‘Why’s Gaza exceptional?’: Nadia el-Nakla, wife of Scotland’s first minister | Real Talk
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- "Why is Gaza exceptional?" asks Scottish-Palestinian Dundee City councillor Nadia el-Nakla, who’s married to Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf.
In this Real Talk interview, we sat down with el-Nakla in Edinburgh for a personal conversation on the fear and desperation her parents experienced while being trapped in #Gaza under Israeli bombardment.
She speaks on why an immediate ceasefire is needed to alleviate “the hopeless situation” in the besieged enclave, and also shares her childhood memories of Gaza.
We filmed this episode a day before el-Nakla’s parents were allowed to leave Gaza through the Rafah crossing.
#RealTalk is a Middle East Eye interview show hosted by Mohamed Hashem that delves into the stories and experiences of a diverse range of guests.
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00:00 Nadia el-Nakla's introduction
01:00 Her parents in Gaza
05:08 Facing an 'impossible decision'
08:20 How has Nadia been affected?
10:06 Media coverage
12:59 Childhood memories of Gaza
15:47 "We've been dehumanised"
17:06 Rishi Sunak & Keir Starmer
20:12 Palestinian identity
23:03 Conversations with her children
27:16 What should world take away?
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Thank you Nadia for putting a human face to the suffering if the Palestinians
What a beautiful lovely lady.
Scotland is blessed and lucky to have her 🙏🏻
No, we're not. And her husband was married before. He has a living spouse.
160 children are being killed in Gaza EVERYDAY
There are now 1.5million homeless people in the Gaza Strip (nearly 70% of the population)
Great interview Nadia. A powerful story behind the impersonal statistics. "I'm tired of proving we are human". Indeed.
The continuing lack of action by all of our goverments to intervene in this catastrophic war is completely unacceptable and shamefull!!😡🇨🇦
I can't even imagine what these people are going through. I don't know how people can be so heartless. Can you imagine bombs dropping on you and on top of it you're hungty and thirsty and no electricity? I just can't imagine the horrors they are going through.
Best interviewing ive seen in decades outstanding this fella and what a brilliant lady nadia is proud to say shes scottish _Palestinian ❤
I'm literally disgusted with our governments. I feel hopeless 😔, this feels like evil is winning and there's nothing we can do. All of our prayers amount to nothing.
I need to hear something positive out of this...please !
Thank you nadia..our government is shameful..British government in 1940s gave away palestine to jewish state how dare they! We owe palestine..the sins of our fathers
Elizabeth I'm so happy you are back home and reunited with family❤❤❤
She's so down to earth, Scotland is so lucky.
I love that she said they went for the flight offer that saved them £1k, can u imagine any other western leader's wife caring about such saving?
Well said, Nadia! Free Palestine! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 BDS!
F Palestine.
How can a Shariaa State be FREE
Things are getting desperate now and the media is still not reporting the truth. You'd think she'd be all over the news because of her personal experience.
Nadia is absolutely right we have forgotten about Palestine because of the lifestyle that have been confined to in the land. This has put love in our hearts for the people and how they desperately need our support the world has woken up to their struggles. I pray that this all ends soon and we see peace 🤲🏻🥲
Not having a homeland is something that African Americans can relate to. At least she know where she come from, her heritage, and culture. No one can ever take that from her! God willing Palestine will be free from the river to the see. God is merciful and gracious!
if God is for the Jews who's for you? God Bless Israel and the IDF
@@johndyer4406how dare you John! #rachelcorrie #neverforget #123
Oh please. They had so many chances. Besides, Jews lived in exile for 2000 years.
I also feel grateful to see and hear from Nadia after seeing her horribly maligned by some English bigot who's very popular with the English media. But as an Afro-Caribbean i feel especially grateful to see Scotland and Ireland stating their support stopping the genocide and occupation. I live in Bristol which is cool but you guys are inspiring me to move to even the coldest parts of this country.
Total respect to this powerful woman.
*Could we get an interview with Norman Finkelstein? Nobody beats his scholarship. Send that email. The world will thank you.*
Agreed 👍🏻
Sanctity Of Life: “If Anyone Kills A Person It Would Be As If He Killed All Mankind” - Surah 5:32. When will all of us Mankind realise this and stop discriminating between life's based on territory and race??
Is it possible to interviews Nadias parents?
Hi Nadia, bloody hell having your family scattered around the world is beyond me. My dad's side of the family Glasgow born and bred, Mum's side Perth born and bred. I'm in Glasgow but regularly see my mum and sister who still live in Perth, my middle sister is here in Glasgow as well.
I'm so proud of you and Humza for standing up to basically the London based leadership of both main parties, both of those men have sickened me.
Lu cky Scotland to have this wonderful mp save Palestine free Palestine 🇵🇸
Thank you, Nadia.
Thank you Nadia.
wonderful woman
Who doesn't tell you the truth.
I am glad you asked that. It's absurd that Scotland’s first minister's wife is Palestinian and they are shadow-censoring them.
Scotland
Ireland
Gaza
Asia did not stand still madam. We saw palestine and what have befalllen them since 75 years ago. If israel even manage to piss-off the buddist...you know what will happens.
heartbreakingly true
I think that everyone should have the same chance to live, prosper, educate himself/herself but if a group of people from one side turns into terrorists who butcher civilians of the other side, there is not any chance for reconciliation. I would be concerned if I was Scottish because what you have is a PM who used his position to promote the interest of his family more than the interest of the nation he was sworn to represent.
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I wonder how she feels now-four months later when this genocide is in full swing with no end in sight. I’m in total disbelief that this is allowed to continue as we all sit back and watch.
Scotland is Beautiful
@1:24
"An eye for an eye makes the world go blind". So desperately true.
I love your Palestinian embroidered outfit.
Kia haha. Me te Atua manaaki tia i PALESTINE
Money is the root to all evil Allah gives u money Testing u how u ar going to use it For a good or evil course
The colonisers have to go home
But the Arabs colonised Palestine as long ago an the 7th century. That's long enough to establish a claim. Not as long as the Jews but they are willing to share.
I'm a huge culture junky, can someone tell me if it's tea & what is that canister called.
Nadia, why don't you ask Jordan, Egypt, Iran, etc, etc, to take on the Gazans? These countries are much, much larger than Scotland and have much more in common culturally? It's urgent to appeal those countries for help.
Being Jewish means attaining the sensation of two contrasting forces in nature, the egoistic force, which is our human nature, and its opposite altruistic force, which is the force of nature itself.
The attainment of these two forces define the people who, first under Abraham, developed this sensation of reality. They became known as the people of Israel, and later, as the Jews.
At a certain point, around 2.000 years ago, we lost the sensation of the two forces and lived solely in the egoistic force. That is the meaning of being in exile.
Exile has no geographic connotations, i.e. that we left some geographic Land of Israel and now we return to it. It is rather a matter of an inner exile, that we do not host the sensation of the altruistic nature, i.e. the quality of love, bestowal and connection, between us. When we fell from this sensation, we then entered our period of exile and ceased to exist as the people of Israel.
Thank you chatGPT for that endless drivel of nonsense.
Thank you dekelpolak, whoever you are. That chimes with what a Jewish rabbi said a couple weeks ago. Jews covenant with God from 3,000 years ago was to live peacefully among every and any tribe they were born into. And never to egotistically ,,demand,, a State of their own. He says with the establishment of Israel. that Covenant was broken. And God ,,will bring down his wrath on the people of Israel,, .
You do understand that "the children(people) of Israel" are the children of Jacob, not children of a piece of land.
@@lottielane2486it's written by a bot not a person. Zios invented their demonic religion. Abraham and Jacob would be horrified at is-a-hell and is-a-hells
@@lottielane2486 How strange when the God of the Israelites supposedly planned and enables the Israeli conquest of Canaan.
Would like to know why the SNP party are very pro war in Ukraine but anti war in Gaza.
8:05 Can they go underground???
Please examine the following scenario:
The Russians invaded and subsequently occupied Ukraine. In retaliation a group of Ukraine soldiers infiltrated into Moscow killing thousands of children, women and the elderly. The Russians then reciprocated with the massacre of children, women, the elderly and the flattening of hospitals, schools and other civilian amenities in the capital Kyiv.
Can the Russians, being the OCCUPIER, justify the massacre of the Ukrainians as acts of SELF-DEFENSE?
What is currently happening in Palestine is the CULMINATION of decades of Israeli colonial TRANSGRESSION and ATROCITIES in the Palestinian homeland. For a better understanding of the issue, a history of the creation of the state of Israel is essential.
Following the publication of a pamphlet “Der Judenstaat” (The Jewish State) by Theodor Herzl in 1896, the first wave of Jewish immigration to Palestine, mostly immigrants from Europe began, with the complicity of the British and other European colonial powers.
When you OCCUPY a land that has been inhabited for centuries, then PERSISTENTLY subjugate, harass, discriminate and dispossess the local population by seizing MORE land, it is inevitable that a protracted series of VIOLENT UPRISINGS would ensue.
The children of Gaza have endured intense Israeli barbarism all of their young lives, particularly since 2007 when the Israeli blockade and siege began in earnest. Severely traumatized in their young formative years, many, if not most, have been EMOTIONALLY DAMAGED. Gaza's young adults of today all share this childhood and bear the same EMOTIONAL SCARS. So how do you think such individuals are going to behave, if they manage to break free and attack their oppressors? How are they going to behave when they encounter the very people who are enjoying privileges gained through their own confinement and slow eradication?
Whilst one may ask what was their rationale, their motivation, one must factor in the ANGER and RAGE for the violent acting out of traumatized and emotionally damaged individuals.
How could you expect an impoverished child growing up in a hostile living environment lacking in safe drinking water, nutritious food, electricity, basic educational and medical facilities to develop into a mentally, socially and physically healthy adult?
You cannot keep treating people like ANIMALS and not expect them to act like one !!!
How can you bestow upon Israel the right of self-defense when it is the OCCUPIER of the Palestinian homeland, committing abuse of human rights, among others, by imprisoning underaged children and desecrating the Al Aqsa mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem?
Kindly ponder on the statement by UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres that the October 7th Hamas attack DID NOT HAPPEN IN A VACUUM.
REFERENCES:
1) czcams.com/video/XfDMXrcYw2I/video.html
(Killing Gaza: Life under Israel's bombs and siege)
For English subtitles/captions, tap on video screen --> press CC (Closed Captions)
2) czcams.com/video/HnZSaKYmP2s/video.html
(Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019) | Full Documentary | Directed by Abby Martin)
3) czcams.com/video/iWG7JB9saE4/video.html
(How Israel Made Gaza The World’s Biggest Prison)
4) czcams.com/video/o7grSsuFSS0/video.html
(How Israel Helped Create Hamas)
5) czcams.com/video/KNqozQ8uaV8/video.html
(‘If I Don’t Steal [Your Home] Someone Else Will’ Israeli Settler Justifies Forcible Takeover)
6) czcams.com/video/0ltWTJh2-nM/video.html
"Would you call this ethnic cleansing?" Palestine's ongoing catastrophe.
7) czcams.com/video/bSfUeECmObI/video.html
'Hell on Earth': Mehdi Hasan reveals what life is like in occupied Gaza
8) czcams.com/users/shortsACZIAcg5QeA
(A Christian Priest Assaulted By Israeli Forces During Easter Celebrations)
9) czcams.com/video/sUJrXNCfUrk/video.html
(Ultra-orthodox Jews spit towards Christian pilgrims leaving Church of the Flagellation)
10) czcams.com/video/z581dbGqr08/video.html
(Attacks on Christians are Surging in Israel: 'Extreme and Unacceptable)
11) czcams.com/video/XzFQ4wlFhNU/video.html
(Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu under fire for holding up map erasing Palestine)
12) czcams.com/video/gIX368TtOJs/video.html
(Zionism is not the same as Judaism)
13) czcams.com/video/F_kF35lgF40/video.html
(The Law and the Prophets)
“The Nazis made me afraid of being Jewish and the Zionists made me ashamed of being Jewish.” ~ (Dr. Israel Shahak, organic chemistry professor, human and civil rights activist, and Holocaust survivor) "Take the worst thing you can about Hamas multiply it by a thousand times and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and mass killing and dispossession of Palestinians." ~
Gabor Maté Holocaust Survivor
How many Palestinians are throughout the world? I've never seen this many during all these protests?
My mom was from Glasgow Scotland.
My dad Palestine Rumulah
I have cousins aunt and uncle's ❤❤❤
I would have liked to see her discuss Hamas. And how Gaza can move forward with Hamas being in control. I feel for the Palestinians, we all take our freedom and life for granted.
Oops sorry
It's naïve to lose track of Hamas actions.
The question should be: Why Israel should live next to a regime that wants to destroy it (and eatablish a Shariaa state)?????????
Yes, this IS a test from God. If you fail this THIS test, there will be no further proof of humanity.
support both pelestinians and israeli people not those hamas and israel regime..
Unfortunately the majority of izraelis are zionist and have no interest in the Palestinian people. There are, however, a few izraelis that are not zionist, but, they are, as mentioned, only a few. The political ideology of zionism is the main problem, though it seems that religion may be raising its head with netanyahu mentioning 'Amalek' recently - an ancient reference.
@@malcolmtyler1673 only using the words in the bible and yet those other words being written are not the actual words from those prophets or apostles.. its being inserted to cause hate like the hadith, qur'an and torah..
Blurry, shaky phone cams are not necessary inside an apartment. Take any other professional camera.
Scotland for scottish
Nadia and Humza are Scottish.
@@ScottishRoss27 in 1850 a lot of palestinians welcomed the jewish people who arrived there...
planet earth for all people , think bigger larger with wisdom
Shalom
The same way palestine is for arabs not europeans
Ask Hamas, who uses Palestinians as shields.
That's a completely false story. Research has shown that it is ISRAEL that uses human shields.
Your mother uses Palestinians as human shields
If its that exceptional. Why did you allow tunnels and missile silos under your feet?
People themselves dont know, that how rebels are. Did u think this?
@@datujazing1287 with that ammount of civil works? Your living in a very strange world
Maybe 75 years attack and apartheid made them do it. Ever think of that?
Hamas does not care about the people or the hostages would have been released already, so your using your own people as human shields!! God help them!!
Evey enslaved, or oppressed person will resist. Imagine someone breaks into your home and holds you hostage in a concentration camp, would you try to fight to escape. It's HUMAN nature.
This is a false narrative. Palestinian lives are as valuable as the rest. But consequences in life come based on our actions, not who we are.
When Palestinians can divorce themselves from Jew Hating terrorists, life is going to improve exponentially.
You are uneducated. What do you think the Zionists are. They don't even like Christians.
You are beyond delusional
Hasbara bot
No muslim hate jews.. they snatch our land from us. Palestine belong to us.
I'm so tired of people like you. How much did Israhell do to the Palestinians in the west bank from Jerusalem to Hebron...
The sooner you admit it's zionism is the cause of it, the faster peace can be achieved
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Tell hamas to stop using Palestinian children's as shields it's a war crime for them to do this.
Earlier today, I watched a CZcams video,
Family of Scotland
which charted Humza Uselessness career.
This video proved how this woman's husband has a
CLEAR connection with HAMAS.
No, I will NOT listen to her.
ME be careful.
🤦♀️Her husband was born in Scotland to parents who emigrated from Pakistan and Kenya back in 1960s. He has no close family in Gaza let alone any connection to Hamas.
Humza as health minister, was minister of the only health service in the UK to avoid strikes.
When you base your opinions by watching youtube videos.
HER BROTHER CHARGED FOR SUPPLYING HERION AND A MURDER CHARGE GREAT EXAMPLE