can count on. 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